When we think of monsters on this channel, most of the time its from a fictional, mythical, or legendary monster like the Mummy, Wolfman, Dracula, or Frankenstein’s Monster. On this specific show, however, a Monster can take on a whole new meaning. I joke that half of these episodes will be about reportedly true possessions and while that will probably hold fast, there is another type of monster we have discussed a few times. The guy that loosely inspired the Scream killings, Henry from Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, and today’s subject Aileen Wuornos. The movie made about her is literally called Monster and put director Patty Jenkins and star Charlize Theron, at least in terms of her being seen as an A list actor who can actually act, on the map. It’s a straightforward telling of a murderer that of course adds nuance and even...
- 9/19/2024
- by Andrew Hatfield
- JoBlo.com
Michelle Williams starred with Christina Ricci in the 2001 drama film Prozac Nation. Portraying Ruby, a Harvard roommate of Elizabeth “Lizzie” Wurtzel (Christina Ricci), she only had a few lines in the movie.
A youthful Christina Ricci and Michelle Williams on the set of ‘Prozac Nation’ at age 20 (Credit: Miramax / WENN)
Filming Challenges and Support
Born on February 12, 1980, in Santa Monica, California, Ricci was just 20 years old when filming the nude scenes for Prozac Nation.
Just a few months younger, Michelle Williams was born on September 9, 1980, in Kalispell, Montana, and celebrated her 21st birthday on September 9, 2001.
During the filming of the nude scene in Prozac Nation, Christina Ricci’s co-star, Michelle Williams, provided support by monitoring the footage. She ensured Christina felt comfortable with how she was being portrayed by watching the scene unfold on the screen and reassuring her that everything looked appropriate.
Christina Ricci sports dramatic long hair extensions...
A youthful Christina Ricci and Michelle Williams on the set of ‘Prozac Nation’ at age 20 (Credit: Miramax / WENN)
Filming Challenges and Support
Born on February 12, 1980, in Santa Monica, California, Ricci was just 20 years old when filming the nude scenes for Prozac Nation.
Just a few months younger, Michelle Williams was born on September 9, 1980, in Kalispell, Montana, and celebrated her 21st birthday on September 9, 2001.
During the filming of the nude scene in Prozac Nation, Christina Ricci’s co-star, Michelle Williams, provided support by monitoring the footage. She ensured Christina felt comfortable with how she was being portrayed by watching the scene unfold on the screen and reassuring her that everything looked appropriate.
Christina Ricci sports dramatic long hair extensions...
- 5/13/2024
- by Erika Hansen
- Your Next Shoes
From the moment Jada Pinkett Smith began promoting her new memoir, "Worthy," she was making headlines. In the weeks leading up to its Oct. 17 release, Pinkett Smith steadily dropped tidbits of information while promoting the book - though nothing was more shocking than the revelation that she and her husband, Will Smith, have been separated since 2016.
But her and Smith's relationship is far from the only topic that "Worthy" takes an honest, unvarnished look at. Pinkett Smith leaves few stones unturned in the memoir, opening up about everything from her early days dealing drugs in Baltimore to her Ptsd and dissociative disorder diagnoses later in life. She also offers an intimate window into her childhood, exploring the grandmother who helped shape her worldview, as well as her father's inconsistent presence and her parents' struggles with addiction.
Along the way, she dives deeply into the spiritual practices that have helped her survive and process her traumas,...
But her and Smith's relationship is far from the only topic that "Worthy" takes an honest, unvarnished look at. Pinkett Smith leaves few stones unturned in the memoir, opening up about everything from her early days dealing drugs in Baltimore to her Ptsd and dissociative disorder diagnoses later in life. She also offers an intimate window into her childhood, exploring the grandmother who helped shape her worldview, as well as her father's inconsistent presence and her parents' struggles with addiction.
Along the way, she dives deeply into the spiritual practices that have helped her survive and process her traumas,...
- 10/17/2023
- by Eden Arielle Gordon
- Popsugar.com
Exclusive: Rotten Science has rounded out the cast for its first feature, Operation Taco Gary’s, enlisting Dustin Milligan (Schitt’s Creek), Brenda Song (Dollface), Tony Cavalero (The Righteous Gemstones), Jason Biggs (American Pie), Doug Jones (Star Trek: Discovery) and Arturo Castro (The Menu) for roles opposite the previously announced Simon Rex.
Written and directed by Michael Kvamme, the film tells the story of Danny (Rex), an off-the-grid conspiracy theorist takes his estranged brother, Luke (Milligan), on a road trip with a secret agenda. Details as to the characters to be played by our other new cast members haven’t been disclosed.
Matthew Vaughan, Rotten Science and Milligan will produce, with Jimmy Miller and Matt Riley exec producing for Mosaic, along with Brian David Cange. Range Select, a division of Range Media Partners, is repping the film on the sales side.
Said writer-director Kvamme, “We’re so lucky to have Dustin...
Written and directed by Michael Kvamme, the film tells the story of Danny (Rex), an off-the-grid conspiracy theorist takes his estranged brother, Luke (Milligan), on a road trip with a secret agenda. Details as to the characters to be played by our other new cast members haven’t been disclosed.
Matthew Vaughan, Rotten Science and Milligan will produce, with Jimmy Miller and Matt Riley exec producing for Mosaic, along with Brian David Cange. Range Select, a division of Range Media Partners, is repping the film on the sales side.
Said writer-director Kvamme, “We’re so lucky to have Dustin...
- 6/28/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Just announced this week, the Hollywood Walk of Fame Class of 2024 includes horror icon Christina Ricci, who finally gets her well-earned star on the Walk of Fame next year.
Christina Ricci is of course a longtime favorite among horror fans, becoming a household name thanks to her performance as Wednesday Addams in the live action Addams Family movies of the 1990s. She just returned to the world of The Addams Family in the Netflix series “Wednesday,” playing a new character for director Tim Burton.
Ricci also starred in Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow back in 1999, with other notable genre roles including Casper, Bless the Child, Wes Craven’s Cursed, The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, and Showtime’s hit series “Yellowjackets.” Ricci also appeared in Sam Raimi’s series “50 States of Fright,” and most recently starred in the 2022 horror movie Monstrous.
Nominated twice for Primetime Emmy Awards, Christina Ricci’s enduring body...
Christina Ricci is of course a longtime favorite among horror fans, becoming a household name thanks to her performance as Wednesday Addams in the live action Addams Family movies of the 1990s. She just returned to the world of The Addams Family in the Netflix series “Wednesday,” playing a new character for director Tim Burton.
Ricci also starred in Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow back in 1999, with other notable genre roles including Casper, Bless the Child, Wes Craven’s Cursed, The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, and Showtime’s hit series “Yellowjackets.” Ricci also appeared in Sam Raimi’s series “50 States of Fright,” and most recently starred in the 2022 horror movie Monstrous.
Nominated twice for Primetime Emmy Awards, Christina Ricci’s enduring body...
