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13 items from 2012
TV Review: House 8.20, ‘Post Mortem’
14 May 2012 1:12 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
(Warning: significant spoilers follow!)
One more down, two to go. Then that’s all there is to House. So how well does this most recent episode stack up?
We begin with a patient dying (and a cameo by this episode’s director, Peter Weller), and watch as her body gets taken to the morgue. There the medical examiner (I think that’s what he is, anyhow), begins the autopsy. He’s working along, criticizing Doctor Weller’s skills, and then starts to cut open his own face. Whee!
House (Hugh Laurie) and team get involved, naturally. But it’s not long before House is whisked away by Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard). More about their antics in a bit.
The patient turns out to be extremely critical of all the hospital doctors except House. Since House is gone, Chase (Jesse Spencer) handles the diagnostic process and claims »
- Chris Swanson
Solar Crisis: unearthing a forgotten moment in 90s sci-fi
24 April 2012 5:53 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
It was expensive, and its cast included Jack Palance and Charlton Heston. So what was 1990’s Solar Crisis like, and why did it sink without trace…?
Home Alone. Total Recall. Die Hard 2. Dances With Wolves. If you’re old enough to remember the year 1990, then you may also remember that these movies were among its biggest hits. 1990 was also the year of movies such as Edward Scissorhands, Tremors and Goodfellas – movies that didn’t make it into the top 10 list of successes, but are still fondly remembered and enthusiastically discussed.
By contrast, who remembers Solar Crisis? Hardly anyone is the likely answer. What’s strange about the film’s anonymity is that, although its title generic title suggests a straight-to-video B-movie, it was anything but. In fact, with a budget of around $55 million, it wasn’t all that far behind Die Hard 2 ($70 million) and Total Recall ($65 million), the two most expensive movies released that year. »
Widescreen Weekend Memories, Bradford, England (2011)
17 April 2012 7:43 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
As your dedicated publishers prepare to embark on our journey to the 2012 Widescreen Weekend at the National Media Museum in Bradford, England, we've finally got around to looking at photos from last year's festival. (Expediency is not one of our top qualities.) Here are some photos we snapped during the course of watching back-to-back widescreen epics from morning till late at night.
(Photos copyright Cinema Retro. All rights reserved)
2011: Cinema Retro's Dave Worrall and Lee Pfeiffer take a quick smoking break during the endurance-testing morning-till-late evening epic movie marathons. Worrall is wearing the one of-a-kind Cinema Retro Where Eagles Dare commemorative shirt. We should have had hundreds made- everyone wanted to buy one!
2011: The audience was treated to a rare original trailer for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm in 3 panel Cinerama. This year, Cinema Retro is co-sponsoring a screening of the full film.
2011: The ice »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Tom Cruise, Colin Firth
14 April 2012 4:10 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Tom Cruise, Colin Firth Tom Cruise and Colin Firth are seen backstage at the 2012 Academy Awards ceremony held at the Hollywood and Highland Center on February 26. Cruise presented the Best Picture Oscar to Michel Hazanavicius' silent movie The Artist. Firth presented the Best Actress Oscar to Meryl Streep for her performance as British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady. (Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.) Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible IV – Ghost Protocol was a major box-office hit and received mostly positive notices; even so, the actioner failed to be shortlisted in any Oscar category. Cruise, who turns 50 next July, will next be seen in Adam Shankman's Rock of Ages, which also features Malin Akerman, Bryan Cranston, Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago), Alec Baldwin, Julianne Hough, Paul Giamatti, Russell Brand, Hugh Forte, and Diego Boneta. Rock of Ages »
- D. Zhea
Can film-makers ever play it fair when it comes to depicting war?
28 March 2012 9:23 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
There's always a loser when two sides go to battle, and movie dramatisations of historic events are no different
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Truth is famously the first casualty of war – and that goes double as soon as a film crew moves in. Turkey has discovered this with its recent bastion-storming blockbuster, Fetih 1453 (Conquest 1453). A scimitars'n'cgi blockbuster account of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in the 15th century, it is the country's most expensive film ever ($17m budget), most popular (4.6m tickets in its first 18 days) and most lucrative ($29m and counting).
But if you think the smell of unanimity is in the air, think again. Plenty of folk have queued up to question Fetih 1453's take, with its gleaming portrayal of Mehmed II, all-conquering bringer of the Ottoman empire's golden age. »
- Phil Hoad
[Now Streaming] Your ‘Hunger Games,’ ‘The Raid,’ and ‘The Deep Blue Sea’ Alternatives
22 March 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Each week within this column we strive to pair the latest in theatrical releases to worthwhile titles currently available on Netflix Instant Watch. This week we offer alternatives to Hunger Games, The Raid, and The Deep Blue Sea.
This week the hotly anticipated tale of Katniss Everdeen hits screens, and its only competition in theaters is an Indonesian action-extravaganza and a star-studded romance. If you want more action and tales of love and heartbreak, we’ve got you covered with some of the best titles Now Streaming.
Based on Suzanne Collins’s wildly popular Ya novel of a dystopian future, this teen-centered drama stars Jennifer Lawrence as a girl forced into a life or death battle on a nationally televised competition known as The Hunger Games. Josh Hutcherson and Woody Harrelson co-star; Gary Ross directs.
