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Review: Armored

4 December 2009 2:15 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

The delicate planning scenario (The Great Train Robbery, Rififi), the humorous spin (Small Time Crooks, Quick Change), the hidden master plan (Inside Man, The Lookout), the crew of hardened professionals (Ronin, Heat), the sexy, over-the-top robbery (Oceans 12, The Italian Job), and the aftermath (Reservoir Dogs); these are the six core orbits almost all heist films fall into. If one were to draw a Venn diagram depicting the overlap between the six circles, Nimrod Antal's Armored would land almost exclusively in the aftermath category. There's no planning involved, no comic relief, no last minute twist, no grandiose kidnapping, no inkling of men with enough skill to count how many exits there are from any room they're in.

No, Armored is a simple story of a group of blue collar workers who ferry millions in cash to and fro for an armored transport escort service and decide one day that they're going »

- Peter Hall

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Spike Lee's Upcoming Film Slate

30 November 2009 1:52 PM, PST | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »

Director Spike Lee recently talked to IGN about some of his rumored/announced upcoming projects. Here's the rundown from the man himself:Inside Man 2Spike Lee: Waiting on Universal Pictures. They have the script. They have the budget and we'll see if they wanna make it. Denzel's ready. Clive Owen's ready. I'm ready. Jodie's ready. Everyone's ready. It's like, "Coach, put us in!" Save Us, Joe Louis [biopic] Spike Lee: I've been unable to get the financing. What's really sad about that is that I had made a promise to the late great Budd Schulberg that we'd get it done and Budd passed recently. He was 95. Budd being, of course, the screenwriter of On the Waterfront and the novelist of What Makes Sammy Run. Great, great, great, great writer. James Brown biopic Spike Lee: Financing. I had the all-time biopic trilogy: Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis and James Brown. »

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A Serious Man and the odd movie out

29 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

A Serious Man may be getting rave reviews – but it's like nothing the Coens have made before. Joe Queenan on weird one-offs and the directors who make them

About halfway through the very funny, very disturbing, very ethnic new film A Serious Man, the modern-day Job who is the serious man in ­ question climbs up on to the roof of his ghastly 1960s Minneapolis suburban home and tries to adjust the antenna to improve his TV reception. Beleaguered on all fronts – conjugally, professionally, medically – Larry Gopnik, a dorky physics professor who may be about to lose his job and is very likely to lose his family, is a bright, principled Jewish man whose children have begged him to fix the antenna so they can watch F Troop, an idiotic 1960s comedy. Many of Larry's travails unfold as songs from Jefferson Airplane's seminal 1967 LP Surrealistic Pillow play in the background. »

- Joe Queenan

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Fuqua & Spike Lee Adapting 'Miss: Better Living Through Crime'

18 November 2009 12:02 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Filmmakers Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Shooter) and Spike Lee (Inside Man) are teaming up for an adaptation of the French graphic novel Miss: Better Living Through Crime. Fuqua will direct the crime thriller with John Ridley, who also recently wrote George Lucas' Red Tails, writing the script and Spike Lee executive producing. The project is one of the first at the newly formed Vigilante Entertainment. The comic is published through Les Humanoides Associes in France and first hit Us shelves back in 2002. Vigilante is currently shopping the project around with studios before moving forward. Read on for more info on this. Miss: Better Living Through Crime is about Nola and Slim (seen above), two unlikely partners in crime in the early 1920s in New York. Nola is a poor white girl who has learned to survive by hook or by crook since being expelled from the orphanage. Slim is »

- Alex Billington

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Antoine Fuqua and Spike Lee Team Up for Adaptation of Graphic Novel Miss: Better Living Through Crime

17 November 2009 10:39 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

It’s been twenty years since Do the Right Thing but Spike Lee has continued to grow and innovate as a filmmaker, pushing himself to work outside his comfort zone while never completely leaving his deep-seated convictions about race in America.

It’s been eight years since Training Day but Antoine Fuqua has yet to make another successful film and even Training Day succeeded more because of Denzel Washington than because of Fuqua’s direction.  While he did receive positive notices for his most recent film Brooklyn’s Finest, which played at Sundance earlier this year, it’s been a long dry spell for Fuqua.  Can he finally up his game by joining forces with Lee?  Their collaboration in adapting the graphic novel Miss: Better Living Through Crime may answer that question.  Hit the jump for details.