- 6/27/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
There’s a lot going on in this troubled-girl-on-a-journey story, which recalls the late-’90s proliferation of books like Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation and Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted. Brittany Snow’s directing debut doesn’t so much add to that canon as dust it down a bit for a new generation, and its success is mostly attributable to its empathetic star Courtney Eaton — the deserving winner of a SXSW Special Jury Recognition for Performance — whose low-key work anchors a needlessly busy film that never quite settles down.
A lot is packed into the opening salvo, from the moment we see Riley (Eaton) sitting on the curb outside a forbiddingly nondescript building, scrolling through pages and pages of narcissistic Instagram influencers. It will come as no surprise when we find out, shortly after that, that she’s been in for a fairly serious disorder she’ll describe variously as...
A lot is packed into the opening salvo, from the moment we see Riley (Eaton) sitting on the curb outside a forbiddingly nondescript building, scrolling through pages and pages of narcissistic Instagram influencers. It will come as no surprise when we find out, shortly after that, that she’s been in for a fairly serious disorder she’ll describe variously as...
- 3/20/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
This story about Christina Ricci and “Yellowjackets” first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Drama issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Christina Ricci has made her share of comedies over the course of a career that began when she was a child, but her heart has always seemed to be in darker material like “The Ice Storm,” “Buffalo ’66,” “Prozac Nation” and “The Lizzie Borden Chronicles.” So it makes sense that she’d join the cast of the Showtime limited series “Yellowjackets,” playing one of the survivors of a plane crash that happens to a group of high-school girls in a remote wilderness.
The show, which jumps back and forth between the crash and the grown-up characters more than two decades later, is a dark mystery with lots of disquieting elements — but Ricci’s character, Misty, is an awkward and unsociable woman who often brings a comic touch to the show.
Christina Ricci has made her share of comedies over the course of a career that began when she was a child, but her heart has always seemed to be in darker material like “The Ice Storm,” “Buffalo ’66,” “Prozac Nation” and “The Lizzie Borden Chronicles.” So it makes sense that she’d join the cast of the Showtime limited series “Yellowjackets,” playing one of the survivors of a plane crash that happens to a group of high-school girls in a remote wilderness.
The show, which jumps back and forth between the crash and the grown-up characters more than two decades later, is a dark mystery with lots of disquieting elements — but Ricci’s character, Misty, is an awkward and unsociable woman who often brings a comic touch to the show.
- 8/16/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
In the wake of suffering a severe brain injury one week ago as a result of a devastating car crash, it’s being reported today that Anne Heche has tragically passed away.
The actress was just 53 years old, leaving behind two children.
“Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit,” Heche’s reps said in a statement. “More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work — especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love. She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light.”
Heche had been in a coma since the crash in L.A.’s Mar Vista neighborhood on Friday, August 5. She had been under investigation for reportedly driving under the influence.
Anne Heche debuted on the scene back in the 1990s on the television series “Another World,” subsequently...
The actress was just 53 years old, leaving behind two children.
“Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit,” Heche’s reps said in a statement. “More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work — especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love. She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light.”
Heche had been in a coma since the crash in L.A.’s Mar Vista neighborhood on Friday, August 5. She had been under investigation for reportedly driving under the influence.
Anne Heche debuted on the scene back in the 1990s on the television series “Another World,” subsequently...
- 8/12/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Heather Graham (Half Magic), Brandy Norwood (Queens), Jason Biggs (Outmatched) and Matt Cedeño (Power) have signed on to star in the Netflix holiday film Best. Christmas. Ever. from director Mary Lambert.
The film written by Charles Shyer (Father of the Bride) and Todd Calgi Gallicano (Sam London Adventure book series) centers on Jackie (Norwood), who every Christmas, without fail, sends a boastful holiday newsletter that makes her old college friend Charlotte (Graham) feel like a lump of coal. When a twist of fate lands Charlotte, her husband Rob (Biggs), and their family on Jackie’s and her husband Valentino’s (Cedeño) snowy doorstep just days before Christmas, Charlotte seizes the opportunity to prove her old friend’s “perfect” life can’t possibly be that perfect. But in her overzealous attempt to expose Jackie, Charlotte nearly ruins Christmas for both families and must team...
The film written by Charles Shyer (Father of the Bride) and Todd Calgi Gallicano (Sam London Adventure book series) centers on Jackie (Norwood), who every Christmas, without fail, sends a boastful holiday newsletter that makes her old college friend Charlotte (Graham) feel like a lump of coal. When a twist of fate lands Charlotte, her husband Rob (Biggs), and their family on Jackie’s and her husband Valentino’s (Cedeño) snowy doorstep just days before Christmas, Charlotte seizes the opportunity to prove her old friend’s “perfect” life can’t possibly be that perfect. But in her overzealous attempt to expose Jackie, Charlotte nearly ruins Christmas for both families and must team...
- 3/22/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Award-winning author Paul McAuley’s acclaimed science fiction novel “Austral” is set for an epic series adaptation from Circle of Confusion Television Studios and ITV Studios’ Big Talk Productions.
“Austral” is an expansive drama set in Antarctica during the year 2098, decades after the melting glaciers have given way to a new frontier of resource-rich land, and a generation of settlers from all around the dying world have converged there. But for Austral Ferrado, one of a number of “huskies,” or people who have been gene-edited to better withstand the still-unforgiving climate of the far south, this new Antarctica is no paradise. Trapped in a society that has imprisoned her and treated her kind more as animals than humans, Austral will stop at nothing to gain her freedom.
Elise McCredie — Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts screenplay award winner for Cate Blanchett-produced series “Stateless” — will adapt the novel, while Erik Skjoldbjaerg (“Occupied”) will direct.
“Austral” is an expansive drama set in Antarctica during the year 2098, decades after the melting glaciers have given way to a new frontier of resource-rich land, and a generation of settlers from all around the dying world have converged there. But for Austral Ferrado, one of a number of “huskies,” or people who have been gene-edited to better withstand the still-unforgiving climate of the far south, this new Antarctica is no paradise. Trapped in a society that has imprisoned her and treated her kind more as animals than humans, Austral will stop at nothing to gain her freedom.
Elise McCredie — Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts screenplay award winner for Cate Blanchett-produced series “Stateless” — will adapt the novel, while Erik Skjoldbjaerg (“Occupied”) will direct.
- 3/18/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Elise McCredie on the ‘Stateless’ set (Photo credit: Kirsty Stark).
Elise McCredie believes that as screenwriters typically work in isolation at home and many have projects in development, the cohort to which she belongs is best placed to ride out the Covid-19 crisis.
However that doesn’t ease the pain for the co-creator of Stateless, Jack Irish and Sunshine and co-writer of Ride Like a Girl.
“For me personally the lockdown is like having my arms, legs and heart wrenched in different directions and it hurts,” Elise tells If.
“Carving that precious space to write has become exponentially harder with the combination of home schooling kids, looking after fragile ageing parents and a compulsive obsession to check The Guardian’s news site every ten minutes. My life feels like Years and Years meets Catastrophe meets Contagion.
“I only finished the Stateless mix in mid-January and was looking forward to both...
