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MTV's #8 Movie Of The Year Is '50/50'
15 December 2011 4:30 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
I kept fearing "50/50" would take a left turn onto Sappy Boulevard, plod past Preachy Junction and come to a rest in a town populated by "Dying Young," "Autumn in New York" and "Sweet November," where everyone learns pat lessons and becomes better people (except for those who die; those unfortunate folks just help us learn something about ourselves before they pass into the Great Cheesy Beyond).
"50/50" is a movie about cancer, after all, about a young man with the disease. At a certain point star Seth Rogen would have to cease being Seth Rogen, and the whole film would become some Ya version of "Beaches," right?
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Based on writer Will Reiser's own experiences and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a young radio producer suffering from a rare form of cancer, "50/50" pulls off the magic trick of staying consistently funny, sweet, affecting and real — and never, ever cheesy. »
- Eric Ditzian
New film 50/50 shows that death can get a lot of laughs
18 November 2011 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
'Cancer comedy' proves you don't have to resort to Hollywood cliches when it comes to death on film, says John Patterson
At the movies, Death never gets any respect. Among the diverse fates and dooms available to any movie's characters, he's always the last guy anyone wants to hang out with. But, in a nice karmic turnaround, he is indeed the very last guy they'll get to hang out with. Always the party-pooper, always a drag, ever the least welcome guest at any table he sups at, people flee for the far horizon fearing the touch of his scythe or, more often, the very notion that he actually exists, that he's coming …
Hollywood is in America, where the point of life is that it must never be allowed to end, and so it mostly practises the mealy-mouthed approach to death favoured by many of its citizen-ticket buyers. No one ever actually dies, »
- John Patterson
Interview: Vincent D’Onofrio on Directorial Debut of ‘Don’t Go in the Woods’
12 November 2011 6:40 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Vincent D’Onofrio has had a career that is rich and diverse. He has worked with directors as distinct as Stanley Kubrick (”Full Metal Jacket”) and Tim Burton (”Ed Wood”), and has starred in the legendary TV franchise “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” He presents his directorial debut, “Don’t Go in the Woods,” on November 12th in Chicago at the “Tribeca Film Festival on the Road.”
Vincent D’Onofrio began his career in the early 1980s, and quickly built an impressive resume from there. He played opposite Julia Roberts in “Dying Young” (1991), had character parts in “JFK” (1991) and “The Player” (1992), and famously played Orson Welles in “Ed Wood” (1994). He practically stole the showy film, “Men in Black” (1997) as Edgar, and portrayed Abbie Hoffman in “Steal This Movie” (2000). From 2001-2011, he also made waves on television, memorably taking on the persona of Detective Robert Goren in “Law & Order: Criminal Intent. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Short Film Showcase - The Woman in the Room (1983)
9 October 2011 10:46 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
The Woman in the Room, 1983.
Written and Directed by Frank Darabont.
Based on a story by Stephen King.
Starring Michael Cornelison, Dee Croxton, Brian Libby, Bob Brunson and George Russell.
Before he earned critical acclaim adapting Stephen King's material for the big screen with The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999) and The Mist (2007), Hungarian-American filmmaker Frank Darabont turned his hand to one of the King's short stories, The Woman in the Room, which had first been published in the author's 1978 collection Night Shift.
Securing the rights to the tale for $1 - thereby launching the concept of the 'Dollar Baby' - Darabont's thirty-minute adaptation went on to become a semi-finalist on the shortlist for the Best Live Action Short Film nominations at the Academy Awards and was later released on home-video in 1994 as part of a double-feature with Jeff Schiro's The Boogeyman (1982) entitled Nightshift Collection.