Here’s what Variety has to say about the source material:

[Miss, by French writers Philippe Thirault, Marc Riou and Mark Vigouroux] revolves around Nola and Slim, »

- Matt Goldberg

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Clive Owen: The Hollywood Interview

4 November 2009 12:49 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Clive Owen Gets Back

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Alex Simon

Clive Owen is one of those actors that keep surprising you. Just when you think the audience, and the Hollywood establishment, has pegged him as an action hero, a leading man, or a romantic comedy pin-up, Owen pulls an about-face and does something unexpected.

It all started October 3, 1964 in Coventry, England. Owen’s father, a country music singer, abandoned the family when he was just three. His mother later remarried, with Clive and his four brothers raised by his mother and stepfather, who worked for British Rail. Owen has characterized those early years as "rough." A self-described “solidly working class” kid, Owen was bitten by the acting bug at age 13 and followed his dream to The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art several years later. Initially cutting his teeth on high-profile British television programs such as “Chancer” and “Sharman,” as well as art house »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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/Filmcast Ep. 72 - Where the Wild Things Are (Guest: Stephen Tobolowsky from Glee)

20 October 2009 8:10 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

In this week's /Filmcast, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley praise The Inside Man, wonder why America can't handle miniseries, celebrate the joys of Glee, and explain the similarities between Where the Wild Things Are and Children of Men. Special guest Stephen Tobolowsky joins us for this episode. You can currently see Stephen on Glee, which airs on Fox, Wednesdays at 9 Pm Est. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(At)gmail(Dot)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us next Monday at 9 Pm Est / 6 Pm Pst at Slashfilm's live page as we review Lars von Trier's Antichrist. Download or Play Now in your Browser: [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/slashfilmcast/Slashfilmcastep72.mp3] Subscribe to the /Filmcast: Shownotes Introduction (01:30) Stephen Tobolowsky and the mystery behind his family name What We've Been Watching David Chen (05:10): Law Abiding Citizen, Glee Devindra (31:32): Inside Man Stephen (37:17): Children of Men, »

- David Chen

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NCIS Recap: "Inside Man"

7 October 2009 6:46 AM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »

On last night's NCIS, the team was forced to reopen the case of a dead Navy officer because a political blogger who accused them of a cover up turned up dead himself.

The Navy officer, suspected of insider trading, was thought to have been killed in a car accident and the case was closed by NCIS. But the blogger alleged wrongdoing.

The officer's death had no discernible link to the blogger's murder - until they exhumed the body and found there was no body. Was the blogger trying to frame NCIS?

Click here for our full episode recap of "Inside Man."

Here are some of our favorite NCIS quotes from last night ...

McGee: I can take care of the video surveillance, it's the K-9 patrol I'm worried about.

Tony: Chillax, bro. All these budget cuts and economic problems, they can't afford dogs. Trust me. | permalink Tony: [to McGee] That's like a yoga position. »

- steve@iscribelimited.com (Dr. Shepherd)

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The softer side of Clive Owen: Can you dig it?

26 September 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Ever since I saw Croupier while visiting London with my folks years ago, Clive Owen has been one of my very favorite actors. No one does that British brooding thing quite like he does (see: Gosford Park, Closer, Inside Man), and when he's bad-ass (i.e. King Arthur, Children of Men, Shoot 'Em Up), he's thrilling. But in his latest movie The Boys Are Back (directed by Shine's Scott Hicks), Owen sheds that stoic persona to play Joe Warr, a father of two sons who, following the death of his second wife, is faced with raising both of them on his own. »

- Missy Schwartz

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Darren Aronofsky Pulls Off a Heist Movie

22 September 2009 12:08 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

We'll start with the good news: Darren Aronofsky has signed up to direct and produce an adaptation of one of the most daring crimes of the century. In Tonbridge, Kent, a group of criminals lifted $85 million from a Securitas warehouse, although they didn't exactly get away with it.

Five people were convicted in January of last year in the largest cash theft in British history, but the story has lived on, and Variety says the film with Aronofsky's name on it will be adapted from a Sports Illustrated article called Breaking the Bank and Howard Sounes' book, Heist: The Inside Story of the World's Biggest Bank Robbery.

