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Read an Exclusive Excerpt from Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion
9 May 2012 5:12 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Earlier this month Titan Books released Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion, a compilation of pieces by the magazine/website PopMatters, and we have an excerpt from the book to share exclusively with Dread Central readers.
Read the excerpt below, check out our Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More: The Essential Guide to the Whedonverse review, and then grab the newly released book from the EvilShop!
“The strength and conviction to lose so relentlessly”: Heroism in Angel
Ian Mathers
“Evil happens without effort, naturally, fatally; Good is always the product of some art.”
—Charles Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life”
“In a fight between you and the world, bet on the world.”
—Franz Kafka, “Aphorism 52”
“Not Fade Away,” the final episode of Angel, ends the show with (most of) the Angel Investigations (A.I.) team facing down a literal army of demons. »
- Mr. Dark
Obama Presents Award For Popular Song
9 May 2012 9:20 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Washington — President Barack Obama is honoring the brainpower behind the unforgettable tunes "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," "Close to You," and others recorded by artists spanning Dionne Warwick, the Carpenters, Alicia Keys and the cast of "Glee."
On Wednesday night, Obama will present the songwriting duo of Burt Bacharach and Hal David with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. In the 1960s and beyond, their work produced some of the most popular music for movies, television and recording artists.
In return for all the memorable hits and love songs, the 83-year-old Bacharach said he would love to hear the president sing a few lines. The composer said he'll play piano for Obama any time if he wants to sing to the first lady.
"Nothing would make me happier because the guy can really sing," Bacharach told The Associated Press. "I heard him on YouTube sing `Walk On By, »
- AP
The creeping melancholy of belated sequels
8 May 2012 4:19 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Although belated sequels are meant to play on our nostalgia for much-loved characters, such movies, Ryan argues, also have a melancholy side to them, too…
There are certain topics that mainstream movies seldom address. Going to the loo is one of them – Psycho was the first Hollywood film to (gasp) show an actual lavatory on a cinema screen, but at no point did we see Janet Leigh sitting on it and staring at a copy of Reader’s Digest.
Another taboo movie topic: growing old. Death’s everywhere in cinema, from the splashy skewerings of slasher movies to the fatal shootings of action flicks and thrillers. The actual process of gradually shrivelling up and shuffling off this mortal coil, however, is usually kept under wraps.
Even in The Expendables, which crowded more famous old men on the screen than at any time since those Coccoon movies in the 80s, the subjects of clicky knees, »
John C. Reilly Says He Was Originally Supposed To Be Brick Tamland In 'Anchorman' & Talks Unproduced 'Step Brothers' Rap Album
26 April 2012 6:38 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
The original casting choices for films are always neat scenarios to imagine, whether it be O.J. Simpson as The Terminator or Steve McQueen in “Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid,” but a more a recent one envisioned John C. Reilly predating Dr. Steve Brule with one of the most quotable comedy characters of all time.
In a red-carpet interview with MTV, when questioned about his possible involvement with the recently announced “Anchorman 2,” Reilly said "we'll see" and instead spoke about his initial role in the first film: Brick Tamland, the part played to idiotic perfection by Steve Carell. Whether because of scheduling issues or just Lars von Trier with an animal cruelty agenda, Reilly had to drop out, but there still remains the chance of a supporting role in the new Will Ferrell/Adam McKay film.
From there, talk turned to the similarly slow-going “Step Brothers 2,” which -- surprise »
- Charlie Schmidlin
Robert Redford to Host Indie Film Show for Sundance Channel
23 April 2012 7:48 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Beginning this weekend, Sundance Channel creative director Robert Redford will curate and critique recent independent films including "The Crucible," "Wendy & Lucy," and "Blue Velvet." "Our aim with Sundance Channel has always been to showcase independent productions that broaden viewers’ minds and hopefully inspire them," Redford said in a statement. "I am pleased to share some great films and further strengthen the outstanding independent film offering on our channel.” Redford cofounded the network, named for his character in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," in 1996. It was sold to Rainbow Media »
- Tim Molloy
Dystopia: 2013 – The DVD Review
23 April 2012 5:24 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Review by Dane Marti
The post-apocalyptic film Dystopia: 2013 is an honest, often exciting cinematic effort, with a story that takes place after a mysterious and life-changing cataclysm on earth – or at least the Midwest. Obviously an independent film, a viewer shouldn’t go into the film expecting earth-shattering visual effects or top of the line acting. To enjoy the film, one must accept it as it is. It’s low budget and fun. The viewer should use their imaginations. If you do these things, you will find the film to be a cool and entertaining trip.