Elise McCredie believes that as screenwriters typically work in isolation at home and many have projects in development, the cohort to which she belongs is best placed to ride out the Covid-19 crisis.
However that doesn’t ease the pain for the co-creator of Stateless, Jack Irish and Sunshine and co-writer of Ride Like a Girl.
“For me personally the lockdown is like having my arms, legs and heart wrenched in different directions and it hurts,” Elise tells If.
“Carving that precious space to write has become exponentially harder with the combination of home schooling kids, looking after fragile ageing parents and a compulsive obsession to check The Guardian’s news site every ten minutes. My life feels like Years and Years meets Catastrophe meets Contagion.
“I only finished the Stateless mix in mid-January and was looking forward to both...
- 3/29/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Elizabeth Wurtzel, best known for her confessional memoir “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America,” died Tuesday in a New York City hospital, the New York Times reports. She was 52.
According to Wurtzel’s husband Jim Freed, the cause of death was leptomeningeal disease, a a condition that results from cancer spreading to the cerebrospinal fluid. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015.
Wurtzel first gained recognition at the age of 26 after “Prozac Nation” became a best-seller in 1994. Due to the memoir’s incredibly open and startling dialogue regarding her substance abuse, sexual encounters, self-mutilation, the book is credited with piloting the public conversation on clinical depression. Her first person account of events also earned her credit for igniting the new era of the first person narrative and memoir genre of the internet’s primitive years. Her memoir was later adapted into a feature length film starring Christina Ricci in...
According to Wurtzel’s husband Jim Freed, the cause of death was leptomeningeal disease, a a condition that results from cancer spreading to the cerebrospinal fluid. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015.
Wurtzel first gained recognition at the age of 26 after “Prozac Nation” became a best-seller in 1994. Due to the memoir’s incredibly open and startling dialogue regarding her substance abuse, sexual encounters, self-mutilation, the book is credited with piloting the public conversation on clinical depression. Her first person account of events also earned her credit for igniting the new era of the first person narrative and memoir genre of the internet’s primitive years. Her memoir was later adapted into a feature length film starring Christina Ricci in...
- 1/7/2020
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
Elizabeth Wurtzel — the author of the best-selling memoir Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America — died in a New York City hospital on Tuesday, according to the New York Times. She was 52 years old.
Wurtzel’s husband Jim Freed cited the cause of death as complications from leptomeningeal disease, a condition that results from cancer spreading to the cerebrospinal fluid. Wurtzel was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015.
Wurtzel first rose to prominence at the age of 26 with the memoir Prozac Nation, which documented her struggles with depression and substance abuse.
Wurtzel’s husband Jim Freed cited the cause of death as complications from leptomeningeal disease, a condition that results from cancer spreading to the cerebrospinal fluid. Wurtzel was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015.
Wurtzel first rose to prominence at the age of 26 with the memoir Prozac Nation, which documented her struggles with depression and substance abuse.
- 1/7/2020
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Christina Ricci knows people judge her. She grew up in the public eye as the Goth girl, the alternative chick, the youthful indie darling. For her, those tacit critiques just provide the excuse to execute another hard turn.
“I’m a natural contrarian. So anytime someone tries to tell me what I am, I immediately change and I’m something else,” she said. “I can’t help it; I’m a total asshole in that respect. I never give people that. Sometimes it’s terrible and I should really just allow people to view me the way they want to, but I have a real desire and drive to define myself and to not be defined by others.”
As a child star, she was best known for her role as the malevolent Wednesday Addams in “The Addams Family.” In her teen years, she demonstrated a fondness for outrageous comments about...
“I’m a natural contrarian. So anytime someone tries to tell me what I am, I immediately change and I’m something else,” she said. “I can’t help it; I’m a total asshole in that respect. I never give people that. Sometimes it’s terrible and I should really just allow people to view me the way they want to, but I have a real desire and drive to define myself and to not be defined by others.”
As a child star, she was best known for her role as the malevolent Wednesday Addams in “The Addams Family.” In her teen years, she demonstrated a fondness for outrageous comments about...
- 1/16/2019
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Gabriel Bergmoser May 16, 2017
Past the season three midpoint, Jimmy McGill has finally crossed the Rubicon and the end of this show is in sight...
This review contains spoilers.
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3.6 Off Brand
Jimmy McGill has become Saul Goodman – he just doesn’t know it yet. And I’m not referring to the final reveal of Jimmy’s garish new ad, although that is certainly significant. For two and a half seasons now the series has been teasing the moment where the switch will flip and kindhearted if wayward Jimmy McGill would become the unscrupulous Saul Goodman, but of course it was never going to be that easy. The change would be gradual, like climbing a mountain then heading back down the other side. As of season three, episode six I’m...
Past the season three midpoint, Jimmy McGill has finally crossed the Rubicon and the end of this show is in sight...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Girl Interrupted and one profound line of dialogue Prozac Nation: a film breaking down a mental health boundary
3.6 Off Brand
Jimmy McGill has become Saul Goodman – he just doesn’t know it yet. And I’m not referring to the final reveal of Jimmy’s garish new ad, although that is certainly significant. For two and a half seasons now the series has been teasing the moment where the switch will flip and kindhearted if wayward Jimmy McGill would become the unscrupulous Saul Goodman, but of course it was never going to be that easy. The change would be gradual, like climbing a mountain then heading back down the other side. As of season three, episode six I’m...
- 5/16/2017
- Den of Geek
John Saavedra May 16, 2017
Sadly, Halo 3 won't be getting an anniversary remaster, according to 343 Industries...
For the past few years, Microsoft has been releasing special 10-year anniversary editions of their beloved Halo games. Halo: Combat Evolved received its anniversary treatment in 2011 and a Halo 2 remaster was the big draw of 2014's The Master Chief Collection, which collected much of Bungie's original work on the series in 1080p 60fps.
See related Girl Interrupted and one profound line of dialogue Prozac Nation: a film breaking down a mental health boundary
Well, if Microsoft and 343 Industries were keeping to that schedule, it would mean that Halo 3 is due for its own anniversary edition this year, since the conclusion to the original trilogy was released in November 2007.
Many fans have been speculating for the past few days that 343, which has handled the Halo franchise since Bungie's exit, will indeed unveil Halo 3: Anniversary at...
Sadly, Halo 3 won't be getting an anniversary remaster, according to 343 Industries...
For the past few years, Microsoft has been releasing special 10-year anniversary editions of their beloved Halo games. Halo: Combat Evolved received its anniversary treatment in 2011 and a Halo 2 remaster was the big draw of 2014's The Master Chief Collection, which collected much of Bungie's original work on the series in 1080p 60fps.
See related Girl Interrupted and one profound line of dialogue Prozac Nation: a film breaking down a mental health boundary
Well, if Microsoft and 343 Industries were keeping to that schedule, it would mean that Halo 3 is due for its own anniversary edition this year, since the conclusion to the original trilogy was released in November 2007.
Many fans have been speculating for the past few days that 343, which has handled the Halo franchise since Bungie's exit, will indeed unveil Halo 3: Anniversary at...
