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Mark Strong on Sherlock Holmes, Peter Weir’s The Way Back, The Guard and Eagle Of The Ninth
22 December 2009 10:11 PM, PST
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About a week ago, I got to speak to an actor whose work I really admire: Mark Strong (IMDb resume). While many of you might not know his name, if you ever saw Body of Lies, he played a character named Hani Salaam and he was the best performance in the film. Since then, Strong has booked a ton of very high profile gigs in some of Hollywood’s biggest movies. Clearly people noticed his work and as a fan, I’m excited to see him in more movies.
Anyway, the reason I got to speak with him is he plays the villainous Lord Blackwood in director Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. During out conversation we discussed the promotional process for Sherlock Holmes and what he’s had to do, working for Guy Ritchie again, what he did to prepare for the role, and so much more.
And for fans of Peter Weir,
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
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The Decade’s Film: 2005-2009
21 December 2009 7:33 AM, PST
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It had been a successful decade for the comic book movie, with that trend continuing into the latter half of the decade. Just as looked like the public demand for irradiated heroes looked to be diminishing, with lacklustre showings from the likes of Spider-Man 3 and Fantastic Four, out came Iron Man. Coupled with a brilliant script and an excellent performance from Robert Downey Jr as the titular zillionaire industrialist/playboy/freedom fighter/all-round genius, the end result was something truly special. Downey’s career was also revitalised, earning him a role in Tropic Thunder (which would earn him an Oscar nomination). Louis Leterrier’s The Incredible Hulk took a similar approach, this time giving Edward Norton of Fight Club fame a shot at getting under the skin of the green goliath.
They set a tough act to follow, but followed they were by one Christopher Nolan. With the Batman
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Top 10 Irish movie stars to watch in 2010 (IrishCentral)
20 December 2009 4:35 AM, PST
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Saoirse Ronan – for years we have bemoaned the lack of an Irish leading lady. Bemoan no more. Oscar material in “The Lovely Bones” and a young woman set for an incredible career in 2010 and beyond.
Colin Farrell – “In Bruges” won him his Golden Globe and the Dublin actor is suddenly showing a new maturity and consistency in his roles including in his latest “Crazy Heart” with Jeff Bridges. Expect big things in 2010.
Brendan Gleeson. His Emmy for Churchill was well deserved and his upcoming debut as Director of Flann O'Brien's book “At Swim Two Birds” may put him in the heat of the Oscar hunt in 2011. A career that just keeps getting better and better.
Gabriel Byrne. Won an overdue Emmy for “In Treatment” on HBO in which he stars as an Irish psychiatrist. Finally picking the right roles too after many years of dubious choices.
Alec Baldwin. Best actor on television.
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Interview: Jeff Bridges On Crazy Heart
14 December 2009 7:19 AM, PST
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Jeff Bridges is one of Hollywoods most successful actors and is now staring in "Crazy Heart," a story about broken down country singer Bad Blake. The film revolves around Blake's life on the road from sleeping in sleazy motels to playing at beer joints and bowling alleys. While living in the shadows of his young and successful protege played by Colin Farrell, Bad Blake must come to terms with his limitations. But that all changes when he falls harder then usual for Santa Fe journalist Jean Craddock played by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Crazy Heart is based on the novel by Thomas Cobb and features original songs by T Bone Burnett.I had the chance to sit down and talk with Jeff Bridges about his Oscar worthy performance. He spoke to us about playing and singing in the film, about the similarities in the ways both actors and musicians live, working and performing with Colin Farrell,
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Jeff Bridges Interview, Crazy Heart
6 December 2009 8:00 PM, PST
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Four-time Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film Crazy Heart from writer-director Scott Cooper.
Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who’s had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (two-time Golden Globe nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man’s crazy heart.
Fueled by country rock, Crazy Heart also stars Robert Duvall and features original songs from Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated composer and producer T Bone Burnett along with the late Texas songwriter Stephen Bruton.
