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Rupert Sanders Snow White And The Huntsman Critics Rating
12 hours ago | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders Snow White And The Huntsman Reviews Pt.2 The first feature film by former commercials director Rupert Sanders, Snow White and the Huntsman stars Twilight / Adventureland‘s Kristen Stewart as Snow White, Prometheus / Hancock‘s Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen Ravenna, The Avengers / the upcoming Rush‘s Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman, and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides‘ Sam Claflin as Prince Charming. So far, the Snow White and the Huntsman reviews have been decidedly mixed. Those who enjoyed it have strong reservations; those who didn’t have praise for one or more cast members, and especially for the film’s look. See below. "English commercial director Rupert Sanders makes his feature debut with a splash, launching a fantasy-adventure franchise that probably isn’t as good as any of the things it references — the classic Walt Disney film, of course, »
- Zac Gille
Snow White And The Huntsman 2012 Reviews: Mixed
12 hours ago | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Sam Claflin / Prince Charming, Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) Snow White And The Huntsman Reviews Pt.1 Directed by Rupert Sanders, Snow White and the Huntsman stars On the Road / Breaking Dawn – Part 2‘s Kristen Stewart as Snow White, Prometheus / Young Adult‘s Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen Ravenna, The Cabin in the Woods / The Avengers‘ Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman, and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides‘ Sam Claflin as Prince Charming (William). To date, Snow White and the Huntsman reviews have been mixed — without extremes of “love” and “hate.” Those who enjoyed it have strong reservations; those who didn’t enjoy it, have given good notices to one or more cast members. Additionally, the film’s look has been generally singled out for extravagant praise. See below. "Haunted woods, Theron bathing in a vat of creamy milk, then smashing apart into dozens of flapping ravens… The images are stark and effective, »
- Zac Gille
Gary Oldman and Dominic Monaghan join Monster Butler
14 hours ago | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Dark Knight) and Dominic Monaghan (The Lord of the Rings, Lost) have joined the cast of the indie drama Monster Butler, which will be directed by Doug Rath for Dark House Films and Warner Bros.
Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, The Artist) is starring in the film as Roy Fontaine (a.k.a. Archibald Hall), a bisexual jewel thief, con artist and serial killer, who carried out his crimes while working as a butler. Monster Butler follows the true story of Fontaine and chronicles his personal descent into darkness leading up to his eventual capture.
Oldman will play the character of Wiggy, a taxidermist with anger issues who partners with Fontaine on a number of crimes before things get heavy. Monaghan will play David Wright, who begins a relationship with Fontaine in prison, which restarts when they both work on an estate. However, »
- flickeringmyth
Gary Oldman and Dominic Monaghan join Malcolm McDowell in Monster Butler
14 hours ago | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
Gary Oldman (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Dark Knight Rises) and Dominic Monaghan (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Lost) will join Malcolm McDowell in the upcoming true story of jewel-thief, con-man and serial killer Ray Fontaine (Aka Archibald Hall). Director Douglas Rath will extend his 2010 short film of the same name which also starred McDowell, who will be reprising the lead role, and will also be co-producing. Oldman will play a taxidermist (and one-time business partner of Fontaine) who suffers from anger issues - suggesting a more...
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- Peter West
[Review] Snow White and the Huntsman
17 hours ago | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
What happens when a fairy tale depicting an innocent princess saved by a litany of characters on her way to the crown turns into an epic battle with a heroine in full armor storming the castle herself? Well, we discover just how flimsy a character the titular Snow White actually is. A prisoner for years while an evil queen brought darkness upon her kingdom, the young girl’s escape into the hallucinogenic Dark Forest proves nothing but a sense of survival. She has no skills at war, has never led an army, and possesses no power to rule besides the memory of a compassionate king before her. Instead of accepting the archaically stereotypical feminine weakness instilled by Disney in their adaptation of the Brothers Grimm‘s work, we laugh at a heroic huntsman ruminating on her strength while she lay lifeless and cold. What did she ever do to deserve such praise? »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Gary Oldman and Dominic Monaghan Team With Malcolm McDowell For ‘Monster Butler’
30 May 2012 4:21 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
While his recent career has mostly been consumed by major tentpoles (The Dark Knight Rises, Harry Potter) or adult-geared dramas (Lawless, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Gary Oldman is getting back to some crazier independent roots, starring in a film from first-timer Doug Rath.