- 5/15/2017
- Den of Geek
Matthew Byrd May 16, 2017
Familiar names from the past could emerge over the next few years, as Sega teases the revival of its "major IPs"...
Sega is planning on reviving some of its "major IPs" as part of their recently released three-year plan.
See related Girl Interrupted and one profound line of dialogue Prozac Nation: a film breaking down a mental health boundary
This information was revealed in Sega's "Road to 2020" presentation document which the company released at the end of the latest fiscal year. The document references quite a few directions that Sega would like to go in moving forward, but the most interesting tidbit is certainly their promise to revive major IPs within the next few years.
In a way, Sega has already begun this process. The recent PC re-release of Bayonetta and the upcoming release of Vanquish on that same platform suggests that Sega is already interested...
Familiar names from the past could emerge over the next few years, as Sega teases the revival of its "major IPs"...
Sega is planning on reviving some of its "major IPs" as part of their recently released three-year plan.
See related Girl Interrupted and one profound line of dialogue Prozac Nation: a film breaking down a mental health boundary
This information was revealed in Sega's "Road to 2020" presentation document which the company released at the end of the latest fiscal year. The document references quite a few directions that Sega would like to go in moving forward, but the most interesting tidbit is certainly their promise to revive major IPs within the next few years.
In a way, Sega has already begun this process. The recent PC re-release of Bayonetta and the upcoming release of Vanquish on that same platform suggests that Sega is already interested...
- 5/15/2017
- Den of Geek
Chloe Catchpole May 11, 2017
Not many may have seen the Christina Ricci-headlined film adaptation of Prozac Nation. But it's a film with a real power to it.
One of the most damaging stigmas surrounding mental health is shame. The personal pressure to maintain a ‘normal’ façade is all consuming and perpetually draining. It is an onerous full time job shrouded in secrecy.
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Others see a functioning human being - working, chatting, socialising with an occasional laugh or smile - but behind closed doors in the personal confines of home nothing could be further from the truth. We mask the all-encompassing darkness that seeps into every anxiety-ridden moment, a private...
Not many may have seen the Christina Ricci-headlined film adaptation of Prozac Nation. But it's a film with a real power to it.
One of the most damaging stigmas surrounding mental health is shame. The personal pressure to maintain a ‘normal’ façade is all consuming and perpetually draining. It is an onerous full time job shrouded in secrecy.
See related Doctor Who: Thin Ice geeky spots and Easter eggs Doctor Who: The Pilot geeky spots and Easter eggs Doctor Who: Smile geeky spots and Easter eggs Doctor Who: Knock Knock geeky spots and Easter eggs
Others see a functioning human being - working, chatting, socialising with an occasional laugh or smile - but behind closed doors in the personal confines of home nothing could be further from the truth. We mask the all-encompassing darkness that seeps into every anxiety-ridden moment, a private...
- 5/10/2017
- Den of Geek
Ryan Lambie May 16, 2017
Classic rhythm game PaRappa The Rapper is getting a spiritual sequel. Project Rap Rabbit is looking for funds on Kickstarter now....
When we first heard talk of a PaRappa The Rapper spiritual sequel a few days ago, we wondered aloud whether the rumoured project might end up on Kickstarter - the venue for other spiritual revivals like Keiji Inafune's Mighty No 9.
See related Girl Interrupted and one profound line of dialogue Prozac Nation: a film breaking down a mental health boundary
Well, just call us Mystic Meg: Project Rap Rabbit (a working title) really does exist - and yes, it's now looking for funds on Kickstarter. From the developers behind PaRappa and Gitaroo Man - two classics of the rhythm action game genre - Rap Rabbit will offer more of the same: a challenge that requires a good memory and lightning-fast reactions, all served...
Classic rhythm game PaRappa The Rapper is getting a spiritual sequel. Project Rap Rabbit is looking for funds on Kickstarter now....
When we first heard talk of a PaRappa The Rapper spiritual sequel a few days ago, we wondered aloud whether the rumoured project might end up on Kickstarter - the venue for other spiritual revivals like Keiji Inafune's Mighty No 9.
See related Girl Interrupted and one profound line of dialogue Prozac Nation: a film breaking down a mental health boundary
Well, just call us Mystic Meg: Project Rap Rabbit (a working title) really does exist - and yes, it's now looking for funds on Kickstarter. From the developers behind PaRappa and Gitaroo Man - two classics of the rhythm action game genre - Rap Rabbit will offer more of the same: a challenge that requires a good memory and lightning-fast reactions, all served...
- 5/5/2017
- Den of Geek
On January 27, Christina Ricci will make her debut as nm1541232 autoZelda Sayre[/link] Fitzgerald on Amazon's new series Z: The Beginning of Everything, a fictional account of the flamboyant socialite who swept F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the literary geniuses of the 20th century, off his feet.
“I would never be cast in this part,” Ricci says frankly about playing Fitzgerald on the series, which she not only stars on but co-developed and produces. “With this, I created my own opportunity because this is not a part I would’ve been cast in in a million years.”
Although parts may have beckoned toward a more traditional leading-lady rise to stardom early in her career, Ricci, now 36, has come to terms with the fact that she didn’t fit into that role. “I am not considered a romantic lead by traditional standards,” she says. “I've never been cast in a rom-com or a romance or anything like that. I...
“I would never be cast in this part,” Ricci says frankly about playing Fitzgerald on the series, which she not only stars on but co-developed and produces. “With this, I created my own opportunity because this is not a part I would’ve been cast in in a million years.”
Although parts may have beckoned toward a more traditional leading-lady rise to stardom early in her career, Ricci, now 36, has come to terms with the fact that she didn’t fit into that role. “I am not considered a romantic lead by traditional standards,” she says. “I've never been cast in a rom-com or a romance or anything like that. I...
- 1/25/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Pyromaniac
Director: Erik Skjoldbjaerg
Writer: Bjorn Olaf Johannssen
Norwegian director Erik Skjoldbjaerg is still best known for his 1997 thriller Insomnia, which was later remade by Christopher Nolan in 2002. The title arrived well before the modern movement (or craze) for Nordic Noir, which explains why he never quite benefitted from the success (as say, Morten Tyldum did). Following a maligned English language debut with 2001’s Prozac Nation, Skjoldbjaerg has been regularly turning out dramatic features, including 2013’s Pioneer. He’s ready with his sixth feature, Pyromaniac, which deals with an arsonist terrorizing a small community and the policeman who discovers the culprit is one of the town’s firemen. Among the cast members is the excellent Agnes Kittelsen from Anne Sewitsky’s Happy, Happy (2010).
Cast: Agnes Kittelsen, Henrik Rafaelson, Trond Nilssen
Production Co.: Pravda Film, Bleck Film & TV, Glor Film As
U.S. Distributor: Rights available Tbd (domestic/international)
Release...
