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17 items from 2013
Why are gay characters at the top of Hollywood's kill list?
11 June 2013 4:07 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
There are more Lgbt characters in mainstream films than ever before, but it might be nice if they were allowed to live
Behind the Candelabra is, in some ways, a new kind of Hollywood film: a Soderbergh-directed feature with an A-list cast that was funded and distributed by cable channel HBO. Why wouldn't the film studios touch it? Because they thought a Liberace biopic was just "too gay" to make money. Behind the Candelabra has so far been broadcast to 3.5m Americans, played at Cannes, received rave critical reviews and is currently enjoying a UK theatrical release. The film's producer, Jerry Weintraub, thinks it "is going to change the film business in America".
In regards to funding and distribution, he may be right. But in other ways, Behind the Candelabra very much represents the perpetuation of the status quo. It is, like Milk, The Hours, Brokeback Mountain, Black Swan, A Single Man, »
From Kinky Boots to Virginia Woolf? More Potential Tony Nominees
29 April 2013 11:43 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Tony Awards 2013: Stage-Movie connection ranges from Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Kinky Boots to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (photo: Emilia Clarke, Cory Michael Smith in Breakfast at Tiffany’s) [See previous post: "Tony Awards 2013 Nominations: Tom Hanks, Sigourney Weaver Among Potential Contenders."] Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, possibly up for a 2013 Tony Award in the Best Revival of a Play category, was made into an Academy Award-nominated movie in 1966. Mike Nichols directed Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis, from a screenplay by Ernest Lehman. Taylor and Dennis won Oscars as, respectively, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. In this latest Broadway revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the stars are Tracy Letts, Amy Morton, Madison Dirks and Carrie Coon. Peter Masterson’s 1985 film version of Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful, another possible Best Revival nominee, earned Geraldine Page a Best Actress Academy »
- Andre Soares
'Milk' Writer Dustin Lance Black to Receive Hunter/Zakin Screenwriting Award from UCLA
18 April 2013 2:00 PM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Academy Award-winning screenwriter and prominent gay rights activist Dustin Lance Blank, who shot to fame after penning Gus Van Sant's hit biopic "Milk," is being honored by his alma mater with the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Hunter/Zakin Award. Black, who also penned Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar," as well as directing Jennifer Connelly in "Virginia," has been teaching a ten-week feature writing course this quarter at UCLA's graduate program. The award will be given to Black on Tuesday, April 30th at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater alongside a screening of and Q&A about "Milk." The Hunter/Zakin Chair Holder in Screenwriting Award was established in 1999 by San Francisco businessman Jonathan N. Zakin and requires that the recipient teach a seminar at UCLA, alongside their prestigious achievements in screenwriting. Black is a two-time WGA winner for his work on HBO's "Big Love," and an Academy »
- Mark Lukenbill
Feminist Friday: Guess What’s off the Menu in Virginia
5 April 2013 9:14 AM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
Tags: feminismFeminist FridayTyler PerryJon HammYeardley SmithRachel MaddowIMDb
This Week in Ladybits
Both houses of the Kansas legislature may be voting today on a monster anti-abortion bill that defines life as beginning “at fertilization.” Members of the Kansas Gop have already laughed down exemptions for little things like rape and incest.
Hey, Rachel Maddow. Anything else going on with Kansas and/or ladybits? As a matter of fact, yes. The late Dr. George Tiller’s Clinic is reopening.
...And there are some terrifying people who think it’s just ducky to use deadly means to try to stop others from exercising their Constitutional rights or to perform a legal service.
Feministing knocked it out of the park with this piece on how the principle of personhood is criminalizing pregnancy.
Ohio’s attorney general still does not care for science or want ladies to get birth control. Sigh. You know what? We »
- Ali Davis
Mental Movie Review
27 March 2013 8:30 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Title: Mental Director: Pj Hogan Starring: Toni Collette, Anthony Lapaglia, Liev Schreiber, Lily Sullivan, Rebecca Gibney, Sam Clark “Muriel’s Wedding” director Pj Hogan and star Toni Collette reunite to considerably less winning effect with “Mental,” a mad, garrulous little slice of alt-nanny comedy. As imaginative as it is indefatigable, the film nonetheless puts an overall unconvincingly quirky Australian spin on fractured-family mental health movies like Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s “It’s Kind of a Funny Story,” Dustin Lance Black’s “Virginia” and Ryan Murphy’s 2006 adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’ “Running with Scissors.” All three of those tales, among many others, take inspiration from memoirs of coming-of-age amidst mental illness, and touch on parentalized [ Read More ]
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- bsimon
Top 7 Oscar-Winning Performances of the Past Decade
20 February 2013 8:17 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10.
Ah, the Oscars. We so rarely agree on the best film of the year, and yet you know I can’t quit you. There are plenty of recent Best Picture winners that I like – even love in the case of No Country for Old Men – but my personal favorite hasn’t taken the gold in decades. The same cannot be said for the acting categories. Of course there are winners that leave me less than impressed – you sure were fine in Little Miss Sunshine, Alan Arkin – but recently there have been more than a few instances where my winner is the Academy’s winner. This is especially true over the past few years, as this list will reflect.