THR reports that The Lord of the Rings and Lost star Dominic Monaghan will also be joining the actor in Monster Butler, which already has Malcolm McDowell and Joanne Whalley in the cast. The true-to-life story follows “Roy Fontaine (aka Archibald Hall), a bisexual jewel thief/con man/serial killer who chronicles his personal descent into darkness leading up to his eventual capture.”
Oldman will play — get ready for it — a “a taxidermist with anger issues” named Wiggy. I certainly hope he’s able to chew a heck of a lot of scenery after an excellent, but subdued performance in Tomas Alfredon‘s spy thriller. As for Monaghan, »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
'Snow White and the Huntsman' Movie Review (2012)
30 May 2012 10:29 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
One of the biggest mistakes a filmmaker can make is to wrongly presume their film is resonating with the audience, something first time feature director Rupert Sanders does on a continual basis with Snow White and the Huntsman, a film that gets progressively worse from start to finish. The nuts and bolts of the Snow White story are here, but there is hardly an inkling of storytelling going on as one random sequence of events collides with another to create a ragged tapestry of ill-fitting pieces. Granted, those pieces may be accompanied by spectacular, big budget effects and a loud, booming score, but it all comes apart at the seams leaving a story in tatters by the film's end.
Sanders' claim to fame stems from commercial work and the marketing campaign for Microsoft's Xbox game "Halo 3" and it shows. Snow White and the Huntsman is nothing more than big visual effects from worthless trolls, »
- Brad Brevet
Scene by Scene: Love’s Young Dream – Devdas
30 May 2012 1:18 AM, PDT | Bollyspice | See recent Bollyspice news »
Ah decisions, decisions, so many decisions! I had the unenviable task of choosing which my favourite Bollywood scene was and as an avid Bollywood fan as you can imagine, I have a lot of favorite films and consequently an unholy amount of favourite scenes. Trying to narrow it down to just one scene from a Bollywood film, was probably one of the most difficult things you could have asked me – a girl who’s been watching Bollywood films ever since she can remember - to do, but just for all you BollySpice fans, I did it. One of the most colourful, dramatic and romantic tragedies ever to be made in modern-day Bollywood, Devdas is probably my only favourite Bollywood film in which everything is magnificent; the sets, the costumes, the characters, the storyline, the songs and of course the actors! Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s adaptation of Bengali author Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s novel, »
- Neelofar Jamal
Tom Hiddleston talks Loki, Thor, Avengers, Shakespeare, and more
29 May 2012 3:15 PM, PDT | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
In a recent interview, the actor Tom Hiddleston, who plays Loki in Thor and The Avengers, as well as being some other films that don’t involve superheroes, underplays his celebrated performance, saying:
“And I also felt like I’d been rubbish in Thor [laughs] – there was no way I was going to come back.”
If he’s not exaggerating, this is quite remarkable. As most fans will be well aware, Tom Hiddleston’s performance as Loki in Thor is a brilliant, breakthrough role, with plenty of nuance and charisma.
But a lot of very talented people often have self-doubt. For instance, J.R.R. Tolkien didn’t think The Lord of the Rings was worth publishing until his friend C.S. Lewis persuaded him otherwise.
The thing is to be humble, rather than going the Loki route and trying to prove yourself by grandiose attempts to conquer the world. Because Hulk generally not smash humble people. »
Happy 90th Birthday Christopher Lee!
27 May 2012 3:20 PM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
Sir Christopher Lee was born 90 years ago today, on May 27, 1922 and we want to wish him a very Happy Birthday! Even at the age of 90, he shows no signs of slowing down, with upcoming roles in Frankenweenie and The Hobbit movies. I wanted to take this time and help celebrate Christopher Lee’s birthday by introducing some of our younger readers to his past films, and have included a number of movie trailers to watch.