Director: Erik Skjoldbjaerg
Writer: Bjorn Olaf Johannssen
Norwegian director Erik Skjoldbjaerg is still best known for his 1997 thriller Insomnia, which was later remade by Christopher Nolan in 2002. The title arrived well before the modern movement (or craze) for Nordic Noir, which explains why he never quite benefitted from the success (as say, Morten Tyldum did). Following a maligned English language debut with 2001’s Prozac Nation, Skjoldbjaerg has been regularly turning out dramatic features, including 2013’s Pioneer. He’s ready with his sixth feature, Pyromaniac, which deals with an arsonist terrorizing a small community and the policeman who discovers the culprit is one of the town’s firemen. Among the cast members is the excellent Agnes Kittelsen from Anne Sewitsky’s Happy, Happy (2010).
Cast: Agnes Kittelsen, Henrik Rafaelson, Trond Nilssen
Production Co.: Pravda Film, Bleck Film & TV, Glor Film As
U.S. Distributor: Rights available Tbd (domestic/international)
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- 1/8/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The President: What’s his plan? Ohila: I think he is finishing his soup. • Hell Bent, Doctor Who Season Finale, Series 9
“Sometimes I think about what my mom told me. How I was really, really sick when I was first born and the doctors thought I was going to die. But there was this one doctor who wouldn’t give up. And sometimes, when things are really bad and fucked up, and I’m just so fucking tired of hauling myself out of the abyss one more goddamn time, I wish he had.” • Mindy Newell, On Her Depression
18 October 1990
Dear Ms. Newell,
Thanks for the letter and the story, which I liked enormously. I’m glad you liked my little book and that it may have helped in some way. I’m sure you’ll avoid your Jack the Ripper and pull through with grand success; remember that most people do.
“Sometimes I think about what my mom told me. How I was really, really sick when I was first born and the doctors thought I was going to die. But there was this one doctor who wouldn’t give up. And sometimes, when things are really bad and fucked up, and I’m just so fucking tired of hauling myself out of the abyss one more goddamn time, I wish he had.” • Mindy Newell, On Her Depression
18 October 1990
Dear Ms. Newell,
Thanks for the letter and the story, which I liked enormously. I’m glad you liked my little book and that it may have helped in some way. I’m sure you’ll avoid your Jack the Ripper and pull through with grand success; remember that most people do.
- 12/7/2015
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
Oil!: Skjoldbjaerg’s Latest an Icy Conspiracy Thriller
Norwegian director Erik Skjoldbjaerg has remained a hard director to peg ever since his celebrated 1997 debut, Insomnia, which predated the Nordic Noir craze that seems to have dominated the output of cinema from that region of the world for the better half of the last decade. A well intentioned English language debut followed with an adaptation of Elizabeth Wurtzel’s memoir, Prozac Nation, which received a maligned theatrical release, while his next two features (including an Ibsen update) never received Us distribution. Luckily his latest endeavor, Pioneer, which revisits real events from the early 80s Norwegian oil boom, will give him a bit more international attention. A mixture of native and American cast members, Skjoldbjaerg throws the events into a tangled web of conspiracy that sometimes seems to get a bit ahead of itself. But without a doubt, it’s an...
Norwegian director Erik Skjoldbjaerg has remained a hard director to peg ever since his celebrated 1997 debut, Insomnia, which predated the Nordic Noir craze that seems to have dominated the output of cinema from that region of the world for the better half of the last decade. A well intentioned English language debut followed with an adaptation of Elizabeth Wurtzel’s memoir, Prozac Nation, which received a maligned theatrical release, while his next two features (including an Ibsen update) never received Us distribution. Luckily his latest endeavor, Pioneer, which revisits real events from the early 80s Norwegian oil boom, will give him a bit more international attention. A mixture of native and American cast members, Skjoldbjaerg throws the events into a tangled web of conspiracy that sometimes seems to get a bit ahead of itself. But without a doubt, it’s an...
- 12/1/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Oh, I get it. So this is a thing now. This year, we’re doing a “songs from the future performed at a freak show in 1951” theme. See, it only took until episode two, when our favorite two-headed warbler Bette and Dot launched into a very faithful version of “Criminal” by Fiona Apple (featuring the Mosh Pit from Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Video). It was a pretty good cover of the song, I gotta say, but it’s hard to mess up “Criminal.” It’s sort of like the pizza of the karaoke world: Even when it’s bad, it is still reading Prozac Nation in your room and listening to Throwing Muses over and over and over again and hating your mother and dying, just dying, to get out of this town forever.Things are getting a little complicated for Bette and Dot. They needed an act...
- 10/16/2014
- by Brian Moylan
- Vulture
Erik Skjoldbjaerg’s 1997 directorial debut, Insomnia is a prescient prototype of what would now be termed Nordic Noir in today’s global film market. At the time of its release, it was one of the first Norwegian films of international note in quite some time, with Skjoldbjaerg joining the ranks of other notable newcomers like Pal Sleutane and Bent Hamer. An inverted film noir, utilizing light instead of shadow, there’s a cold blankness to the film, making it a sort of waking nightmare. When all is visible, there’s no place to hide, forcing the film’s protagonist into internalized retreat, escaping into himself. Too much light engages a similar sort of madness as the eternal shadows.
The murder of a teenage girl opens the film, shot on grainy super 8 while we witness the killer cleaning up the act. To investigate, a Swedish police officer stationed in Oslo, Jonas...
The murder of a teenage girl opens the film, shot on grainy super 8 while we witness the killer cleaning up the act. To investigate, a Swedish police officer stationed in Oslo, Jonas...
- 7/29/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Elizabeth Wurtzel’s 'The Bachelorette' Recap: It Is All Personal Youth is not wasted on the young so much as maturity is wasted on the old. by Elizabeth Wurtzel It’s time for another episode of The Bachelorette, America’s pre-eminent reality show for romantic group dates, high-profile rejections, barely concealed male rage, and rendering the phrase “true love” utterly meaningless through ceaseless repetition. This season, we have asked Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch, to confront our favorite national circus nightmare. Join Elizabeth each Tuesday for all of her opinions on the squabbling and hot-tubbing that’s fit to air on ABC. It is all personal. Everything is very personal. Never tell someone that it was nothing personal: the bell tolls for thee. Reality TV is deeply personal. The Bachelorette is ultramega deeply personal. Andi’s quest for true love is revealing of so many truths,...
- 6/3/2014
- by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Nerve
Elizabeth Wurtzel’s 'The Bachelorette' Recap: Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Don Draper I have lived by the same rules he does, and my life is excellent. by Elizabeth Wurtzel It’s time for another episode of The Bachelorette, America’s pre-eminent reality show for romantic group dates, high-profile rejections, barely concealed male rage, and rendering the phrase “true love” utterly meaningless through ceaseless repetition. This season, we have asked Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch, to confront our favorite national circus nightmare. Join Elizabeth each Tuesday for all of her opinions on the squabbling and hot-tubbing that’s fit to air on ABC. Everything I need to know I learned from Don Draper. Do excellent work. Look amazing and dress impeccably, even if you are only lounging at home. Be nice, always; only be not-nice in an emergency; only be mean when there [...]...
