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Meryl Streep helps prove that romance doesn't end at 60
16 December 2009 8:00 AM, PST | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
I want you to think hard for a second. I realize this is might be diametrically opposed to all the warm-holiday fuzzies you’re feeling right now. And those three gingerbread cookies you ate in lieu of lunch probably aren’t helping either. But here goes: When is the last time you saw a woman over 60 played the lead in a romantic comedy for a major studio?
No, not Diane Keaton. She was 57 when she made Something’s Got to Give. No, not Susan Sarandon. She was 58 when she made Shall We Dance? No, not Helen Mirren. She was 61 when she made The Queen, but while you may have swooned at her portrayal of Elizabeth II it was in hardly a fluffy rom-com. No, if memory serves me you have to go back to 1995 when, at age 61, Sophia Loren starred in Grumpier Old Men. And the men she was romancing »
- dorothy snarker
Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Pirates" (Roman Polanski, 1986)
8 December 2009 12:10 PM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
Welcome to Part Two of The Polanski Challenge.
Wait. That doesn't sound very good at all. Let me explain. All this brouhaha over Polanski's current situation (and by the way, have you checked out that MTV thing Jersey Shore yet? And do you love The Situation?) got a friend of mine and I musing, "What about those couple of now-obscure Polanski movies that are supposed to be just the worst? Can they really be that bad?" And then, as if the Movie Gods had been listening in, solid releases of the self-same films appeared on Region 2 Pal foreign DVD. (Because they sure as shooting aren't gonna turn up in American editions anytime soon, lest a DVD manufacturer risk the wrath of, say, Pam "The Pam Meister" Meister.) Those titles were 1972's What?, and 1986's Pirates, both commercial disasters, the latter being a somewhat more cataclysmic one as it was a big-budget thing. »
Anarchy from the UK: Top 5 UK Comic Strip Movies I’d Like to See
29 November 2009 12:21 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
British comics have not been well served in their Hollywood adaptations. Transatlantic transitions from page to screen result in either being too faithful, as Zack Synder’s Watchmen arguably was, or too loose with the essence of the source material, resulting in a genre bound snooze fest – Judge Dredd please stand up (and don’t remove your helmet!).
While the golden age of American comics have lit up the screen in this last decade, with visionary directors taking the basic elements of these iconic characters to their own conclusions, British comics have not garnered such attention. Nolan’s Batman, Raimi’s Spiderman and the Supermen of Donner and Singer have their own unique identity; the depth of the mythology of these superheroes allows numerous interpretations, and some of the most interesting re-imaginings of our own myths and legends have occurred on the screen as well as on the page.
It »
- Jon Lyus
Lou Jacobi obituary
16 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Character actor and comedian who specialised in Jewish roles
Portly, balding, twinkly-eyed and sporting a moustache, Lou Jacobi, who has died aged 95, believed that he "had the look of everybody's favourite Uncle Max". Although Jacobi had been acting since he was 12, he was the sort of character actor that one could never imagine being young. He was born in the Jewish section of Toronto, Canada, and started performing as a child in the Yiddish theatre in a play called The Rabbi and the Priest, in which he was a violin prodigy. He went on to specialise in Jewish roles, both comic and dramatic, lending them that particular intonation and body language of which he was a master.
In the 1940s, Jacobi worked as a stand- up comic at holiday resorts in Muskoka, north of Toronto, a vacation spot popular with Jewish holidaymakers. He was also cast in Spring Thaw (1949), which »
- Ronald Bergan
Lou Jacobi obituary
16 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Character actor and comedian who specialised in Jewish roles
Portly, balding, twinkly-eyed and sporting a moustache, Lou Jacobi, who has died aged 95, believed that he "had the look of everybody's favourite Uncle Max". Although Jacobi had been acting since he was 12, he was the sort of character actor that one could never imagine being young. He was born in the Jewish section of Toronto, Canada, and started performing as a child in the Yiddish theatre in a play called The Rabbi and the Priest, in which he was a violin prodigy. He went on to specialise in Jewish roles, both comic and dramatic, lending them that particular intonation and body language of which he was a master.