The film is directed by Johnno Zee. He definitely has a vision, but due to budget restraints, much of the story must focus on the characters and not on special effects depicting a devastated world. The film is good when the characters are interacting, but less impressive when showing the horror of the »
- Movie Geeks
Geek Gifts: $9.99 for Blu-ray Books of Rocky, The Usual Suspects, The Terminator, Patton, and More
19 April 2012 9:14 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Today's Amazon Gold Box Deal is selling the Blu-ray books of Rocky, The Terminator, All About Eve, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Usual Suspects, The Hustler, Patton, An Affair to Remember, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and The Comancheros for $9.99 each (71% off). A Blu-ray "book" is the Blu-ray case is a hardcover book shell, and there are pages inside with artwork, essays, and other neat stuff. Click here to take advantage of this deal, which will expire at the end of the day. Note: Collider earns a small referral fee when our readers purchase something on Amazon through one of our links. The money generated helps pay our staff and keep the site running. Thank you for reading and supporting Collider. »
- Matt Goldberg
Blackthorn – review
14 April 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Sam Shepard excels in Mateo Gil's elegiac sequel imagining further adventures in Bolivia for the Wild Bunch leader
Back in 1969 George Roy Hill brought Paul Newman and Robert Redford together in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a self-consciously stylish western in which two notorious bandits were celebrated as forerunners of the outlaw sensibility of the 1960s. A decade later, Richard Lester, one of the film-makers credited for shaping the artistic expression of the 60s with The Knack and two Beatles films, made his only western, Butch and Sundance: The Early Days. Featuring two young actors, Tom Berenger and William Katt, with uncanny resemblances to Newman and Redford, the film took a quirky but generally realistic look at frontier life as it related to the pair's early criminal life and friendship, ending in the 1890s at the point where they were becoming aware of being legends, leaders of a gang called the Wild Bunch. »
- Philip French
Exclusive Interview: Fran Kranz on The Cabin in the Woods and Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing
13 April 2012 7:30 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
All this week we’ve had interviews from SXSW with the cast and directors of The Cabin in the Woods and we finish off our coverage with an interview with Fran Kranz who plays ‘stoner with a brain of gold’ Marty in Drew Goddard’s film.
No stranger to the sets of co-writer Joss Whedon, Kranz was appearing in the short-lived but much-loved series Dollhouse when he landed the role in this film, he will also be seen as Claudio in Whedon’s ‘secret’ Much Ado about Nothing due out later in the year, a film which we talk about below.
Here the actor talks about overturning conventions, the secrets of The Cabin in the Woods and moments when the film goes over the edge. There are Spoilers but all are clearly marked.
My spoiler-free review of the film is here, short version – it’s aces, a must-see.
Here’s the interview, »
- Jon Lyus
Robert Redford Documentary Raises Awareness For 'A New Water Ethic'
26 March 2012 9:06 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
* "Watershed" documentary aims to stoke social awareness
* Colorado River exemplifies water issues worldwide
* Redford, son focus on people as solution to problem
By Robert Muir
Washington, March 26 (Reuters) - Actor and director Robert Redford, a longtime environmental activist, has teamed with his son to film a documentary about the Colorado River system, which conservationists believe is endangered by decades of development and global warming.
Redford, 76, who lives in Utah, traveled to Washington, D.C. along with Jamie Redford, a Northern California resident, to discuss the urgency of the message in their film, "Watershed," featured recently at the D.C. Environmental Film Festival.
