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Boos! & Whoop-doos!: 12 Months of Toilet Plunkers and Dumpster Diamonds!
23 December 2009 9:55 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The End of 2009? Whoop-doo! This year has been one hellatious shit storm from the get-go. Pregnant ladies and babies, The Great Depression Part II, pig flu, more than a handful of horrible shootings, a balloon boy, Tiger's indiscretions, and our first black president. Not to mention more dead celebrities than I can shake a stick at. Every time I turned around, some other atrocious calamity was happening right before my eyes. Making 2009 one of the most interesting years of this entire decade. According to Michael Ruppert in his film Collapse its only going to get worse before it gets better. Yes, the Teens are going to see more than half of your friends and family dead. Take account of the folks around you. By the time 2020 rears its ugly head, most of these people will be gone. Turned to dust and painful memories. My advice to you this coming New Year? »
In Memoriam: 2009 Took Many Beloved Names From Us
22 December 2009 11:10 AM, PST | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
It was a rough year.
As we look back at 2009, it seems to be the year death came calling. Celebrities young and old passed away, each dimming the lights of Hollywood and Broadway just a bit with their passing. It seems fitting to pause for just a moment before we go off to celebrate the end of 2009, and remember those we lost.
She will always be golden.
Some remember Bea from her Broadway roles, and others for being a perfect foil to Archie Bunker. But ask any gay man about Bea, and you’ll see a mist form in their eyes as they recall her as one of the surrogate grandmothers living in a house together in Florida, forever golden.
No one quite understands the connection so many of us feel to the Golden Girls, and why it’s still so strong many years later, but let's just »
- lostinmiami
Jones Scoops More Awards For Moon
7 December 2009 12:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
David Bowie's filmmaker son Duncan Jones was feted at the British Independent Film Awards (Bifas) on Sunday as his directorial debut Moon took home the Best Film prize.
The director's low-budget sci-fi movie has won him glowing reviews and a growing trophy haul - and his success continued at the Bifas ceremony in London as he accepted the Best Debut Director honour.
Jones, who also took the top prizes at Scotland's Edinburgh International Film Festival and Spain's Sitges Film Festival earlier this year, was not present as he's currently in Los Angeles to prepare for his next movie.
Elsewhere at the Bifas prizegiving, Andrea Arnold won the Best Director trophy for Fish Tank, while the film's star Katie Jarvis was named the Most Promising Newcomer.
Carey Mulligan's turn in An Education earned her the Best Actress prize, while Tom Hardy won Best Actor for his performance as Charles Bronson in Bronson.
Daniel Day-Lewis and Sir Michael Caine also received special awards in recognition for their contributions to British film. »
David Bowie's son Duncan Jones wins two BIFAs for directorial debut
6 December 2009 2:27 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Moon scoops best film and Jones best debut director at British independent film awards
As a child, he was called Zowie Bowie. These days it's the far more sensible Duncan Jones, and tonight he emerged triumphantly from the very large shadow of his father when he picked up two prizes at the British independent film awards.
Forty years after the first Moon landing and 40 years after his dad, David Bowie, released Space Oddity, Jones's retro sci-fi film Moon was named best picture at a ceremony in central London while Jones himself won best debut director.
His film stars Sam Rockwell as the solitary caretaker of a helium-3 mining plant on the Moon with his only companion, it seems, a talking computer system called Gerty, voiced by Kevin Spacey.