- flickeringmyth
Jonathan Levine's "50/50"
30 September 2011 6:55 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
"Dying young is no laughing matter," writes Sean Burns in the Philadelphia Weekly. "Except in the case of 50/50, an awkward, heartfelt and extremely funny picture directed by Jonathan Levine, from a script by Will Reiser that has the rough, pants-kicking sting of real life at its (slightly compromised) core. Reiser, a television writer for Da Ali G Show as well as assorted dreck like Garage Band Makeover, was diagnosed with a rare, operable form of cancer in his early 20s. His best friend during this ordeal was the kind of slovenly loudmouth that you'd usually find played in a Hollywood movie by Seth Rogen. Wait, scratch that. Because Reiser's best friend really was Seth Rogen, who always seems to turn up in movies as some sort of variation of himself in the first place, and now does so for real this time as Kyle, an Army-jacket clad, slob-ovian with a »
Laughing in the Face of Death: '50/50' and Other Terminal Illness Movies That Buck Convention
29 September 2011 9:00 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Filed under: Moviefone Canada, The Rundown
You'd think a movie about a young man battling a terminal disease would be a huge downer -- a la 'Dying Young' -- but '50/50' isn't your average death's door tearjerker. The funny new flick offers plenty of laughs along with the tender moments, and manages to find humor in an incredibly depressing situation.
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- Annette Bourdeau
Film Review: Gus Van Sant Turns Death Into Poetry in ‘Restless’
23 September 2011 7:08 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Rating: 3.0/5.0
Chicago – Gus Van Sant’s “Restless” is an undeniably twee and hipster film that will annoy some viewers about as much as bad performance art, but I found the film’s commitment to a unique tone and world view refreshing as so few directors even know what those words mean. It may not be grounded enough to be emotionally effective, but another strong performance from the stellar Mia Wasikowska and a consistency to its vision make “Restless” worth a look.
“Restless” is a film about two people facing death. It is not just an unknown quantity in their lives, as it is for so many people. It is something that has forever impacted one of them and will soon take another. In many ways, Jason Lew’s script feels like an attempt to offer a different take on the common love-through-illness tale. It’s like “Dying Young” as remade by The Decemberists. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
First Trailer for 'Trespass': Is It That Bad?
18 August 2011 | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Filed under: Movie News
Joel Schumacher's latest film, the home-invasion thriller 'Trespass,' has gotten a lot of bad buzz around the Web lately, mostly, it seems, because of an uninspired one-sheet and the announcement this summer that the film would go to DVD only a few weeks after it was to open this fall (It can't be good if it goes to DVD too soon, right?).
Anyhow, the film, starring Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Ben Mendelsohn, Cam Gigandet and Liana Liberato, was pretty much under the radar for months until Millennium Films picked it up this June. Now -- just prior to its unspooling at the Toronto International Film Festival -- Millennium has released the first trailer for the film ... and some bloggers think it's downright bad.
Has Schumacher -- whose career has included such diverse outings as 'St. Elmo's Fire,' 'The Lost Boys, »
- Harley W. Lond
2011 Summer Movie Guide: May and June
18 May 2011 3:14 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
A banished Norse god! Apocalyptic vampires! A vigilant yeg! A cute scene-stealing Capuchin monkey! Mutant teenagers! A bunch of drunk and horny bridesmaids! Big Foot! A Green Ring! Pirates, Zombies, and Mermaids! Karate kicking zoo animals! A couple of forest dwelling trolls! And one smokin' hot teacher! That's what awaits us at the Cineplex over the course of May and June, and it promises to be a scorcher!
It doesn't really matter how fast and furious things get on the big screen, the summer movie season doesn't officially kick off until May 6th. And this year Thor opens things with a lighting bolt blast of Marvel excitement. It doesn't come to an end until August 31st, when Sam Worthington sends us all back to school with The Debt. Between then and now, we will see some of the biggest movies of the year hit hard. Some will win, some will lose, »
- MovieWeb
Girlfriends: The 'Black Best Friend' in Film
31 March 2011 12:45 PM, PDT | Essence | See recent Essence news »
Black Best Friends in FilmThe Bbf PhenomenonThe cherished Black best friend -- a legendary figure in Hollywood that was once a mammy ("Gone with the Wind"), then became a maid ("Imitation of Life") and eventually emerged as the diversity token to attract Black audiences ("Sex and the City"). Sometimes the Black best friend is an unknown actress on their grind. The Black bestie could also be A-list in the Black film scene. She offers gems of wisdom with a little urban or southern flair and sometimes she has magical powers to save the day.Check out some of American cinema's black Best friends -- White Hollywood's greatest accessory.Meagan Good as Romy in 'The Unborn' (2009)Being a Black Bff in a horror film is no easy task.You are guaranteed to be axed off, especially if it is in one of the worst films of the yea,like 2009's "The Unborn. »
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