- 5/27/2014
- by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Nerve
Elizabeth Wurtzel’s 'The Bachelorette' Recap: In the Horserace “Talent is desire run amok.” by Elizabeth Wurtzel It’s time for another episode of The Bachelorette, America’s pre-eminent reality show for romantic group dates, high-profile rejections, barely concealed male rage, and rendering the phrase “true love” utterly meaningless through ceaseless repetition. This season, we have asked Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch, to confront our favorite national circus nightmare. Join Elizabeth each Tuesday for all of her opinions on the squabbling and hot-tubbing that’s fit to air on ABC. California Chrome, a pretty chestnut colt, won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness by pulling up from behind and crossing the finish line ahead by nearly a couple of lengths. That is not about the body; it’s about the spirit: that horse loves to win. A different animal would see others in the lead [...]...
- 5/20/2014
- by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Nerve
Watching James DeMonaco’s first Purge film was something of an anticlimax for me. The trailer’s depiction of Purge night had been such a delicious one – America’s streets dancing with a gleefully tooled-up population exacting bloody vengeance for tolerating 364 days of neighbourly behaviour– but the film never delivered on its vicious promise. And it inexcusably wasted Lena Headey. I enjoyed the squirming claustrophobia of the locked down family, the breakdown in community spirit and the comeuppance of Ethan Hawke’s materialistic salesman dad James while simultaneously longing to see what was happening outside. To shove the entire Sandin family aside – intruder and all – so I could curl up in front of the rolling Purge coverage on their big screen and enjoy the guilty pleasure I’d actually come to see.
My enthusiasm for the prospect of The Purge: Anarchy is the prospect of that trashy viewing experience being realised.
My enthusiasm for the prospect of The Purge: Anarchy is the prospect of that trashy viewing experience being realised.
- 5/6/2014
- by Emily Breen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Having long-operated cinematically as part of Sofia Coppola’s usual ensemble, the electronic group Air has recently taken to a range of other left-field projects. First it was a soundtrack in 2010 to Georges Méliès’ “A Voyage To The Moon," then accompaniment to the documentary “Corman’s World” more recently. Now the French duo are continuing that streak with a musical role in Norwegian director Erik Skjoldjaerg’s latest film, and we’ve got our first taste of the result. Via Empire, a series of six soundtrack cuts have hit the web from “Pioneer” the latest work by Skjoldjaerg (who directed “Prozac Nation” and the original “Insomnia”), and they offer Air’s signature sound transferred to the film’s tale of intrigue. Set in the 1980s during the Norwegian Oil Boom, the plot throws an ensemble including Aksel Hennie, Wes Bentley and Stephen Lang into political rivalries as they race to...
- 4/10/2014
- by Charlie Schmidlin
- The Playlist
Three acclaimed foreign-born filmmakers are headed to the small screen for several ambitious TV series.
"The Deep" and "Contraband" filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur, currently shooting the high-profile "Everest," will direct and produce the ten-part crime drama series "Trapped" for Rvk Studios.
Sigurjon Kjartansson and Clive Bradley are penning the series about the investigation of an unidentified corpse found at the bottom of a fjord after an International ferry arrives in a small town. When a blizzard strikes, the only road in and out become impassable.
Next up, Oscar-winning "The Great Beauty" director Paolo Sorrentino is set to write and direct his first TV series "The Young Pope" for Sky Italia and Wildside. Sorrentino will helm all eight episodes and co-write them with Stefano Rulli and Umberto Contarello.
The story revolves around the figure of a fictional pontiff: the first Italian-American pope in history. The story is set in modern times and unfolds between the Vatican City,...
"The Deep" and "Contraband" filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur, currently shooting the high-profile "Everest," will direct and produce the ten-part crime drama series "Trapped" for Rvk Studios.
Sigurjon Kjartansson and Clive Bradley are penning the series about the investigation of an unidentified corpse found at the bottom of a fjord after an International ferry arrives in a small town. When a blizzard strikes, the only road in and out become impassable.
Next up, Oscar-winning "The Great Beauty" director Paolo Sorrentino is set to write and direct his first TV series "The Young Pope" for Sky Italia and Wildside. Sorrentino will helm all eight episodes and co-write them with Stefano Rulli and Umberto Contarello.
The story revolves around the figure of a fictional pontiff: the first Italian-American pope in history. The story is set in modern times and unfolds between the Vatican City,...
- 4/9/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Elizabeth Wurtzel's 'The Bachelor' Recap: The Final Rose Nikki is a genius. By Elizabeth Wurtzel It’s time for another episode of The Bachelor, America’s pre-eminent reality show for romantic group dates, high-profile rejections, crying pharmaceutical saleswomen, and rendering the phrase “true love” utterly meaningless through ceaseless repetition. This season, we have asked Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch, to confront our favorite national circus nightmare. Join Elizabeth each Tuesday for all of her opinions on the squabbling and hot-tubbing that’s fit to air on ABC. Anyone who wants to win anything — Olympic gold, a Fulbright, a Pulitzer, a presidential election — should watch this season of The Bachelor on demand and pay close attention to winner Nikki Farrell. Obviously, if you just want to receive the final rose on The Bachelor, that goes without saying. But Nikki is brilliant, and there is only...
- 3/11/2014
- by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Nerve
Elizabeth Wurtzel's 'The Bachelor' Recap: The Women Tell All This is a contest like any other sport or bloodsport. by elizabeth wurtzel It’s time for another episode of The Bachelor, America’s pre-eminent reality show for romantic group dates, high-profile rejections, crying pharmaceutical saleswomen, and rendering the phrase “true love” utterly meaningless through ceaseless repetition. This season, we have asked Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch, to confront our favorite national circus nightmare. Join Elizabeth each Tuesday for all of her opinions on the squabbling and hot-tubbing that’s fit to air on ABC. So I watched The Bachelor: The Women Tell All, and it made me feel better about life. I should say: I don't feel bad about life. I feel quite good. But I figured a room full of Bachelor contestants would put the kibosh on that. Prior to sitting through...
- 3/6/2014
- by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Nerve
Elizabeth Wurtzel's 'The Bachelor' Recap: The Fantasy Suite and The Opposite of Love For all we know, they played Go Fish and talked about ideas. For all we know. By Elizabeth Wurtzel It’s time for another episode of The Bachelor, America’s pre-eminent reality show for romantic group dates, high-profile rejections, crying pharmaceutical saleswomen, and rendering the phrase “true love” utterly meaningless through ceaseless repetition. This season, we have asked Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch, to confront our favorite national circus nightmare. Join Elizabeth each Tuesday for all of her opinions on the squabbling and hot-tubbing that’s fit to air on ABC. There is no purer decadence and fun than a one-night stand: It is sex for its own sake. In her extraordinary 1973 classic Fear of Flying — which everyone must read — Erica Jong coined the "zipless fuck," which proceeds from eye-lock [...]...