Tough to beat a good heist flick, really. We've been spoiled in that regard recently; both The Bank Job and Inside Man are great fun, and two-thirds of the Ocean's trilogy works, even though it's much lighter fare. Still, it's an ageless genre »

- Colin Boyd

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Fame, Rage and Capitalism

21 September 2009 6:55 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

This week, contrasting approaches to filmmaking bring about balance and equilibrium. Experimentalism (Sally Potter's "Rage" and Michael Almereyda's "Paradise") collides head on with tried and tested formulas (the Clive Owen starrer "The Boys Are Back" and a remake of "Fame").

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"Blind Date"

Stanley Tucci adapts and stars in the second remake from the canon of slain Dutch director Theo Van Gogh, the first being Steve Buscemi's 2007 "Interview." A whimsical psychological tussle between a husband and wife who play games to patch up their marriage, the story hones in on the attempted romantic rediscovery between long-married Don (Tucci) and Jenna (Patricia Clarkson).

Opens in New York.

"The Blue Tooth Virgin"

Writer/director Russell Brown's comedy stays true to the adage "write what you know," as a miserably bad screenplay threatens to »

- Neil Pedley

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Mad Men's Night of the Deerely Departed

20 September 2009 9:24 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Even on a second or third viewing, Spike Lee’s Inside Man makes engrossing viewing, with Clive Owen’s voice supplying a second layer of scratchy stubble. But I can’t keep watching it all the way to the neatly wrapped end because it’s time for Mad Men and the dark at the top of the Draper stairs, which is where we begin this week as daughter Sally remains haunted by the death of her grandfather, and milking it for all its worth. Don tries to comfort her as best he can, given his own perpetual five o'clock shadow of the soul that, with a little careful negligence, might someday grow into Clive Owen sardonic beard stubble. He gives Sally a little peck on the head to pretend to show that he pretends to care when what he really wants to do is knock off to sleep while wife »

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Lee and De Niro Team for Showtime Drama

17 September 2009 2:58 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Robert De Niro and Spike Lee have teamed with Showtime to develop a drama series about Manhattan's Alphabet City, report the trades. The project, titled Alphaville, will be written by John Ridley (Red Tails, Three Kings), with Lee on board to direct the potential pilot. Alphaville is an ensemble drama chronicling Alphabet City's gritty and tumultuous past before it became the gentrified East Village. Set during the 1980s, it will re-create the neighborhood's eclectic mix of struggling artists and musicians living alongside Puerto Rican and black families. Along with its growing bohemian and celebrity population that also included graffiti artists, break-dancers, rappers and DJs, the neighborhood was plagued by illegal drug activity and violent crime. Local tensions culminated in the Tompkins Square Park riot of 1988, in which police clashed with anarchists and homeless activists. The 1980s Alphabet City was the setting for the musical Rent. The neighborhood also served as »

- James Cook

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Duplicity Blu-ray Review

17 September 2009 7:01 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Clive Owen is one of those actors who hasn’t found his audience yet, but has a devoted following of men and women who get him. It’s easy to see why he’s got something of a cult following: The man gives off the air of casual cool, and has what magazines refer to as “a rugged sex appeal” in a way that few modern actors possess. He looks like he could have been a day laborer at one point or another, probably did some boxing, but knows how to wrap his way around words. He’s got those penetrating eyes that suggest the sort of world-weariness that was of fashion in the 30’s and 40’s. And yet when a film of his clicks with an audience (Inside Man, Sin City), it’s usually because he’s an ensemble player. Duplicity did not find its audience, and Clive Owen »

- Andre Dellamorte

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Spike Lee Hosts Massive Michael Jackson Birthday Celebration

29 August 2009 12:15 PM, PDT | TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news »

Dancing Michael Jackson fans reportedly numbering in the thousands filled up a New York park where director Spike Lee hosted a ceremonial birthday bash for the late King of Pop, who would have turned 51 on Saturday. The party-goers danced beneath a shower of rain in Brooklyn's Prospect Park as a DJ spun Jackson's classic songs, says the Associated Press. "I was just like everyone else. I loved his talent," Lee said. Known for films such as 'Do the Right Thing' and 'Inside Man,' Lee also directed Jackson's music video for "They Don't Care About Us."