In recent years, the average moviegoer probably will recognize Christopher Lee as Saruman in The Lord of the Rings films or Count Dooku from the second and third Star Wars prequels. However, he has over 275 credits, including playing a Bond villain in The Man With the Golden Gun and Lord Summerisle in the 1973 cult classic The Wicker Man. He also has multiple Hammer credits, playing characters including Dracula, The Mummy, and Frankenstein’s monster.
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- Jonathan James
Grisly Red Band Trailer for Franck Khalfoun's Maniac Starring Elijah Wood
24 May 2012 7:45 PM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
When most people think of Elijah Wood, they almost immediately associate him with family-friendly roles, such as Frodo Baggins, the loyal and brave Hobbit who saves all of Middle-earth in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, or as the voice of Mumble in the Happy Feet movies. But, the fresh-faced thirty-one-year-old has also taken his turn acting in more adult fare, playing darker characters like the cannibal killer Kevin in Robert Rodriguez's Sin City with the same zeal he puts into his lighter work.
Wood will return to the Shire this December, once again portraying Frodo in Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and it's likely he will once again lend his voice to Mumble should a third Happy Feet go into production, but he has also returned to the dark side in his latest movie, portraying a crazed killer who scalps women to adorn his »
- BrentJS Sprecher
Elijah Wood Gets Violent In Red Band Trailer For Maniac
24 May 2012 3:04 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
When you think back to Elijah Wood's part in Robert Rodriguez's Sin City it's a lot easier to imagine him as a psychotic, blood-thirsty, cannibalistic killer and not just that kid from Flipper and Frodo from The Lord of the Rings. He has played other unstable characters since, most notably in the FX series Wilfred, but now he's back to doing it on the big screen as the lead in Franck Khalfoun's remake of William Lustig's Maniac. The horror film will be playing at the Cannes Film Festival this week and Twitch has gotten their hands on what appears to be a sales trailer. I should mention that this video is not for work or for the kids as it is chock full of blood, nudity and violence. You've been warned! Written by Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur, Maniac is about a young man named Frank »
Elijah Wood joins the cast of 'Red vs. Blue.' Plus: Season 10 trailer -- Exclusive
24 May 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
The tenth season of animated sci-fi-action-comedy series Red vs. Blue debuts on RoosterTeeth.com on May 28, and co-director Burnie Burns promises the run of shows will be marked by a level of quality routinely lacking in the soldiery skills of its bickering future-warriors. “We thought, ‘We’re hitting ten seasons, we should definitely pull out all the stops,’” says Burns, who also voices the characters Church and Alpha on the video game-inspired show. “We’re wrapping up a lot of the stories, paying off a lot of things. We’re taking the series up a level or two and trying »
- Clark Collis
The Gorgeous Matte Paintings That Made Lord of the Rings and Fifth Element Feel Real
24 May 2012 1:30 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Dear readers, remember how we all gawked, ‘wow’-ed and ‘ooh’-ed (hmm… if you didn’t, then you may not appreciate what this article offers, so move along!) while watching the gorgeous sceneries from Lord of the Rings, The Fifth Element, some of you maybe even whil watching Farscape TV series? You liked them, didn’t you? I [...]
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- Sunrider
Ridley Scott on his quest for a new mythology in Prometheus, teases 'equivalent' scene to Alien chestburster
23 May 2012 9:40 AM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
During Ridley Scott's absence from science fiction, a generation of film-makers and game developers have worshipped at the shrine of Alien and Blade Runner and adopted its tone and style for their own endeavours.
Like a copy of a photocopy, the freshness of his future worlds started looking overly familiar.
Scott knew that when he eventually found a sci-fi project worth working on, something different was called for.
"Over the past few decades, we've been 'action filmed-out' and 'monster filmed-out' and almost 'science fiction filmed-out'," says Scott. "So the baseline question is: how original are you going to be?"
The answer was to tackle the sort of big issues inspired by Swiss author Erich Von Daniken decades ago in books such as Chariots Of The Gods? and The Gods Were Astronauts: That the human race has ties with extraterrestrials.
Scott sat down with screenwriter Jon Spaihts and Lost veteran »
- David Bentley
Devdas one of millennium’s greatest films, according to Time
22 May 2012 12:23 AM, PDT | Bollyspice | See recent Bollyspice news »
The Hindi film industry is clearly gaining momentum on an international stage as the 2002 hit Devdas is honored by Time Magazine, who last week released a list of the greatest movies of the millennium, thus far.
