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19 items from 2012
Official Trailer for Some Guy Who Kills People
22 May 2012 8:05 AM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
We have the official trailer for Some Guy Who Kills People, a John Landis-produced horror comedy that will be released on July 3rd:
“Few films achieve the perfect balance of genuine sincerity, tastefully ironic humor, and the heightened level of blood and guts expected from horror movies. On July 3rd, Anchor Bay Entertainment brings you one of these rare gems with Some Guy Who Kills People. Executive produced by famed director John Landis (National Lampoon’s Animal House, An American Werewolf in London, Coming to America), and boasting impeccable performances by Kevin Corrigan (The Departed, Superbad, The Dictator), Barry Bostwick (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, TV’s “Spin City”), Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces, House of 1000 Corpses), Leo Fitzpatrick (Kids, Serendipity), Ariel Gade (Avpr: Aliens vs. Predator-Requiem, Dark Water) and Lucy Davis (Shaun of the Dead, TV’s “The Office”), this film festival favorite is coming to DVD »
- Jonathan James
Official Trailer Captures Some Guy Who Kills People
21 May 2012 1:27 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
The official trailer for the horror comedy Some Guy Who Kills People is finally here, and it's the first of many things we'll be showing you leading up to the flick's upcoming DVD release. Check it out! Ice cream scooper not included.
From the Press Release
Few films achieve the perfect balance of genuine sincerity, tastefully ironic humor, and the heightened level of blood and guts expected from horror movies. On July 3rd, Anchor Bay Entertainment brings you one of these rare gems with Some Guy Who Kills People. Executive produced by famed director John Landis (National Lampoon’s Animal House, An American Werewolf in London, Coming to America) and boasting impeccable performances by Kevin Corrigan (The Departed, Superbad, The Dictator), Barry Bostwick (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, TV’s “Spin City”), Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces, House of 1000 Corpses), Leo Fitzpatrick (Kids, Serendipity), Ariel Gade (Avpr: Aliens vs. »
- Uncle Creepy
DVD Release: Some Guy Who Kills People
15 May 2012 2:46 PM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
DVD Release Date: July 3, 2012
Price: DVD $22.98
Studio: Anchor Bay
Kevin Corrigan dresses for murderous success in Some Guy Who Kills People.
Kevin Corrigan (Unstoppable) stars in the horror-comedy-thriller mash-up Some Guy Who Kills People, a 2011 independent film directed by Jack Perez.
At first glance, Ken Boyd (Corrigan) may seem like an average comic enthusiast, living with his mother and working to make ends meet as an underpaid ice cream parlor attendant. But Ken has a dirty little secret: he fantasizes about killing people. After being released from a stay in an institution for severe mental trauma suffered when he was beaten and tortured by a gang of high school thugs, Ken’s repressed anger suddenly reaches a boiling point. He begins to hunt down his tormentors, one by one, and exacts his bloody revenge – all the while forming an unconventional bond with his estranged 11-year old daughter (Ariel Gade, Dark Water »
- Laurence
Some Guy Who Kills People brings the gory laughs to DVD
15 May 2012 8:15 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Anchor Bay Entertainment is bringing the gory laughs with the dark comedy Some Guy Who Kills People on DVD July 3rd. Executive produced by famed director John Landis (National Lampoon.s Animal House, An American Werewolf in London, Coming to America), and boasting impeccable performances by Kevin Corrigan (The Departed, Superbad, The Dictator), Barry Bostwick (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, TV.s .Spin City.), Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces, House of 1000 Corpses), Leo Fitzpatrick (Kids, Serendipity), Ariel Gade (Avpr: Aliens vs. Predator-Requiem, Dark Water) and Lucy Davis (Shaun of the Dead, TV.s .The Office.), this film festival favorite will arrive on DVD with a suggested retail price of $22.98. At first glance, Ken Boyd (Corrigan) may seem like an average »
- Patrick Luce
Some Guy Who Kills People Comes to DVD
14 May 2012 1:00 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
We've been talking about the horror comedy Some Guy Who Kills People for quite some time around these parts. Now, thanks to the wonderfully sick people over at Anchor Bay, we're finally going to get a look at it!