Jones, 38, has always been determined to make a successful career by himself. He went to the London film school and honed his »
- Mark Brown
Junkfood Cinema: Eye of the Tiger
4 December 2009 12:30 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Editor's Note: We hope you enjoy this new Friday afternoon column, Junkfood Cinema, by Brian Salisbury. It celebrates movies that are so bad, even though they are also sometimes so good. For more (coming each and every Friday), stay tuned to the Junkfood Cinema Archive. Also, please feel free to let us know what you think of this new weekly feature in the comment section below. Uh oh! Hide the carrot sticks and fruit wedges of Hollywood, because it's once again time to gorge ourselves on Junkfood Cinema. If you're the kind of person that demands the highest level of quality from your films, then I can happily direct you to any number of our other columns. For me, there is nothing like the empty cinematic calories of a deliciously bad movie. And this week's entry is a caramel-covered, chocolate-filled schlock burger...wrapped in a Chicago-style deep-dish pizza. Run, don't walk to your local video store and »
- Brian Salisbury
Tom Hardy’s Crazy Year
25 November 2009 1:08 PM, PST | Nolan Fans | See recent Nolan Fans news »
Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film Inception is filled with rising stars who have seen 2009 as their breakthrough years. Marion Cotillard starred with Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in Public Enemies and will be singing with Daniel Day-Lewis in Nine, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt starred in the indie hit (500) Days of Summer and had a small part as the villain in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. But it is Tom Hardy, who received critical praise for his performance in this year’s Bronson, that may finally see Inception as his big ticket to stardom.
After small parts in films like Black Hawk Down, Layer Cake, and Rocknrolla, Bronson provided Hardy the role he needed to get noticed in Hollywood. Opening in October 2008 at the London Film Festival and playing January 19, 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival, Bronson showcased the range and talent Tom Hardy has by putting him in the lead role as prisoner Charles Bronson. »
- George
‘Thor’ Gets His Warriors Three
17 November 2009 4:42 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Ray Stevenson (Punisher: War Zone), Stuart Townsend (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), and Tadanobu Asano (Mongol) are set to play the Warriors Three in Marvel’s Thor, directed by Kenneth Branagh.
The Warriors Three are a team of Asgardian gods that play a supporting role to Thor, the God of Thunder. According to Variety, Townsend will play Fandral the Dashing, a dashing swordsman Stan Lee based on Errol Flynn. Stevenson is set as Volstagg the Valiant, an obese warrior with superhuman strength based on the William Shakespeare character Falstaff. Asano is Hogun the Grim, a maceman with a resistance to physical injury based on the characters of actor Charles Bronson.
I’m not particularly familiar with Townsend, but Stevenson was excellent in “Rome” before he tried to make it with another awful Punisher pic and Asano was brilliant in the epic Mongol, something you should check out if you enjoyed Braveheart. »
- Jeff Leins
Stuart Townsend, Ray Stevenson, and Tadanobu Asano Are the Warriors Three in Thor
16 November 2009 10:05 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
With its January start date soon approaching, the remaining pieces of Kenneth Branagh’s Thor are falling into place. While last month it was rumored that Dominic Cooper (An Education) may play one of the Warriors Three, a trio of Asgardians who got Thor’s back, today we have learned that while the Warriors Three are in the film, Cooper’s not one of them (although that doesn’t mean he’s not in the movie in some other role). Instead, the Warriors will be comprised of Stuart Townsend (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), Ray Stevenson (Punisher: War Zone), and Tadanobu Asano (Mongol). Hit the jump for more details on the actors and their characters.
While Variety does pair the actors with their character, I think we can fairly assume that Townsend will play “Fandral the Dashing” (Stan Lee based the character on ones played by Error Flynn), Stevenson will »
- Matt Goldberg
Death Race Prequel Character & Plot Details
16 November 2009 6:48 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
A little over three months ago we reported on the news that the mindlessly fun 2008 movie, Death Race, was going to be getting a sequel – or rather, as was reported at the time by Shock Till You Drop, a prequel that would lead up to the first Death Race and Jason Statham’s antics as top driver Jensen Ames.
And now, thanks to SpoilerTV we get some info on both what the plot and the characters will be , by way of casting call info. Nothing has changed in terms of it being a prequel, in fact this news is kind of a confirmation of that. It will indeed take place before the first film, this time being called Death Race: Frankenstein Lives (Frankenstein is the name of the top driver, Fyi, they’re not just trying to turn it into a horror movie for no reason…).
So what is »
- Ross Miller
Samuel Goldwyn Aquires Caine's 'Harry Brown'
16 November 2009 1:36 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
With Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino and Liam Neeson's Taken raking in the dough in the last 12 months, Samuel Goldwyn Films is hoping that trend continues for a few more months. The company has purchased the Michael Caine-as-a-trigger-happy-old-bastard flick, Harry Brown, and will release it in the Us next year.