Case in point, unless Sally Field shocks on Sunday (February 24) and wins her third Oscar, Anne Hathaway’s performance in Les Misérables will earn »
- Shane T. Nier
Four Best Actress Academy Award Winners Added to Roster of Oscarcast Presenters
13 February 2013 2:00 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Kidman, Bullock, Berry, Witherspoon: Former Oscar winners to be presenters at the 85th Academy Awards Actresses Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, and Reese Witherspoon will present Oscar statuettes at the 85th Academy Awards ceremony next February 24, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have announced. The quartet of actresses is composed of past Best Actress Academy Award winners. (More information below.) (Pictured above: Best Supporting Actress SAG Award nominee Kidman in Lee Daniels' box-office bomb The Paperboy.) Berry won the Oscar for her performance in Marc Forster's drama Monster's Ball, featuring Billy Bob Thornton as Berry's lover. Monster's Ball is the actress' only Oscar nomination (and eventual victory) to date. Kidman won for her incarnation of troubled author Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry's film version of the bestseller The Hours (2002), featuring Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore in different storylines. Kidman was also shortlisted for Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! »
- Andre Soares
Sundance 2013 Review: 'Blue Caprice'
26 January 2013 4:27 PM, PST | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »
For three weeks in the October of 2002, John Allen Muhammad and his 17-year-old companion Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the country with a series of sniper attacks, carried out with lethal accuracy from a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice Sedan. Together, they murdered ten people and severely injured three others throughout Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC, leaving the rest of the country to ask the question that always arises in the wake of senseless shootings: Why? In Blue Caprice, director Alexandre Moors attempts to answer the question with a cinematic retelling loosely inspired by the real-life events. Starring Isaiah Washington as John and Tequan Richmond as Lee, the film »
- Zeba Blay
The Debut at Sundance: Alexandre Moors on 'Blue Caprice,' His Film About the Beltway Sniper
22 January 2013 7:00 PM, PST | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
The following is part one of our four-part Sundance Film Festival interview series: The Breakout Star, The Debut (you are here), The Returning Champion and The Comeback. The Debut Sundance has always had a knack for debuting the work of talented directors that are on the verge of hitting it big. This year, one of those breakout directors is Blue Caprice’s Alexandre Moors. This disturbing thriller is a fictional account of the events that led to John Allen Muhammad (Isaiah Washington) and Lee Boyd Malvo (Tequan Richmond) to travel around Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia in 2002 randomly killing people with a rifle from inside their Chevrolet Caprice. Moors’ vision of the film as a more internal exploration of the two men leads to Washington giving a...
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- Jason Guerrasio
The Following is a brainless, gratuitous bloodbath
18 January 2013 10:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
• Sarah Dempster's TV Od: Sky Atlantic's new Kevin Bacon vehicle is a programme crying out for a decent story line
Ryan Hardy is a maverick, a lone wolf, a loose cannon who won't play by the rules. "The man is a hero," whispers an underling as Hardy (Kevin Bacon) points at a map and sighs, maverickly.
Hardy – an ex–FBI agent – has a fondness for vodka and leaves his top button undone in order to facilitate the circulation of radical ideas around his compact, powerful body. Men admire his assertiveness; women are magnetised by his reckless approach to leisurewear. New Fox drama The Following (Tuesday, 10pm, Sky Atlantic) follows Hardy as he follows a convicted serial killer who has somehow managed to recruit hundreds of devoted, equally dangerous followers "on the internet". Said nemesis – one Joe Carroll (James Purefoy) – is a serial-killing intellectual of the old school. A suave English »
- Sarah Dempster
The Following is a brainless, gratuitous bloodbath
18 January 2013 10:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
• Sarah Dempster's TV Od: Sky Atlantic's new Kevin Bacon vehicle is a programme crying out for a decent story line
Ryan Hardy is a maverick, a lone wolf, a loose cannon who won't play by the rules. "The man is a hero," whispers an underling as Hardy (Kevin Bacon) points at a map and sighs, maverickly.
Hardy – an ex–FBI agent – has a fondness for vodka and leaves his top button undone in order to facilitate the circulation of radical ideas around his compact, powerful body. Men admire his assertiveness; women are magnetised by his reckless approach to leisurewear. New Fox drama The Following (Tuesday, 10pm, Sky Atlantic) follows Hardy as he follows a convicted serial killer who has somehow managed to recruit hundreds of devoted, equally dangerous followers "on the internet". Said nemesis – one Joe Carroll (James Purefoy) – is a serial-killing intellectual of the old school. A suave English »
- Sarah Dempster
Kid Cudi Joins 'Need For Speed' Cast
15 January 2013 9:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Kid Cudi may be beefing big time with his label over allegations that they're not promoting his tunes to radio, but the G.O.O.D. Music Mc seems to have no problems with Hollywood.