From the Press Release
Few films achieve the perfect balance of genuine sincerity, tastefully ironic humor, and the heightened level of blood and guts expected from horror movies. On July 3rd, Anchor Bay Entertainment brings you one of these rare gems with Some Guy Who Kills People. Executive produced by famed director John Landis (National Lampoon’s Animal House, An American Werewolf in London, Coming to America) and boasting impeccable performances by Kevin Corrigan (The Departed, Superbad, The Dictator), Barry Bostwick (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, TV’s “Spin City”), Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces, House of 1000 Corpses), Leo Fitzpatrick (Kids, Serendipity), Ariel Gade (Avpr: Aliens vs. Predator-Requiem, Dark Water »
- Uncle Creepy
Jack Nicholson At 75: 5 Of His Most Underrated Performances
23 April 2012 7:56 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
There can be little doubt that Jack Nicholson is one of the greatest movie stars in the history of the medium. He's had more Oscar nominations (twelve) and wins (three) than any other actor and has been an A-list star for over forty years now, remaining a legitimate box office draw in films like "Something's Gotta Give" and "The Departed" even in his seventh decade. He's worked with everyone from Antonioni to Scorsese, and given some of the most iconic screen performances ever, from "Easy Rider" to "The Shining."
Indeed, ask a cinephile for their favorite Nicholson performance, and the same few films are likely to come up: "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces," "Carnal Knowledge," "The Last Detail," "Chinatown," "The Passenger" (an amazing, nearly back-to-back six-year-run), "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," "The Shining." But this means that some of the actor's equally strong performances never quite made it into the canon, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Happy 75th Birthday, Jack Nicholson! Life.com looks back at some great unpublished photos
22 April 2012 3:17 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Chris Hemsworth. Ryan Gosling. Taylor Kitsch. Channing Tatum. Michael Fassbender. All leading men and rising stars, all in their late 20s or early 30s, all with the potential for great careers that could potentially span decades.
And all of them would likely give their eye teeth to enjoy even half the moxie, talent, acclaim, and success as Jack Nicholson, who turns 75 years old today. Our sister site Life.com is looking back at some never-before-seen outtakes from a 1969 Life magazine shoot at Nicholson’s Los Angeles home, when the future three-time Oscar winner was 32 years old and had had far »
- Adam B. Vary
Jack Attack
22 April 2012 11:28 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Jack Nicholson is 75 years old today. He has only made 3 movies in the past eight years and his last great performance (About Schmidt) was a full decade past. His frequent absences would be a much greater loss to cinema if his current taste didn't lean more Bucket List and less Schmidt. But he has meant so much to so many moviegoers for so many decades that his big day is definitely worth celebrating.
So herewith ten random things off the top of my head that I love about Jack Nicholson... and it shouldn't surprise you that most of them involve his actress co-stars. That's not just because you're reading this at The Film Experience but because, for all of Jack's showboating style, he regularly ups the game of his leading ladies (and vice versa)
• "Dear Ndugu..." (About Schmidt)
• the fascinating and atypical restraint of his character work as Eugene O'Neill »
- NATHANIEL R
Jack Nicholson Movies: Rating The Actor's Best And Worst Films
21 April 2012 10:54 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
What's Jack Nicholson's secret? Maybe it's the eyebrows, hovering like ironic quotation marks over every line reading. Maybe it's the hooded eyes, which hold the threat of danger or the promise of joviality -- you're never sure which. Same with that sharklike grin. Or maybe it's the voice, which has evolved over the years from a thin sneer to a deep rumble, but is always precisely calibrated to provoke a reaction. Put them all together, and they say: "I am a man to be reckoned with. Ignore me at your peril." Nicholson, who turns 75 on April 22, is often criticized for relying on his bag of tricks, for just showing up and doing Jack Nicholson (though indeed, he often seems to have been hired precisely for that purpose). But he's also capable of burrowing deep into a character, finding his wounded heart, and revealing the ugly truth without fear or vanity. »
- Gary Susman
"Man Trouble" : He Plans To Steal More Than Her Heart
9 April 2012 11:28 PM, PDT | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Anchor Bay Entertainment is re-releasing the 1992 romantic comedy thriller "Man Trouble", starring Jack Nicholson and Ellen Barkin, directed by Bob Rafelson ("Five Easy Pieces"), written from a screenplay by Carole Eastman ("Five Easy Pieces") :
"...'Harry' (Nicholson) is a wisecracking con-man who owns a guard dog agency. When 'Joan' (Barkin), an opera singer, seeks his aid after her house is broken into, Harry inadvertently makes them the target of mobsters, and puts them at the mercy of Harry’s out-of-control canines..."