Caine plays a retired British Marine in the film, who takes the law into his own hands after his best friend is murdered. Vowing to clean up the neighborhood, Brown unleashes his inner Charles Bronson and begins a path of destruction, punk.
We saw the trailer earlier this year, and it looks like it belongs in that category, even though to be as good as Gran Torino or as populist and entertaining as Taken is going to be hard to reproduce. »
- Colin Boyd
Not Available on DVD: Starcrash
12 November 2009 5:59 AM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
What’s the best movie from the late 70’s that features light sabers, an enormous space fortress capable of annihilating entire planets, wisecracking robot sidekicks, and dogfights between interplanetary spaceships? If you said Star Wars, you’d be wrong! Leave it to the wacky Italians, always quick to exploit a popular trend, to rip off George Lucas’s cash cow resulting in a film so spectacularly cheesy that over 30 years later it has actually aged better than the film it emulates. That movie is of course is the insane 1978 sci-fi “epic” Star Crash, an infamously harebrained but entertaining-as-hell Star Wars knockoff that is Not available on DVD.
Like Star Wars, most of Star Crash is comprised of a string of Flash Gordon-inspired cliffhanger adventures. Caroline Munro stars as Stella Star, an intergalactic smuggler who, along with her alien companion Akton (Marjoe Gortner), is captured by some sort of galaxy-wide »
- Tom
Movie Alert! Four Back-to-back Winners On TCM Tonight
7 November 2009 2:09 AM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
There's a great line-up of quirky films being shown back-to-back on TCM (North America) tonight. At 8:00 Pm is Woody Allen's hilarious Take the Money and Run. At 10:00 Pm is Ridley Scott's The Duellists starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel. At midnight is Stephen Frear's Gumshoe starring Albert Finney, and capping it off at 1:30 Am is Walter Hill's superb (and under-rated) Hard Times (aka The Streetfighter) starring Charles Bronson, James Coburn and Strother Martin. Crank up those DVD recorders! »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Birthday Suit: Dolph 'the biggest one' Lundgren
3 November 2009 7:06 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Thought I'd goof around with a little b-day series. In case it's yours! Could be shortlived. Or maybe it'll go on forever. You never know.
Hal Hartley , Paprika Steen and Charles Bronson
Today's Birthdays, November 3rd ...some of them at any rate. For those who are prone to celebrating the lives of the filmic and famous. And if you aren't, you're not having enough fun.
1921 Charles Bronson had a Death Wish, five of them actually, and he had them before "franchise" was a daily spoken word in movie discussions.1930 Lois Smith, sweet character actress, is now 79 years old. I once saw her in a train station. It's true. Weren't you shocked when she died on the first season of True Blood? I sure was.
1931 Monica Vitti, breathtaking Italian goddess
1953 Kate Capshaw aka Mrs. Spielberg. Did she sing or was she dubbed for that awesome "Anything Goes" opening number in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom »
- NATHANIEL R
Meet the New Mad Max
1 November 2009 5:02 PM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
As previously rumoured, the British actor Tom Hardy has been cast as "Mad" Max Rockatansky in the upcoming fourth Mad Max film, tentatively named Mad Max 4: Fury Road. Most people had expected the role to go to the rising star Sam Worthington (Terminator Salvation, Avatar), seing as he is Australian, the movie is about an Australian, and word on the street was that series creator George Miller was looking to cast an Australian for the role. Well, evidently the word on the street was wrong. So who is this Hardy fella? He hasn't done all that much, but most notably he had a major role in Layer Cake from 2004, portrayed Charles Bronson in Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson from 2008 and had the role of Praetor Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis back in 2002. What the new movie will be about is still unknown, but the film will »
- Kasper
Update: 'Rocky 7'? Really, Sly?
25 October 2009 9:02 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Take this with a huge grain of salt -- make that smelling salts. Sylvester Stallone has told Tele5 Germany that he wants to make Rocky 7, even though it might embarrass his family and himself. A German-language transcript of the interview is available at the site; translated by Babel Fish, my interpretation is: 'I know people would laugh at it, as I would if someone were making The Godfather Part 10. Enough! But I also know that if I succeed, it will be because this is a film about aging, not about boxing. I know it will provoke criticism. Even my wife said to me, Leave it. You'll embarrass the children. But I said, if I do not try, I an a very unfortunate man. One must do it. Artists must go again and again through the dark.'