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Doctor Who — "The End of Time" Promotional Photos
5 December 2009 7:22 PM, PST
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David Tennant's run as the tenth doctor is about to end. His three-series tenure will come to a close in January 2010, when the second part of "The End of Time" airs. However, fear not, you'll only have to wait a few more days for part one of the two-part finale, which will air on Christmas day in Britain, and a day later in America (the shortest delay between the UK and Us airings of the show yet). The second part will air in Britain on January 1, 2010, with an as-yet unknown airdate in the U.S.
The episode will also mark the end of Russel T. Davies' time on the show. Davies, who resurrected the series and wrote many, many episodes of the four seasons thus far, will be leaving the show after this episode. The changeover will be complete with the appearance of a new doctor. The eleventh doctor,
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- Sam McPherson
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Lol: The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret with David Cross, Spike Jonze, and Will Arnett
4 December 2009 5:00 PM, PST
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Just when you thought there was nothing more outta-left-field this week than a Mickey Rourke rap anthem: here is the first clip from David Cross's new TV pilot, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. Back in June, we first reported on Cross's hopeful series about corporate hell co-starring Spike Jonze and Will Arnett, but we had since chalked it off to wet dream delirium. Cross, who directed and wrote the pilot, had taken note as well, referring to the mediocre cast as a "crazy dream team." Unfortunately, only dear readers in Blighty (and /Film's dearest Brendon) are privy to the entire pilot via the UK's Channel 4. For the rest of us law-abiding denizens, the three minute expletive-blizzard found after the jump ranks with the dwarf in In Bruges as pretty damn funny.
Official Synopsis:
Us comedian David Cross plays Todd Margaret, a hapless office drone who flukes his
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- Hunter Stephenson
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Exclusive Interview: Possesion(s) star Laurence Fuller
1 December 2009 3:51 PM, PST
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Possession(s), a new Australian short, featured one of the most notable launches in recent memory. To coincide with the film’s release a famous Peter Booth artwork, Painting (Man With Bandaged Head), was sold off in The Deutscher and Hackett Important Fine Art Auction.
The tie-in between the film and the auction comes in the shape of actor Laurence Fuller who used the painting, which he owned, as inspiration for the dark, brooding short. His character Frank, upon seeing the Peter Booth work, becomes embroiled with a sense of obsession; he simply has to own the piece and will do anything to make it so. However, it soon becomes clear that Frank is not the only one consumed by the desire to possess.
Laurence Fuller shines in the lead role and it is easy to see why he is a much sought after young actor. Having attended the Method
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Walken, Mackie, Rockwell 'Spokane' Bound
30 November 2009 10:21 AM, PST
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By Variety
Christopher Walken, Anthony Mackie, Sam Rockwell and Zoe Kazan will star in the latest Martin McDonagh play, "A Behanding in Spokane," opening on Broadway in March.
Walken plays the handless guy in a story that also involves a couple of con artists, played by Mackie and Kazan, and a hotel clerk portrayed by Rockwell. Directed by John Crowley, show is the first stage outing by Brit scribe McDonagh ("The Lieutenant of Inishmore," "The Cripple of Inishmaan," 2008 pic "In Bruges") to take place in the United States.
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- Brent Lang
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Tiff 2009 Day 3: Ian Fitzgibbon's Perrier's Bounty
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST
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I was hoping for something original a la In Bruges, what we have here with Ian Fitzgibbon's Perrier's Bounty is much of the same stuff we've seen before: find money within 24 hours and have goons chase you around town issuing death threats. - Too bad. You'd think the trifecta of vets Brendan Gleeson and Jim Broadbent and a desperate looking Cillian Murphy would make this crime romp into a tad more passable. I was hoping for something original a la In Bruges, what we have here with Ian Fitzgibbon's Perrier's Bounty is much of the same stuff we've seen before: find money within 24 hours and have goons chase you around town issuing death threats. Too dependent on drunken sailor's lingo, lame comedy elements, uninteresting romantic story-line and swinging motions a la Tiger Woods, this feels recycled and quickly forgettable. Full review coming soon.