Hollywood movie critic Richard Corliss compiled a list of the 10 greatest films made since the year 2000 and lists the Shahrukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan-starrer at number eight, calling the film a “visually intoxicating musical” that introduced “sang-and-danced Bollywood drama to the international culturati.”
Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali believes the honor is well-timed, almost 10 years after the film’s initial release. “For a mainstream Hindi film like Devdas to gain such a cinematic recognition and be a part of such an illustrious list is an honor, not just for me but for [the] Indian film industry at large,” Bhansali told reporters. The movie, which was the most expensive production of its time, was also »
- Chandni Suri
Devdas in Time magazines Top 10 films list
21 May 2012 5:34 AM, PDT | BollywoodHungama | See recent BollywoodHungama news »
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus Devdas starring Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit managed a rare feat when noted film critic Richard Corliss included the film in Time magazine's list of 10 best films of the millennium. Devdas, which features at No. 8 in this elite list, shares the platform with films like Moulin Rouge, Avatar, Wall E, The Lord Of The Rings and The Hurt Locker.
In his praise for Devdas, Corliss says, "The piece is played with such commitment that the tritest plot twists seem worth believing - and dancing to, in nine nifty production numbers. But the fervid emotion is what makes the thing sing. Beyond that, Devdas is a visual ravishment, with sumptuous sets, fabulous frocks and beautiful people to fill them; it has a grandeur the old Hollywood moguls would have loved."
Meanwhile, to mark the 10th anniversary of Devdas, Bhansali also has plans »
- Bollywood Hungama News Network
Game of Thrones S02 E06: “The Old Gods and the New”
19 May 2012 3:26 PM, PDT | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
spoilers Treachery! Murder! Dragonnapping! Joffreyslapping! We only got half of this on The Sopranos. And, surprisingly, the same half in The Lord of the Rings. Man, this really is a lovely thing to see: [image] Can we slap Theon next? The rat. Did he learn nothing from Ned Stark? No honor. No decency. No loyalty. Occupying Winterfell? You bastard. I really was hoping that Osha was gonna murder him in his sleep. Why didn’t she do that before sneaking off with Bran and the others? I mean, she had a knife -- we saw her use it. Or is she up to no good, gonna keep the Stark boys hostage herself or something? Ooo, or is her plan all to continue what Theon had been doing himself: looking weaker and weaker the more badass he tries to be? It won’t look good for Theon when the Stark kids turn up missing. »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Elijah Wood is a Murderous 'Maniac' in New Teaser for the Slasher Remake (Video)
17 May 2012 8:33 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Elijah Wood's huge eyes and boyish face offer a certain cherubic purity to a director in search for a hopeful protagonist -- which means that, twisted and inverted, they also present a potential nightmare. Best known for his work in The Lord of the Rings trilogy as idealistic and determined hobbit Frodo, Wood is subverting that image in Maniac, a remake of the William Lustig-directed 1980 slasher film. Wood takes on the role of Frank, originally played by Joe Spinelli. Frank, a victim of child abuse, owns a mannequin store, and is sought out by an artist named Anna (played
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- Jordan Zakarin
For Greater Glory | Advance Screenings Giveaway - Austin, Dallas, Houston & San Antonio, TX
16 May 2012 8:53 PM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
Smells Like Screen Spirit & Arc Entertainment invite you to RSVP for passes to our special advance screenings of For Greater Glory May 22, 2012 at 7:30 Pm in Austin, Dallas, Houston & San Antonio, TX. Synopsis: What price would you pay for freedom? In the exhilarating action epic For Greater Glory, an impassioned group of men and women each make the decision to risk it all for family, faith and the very future of their country, as the film’s adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War the daring people’s revolt that rocked 20th Century North America. Academy Award® nominee Andy Garcia headlines an acclaimed cast as General Gorostieta, the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake as he and his wife (Golden Globe winner Eva Longoria) watch Mexico fall into a violent civil war. Yet the man who hesitates in »
- Dave Campbell
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