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18 items from 2012
Supporting Actors: The Overlooked and Underrated (part 4 of 5)
26 May 2012 7:49 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Tom Noonan as Francis Dollarhyde in Manhunter (Michael Mann, 1986, USA):
Noonan is absolutely incredible as a serial murderer in this underrated adaptation of Thomas Harris’ novel Red Dragon. With all respect to the talented but miscast actors involved in Brett Ratner’s 2002 adaptation Red Dragon (USA), with the exception of Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, the acting in this earlier, superior version of the book exists on a much higher level. Most notably, there’s nothing resembling a comparison between Noonan’s Francis Dollarhyde and Ralph Fiennes’ interpretation. This role is by far Noonan’s finest film work to date and should not be missed.
Other notable Tom Noonan performances: Phoenix (Danny Cannon, 1998, USA).
Christopher Walken as Brad Whitewood Sr.in At Close Range (James Foley, 1986, USA):
Having once described his role in this film as “the hillbilly Lucifer”, Walken is incredible as a rural crime boss bringing his son, »
- Terek Puckett
Retro Shock Theater: The Unborn (1991)
25 May 2012 7:28 AM, PDT | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Horror tales are often thought of as being concerned solely with the end of life, preying on our universal fears of death and decay, but the act of bringing new life into the world has provided almost equal inspiration for terror with pregnancy, birth, and the rearing of children continually exploited for all their panicked possibilities.
With the very likely to be heinous romantic comedy What To Expect When You’re Expecting currently in theaters, I couldn’t help but think of the many attention worthy counterprogramming options to be found in the horror genre. While several horror classics involving pregnancy and its potentially awful aftermath instantly come to mind, like Rosemary’s Baby or It’s Alive, I’m going with a largely forgotten item from the back catalog – 1991’s bloody baby bonanza The Unborn.
Written by the duo of John D. Brancato and Michael Ferris under the shared »
Supporting Actors: The Overlooked and Underrated (part 2 of 5)
24 May 2012 12:12 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Oliver Reed as Athos in The Three Musketeers & The Four Musketeers (Richard Lester, 1973/1974, UK):
These films were actually shot all at once but ultimately released as two separate films telling one long story. As the musketeer with a dark past, Oliver Reed provides a lot of the heart and soul in these very entertaining and well-made films. Technically, since we have to isolate one film for our fantasy nomination, it would be The Four Musketeers as his role is more prominent in that film. Reed’s reunion scene with Faye Dunaway’s Milady is superb as is Reed’s intense swordplay with an array of opponents including Christopher Lee. An underrated actor whose career was damaged by well-documented alcohol problems and notorious off-screen behavior, Reed still logged in some truly incredible acting performances over the course of his career. His portrayal of Athos is definitely one of them.
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- Terek Puckett
Haven Opens Its Doors to Even More New Cast Members
23 May 2012 4:00 PM, PDT | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
Earlier this month we told you about the only-in-Haven-type “cleaner” cast for Haven‘s upcoming Season 3. Now comes word of two more newbies moving in on our favorite town, along with more inside information about what we can be looking for when the series returns in September:
Official Press Release:
Dorian Missick (Southland, The Cape) And Kate Kelton (Harold And Kumar, American Psycho 2) Join Third Season Of Syfy’S Popular Series Haven Season 3 Of Haven Premieres Friday, September 21
New York – May 18, 2012 – Dorian Missick (Southland, The Cape) and Kate Kelton (Harold and Kumar, American Psycho 2) will join the cast of Syfy’s popular series Haven in recurring roles when the show returns for its third season beginning Friday, September 21 at 10Pm (Et/Pt).
Kelton portrays the spirited and fierce “Jordan McKee.” She’s a waitress at “The Gun & Rose Diner,” and also an influential member of a »
- Erin Willard
TV News: USA Serves Up Culinary Assassins, Dick Wolf Drama
18 May 2012 7:29 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – The USA Network is pretty excellent at taking ridiculous ideas and making them quality entertainment. The network that brought us the Ocd Detective Monk and managed to squeeze a Christmas episode out of Stephen King’s ‘The Dead Zone’ is back at the quirky drama cafe yet again after offering up a preview of it’s 2012 Drama slate.
The most scrumptious morsel looks to be the ‘Culinary Action Thriller’ (which, lets face it, we all hope becomes a thing) “Rare,” about a talented chef who has a past in the special forces. Is he as good with a knife inside the kitchen as he is outside? The press release seems to think so, and if the show features at least one crème-roulette to the face an episode, the proceedings could be exciting.
In case you didn’t know, Synthesia is a disease that allows you to see emotions, and »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
John Carpenter's 'Christine' Roars into the New Beverly
24 April 2012 12:00 PM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Christine is one of the more overlooked works of two horror icons' oeuvres. For John Carpenter's film adaptation the killer car novel came between his better known works The Thing and Big Trouble in Little China, just as Stephen King's novel came between the master scribe's more acclaimed books Different Seasons and The Dead Zone. But you can you see for yourself if Christine deserves a little more love than she's received over the years, when the film version screens at La's New Beverly Theater this Saturday at 11:59 Pm. More after the jump. Christine will be hosted by Horror Movie a Day's Brian Collins, who says of John Carpenter's film, »
Mindy Newell: Books, Banned and Burned
23 April 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
This one’s for Martha …
Nothing like a good book to get the rabble-rousers going.