Both father and son have been tireless vocal advocates for conservation, particularly in the western United States. Their documentary, produced by Jamie Redford and narrated by his father, draws attention to the enormous and, they say, unsustainable demands on the Colorado River system that provides much of the American west with water. »
- Reuters
Nine Overlooked Classic Westerns
25 March 2012 6:57 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Western was a movie staple for decades. It seemed the genre that would never die, feeding the fantasies of one generation after another of young boys who galloped around their backyards, playgrounds, and brick streets on broomsticks, banging away with their Mattel cap pistols. Something about a man on a horse set against the boundless wastes of Monument Valley, the crackle of saddle leather, two men facing off in a dusty street under the noon sun connected with the free spirit in every kid.
The American movie – a celluloid telling that was more than a skit – was born in a Western: Edwin S. Porter’s 11- minute The Great Train Robbery (1903). Thereafter, Westerns grew longer, they grew more complex. The West – hostile, endless, civilization barely maintaining a toehold against the elements, hostile natives, and robber barons – proved an infinitely plastic setting. In a place with no law, and where »
- Bill Mesce
The 9 Best Irish Mafia Movies
17 March 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
When most people hear the word "Mafia," it conjures up images of "The Godfather," "Goodfellas" and "The Sopranos." But Italian-Americans are hardly the only ethnic group to establish large organized crime rings.
Irish mobsters regularly challenged the Cosa Nostra for territory throughout American history -- and like their Italian counterparts, their conquests have made for some damn fine movies, dating all the way back to the James Cagney vehicles of the 1930s.
So this St. Patrick's Day, do your part as an educated movie fan and revisit the best Irish Mafia films of all time. We guarantee you'll feel better than your Irish Car Bomb-chugging friends the morning after.
9. 'Gangs of New York' (2002)
New York City was built upon organized crime. With millions of immigrants pouring into the city during 1800s, violence regularly broke out between gangs of different ethnicities. Martin Scorsese's Best Picture nominee begins with »
- Ryan McKee
David Hasselhoff sells new album 'This Time Around' on QVC - video
27 February 2012 8:30 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
David Hasselhoff performed on QVC to promote his new album This Time Around. The singer and actor sang tracks from the LP, which sees him covering Broadway love songs including A Chorus Line's 'What I Did For Love', and 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The star said: "I was really excited about this morning, I've been waiting for this for a long time." Asked if he will ever be "a pipe and slippers guy", he insisted: "No never, I'm on the Hoff train, the Hoff train is smoking! When you go to a Hoff party and everyone's dressed as me, it's pretty wild." On selling (more) »
- By Robert Copsey
DVD Playhouse--February 2012
25 February 2012 8:40 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—February 2012
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Philip French's classic DVD: Thelma & Louise
25 February 2012 4:15 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
(Ridley Scott, 1991, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 15)
Ridley Scott's masterly road movie was a feminist thriller in the Cormanesque exploitation style but with a much bigger budget and greater poise. Ditzy, put-upon lower-middle-class housewife Thelma (Geena Davis) and her chum, tough cafe waitress Louise (Susan Sarandon), take off from their Arkansas small town in Louise's 1966 Thunderbird for a weekend's fishing. But when Louise kills Thelma's would-be rapist they go on the run, heading for Mexico. To a possible murder charge they add armed robbery, kidnapping a policeman and massive destruction of property. The only decent man around is a sympathetic cop played by Harvey Keitel.
It's a film that appeals to the outlaw in all of us, and ends with a freeze-frame reminiscent of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Pursuing a recurrent theme in his work (dutiful citizens rebelling against the conventional values in which they've been raised »
- Philip French
Was the 1970s the best decade for the Best Picture Oscar?
21 February 2012 3:58 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
With the Oscars nearly here, Glen looks back to the 70s, and argues that it was the decade when the Academy got its Best Picture decisions consistently right...