In the 1940s, Jacobi worked as a stand- up comic at holiday resorts in Muskoka, north of Toronto, a vacation spot popular with Jewish holidaymakers. He was also cast in Spring Thaw (1949), which »
- Ronald Bergan
DVD Playhouse--November 2009
14 November 2009 6:25 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—November 2009
By
Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Take a Look at Up's New Backstage Pass
4 November 2009 1:10 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The popular new Pixar film Up will be released on DVD, two-disc Special Edition DVD and a four-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack on November 10. In celebration of this new title, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released a special "backstage pass" which takes you into several different aspects of making this animated film, which you can read below.
Step behind the scenes as we bring you the lowdown on Disney Pixar's dynamite DVD, Up. We've got a backstage pass to the making of the awesome animation - and you're invited!
Up, Up and Away - What's the new Blu-ray about? "The story centers around a grumpy old man called Carl Fredricksen and an 8-year-old wilderness explorer called Russell," explains the movie's director, Pete Docter. "The pair fly off to South America for a wild adventure on a floating house suspended from helium balloons!"
Bright Spark - "The original idea for the »
Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin to Host Oscars
3 November 2009 5:30 PM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will serve as cohosts of the 82nd annual Academy Awards!
Telecast producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman said that the duo are "the perfect pair of hosts for the Oscars."
This will be the first time for Baldwin to host the Oscars, while Martin has hosted twice before, in 2001 and 2003. Baldwin was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 for his supporting role in "The Cooler."
This is not the first time the Oscar telecast is presented with multiple hosts. In 1983, Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, and Walter Matthau hosted; In 1986, Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, Robin Williams; Then in 1987, Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, Paul Hogan.
The 82nd Academy Awards will be presented March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre. »
- Manny
The Taking of Pelham 123 - DVD Review
3 November 2009 2:54 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Tony Scott helms the remake of the 1974 film and Denzel Washington and John Travolta take the starring roles from Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw. Some things about the .74 version I liked better, but this redo is an enjoyable one. Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) used to be an administrator at the New York transit authority but while an internal investigation goes on because of an accusation of taking a bribe he.s on the dispatcher desk. His day starts off rather monotonously, but as he.s about to get off his shift Pelham 123 suddenly stops still on the digital board. The subway train has been hijacked by a group of armed men led by .Ryder. (John Travolta). »
- Jeff Swindoll
Yankees Vs. Phillies In The World Series? Give Me The Best Fictional Baseball Teams In Movie History!
29 October 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
I'm a Mets fan, so these days I prefer to consume my baseball in fictional terms rather than deal with the reality that my boys are a bunch of overpaid, oft-injured embarrassments to the triumphant – if drug scandal-tinged – legacy of Strawberry, Hernandez and Gooden.
Confronted with the choice to root for the Yankees or the Phillies in this year's World Series – or even the option to watch the action – I plan to opt for nearly anything else. My girlfriend wants to take in the last couple episodes of "The Rachel Zoe Project" on TiVo? Sign me up! My elderly neighbor needs me to wash her hosiery? I'm there! And if I get the chance, I'm going to pop in a DVD and take in some of the great fictional baseball teams in movie history to forget about this season. Here are my picks:
The New York Knights in "The Natural »
- Eric Ditzian
DVD Review: Hell Ride
25 October 2009 11:04 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
As twilight descends on Quentin Tarantino’s contribution to nineties American cinema, fewer filmmakers are writing scripts with a copy of Pulp Fiction’s in hand for reference. A new filmmaker might reason that Tarantino is so successfully parodying himself these days that they’d be making a copy of a copy and it’s hardly worth it. But for those still in thrall to the magpie’s ouveur and determined to make knock off versions of the movies that electrified 90’s audiences, there’s still one man in Hollywood who’s willing to back them – er, Quentin Tarantino.