In Field Of Dreams, Ray Kinsella’s wife, played by Amy Madigan, successfully shuts down the effort to ban Terence Mann’s books from the local Iowa school system. Terence Mann – played by James Earl Jones – was based on J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of Catcher In The Rye.
Catcher was published in 1951, and has pretty much stayed on “attempts to ban it” lists since its publication. In fact, it was the most censored book in America from 1961 to 1982, even though, according to Wikipedia, it was the “second most taught book in United States public schools.” It most recently reappeared on the “most challenged books” list, published by American Library Association, in 2009.
These are some of the books I remember being on the curriculum when I was in school, along some that I missed because »
- Mindy Newell
Cast Heads Back to Haven as Season 3 Production Begins
18 April 2012 4:00 AM, PDT | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
Twitter was aflutter with good luck wishes between actors and writers yesterday as the cast of the excellent, exquisite Syfy series Haven starts shooting Season 3 today in Halifax, Nova Scotia. And about darn time, we say; they left us with one heck of a cliffhanger. In case you don’t remember, here’s a pic of the cast from last year’s Season 2 opener, followed by Syfy‘s recent press release about the start of production, and where we were left back in September:
More Secrets Are About To Surface As Syfy’S Hit Series ‘Haven’ Goes Into Production On Its Third Season Beginning April 18 In Halifax, Nova Scotia
New York – April 3, 2012 – Get ready to journey back to the small town where everyone has a secret when the Syfy hit series Haven goes into production on 13 new episodes of season three beginning April 18 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
During its second season, »
- Erin Willard
Mondo Squallido: Episode 1 – 99 Women
13 April 2012 6:25 AM, PDT | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Editors Note: Welcome to the first of instalment of Mondo Squallido, which is a fantastic series of sleazy film reviews from a great YouTuber, and new member of the Blogomatic3000 team, called Pete (aka Mattei of the Dead – which Btw is a fantastic nickname!). You can check out more of Pete’s videos at: http://www.youtube.com/MatteioftheDead
So my fellow sleazeballs, we finally get Mondo Squallido rolling, in all it’s sleazy, scuzzy glory. I figured for the first episode I would ease it in and just slowly titillate and tease your senses of what you can expect from the series…. it was either this or a Japanese girl being taken by a dog with a strapon…. yeah…. Anyways!
This episode we look at a film by one of the most prolific and notorious directors, Jess Franco (Barbed Wire Dolls, Venus In Furs, Succubus) who will probably appear »
- Guest
Haven Season 3 Starts Filming This Month
3 April 2012 10:40 AM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
We’ve had a number of readers asking us about the status of Haven Season 3. Syfy officially renewed Haven for a 13-episode third season last October and we now have word that production begins later this month:
More Secrets Are About To Surface As Showcase’S Hit Series Haven Goes Into Production On Its Third Season Beginning April 18 In Halifax, Nova Scotia
New York, NY/Toronto, On/Los Angeles, CA – April 3, 2012 – Get ready to journey back to the small town where everyone has a secret when the Showcase hit series Haven goes into production on 13 new episodes of season three beginning April 18 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Season three of Haven picks up immediately following the events of the gripping season two finale where Nathan (Lucas Bryant) was warned against pursuing a romantic relationship with Audrey (Emily Rose); Duke (Eric Balfour) learned his family legacy was to kill Haven citizens with troubles; Audrey went missing, »
- Jonathan James
Production to Begin on Season 3 of Haven on April 18
3 April 2012 9:18 AM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
The mystery of Haven deepens week by week for Audrey Parker (Emily Rose).
The cast and crew of Showcase’s supernatural mystery series Haven are heading back to the coast of Nova Scotia for April 18, which has been announced as the official start date for production on Season 3 of the show
Loosely based on the novella The Colorado Kid by Stephen King, Haven follows former FBI agent Audrey Parker (Emily Rose). Parker becomes a cop in the small coastal town of Haven, Maine, and soon discovers the town’s many secrets, which hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her past.
As supernatural series go, Haven is generally low key, but it’s appealing characters, intriguing mysteries and beautiful setting have helped to make it a deserved hit in this writer’s opinion.