Cast also includes Harry Dean Stanton ("Alien") and Beverly D’Angelo.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Man Trouble"...
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- Michael Stevens
Oprah Winfrey, James Earl Jones
8 April 2012 11:48 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
James Earl Jones, Oprah Winfrey Honorary Award recipient James Earl Jones and Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient Oprah Winfrey backstage at the 2012 Academy Awards ceremony held at the Hollywood and Highland Center on February 26, 2012. Jones and Winfrey was officially handed their trophies at the Governors Awards held in fall 2011. Jones wasn't in attendance, as he was appearing with Vanessa Redgrave in a production of Driving Miss Daisy on the London stage. (Photo: Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.) James Earl Jones was a Best Actor nominee for Martin Ritt's 1970 drama The Great White Hope. His competition consisted of Jack Nicholson for Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces, Melvyn Douglas for Gilbert Cates' I Never Sang for My Father, Ryan O'Neal for Arthur Hiller's Love Story, and the eventual winner, George C. Scott for Franklin J. Schaffner's Patton. Scott became the first performer to refuse the Oscar. »
- D. Zhea
DVD Playhouse--March 2012
6 March 2012 9:50 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—March 2012
By Allen Gardner
J. Edgar (Warner Bros.) Director Clint Eastwood provides a rock-solid, albeit rather flat portrait of polarizing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, covering his life from late teens to his death. Leonardo DiCaprio does an impressive turn as Hoover, never crossing the line into caricature, and creating a Hoover that is all too human, making for an all the more unsettling look at absolute power run amuck. Where the film stumbles is the love story at its core: Hoover’s relationship with longtime aide Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer). In the hands of an openly-gay director like Gus Van Sant, this could have been a heartbreaking, tender story of forbidden (unrequited?) love, but Eastwood seems to tiptoe around their romance, with far too much delicacy and deference. The film works well when recreating the famous crimes and investigations which Hoover made his name on (the Lindbergh kidnapping, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
The Monkees/Davy Jones Dies
29 February 2012 12:53 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
The Monkees' baby-faced Davy Jones, the only British-born member of the '60s four-man band, died earlier today after suffering a heart attack in Indiantown, Florida. He was 66. Formed in 1965, The Monkees were Jones, Michael Nesmith, 69, Micky Dolenz, who turns 66 next March 8, and Peter Tork, 70. Their best-known hit is probably “I’m a Believer.” Their television series, The Monkees, ran from 1966 to 1968, the year the feature film Head was released. Directed and co-written (with Jack Nicholson) by feature-film first-timer Bob Rafelson — who had previously handled several episodes of the group's TV series and who would become best known for the Oscar-nominated Five Easy Pieces (1970) — Head followed the same loose narrative pattern of the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965), with songs interspersed between absurd comic situations. The musical comedy, however, achieved neither the box-office success nor the critical acclaim that had greeted Richard Lester's two Beatles flicks. Jones »
- Andre Soares
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 »
DVD: No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
20 February 2012 12:29 PM, PST | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
DVD Release Date: Feb. 28, 2012
Price: DVD $19.95
Studio: Cinema Libre
The lives, careers and friendship of legendary Hungary-born cinematographers László Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond are examined in the 2008 documentary No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos,
László Kovács (r.) and Vilmos Zsigmond focus on their work in No Subtitles Necessary.
Both survivors of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Kovács and Zsigmond immigrated in poverty to America in the late 1950s, helping each other up the ladder out of the underbelly of Hollywood all the while holding onto their dreams. After ten years of no-budget toil, Kovács’s camera broke Hollywood’s rules with Easy Rider, directed by Dennis Hopper. Suddenly in demand, he recommended Vilmos to both Peter Fonda and Robert Altman, where Zsigmond poured his “poetic realism” into Fonda’s 1971 The Hired Hand and Altman’s 1971 McCabe & Mrs. Miller. The two cinematographers quickly became the go-to camera guys of the New Hollywood, ultimately yielding some 140 credits between them, »
- Laurence
Black Opens Up About Secret Cancer Battle
16 February 2012 1:56 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Veteran actress Karen Black has opened up about the 2011 cancer battle she kept from fans.