- 2/26/2014
- by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Nerve
Elizabeth Wurtzel's 'The Bachelor' Recap: Emotional Blather Galore You have to remember, Juan Pablo is a professional. By Elizabeth Wurtzel It’s time for another episode of The Bachelor, America’s pre-eminent reality show for romantic group dates, high-profile rejections, crying pharmaceutical saleswomen, and rendering the phrase “true love” utterly meaningless through ceaseless repetition. This season, we have asked Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch, to confront our favorite national circus nightmare. Join Elizabeth each Tuesday for all of her opinions on the squabbling and hot-tubbing that’s fit to air on ABC. You have to remember, Juan Pablo is a professional. He is not just a bachelor: he is The Bachelor. He wants to win. He wants to be somebody's boyfriend, and then some lucky girl's husband. Or else, why would he go through this? Yes, it may look like he has it [...]...
- 2/25/2014
- by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Nerve
Elizabeth Wurtzel’s The Bachelor Recap: Better Things to Do All is fair in love and war. Which really means: nothing is fair at all. By Elizabeth Wurtzel It’s time for another episode of The Bachelor, America’s pre-eminent reality show for romantic group dates, high-profile rejections, crying pharmaceutical saleswomen, and rendering the phrase “true love” utterly meaningless through ceaseless repetition. This season, we have asked Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch, to confront our favorite national circus nightmare. Join Elizabeth each Tuesday for all of her opinions on the squabbling and hot-tubbing that’s fit to air on ABC. All is fair in love and war. Which really means: nothing is fair at all. Or as Snoops said on The Wire, after killing at least twenty-two people for no reason: Deserve got nothing to do with it. This week on The Bachelor, Sharleen denied reality [...]...
- 2/18/2014
- by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Nerve
Elizabeth Wurtzel’s 'The Bachelor' Recap: Armchair Anthropologists “The course of true love never did run smooth.” By Elizabeth Wurtzel It’s time for another episode of The Bachelor, America’s pre-eminent reality show for romantic group dates, high-profile rejections, crying pharmaceutical saleswomen, and rendering the phrase “true love” utterly meaningless through ceaseless repetition. This season, we have asked Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch, to confront our favorite national circus nightmare. Join Elizabeth each Tuesday for all of her opinions on the squabbling and hot-tubbing that’s fit to air on ABC. The Bachelor has been enormously popular for eighteen seasons, and I am sure it will be for at least eighteen more. This is not because it is the stupidest thing ever – or not only. It is not even because, as with all reality TV, we would gladly stretch our necks like rubberbands to...
- 2/11/2014
- by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Nerve
Elizabeth Wurtzel’s The Bachelor Recap: All the Promises Will Be Broken Nothing feels more like escape than to go back on your word By Elizabeth Wurtzel It’s time for another season of The Bachelor, America’s pre-eminent reality show for romantic group dates, high-profile rejections, crying pharmaceutical saleswomen, and rendering the phrase “true love” utterly meaningless through ceaseless repetition. This season, we have asked Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch, to confront our favorite national circus nightmare. Join Elizabeth each Tuesday for all the squabbling and hot-tubbing that’s fit to air on ABC. Tonight we'll be free/ All the promises will be broken. So exudes Bruce Springsteen in the bridge of "Thunder Road," the triumphant track that opens his 1975 breakthrough album Born To Run. It is a song so exuberant, it has been covered by both Phish and Badly Drawn Boy, [...]...
- 2/4/2014
- by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Nerve
Elizabeth Wurtzel's The Bachelor Recap: A Victory for Feminism We've come a long way, baby. By Elizabeth Wurtzel It’s time for another episode of The Bachelor, America’s pre-eminent reality show for romantic group dates, high-profile rejections, crying pharmaceutical saleswomen, and rendering the phrase “true love” utterly meaningless through ceaseless repetition. This season, we have asked Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch, to confront our favorite national circus nightmare. Join Elizabeth each Tuesday for all of her opinions on the squabbling and hot-tubbing that’s fit to air on ABC. Sometimes I think an honest viewer of The Bachelor will glean only one lesson: If you are pretty and sexy, nothing else matters. It is possible that absolutely everything in our culture suggests or even screams this, but if there is a place for Clare the annoying hairstylist in The Bachelor mansion, then looks [...]...
- 1/28/2014
- by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Nerve
Elizabeth Wurtzel’s 'The Bachelor' Recap: The Prettiest Girls In The Room, All in a Room Together Heaven help us with all their goddamn feelings. by Elizabeth Wurtzel It’s time for another episode of The Bachelor, America’s pre-eminent reality show for romantic group dates, high-profile rejections, crying pharmaceutical saleswomen, and rendering the phrase “true love” utterly meaningless through ceaseless repetition. This season, we have asked Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch, to confront our favorite national circus nightmare. Join Elizabeth each Tuesday for all of her opinions on the squabbling and hot-tubbing that’s fit to air on ABC. Here is some advice: If you are noticeably beautiful, with legs as long as a traffic pole, and as an 18-year-old NBA dancer you get pregnant by your basketball player boyfriend, you must have an abortion. This is not a philosophical argument that any intelligent...
- 1/21/2014
- by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Nerve
Elizabeth Wurtzel's 'The Bachelor' Recap: Fake Pregnancies, Fake Snow, Real Tears If you are the right kind of person, every time the subway stops you are in the middle of a potential orgy. By Elizabeth Wurtzel It’s time for another season of The Bachelor, America’s pre-eminent reality show for romantic group dates, high-profile rejections, crying pharmaceutical saleswomen, and rendering the phrase “true love” utterly meaningless through ceaseless repetition. This season, we have asked Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch, to confront our favorite national circus nightmare. Join Elizabeth each Tuesday for all the squabbling and hot-tubbing that’s fit to air on ABC. The thing about The Bachelor is: it's really weird. As they say about academia, the fights are so vicious, because the stakes are so low. I watched a behind-the-scenes special that included Clearasil close-ups of the women who were rejected...
- 1/14/2014
- by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Nerve
Elizabeth Wurtzel's 'The Bachelor' Recap: Countdown to Juan Pablo What’s in a name? A lot. By Elizabeth Wurtzel It’s time for another season of The Bachelor, America’s pre-eminent reality show for romantic group dates, high-profile rejections, crying pharmaceutical saleswomen, and rendering the phrase “true love” utterly meaningless through ceaseless repetition. This season, we have asked Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch, to confront our favorite national circus nightmare. Join Elizabeth each Tuesday for all the squabbling and hot-tubbing that’s fit to air on ABC. Here is the truth, and the answer to Shakespeare's question: There is a lot in a name. If your parents want your life to be substantial, they give you a serious name, like mine or anything else biblical or Anglo-Saxon. And if your parents are hoping you will someday have plump silicone breast implants, that you...
- 1/6/2014
- by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Nerve
The music world lost a legend today with the death of Lou Reed. But the film world is mourning as well. Reed provided music for the soundtracks to many television shows and films, including "Berlin Alexanderplatz," "Natural Born Killers," "Velvet Goldmine," "High Fidelity," "Trainspotting," "Prozac Nation," "The Royal Tenenbaums," "Brick," "Juno" and many more. Reed also appeared in many films, including Wim Wenders' "Faraway, So Close!," Wayne Wang's "Blue in the Face" and Paul Auster's "Lulu On The Bridge." Reed had his directorial debut in 2010 with the short film, "Red Shirley" co-directed by Ralph Gibson. The film is a portrait of Shirley Novick, a 99-year-old woman who lived through the Wwi and fled Poland for Canada during WWII. She eventually illegally immigrated to the U.S. where she worked in a textile factory. She engaged in union struggles and participated in the Civil Rights March on Washington,...