It’s widely acknowledged that the 1970s was one of the best periods in American cinema. It’s little surprise, then, that the Academy Awards gave the Best Picture award to some of the best films during its 84 years. But as is often the case with the Oscars, the 70s wasn’t without its controversies, as a number of great films missed out on the award or even failed to be nominated. Even so, the run of Best Picture winners from 1970 to 1979 was incredibly strong.
The decade started with Midnight Cowboy scooping the Best Picture award at the 42nd Academy Awards on 7th April 1970, but as the film was released in May 1969 it doesn’t really count as an example of the »
Mike Ragogna: Grammytech 2: A Conversation With Bob Clearmountain, Plus Chatting With Steve Tyrell
16 February 2012 7:08 AM, PST | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
A Pre-Grammy Conversation with Bob Clearmountain
Mike Ragogna: Bob, here at the Grammys watching over the sonics of the Bruce Springsteen segment. What are some of the things you look out for when it comes to the right mix on Bruce?
Bob Clearmountain: The thing with Bruce, and any artist like Bruce, is that the most important thing is the song, getting across the meaning and the character of the song. Bruce is almost like an actor in that he creates a character for each of his songs. He wants to make sure that the narrative of the song comes across. It's no different here than it is with making records. There has to be no disconnect between that character you create and the narrative. Basically, that's what I look for. The rest of it is all making it sound good and as exciting as possible. The song he's »
- Mike Ragogna
William Goldman Attack Martin Scorsese/Gangs Of New York
15 February 2012 5:59 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York Oscar Campaign Scandal Pt.1: Miramax/Robert Wise's Martin Scorsese/Gangs Of New York Oscar Ad The plot got even thicker when Murray Weissman and others later claimed that Robert Wise himself had approached Miramax after reading another Op-Ed piece, this one — "Crashing the Party for Poor Marty" — published in Variety (Feb. 3, 2003) and penned by two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men). In addition to calling Martin Scorsese "a giant ape director" who disregarded his screenwriters (and throwing in mean-spirited putdowns directed at Al Pacino and Robin Williams), Goldman wrote: "The Hollywood parties [Scorsese] is attending must make him want to barf, but there [he] is, glad-handing anyone in the vicinity who is an Academy member who might throw him a vote. "Miramax, the greatest movie company of the era (and the most »
- Andre Soares
[Review] This Means War
15 February 2012 9:57 AM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
An early synopsis for McG’s latest told us that This Means War follows “two top CIA operatives waging an epic battle against one another over a new love.” With Tom Hardy and Chris Pine, two of Hollywood’s most charismatic up-and-coming stars being cast, I actually had some hope for the project. But after viewing the final product, one can easily replace “epic” with “agonizing and cliche-ridden,” while “battle” is better summed up as “an immature pissing contest.”
It is staggering how a major studio like 20th Century Fox could let such a careless, sloppily put-together feature film like this through their doors. Jokes land with enormous thuds (their boss, the squandered Angela Bassett, delivers something particularly painful about how a ladies man like Pine “slays” like the “assassin” he actually is). Don’t ask – one could hear the mass head-scratching of an entire theater. New characters appear two-thirds »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Baftas 2012: The Artist biggest winner with seven awards including best film
12 February 2012 4:18 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Silence is golden for French film, while Meryl Streep wins best actress and John Hurt honoured for oustanding contribution
There were no spoken words, vibrant colours, impressive special effects, sophisticated plotlines or indeed anything at all that audiences expect in a modern film, and that was all very much in its favour as The Artist emerged triumphant at the 2012 Baftas.
The French silent film had been the bookies' favourite to sweep all before it and it did not disappoint, winning seven awards including best film, best director, best original screenplay, original music, best costume design, best cinematography.
The Artist's tally of Baftas equalled the number given to The King's Speech last year and Slumdog Millionaire in 2009. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid still holds the record with nine, followed by The Killing Fields with eight.
Picking up the screenplay award, The Artist's director, Michel Hazanavicius, said: "I'm very surprised, »
- Mark Brown
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