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- TheInsider

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[DVD Review] Chaos

15 August 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

While the big names above the title might suggest an a high-octane cops and robbers caper with intelligent plotting and pounding action, you would do well not to be fooled. Shot on the down slope of Wesley Snipes’s career, prior to the upswing of Jason Statham’s, and well into the wilderness of Ryan Phillippe’s, this shockingly lackluster thriller from writer/director Tony Giglio (the man who brought us Soccer Dog) is plodding, predictable, and oh so very boring.

The timing of this project is likely crucial to its blundering inability to resonate on pretty much any level as an engaging thriller. Snipes was neck deep in a legal dispute with New Line (the IRS was still to come) over the debacle that was Blade: Trinity, Phillippe’s marriage to Reese Witherspoon was imploding (the couple would file for divorce a year later), and Statham, who had yet »

- Neil Pedley

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The A-List Stars Who Haven't Tainted Themselves with Sequels

17 June 2009 11:02 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

With Hollywood's neverending desire to milk every story and success for all its worth, it's easy to assume that no one is impervious from part 2, 3, 4, 10 -- especially A-listers. Part of the reason for their success is starring in successful films, and the better a movie does, the better the chance we'll get at least one sequel. But did you know that some of the biggies have only stuck to numero uno?

Movieline has a great post up about the A-listers who have headed for sequel land, and those that have stayed blissfully away -- and they're not necessarily the actors you'd guess. Some are easy: Brad Pitt and Clooney had those Ocean's films (and does it count that Clooney once got some tomato revenge?). Ben Stiller is all about the sequels. Clint Eastwood got dirty for Harry in 5 films.

But who hasn't return for a part 2? I'll give you one: Denzel Washington. »

- Monika Bartyzel

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Friday Report: 'Hangover,' 'Up' Stay on Top

13 June 2009 4:53 PM, PDT | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »

The party didn't stop for The Hangover, which led Friday with an estimated $10.4 million. The comedy was off 38 percent from last Friday, increasing its gross to $82.4 million in eight days. By comparison, Wedding Crashers saw a smaller drop at the same point (28 percent) but was grossing less with an eight-day tally of around $70 million, adjusted for ticket price inflation. Hangover's trajectory suggests a weekend of around $32 million, which would be enough for the top spot.

Coming in second with the smallest dip of all nationwide releases (32 percent), Up generated an estimated $8.9 million, growing its total to $165.5 million in 15 days. Pixar's comedy adventure has set a course for a third weekend in the vicinity of $29 million.

Debuting in third, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 brought in an estimated $8.2 million on approximately 4,400 screens at 3,074 sites. The action thriller featuring Denzel Washington and John Travolta was within the typical range for »

- Brandon Gray

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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is Your Mediocre Summer Movie

11 June 2009 11:28 PM, PDT | www.canmag.com | See recent CanMag news »

I thought The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 looked like Inside Man vs Swordfish. I turned out to be right. It.s Denzel Washington at his most standard and John Travolta at his campiest in a completely mediocre summer filler movie.

Review: The Taking of Pelham 123

It goes through all the technical motions, setting stuff up in the beginning for later. It.s a passable hostage thriller in that you.ll follow it through to the end, but completely unmemorable. I mean, hostages in a train and a deadline for money? That.s not even a logline, it.s an episode of Fox.s short-lived Standoff. Sure, in the original, just renting a train was a big production value, but now it.s no big whoop.

There.s some character drama, something happened to them in the past that makes this situation ironic, although now we just Google for backstory exposition. Thank you, »

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Box-Office Oracle: Jun. 12 - Jun. 14, 2009

11 June 2009 4:12 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

#1 movie predicted correctly: 0 Weeks in a Row 1. Up In a photo finish, I ended up losing last weekend as Hangover slipped past Up. So I'm taking Up again, if only to prove I'm stubborn. Estimate: $30.2 million 2. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 I've put it right smack dab in the middle of John Q and Inside Man (per theater). It's not doing well on Rt, which means it probably won't win the word of mouth battle either. Estimate: $27.7 million 3. The Hangover Simple math is going to get it, even it's a solid film. It's in 550 less theaters (than Up), and people already came out in droves last weekend. So I'm giving it a 40% bleed, which is fantastic, but not enough to win the weekend. Estimate: $27.0 million 4. Land of the Lost A $100m dollar budget, and it's made $24m so far. So no, not ideal. Estimate: $9.0 million 5. Night at the Museum: Battle of »

- Laremy Legel

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