Hell Ride is such a movie – a low rent affair produced by Tarantino and the Weinsteins and featuring Dennis Hopper, the late David Carradine and Michael Madsen in parts so slight that you can imagine their participation was gained for a modest outlay of girls, grams and glug, probably at a »
- Ed Whitfield
The blogs of my blog
5 October 2009 4:10 AM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
One of my favorite pastimes, especially when I should be doing something else, is moseying around the blogs of my readers. You may have noticed that when the name of a poster is displayed in blue, that means it's a link -- usually to the author's blog, although you might be surprised. Assembled here is a distinctive readership of interesting people, not least because I am vigilant about never posting idiotic or perfunctory comments. A certain civil tone is (usually) maintained, avoiding the plague of flame wars.
More than a year ago, when the blog was somewhat new to me, I wrote: "Your comments have provided me with the best idea of my readers that I have ever had, and you are the readers I have dreamed of. I was writing to you before I was sure you were there. You are thoughtful, engaged, fair, and often the authors of eloquent prose. »
- Roger Ebert
Auto of the week: R142A New York City subway car from The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
28 July 2009 3:35 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
The New York subway system has long provided an underground playground for Hollywood and we’re back there again this week in new Tony Scott thriller, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 in which armed men, led by John Travolta’s Ryder hijack a New York subway train, taking the passengers hostage with train dispatcher Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) acting as desperate negotiator. Following in the footsteps of the 1974 version starring Walter Matthau, it’s the second adaptation of the Morton Freedgood novel (writing under the pen name John Godey) and is updated for today’s audiences featuring contemporary technology, a post 9/11 social climate and interestingly, more modern subway cars. Yes, even the trains are different…
Many subway films recreate the locations on studio soundstages (check out our rundown of the top NYC subway movie moments here), but Tony Scott and his crew were truly authentic for this subterranean saga actually shooting on active tracks. »
Blu-Ray Round Up, July 22, 2009: ‘12 Monkeys,’ ‘The Unborn’
22 July 2009 6:54 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – It has been a very busy July at HollywoodChicago.com and a few high profile titles have slipped through the cracks of our Blu-Ray coverage. We can’t leave any HD stone unturned, so we wanted to play catch-up and make sure you know about these releases via the legendary Blu-Ray Round-Up column. Horror movies, comedies, and a modern sci-fi classic from Terry Gilliam - there’s something for everyone in July’s Blu-Ray selection.
“Grumpy Old Men” and “The Unborn” were released on July 7th, 2009.
“The Haunting in Connecticutt” was released on July 14th, 2009.
“I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry” was released on July 21st, 2009.
“12 Monkeys” will be released on July 28th, 2009.