The Five Easy Pieces star was diagnosed with rare ampullary cancer in November, 2010, but chose to tell only close friends and family members about her health crisis.
Black underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatments in California and a drastic weightloss and is now cancer-free.
She has opened up to U.S. tabloid the Globe to offer others fighting cancer hope.
The Oscar nominee says, "So few people knew of my illness... I kept it as much of a secret as I could.
"I didn't want to be affected by any negative energy, the look of sympathy on people's faces... You can almost hear their thought, 'Oh, she's a goner.'"
The 69-year-old actress tells the Globe she was suffering digestive problems while starring in the play Just 45 Minutes From Broadway when she learned she had cancer.
She recalls, "This type of cancer you don't feel at all, but it's very serious. I was told I would need surgery immediately. Fortunately, we caught the cancer in time, the cancer had not spread beyond its initial perch on the inside of a part of my digestive tract. Dr. Farnell at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota got it out."
Black hopes her story will help others: "Don't give up hope. Keep doing what you love to do and find the beauty in everything around you." »
Catching Up With A Classic: ‘Carnal Knowledge’ a representation of continuing cinematic ambition
15 January 2012 6:39 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Mike Nichols
United States, 1971
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If you start with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate it becomes easier to forget “lesser” films, but Mike Nichols’ immediate follow-ups, Catch-22 and Carnal Knowledge are, if not historical landmarks, at least representations of continuing cinematic ambition.
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Carnal Knowledge, boasting Jack Nicholson fresh off of Five Easy Pieces, Art Garfunkel in his second consecutive Nichols film, Ann-Margaret at the height of her popularity, and a young Candice Bergen, is oft-talked about as the sexual dystopia of the 1970s.
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Told in vignettes spanning from college to divorce and beyond, Carnal Knowledge finds Jonathan (Nicholson) and Sandy (Garfunkel) in various relationships with women throughout the years, each man progressively becoming more cynical towards the opposite sex.
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As with many Nichols films, the success of Carnal Knowledge relies first and foremost on the performances, followed closely by »
- Neal Dhand
DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards: Odd Men Out Bob Fosse, Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman
10 January 2012 1:00 AM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Martin Balsam, Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express, directed by DGA (but not Oscar) nominee Sidney Lumet DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1960s: Odd Men Out Jules Dassin, Federico Fellini, Arthur Penn 1970 DGA David Lean, Ryan's Daughter Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces AMPAS Federico Fellini, Satyricon Ken Russell, Women in Love DGA/AMPAS Franklin J. Schaffner, Patton Robert Altman, Mash Arthur Hiller, Love Story 1971 DGA Robert Mulligan, Summer of '42 AMPAS Norman Jewison, Fiddler on the Roof DGA/AMPAS William Friedkin, The French Connection Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange John Schlesinger, Sunday Bloody Sunday 1972 DGA George Roy Hill, Slaughterhouse-Five Martin Ritt, Sounder AMPAS Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sleuth Jan Troell, The Emigrants DGA/AMPAS Bob Fosse, Cabaret John Boorman, Deliverance Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather 1973 DGA Sidney Lumet, Serpico AMPAS Ingmar Bergman, Cries and Whispers DGA/AMPAS George Roy Hill, The Sting Bernardo Bertolucci, »
- Andre Soares
The charmed life of Bert Schneider
5 January 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Even though he began his career by developing the Monkees, Schneider went on to carve out a 10-year career as one of America's most interesting and original producers
He was the son of a studio president, and a movie brat par excellence: for Bert Schneider, this guaranteed something of a charmed life. Even though he began his career by developing The Monkees, a TV sitcom about a faux pop group, Schneider (who died last month) went on to carve out a 10-year career as one of America's most interesting producers – and did as much as anyone to kick off the glory years of the Hollywood New Wave in the late 60s and early 70s.
In the mid-60s, the Vietnam war was at its height, and in America (and England) there was a real cultural fracture between the "establishment" media – hopelessly unhip entertainments like The Monkees' TV show – and the »
- Alex Cox
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