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- Ioncinema.com Staff
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Crazy Heart Poster, The Oscar Contender Earning Comparisons to The Wrestler
15 November 2009 11:19 AM, PST
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When I reported on Crazy Heart in 2008, the film was affiliated with the Cmt network, yet drew my interest with a cast that included Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Robert Duval. All of these actors excel in roles steeped in the weathering of life and excess, and this tale of, "a washed-up, alcoholic country singer (Bridges) who gets his life back on track thanks to a reporter-type (Gyllenhaal)," obviously played to those strengths on the surface. The addition to the cast of Colin Farrell, forever in our good graces for In Bruges, made this a must-see no matter what.
Well, here we are in the fourth quarter of '09 and the performance by Bridges is in the thick of Oscar buzz, drawing early comparisons to Mickey Rourke's unflinching, redemptive arc in The Wrestler. Furthering this parallel, Crazy Heart is being distributed by Fox Searchlight, the company behind Darren Aronofsky
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Review: Pirate Radio
12 November 2009 3:29 PM, PST
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Just a few days back Robert Carlyle used the Scottish BAFTAs as a platform to voice his displeasure of the British film industry. There have been no decent films produced here, he said, since Trainspotting.
Studying Carlyle’s words, he has a point; the cinematic output of Great Britain primarily regurtiates the same type of film over and over. Chief amongst them are the kitchen sink tragedy and the costume drama. However, there is a third type of high profile movie produced on these shores which generally lead to much commercial success. This genre can be, for all intents and purposes, attributed to one man. This, the third entry into the British cinema canon, is the “Richard Curtis movie”.
Since graduating from television writing, Curtis has pioneered an individualistic approach to the world of cinema relying heavily on picture postcard locations in Southern England, syrupy sentiment, “comedy” swearing and middle-class males indulging in linguistic mishaps.
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Top 5 New French Actresses…You have Never heard of …
11 November 2009 4:09 PM, PST
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I feel very compelled to write about foreign actresses. Many I admire, some are colleagues, and most are around my age. There is so much young female talent circling around France, my adopted home country. Someone had to write about it! So here is a list, and those to look out for in upcoming films, all coming from France-and hopefully to take the Us by storm very soon.
5. Isild Le Besco
This young woman has it all. Beauty, grace, and a raw energy and eerie presence on the big screen. I first saw her with Emmanuelle Seigner in the French drama Back Stage and she is heartbreaking. Her big eyes, her ability to cry from the inner parts of her soul, make her effective, and she carried a talent on her shoulders that is certainly exciting.
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4. Emmanuelle Devos
A winner at Cannes, and an Arnaud Desplechin leading lady, this
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- Anya
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A.C.T. Young Conservatory Presents The Cripple Of Inishmaan 11/6-14
6 November 2009 1:30 AM, PST
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A.C.T. Young Conservatory (Yc) proudly presents Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, directed by W. D. Keith. Three teenagers living on a tiny island off the coast of Ireland in 1933 dream of escaping the dreary confines of their lives, but no one more so than "Cripple" Billy, a disabled orphan and village outcast. When the local gossip spreads the news that a Hollywood film crew is shooting a movie on a neighboring island, the three teens set sail to try for a role in the film-but Billy embarks on an altogether different kind of journey. This dark comedy by Tony Award-winning Irish writer Martin McDonagh, writer and director of the hit film In Bruges, delivers witty banter, piercing dialogue, and a cast of local characters as genuinely likable as they are imperfect, brilliantly performed by A.C.T.'s Young Conservatory. The Cripple of Inishmaan plays November 6-14, 2009, at Zeum Theater,
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Film School 101: Protagonists
1 November 2009 4:57 AM, PST
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First off I need to apologize for the tardiness of this entry. I was infected with the swine pandemic and was unable to do anything but utter “Bbbbraaaiiinsssss…” feebly from my bed. Now I’m up and about again, so here we go.