- 10/27/2013
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
It's been more than a decade since the 1990s ended, yet the Internet can't seem to go a day without a reminder of the neon slap bracelets that may have been banned from your school.
Yes, we get it. Times are tough and there's comfort in reflection, but enough is enough.
Below, a final goodbye to the 90s to end the nostalgia once and for all. (We're not kidding. There are 1990 items below.)
1. Scrunchies
2. "The Wild Thornberries"
3. Dawson and Joey
4. "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys"
5. Mr. Feeny
7. MTV playing music videos
8. Snick
9. The premiere of "Freaks and Geeks"
10. Levar Burton
11. "Daria"
12. "Arthur"
13. "The Powerpuff Girls"
14. "Smart Guy"
15. Comedy Central globe logo with buildings
16. "The X-Files"
17. Rosie O'Donnell
18. Bill Nye
19. "Dawson's Creek"
20. The Mighty Ducks"
21. "Are You Afraid of the Dark"
22. Cornholio
23. Rachel Green
24. Tim Allen
25. "All That"
26. "Beverly Hills 90210"
27. "Step by Step"
28. "The Ren & Stimpy Show"
29. "The Famous Jett Jackson"
30. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
Yes, we get it. Times are tough and there's comfort in reflection, but enough is enough.
Below, a final goodbye to the 90s to end the nostalgia once and for all. (We're not kidding. There are 1990 items below.)
1. Scrunchies
2. "The Wild Thornberries"
3. Dawson and Joey
4. "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys"
5. Mr. Feeny
7. MTV playing music videos
8. Snick
9. The premiere of "Freaks and Geeks"
10. Levar Burton
11. "Daria"
12. "Arthur"
13. "The Powerpuff Girls"
14. "Smart Guy"
15. Comedy Central globe logo with buildings
16. "The X-Files"
17. Rosie O'Donnell
18. Bill Nye
19. "Dawson's Creek"
20. The Mighty Ducks"
21. "Are You Afraid of the Dark"
22. Cornholio
23. Rachel Green
24. Tim Allen
25. "All That"
26. "Beverly Hills 90210"
27. "Step by Step"
28. "The Ren & Stimpy Show"
29. "The Famous Jett Jackson"
30. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
- 7/29/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Yellow Bird (the original "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo") are embarking on "Occupied," a ten-part political thriller original series based on an idea by Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø ("Headhunters").
Set in the not so distant future, the story has Russia having staged a 'silk-glove' invasion of Norway to officially secure the oil import for the rest of the world. The series then explores what happens to a nation under such an invasion.
Erik Skoldbjaerg ("Insomnia," "Prozac Nation") will direct the first two episodes of this English, Norwegian and Russian language project. Shooting is expected to begin in early 2014 for a 2015 transmission.
Source: Deadline...
Set in the not so distant future, the story has Russia having staged a 'silk-glove' invasion of Norway to officially secure the oil import for the rest of the world. The series then explores what happens to a nation under such an invasion.
Erik Skoldbjaerg ("Insomnia," "Prozac Nation") will direct the first two episodes of this English, Norwegian and Russian language project. Shooting is expected to begin in early 2014 for a 2015 transmission.
Source: Deadline...
- 4/29/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Millennium Trilogy producer Yellow Bird is embarking on a 10-part original series based on an idea by bestselling Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø. International drama Occupied is a political thriller set in a not so distant future where Russia has staged a “silk-glove” invasion of Norway to officially secure the oil import for the rest of the world. The series looks at what happens to a nation under such an invasion. Developed by Yellow Bird and Nesbø, Occupied will be co-produced with Zodiak Media’s French drama outfit Gtv for Norway’s Nrk and French/German channel Arte. Erik Skoldbjaerg, writer/director of the original Insomnia and director of Prozac Nation, will helm the first two episodes. Norwegian writer Harald Rosenloew Eeg is also on the the English-, Norwegian- and Russian-language project. Shooting is expected to begin in early 2014 for a 2015 transmission on Nrk, Arte and other Nordic channels to be announced shortly.
- 4/29/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
If the United States is indeed a Prozac nation, Steven Soderbergh's film Side Effects should be a frightening experience for all. Jude Law plays Dr. Jonathan Banks, a psychiatrist treating Emily (Rooney Mara), a patient with an anxiety disorder, as she awaits the release of her husband Martin (Channing Tatum) from jail. When Martin is released, Dr. Banks prescribes Emily a drug to treat her anxiety and things go awry.
The Best Movies of 2012
As for Travers, January's downright awful films have left him loony, and he's desperate for something watchable.
The Best Movies of 2012
As for Travers, January's downright awful films have left him loony, and he's desperate for something watchable.
- 2/6/2013
- Rollingstone.com
The uneducated Oscar follower will think that Michelle Williams big break came in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain as Alma, the young wife that discovers her husband’s dark secret. The truth is Ms. Williams started gaining independent attention in films like The Station Agent (2003), in which she was nominated along with her co-stars for Cast Ensemble by the Screen Actors Guild Awards; she also captured attention as “Ruby” in Erik Skjoldbjærg’s Prozac Nation (2001) with Christina Ricci and as Lana in Wim Wenders’ Land of Plenty (2004), a performance that netted her a Best Actress nomination from the Independent Spirit Awards. When Williams was cast as Alma in Lee’s film, in her minimal screen time, Williams was able to make an undeniable impression. As Alma makes her progression from a loving and devoted wife and mother to an enigma of confusion after she witnesses her husband Ennis (Heath Ledger...
- 1/5/2013
- by cdblog@hollywoodnews.com (Clayton Davis)
- Hollywoodnews.com
Christina Ricci sure looked happy walking through Lax Thursday. The 32-year-old actress's outfit was cute and casual, but we couldn't help but notice a significant piece of bling on her left ring finger. Her rep has yet to comment on the massive sparkler, but speculation is mounting that it might be an engagement ring! Ricci is dating James Heerdegen, a dolly grip on Ricci's canceled show Pan Am. The Prozac Nation star was briefly engaged to actor Benjamin Owen in 2009. If Heerdegen really did put a ring on it, this will be the first trip down the aisle for Ricci.
- 10/12/2012
- E! Online
A lawsuit filed by New York-based book publisher Penguin Group is seeking repayment on advances paid to several notable authors who failed to deliver their contractually obligated books. The Smoking Gun has obtained a copy of the breach of contract/unjust enrichment complaint filed with the New York State Supreme Court. Among the defendants named is Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of the zeitgeisty 1994 novel Prozac Nation that would later become a movie starring Christina Ricci. Wurtzel signed a $100,000 contract in 2003 to write "a book for teenagers to help them cope with depression." Penguin is demanding the $33,
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- 9/26/2012
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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