After a well-received stint as a lovable dope slinger on HBO's canceled "How To Make It in America," Scott Mescudi has signed on for his second big screen feature. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Cudi is lined up to star alongside "Breaking Bad" star Aaron Paul in the Dreamworks adaptation of the video game "Need for Speed."
The cast already includes Imogen Poots ("Jane Eyre"), Dominic Cooper ("Captain America: The First Avenger"), Ramon Rodriguez (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"), Rami Malek ("The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2") and Harrison Gilbertson ("Virginia"). The movie, due out in February 2014, will focus on street racer Paul, framed for the auto racing accident that takes his best friend's life »
- Gil Kaufman
Top Ten Most Anticipated Movies of 2013
11 January 2013 10:03 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
The Top Ten is here as my countdown of my Top 50 Most Anticipated Movies of 2013 comes to an end. Each day this week I have featured ten new films I'm looking forward to over the coming 12 months. They've ranged from the mindless (Pain and Gain) to the art house (Twelve Years a Slave). The list has included directors such as Paul Greengrass, Jason Reitman, Baz Luhrmann, the Coen brothers, Steve McQueen, Won Kar Wai, Michael Bay, Alexander Payne, Lars von Trier, Kenneth Branagh, George Clooney, Ron Howard, Anton Corbijn, James Gray, Chan-wook Park, Steven Soderbergh, Edgar Wright, Danny Boyle and Susanne Bier. The stars of these films are too many to name and today's final ten is no different. I'm happy to say the talent behind the camera in my top ten is not only gender diverse, but racially diverse and they come from all corners of the globe. Today's »
- Brad Brevet
Obsessions: Emma Roberts' Preferred Perfume
8 January 2013 8:30 AM, PST | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Feeling nostalgic for warmer weather now that we're in the dead of winter? As it turns out, so is Emma Roberts. But rather than bundling up in loads of layers, the brunette beauty battles her winter blues with her fave fragrance of the moment. "For me, the only thing I'm really obsessed with right now is this perfume that I have by Le Labo. They do these really great perfumes, so that's what I'm obsessed with every day right now. In Santal, it's really good," Roberts explains. "It kind of reminds me of summer and in the cold winter I like to have a little reminder of summer." Couldn't we all? Roberts' summer-like scent combines a heady mix of sandalwood, Virginia »
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
5 January 2013 4:08 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Lawless; The Girl; The Imposter
Australian-born film-maker John Hillcoat is an often underrated auteur whose arresting filmography spans the broiling prison rebellion of Ghosts… of the Civil Dead, through the rugged western terrain of The Proposition to the bleak apocalypse of The Road, the last beautifully (but unpopularly) adapted from Cormac McCarthy's famously "unfilmable novel". Collaborating frequently with writer and composer Nick Cave, Hillcoat returns obsessively to themes of familial loyalty and modern mythology, with a quasi-biblical sense of archetypal justice and retribution often firing the infernal engine of his dramas.
Fittingly, family, mythology and vengeful justice are all at the heart of Lawless (2012, Momentum, 18), screenwriter Cave's adaptation of Matt Bondurant's visceral historical novel The Wettest County in the World. Handsomely set in prohibition-era Virginia (Benoît Delhomme's location cinematography conjures a perfect blend of pastoral lyricism and brutal violence), the film follows the changing fortunes of the Bondurant brothers, »
- Mark Kermode
TV on Tap: Nancy Pelosi Will Help Say Goodbye to "30 Rock," "Raising Hope" Gets Mike O'Malley and the Parents Television Council Goes After Kathy Griffin
4 January 2013 4:48 AM, PST | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
Merthur kicks off their final season with tonight's season premiere of Merlin.
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Typically, the words "Yes, Dear reunion" wouldn't get me excited but in this case we're going to get to see Mike O'Maley (along with Liza Snyder) on Raising Hope, as reported by EW. They'll play a couple that finds the sex tape Burt and Virginia lost.
IFC's getting into the animated comedy business. Out There will follow three socially awkward boys living in a small town, with a voice cast that will include Megan Mullally, Linda Cardinelli, Pamela Adlon and Fred Armisen.
In an interview with Vulture, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan says that Casablanca provides the bar for Breaking Bad's finale, "No one gets everything they wanted. The guy doesn’t get the girl, but he has the satisfaction of knowing she wants him. And he doesn’t get her because he has to save the free world. »
- LyleMasaki
TVLine Items: Hawaii Five-0 Stages Interactive Ep, CSI: NY Captures Homeland Big Bad and More!
3 January 2013 2:02 PM, PST | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Hawaii Five-0 is making television history with a Choose Your Own Adventure-esque episode.
The special hour, airing Monday, Jan. 14 at 10/9c, will allow viewers on both coasts to vote in real-time for an ending to the installment.
Centering on the death of a professor, the episode will present three suspects: his boss, his teaching assistant and a student caught cheating. After the motives of each are presented, viewers can head to CBS.com or Twitter to choose the culprit (#theBoss, #theTA, #theStudent). The most popular pick will make it to air.
“I’ve always felt the most fun aspect of »
- Megan Masters
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