The 13-episode third season of the show, which airs on Syfy in the U.S., will »
- Michael Simpson
Weekly Poll Results: Best David Cronenberg Movie
30 March 2012 9:14 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
It's time to tally up last week's poll results, and according to Film Junk readers, The Fly is David Cronenberg's best movie to date. The Jeff Goldblum remake had a decisive victory with over 28% of the votes, followed by a very tight race for second place between Videodrome, Eastern Promises and A History of Violence. The rest of the choices were all mostly ignored, with Dead Ringers just barely sneaking in to the #5 spot. I'm a little surprised that Eastern Promises and A History of Violence ranked so high, but I'm guessing that some moviegoers (younger ones in particular) may only be familiar with these two films. Do you agree with these results? 1. The Fly -- 28.4% 2. Videodrome -- 17.7% 3. Eastern Promises -- 16% 4. A History of Violence -- 15.4% 5. Dead Ringers -- 5.9% 6. Crash -- 4.8% 7. eXistenZ -- 3.7% 8. Scanners -- 3.4% 9. The Dead Zone -- 2.5% 10. Naked Lunch -- 2.2%
For More Daily Movie Goodness, Visit Filmjunk. »
- Sean
FremantleMedia Enterprises forms global partnership with Pukeko Pictures
7 March 2012 6:32 PM, PST | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
FremantleMedia Enterprises has made a global deal with Pukeko Pictures, the affiliate television company of Richard Taylor’s Weta Workshop. The companies will work together on new scripted television series
The announcement:
Fremantlemedia Enterprises Forges Global Partnership With Richard Taylor’S Pukeko Pictures
FremantleMedia Enterprises (Fme) has announced a major first look deal with Pukeko Pictures, the affiliate television company of Richard Taylor’s Weta Workshop. The partnership will see the two companies working together on new scripted television series, which will benefit from the expertise from within the New Zealand entertainment sector, in particular the Weta Workshop facilities and the world-renowned talents of the Wellington film and television production industry. As part of the new relationship, Fme and Pukeko have jointly hired Adam Fratto to head up development of new television projects for the global market, working out of FremantleMedia’s La office. Reporting to Martin Baynton, co-owner of Pukeko Pictures, »
- Colin Delaney
Doctor Gash's Tip of the Scalpel: A Tribute to Stephen King Part 1
23 February 2012 10:05 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it?"
"The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear.”
This is one of my favorite quotes. »
- Doctor Gash
Nikita Launches Interactive Code Breaker Game
26 January 2012 11:23 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Nikita: Code Breaker is a new interactive online game - live now - that enables fans of The CW's hit series Nikita to engage in missions, crack codes and, eventually, unlock one of the series' notorious black boxes, where government-related secrets are stored. Plus, enter for a chance to win a trip for two to Toronto to visit the set of Nikita.
Free and accessible for everyone to play, the game is based on the hit Warner Bros. Television series Nikita (Fridays 8/7c on The CW), currently in the midst of its second seasonFeaturing directives from series star Shane West - in character as Michael, an operative gone rogue - the game's first missions are currently live and can be played at Cwtv.com/Kia; new missions will be available each Friday, to coincide with the show's broadcast schedulePresented by the Kia Optima midsize sedan, the game's missions showcase the car's graphics and technology, »
- MovieWeb
Gop debates getting you down? Here are a few of the worst (movie) presidents ever
24 January 2012 1:44 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
You thought last night’s Gop debate on NBC turned in some laughable performances? Hollywood screenwriters have been concocting over-the-top doomsday Presidents for decades, many of whom make even Rick Santorum look like Charles de Gaulle. Below, five bad prezes from the big screen. Feel free to nominate your own candidates in the comments, PopWatchers.
Peter Seller’s President Merkin Muffley in Dr. Strangelove (1964): Not a bad guy, really, but a bit of a milquetoast (“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the war room!”). Plus, he was indirectly responsible for setting off Russia’s Doomsday Device. »
- Benjamin Svetkey
Opening Night Dark Knight Rises IMAX Tickets On Sale Now; Hunger Games Tickets On Sale February 22
9 January 2012 1:39 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
As we’re currently in the lull between Awards Movie season and the spring slate of exciting films (ie. January = The Dead Zone), it’s a good time to start planning ahead for those midnight showings we’re already looking forward to. As such, midnight tickets for IMAX showings of The Dark Knight Rises have already gone on sale for some select cities, and Lionsgate has announced the on sale date for tickets to The Hunger Games. Hit the jump for the details. The folks at /Film have discovered that Fandango has already begun selling IMAX Dark Knight Rises tickets for a select number of theaters in cities like Los Angeles and New York. There’s no guarantee how long these showtimes will remain up, but for now they appear good to go. Head over to Fandango, enter your city, and see if your local theater pops up. The Dark Knight Rises opens July 20th. »
- Adam Chitwood
[Media] - "The Tall Man" - New photos of Jessica Biel
2 January 2012 10:03 AM, PST | www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news »
Here are new photos of Jessica Biel for Pascal Laugier's "The Tall Man". "The Tall Man" is a suspenseful thriller in the vein of the early films of M. Night Shyamalan, said an early statement. Biel plays a woman who must grapple with and track the mysterious figure of The Tall Man who has kidnapped her child. Jodelle Ferland ("Silent Hill", "Case 39", "Eclipse"), Stephen McHattie ("Pontypool", "Watchmen", "The Fountain"), Samantha Ferris ("V", "Grace"), William B. Davis ("The Messengers", "The X-Files", "The Thaw", "Fear Itself") and Teach Grant ("Devour", "Vampire", "Fringe", "The Dead Zone", "Hard Ride To Hell") will all be joining Jessica Biel. »
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