One of the first things to do when making your movie is figure out who your main character is going to be. Now, you may pick your plot first and then figure what kind of protagonist you want or you may pick your characters and write about what they do – it all depends on your style of writing. In either case, understanding your protagonist(s) is very important since these are the people whom the plot revolves around, who we will come to know and love and who we will follow for the next 120 minutes. They will be our tour guides through your movie so you have
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- Marco Duran
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Colin Farrell's Latest Production: Baby Boy!
30 October 2009 3:10 PM, PDT
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The only role Colin Farrell has played twice—dad.
The 33-year-old thesp and his actress girlfriend Alicja Bachleda welcomed son Henry Tadeusz Farrell on Oct. 7, E! News confirmed Friday.
Farrell is also dad to 6-year-old James Padraig, his son with ex Kim Bordenave.
While the In Bruges star has earned much acclaim for his chameleonic acting ability, it was fatherhood that proved to be the occupation which tamed the Irish bad boy. He checked into a rehab program in 2005 after he finished shooting Miami Vice.
Farrell and Bachleda met while shooting the fairytale-esque Ondine in Ireland, in which the Polish beauty played a mysterious woman who gets caught in Farrell's fisherman's net,
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O'Sullivan To Attend Ifta Preview of Emmy Winning 'Into the Storm'
27 October 2009 12:29 AM, PDT
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Members of the Irish Film & Television Academy (Ifta) will be among the first in Ireland to see the Emmy-winning film 'Into the Storm' as an exclusive preview screening is scheduled for Dublin next week. The film's Irish director, Thaddeus O'Sullivan (December Bride), will attend as a special guest and participate in a post screening Q&A with the Academy. 'Into the Storm' tells the tale of Winston Churchill's life post World War II where, following the Allies' victory, Britain went to the polls in 1945 to decide their post-war prime minister and ruling party. For the month that it took to tally these votes Churchill went on holiday to France with his wife and daughter in anticipation of the election results. 'Into the Storm' uses this time as a framework for the story, beginning as Churchill awaits his fate, and looks back at the
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Review: ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ does the two step
26 October 2009 9:09 PM, PDT
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Back again, we have Philip Barrett, Reel Loop’s humble DVD & Blu-ray Editor and me, Erik, Reel Loop’s site chief. Today’s subject: Law Abiding Citizen
Philip: Endings often make or break a motion picture. Be it stupid logic or a dark film suddenly turning chipper, movies can send audiences home with a bad taste in their mouth. On the other side, flaws can often be forgiven if a film has an ending that is completely and utterly awesome. Enter Law Abiding Citizen, a film that has an ending completely well shot and looks awesome, but has one really gaping problem in terms of logistics and what the film itself establishes. Yet for one hundred and three minutes the film is fun, slick, and features a little bit of social commentary.
Erik: It’s easy to rail against the system. Especially the American system which actually allows people to rail against it,
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Brendan Gleeson And Don Cheadle Head To Ireland
20 October 2009 11:35 AM, PDT
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Brendan Gleeson is Irish. Don Cheadle is not. But that's not stopping the two of them from heading off to Ireland together to make The Guard, a comedy-thriller that, according to Production Weekly, will be directed by John Michael McDonagh, who previously wrote the screenplay for the Heath Ledger vehicle Ned Kelly.
Pw has no more details on the project, being that it was announced via Twitter, so we'll have to wait and see just what kind of trouble Gleeson and Cheadle can cook up together on the Emerald Isle. Gleeson previously starred in In Bruges for McDonagh's brother, Martin McDonagh, which could mean even more promising things than usual. Given that he'll be out of the Harry Potter series pretty soon, it's always good to see him keeping on with work. And Cheadle, of course, is welcome in whatever he wants to do-- yes, that includes Hotel for Dogs.
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Colin Farrell 'under pressure to propose'
4 October 2009 8:16 AM, PDT
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Colin Farrell's girlfriend has reportedly insisted that the couple get married this winter. The In Bruges star's girlfriend Alicja Bachleda, who is expecting her first child with the Irish actor, has allegedly said that she would like to marry before the baby is born due to her family's strong religious beliefs, reports Stv. A source told the National Enquirer: "Alicja's parents in Poland met Colin (more)
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