“12 Monkeys”
Photo credit: Universal Synopsis: “Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back in time to save the human race from a deadly virus that has forced mankind into dank underground communities in the future. Along his travels, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Charlie Matthau will get 'Freaky'
17 July 2009 11:38 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Writer-director Charlie Matthau is going after Elmore Leonard. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Matthau has written a screenplay inspired by Leonard's 1988 novel "Freaky Deaky" and will direct an adaptation of it. The novel involves a bunch of former 1960s radicals and their lives in 1974 Los Angeles. Production is scheduled to begin in January. Matthau, son of the late Oscar-winning actor Walter Matthau, also is producing the film through his Matthau Company. Simon Horsman of Future Films USA and Fred Pauzar of Blackwood Entertainment Group are executive producing. Leonard's works have been spun into such films as "Out of Sight," "3:10 to Yuma," "Get Shorty," "Jackie Brown" and "The Big Bounce." »
- Adnan Tezer
Charlie Matthau writes screenplay inspired by Elmore Leonard's "Freaky Deaky"
17 July 2009 5:07 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Charlie Matthau has written a screenplay inspired by Elmore Leonard's "Freaky Deaky" and will direct the film. The son of late actor Walter Matthau is also producing via his Matthau Co. "I am the luckiest director in the world to be able to bring Elmore Leonard's favorite and finest novel to the screen," Matthau said. Set in Los Angeles, the story tells of a group of former radicals and their mischief. Filming is scheduled to begin sometime in January. »
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) Movie Review
15 July 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
There's absolutely no reason why The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 should exist. There already exists a fantastic movie of the same name from 1974, with Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw. (Check it out, Tarantino took the naming conventions for Reservoir Dogs from this movie). There's a lot of lamentation about unnecessary remakes of films, and this certainly should top the list., While not the most sacred of movies to never remake, it's certainly near the top of the list.That being said, if you ignore that the previous film has been made, and you want to set aside two hours in an air conditioned theate »
DVD Playhouse--July 2009
14 July 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—July 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Do The Right Thing: 20th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Spike Lee’s groundbreaking fable about race relations in an ethnically mixed Brooklyn neighborhood during a sweltering New York summer remains as potent, timely and prescient as it was in 1989. Lee is among the cast, which also includes John Turturro, Danny Aiello, Samuel L. Jackson, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and Rosie Perez (to name a few), that provide the tableaux-like framework for this stunning work. Criminally ignored by Oscar (it wasn't even nominated for Best Picture, but did garner nods for Supporting Actor Danny Aiello and Lee’s screenplay), it endures as a timeless classic. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Commentary by Lee, Ernest Dickerson, Wynn Thomas, Joie Lee; Documentary; Deleted and extended scenes; Featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 5.1 surround.
Coraline (Universal) A young girl moves into an old Victorian house with her parents »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Grumpy Old Men – Blu-Ray DVD Review – Win Your Copy Here!
7 July 2009 1:23 PM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
The 1993 spin on male rivalry, Grumpy Old Men, is hitting stores today (July 7th) on Blu-Ray. One of the all-time duos, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau deliver a unique mix of cranky, old loner and hormonal skirt-chaser in a film that manages a lot of laughs and an interesting perspective. Fine-tuning their love-hate relationship for decades, John and Max hurl insults at each other nearly to the point of exhaustion, but still manage to fish very near each other. When Ann-Margaret moves to the neighborhood, the rivalry cranks up a few notches, and soon the two are pulling no punches in their bid to one-up each other. Helping things along is Ann-Margaret's youthful spirit, not to mention the fact that she's playing up the boys a bit. »
- Marc Eastman
New on DVD This Week
7 July 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Here’s a list of some of the new DVD and Blu-ray releases this week. Plus, some old favorites coming out this week on Blu-Ray.
New Movies:
• Knowing ~ Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne (DVD and Blu-ray)
• Push ~ Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning (DVD and Blu-ray)
• The Unborn ~ Odette Yustman (DVD and Blu-Ray)
• Night Train ~ Danny Glover, Leelee Sobieski, Steve Zahn (DVD and Blu-ray)
• Five Fingers ~ Laurence Fishburne, Colm Meaney, Antonie Kamerling, Saïd Taghmaoui (DVD and Blu-ray)
• A Day in the Life ~ Omar Epps, Faizon Love, Michael Rapaport, Tyrin Turner (DVD)
• Flying By ~ Billy Ray Cyrus, Heather Locklear, Olesya Rulin, Patricia Neal (DVD)
• Applause for Miss E ~ Vanessa Bell Calloway, Roger Guenveur Smith, Gina Torres (DVD)
• Power Rangers Rpm, Vol. 1: Start Your Engines ~ Eka Darville, Ari Boyland, Rose McIver, Milo Cawthorne (DVD)
• Flight 666 ~ Iron Maiden (Blu-ray)
Previously Released and Classic Movies:
• Lonely are the Brave ~ Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy »
- Chris Ullrich
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