On the one hand, Rocky Balboa and whoever else he wants to keep »
- Peter Martin
Charlize Theron rumoured for Mad Max 4
23 October 2009 12:35 AM, PDT | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
Fresh casting rumours drifting from the early days of George Miller's planned Mad Max 4 suggest Charlize Theron and Bronson's Tom Hardy may be among the top choices for leading roles. Nothing has been set yet, since A) Miller is a ways off from locking the details down and B) hasn't made any formal announcement, but according to E! News, Theron is the director's pick for the main female part. We're guessing that Hardy surged on to Miller's casting radar after his turn as brutal prisoner Charles Bronson in the dark comedy drama, and he...
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- James White
Tom Hardy & Charlize Theron to Star in Mad Max 4?
22 October 2009 5:27 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Tom Hardy will have done himself a lot of favours taking on the role of Charles Bronson in the movie biopic about the infamous British criminal. Although the movie was a hard watch at times, Hardy’s performance was exceptional. He put on so much muscle for the movie that he looked like a different person. Personally I think it’ll only be a matter of time before he’s Hollywood leading man material. Which is why this news comes as no surprise to me.
E! Online have reported today that ‘multiple sources tell E! News that the Oscar-winning babe (Charlize Theron) is director George Miller’s pick to play the lead female role in the upcoming, Mad Max 4.’ They go on to talk about Tom Hardy, being looked at as a possible lead.
I guess Mel Gibson is too old now but it would have been nice to see him back. »
- David Sztypuljak
News & Notes: Green Lantern Moves, Raimi on Spider-Man 4, Malick’s Tree
16 October 2009 3:16 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
It's the end of the week, and we've got a bunch of news stories in the bin here at Reject HQ that we'd like to share with you. Unfortunately, not all of them are very big news stories -- you know, the kind that don't require the standard 500-word editorial. With that in mind, we'd like to present today's news and notes... - The current global economic situation has pushed Green Lantern out of Australia. Due to the big rise int he Aussie dollar, Warner Bros. is moving back to North America (probably Mexico or Canada). There is still no word yet as to whether they're considering shooting in space. [THR] - Sam Raimi told a Brit publication this week that he's learned his lesson. And when he makes Spider-Man 4 early next year, he will be applying these learned lessons (stuff like "having limitations" and going "back to basics") in an attempt to make a film that »
- Neil Miller
October 16: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
16 October 2009 12:58 PM, PDT | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but there’s all this vengeance to be doled out and all those injustices to be put right. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see Law Abiding Citizen this weekend?” you can reply, “No, I indulged in the long history of vigilante cinema and checked out the long history of extralegal fantasy ass kicking.” Instead Of: Law Abiding Citizen, the vigilante action flick about grieving, angry husband and father Gerard Butler taking vengeance against Da Jamie Foxx for setting free the man who murdered his family... Watch: The granddaddy of vigilante flicks, 1974’s Death Wish, in which Charles Bronson goes all badass on bad guys who done bad. Just as the Vietnam War spawned the »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Law Abiding Citizen Review
16 October 2009 12:57 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Remember Charles Bronson in Death Wish? Law Abiding Citizen offers a taste of no-mercy vigilante family-man justice 3.0. Ten years after his wife and daughter were slaughtered in front of him, Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) kidnaps one of the perpetrators, straps him down to a torture table, and saws off his limbs (and other things). Then he sends a video of the atrocity to Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), the slick, out-for-himself Philadelphia prosecutor who cut too soft a deal with the killer…read more [EW]
When “Law Abiding Citizen” feels comfortable enough to be a blunt object of suspense, it comes together splendidly. Pitting the harsh realities of the modern justice system against the suburban cry for blood from a soccer dad, Kurt Wimmer’s screenplay nurtures a pungent odor of injustice that sets up the plot in an exhilarating manner. Morally frozen lawyers? Tired, careless judges? Wimmer manipulates audience reaction superbly, »
- Allan Ford
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