For more tales of fierce heroines:
Winter’s Bone (2010) This gritty indie not only scored Jennifer Lawrence an Oscar nod, »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Omar Sharif Jr: Gay, Half-Jewish, Egyptian Political Woes
19 March 2012 7:17 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Omar Sharif Jr., grandson of the Doctor Zhivago star, is currently in the news because he has come out as a gay man who happens to be half-Jewish (on his mother's side) in an essay found in The Advocate — one accompanied by a photograph showing a hairy, buffed-up, bare-chested man (Sharif Jr.?) holding the Egyptian flag. In the essay, the 29-year-old Montreal-born actor explains he wrote the piece out of "fear for my country, fear for my family, and fear for myself." As per Sharif Jr., the problem is that in Egypt "the full spectrum of equal and human rights are now wedge issues used by both the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces and the Islamist parties, when they should be regarded as universal truths." Further down in his piece, he adds: And so I hesitantly confess: I am Egyptian, I am half Jewish, and I am gay. »
- Andre Soares
TCM And The Academy Team Up With TCM Classic Film Festival Style In The Movies Events
19 March 2012 10:04 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
The TCM Classic Film Festival is teaming up with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to showcase a unique slate of programming that taps into Academy archives and distinguished membership to illustrate this year.s overall festival theme of Style in the Movies.
AMPAS will exhibit Hollywood home movies, preserved by the Academy, featuring legendary stars and filmmakers, presented by Randy Haberkamp of AMPAS and Lynn Kirste of the Academy Film Archive with special guests Margaret O’Brien; Steve McQueen.s former wife Neile Adams McQueen Toffel; Henry Koster.s son, Robert Koster; and the daughter of Fred MacMurray, Kate MacMurray.
AMPAS will also present a discussion of how art directors use various items to aid in storytelling featuring members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Art Directors Branch as well an exhibit of sketches and behind-the-scenes photography that illustrate the work of costume »
- Michelle McCue
DVD Release: Route 66: The Complete Series
16 February 2012 1:15 PM, PST | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
DVD Release Date: May 22, 2012
Price: DVD $129.99
Studio: Shout! Factory
George Maharis( l.) and Martin Milner get their kicks on Route 66.
Shout! Factory gets its kicks with the release of the 1960 road tip drama television show Route 66: The Complete Series which marks the first time all four seasons of the show have been issued as one set.
Created by Academy Award-winning writer Stirling Silliphant and producer Herbert Leonard, Route 66 follow the lives of two young men: Yale graduate Tod Stiles (Martin Milner, TV’s Adam-12), an intellectual who has led a privileged and sheltered life, and Buz Murdock (George Maharis, TV’s The Most Deadly Game), a tough young man raised in “Hell’s Kitchen” who’s been struggling his entire life just to survive. When his wealthy father dies, Tod finds himself unexpectedly penniless with just one possession, a Chevrolet Corvette. On a quest to find »
- Laurence
The Comedy Critic - Steven Spielberg's 'Phwoar Horse'
31 January 2012 11:06 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Adam Hollingworth casts a satirical eye over Steven Spielberg's War Horse...
There have been many great love stories in the history of cinema. Rick and Ilsa in Casablanca, Rhett and Scarlet in Gone with the Wind, Yuri and Lyra in Doctor Zhivago. Well, this week saw the addition of another great screen romance added to this swooning pantheon, a story of two lovers whose mutual desire and affection transcends the fear and horror of wartime. This love is of course between the heavily-accented country bumpkin Albert and his horse Joey in Spielberg’s latest film War Horse.
This isn’t the first time a sweet bestial romance has attained the kind of colossal momentousness afforded to mere human couples. Indeed, some could read the history of cinema as a sweeping chronicle of man’s growing affection for fitties of the animal kingdom. Oscar favourite The Artist is acutely aware of this fact, »
- flickeringmyth
25 Fun Facts About the Golden Globes!
15 January 2012 10:04 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
Did you know that Meryl Streep holds the record for most individual Golden Globe nominations? "Extra" has compiled a list of fun facts about the awards ceremony. The 2012 Golden Globes air Sunday, January 15 on NBC (5 Pm Pst/8 Pm Est)!
Fun Facts About the Golden GlobesGoing National
The first national telecasts of the awards were during a special segment on "The Andy Williams Show" in 1964 and 1965.
The Beginning
Paul Lukas won the Golden Globe Award for »
Watch Dr. Zhivago’s Love Story at PVR Rare Film Club on Jan 12
6 January 2012 6:46 PM, PST | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
For those who swear by classic love sagas, there is Dr. Zhivago on January 12 at PVR Rare Film Club.
Based on the novel ‘Dr. Zhivago’ by Boris Pasternak, the 1965 film directed by David Lean is a love story set during the Bolshevik Revolution. The poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) is married to Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin), but carries on an affair with Lara (Julie Christie) who has been raped by a politician Komarovsky.
Dr. Zhivago is ranked 7 in the American Film Institute’s ‘America’s Greatest Love Stories’ and 39 in America’s Greatest Movies. As of 2010, Doctor Zhivago was the 8th biggest grossing film of all time.
The film that became immensely popular wasn’t received well by the critics. It is said that David Lean was so deeply affected by the criticism that he swore to never make a film again. Before Dr. Zhivago, Lean has made the epic »
- NewsDesk
Burning Questions: How Does One Rank An Almost Masterpiece?
2 January 2012 12:41 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Michael C. here with a question I can't stop turning over in my mind.
After finalizing my list of the best movies of 2011 I experienced a powerful surge of cinephile guilt when I realized Joe Cornish’s fantastically goofy Attack the Block enjoyed a healthy place on the list while Malick’s The Tree of Life was nowhere to be seen. Certainly this was an unforgivable lapse of taste, if not a dereliction of my duties as a film writer. Tree of Life is about nothing less than - to borrow a phrase from Douglas Adams - life, the universe and everything. Even if I had gripes with Tree and thought it only reached its potential in fits and starts, shouldn’t laying a fingertip on such greatness guarantee it a spot? If Olympic athletes can be graded according to degree of difficulty, why not films?
The question, simply put, »
- Michael C.
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