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Deconstructing the decade from 'Buffy' and beyond: Zap2it Hanh's favorite episodes
25 December 2009 10:30 AM, PST | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Zap2it's favorite TV episodes of the decade series continues with my picks for what moved me in the 2000s.
Let me preface my list with a shout out to my colleague Rick, who kicked off the series with numerous excellent examples, ranging from "The Wire" to "Freaks and Geeks." I actually agreed with quite a number of his selections, but since this is a very personal endeavor, full of unfounded opinions, naturally I must include some episodes I feel he overlooked or at least didn't value as much as I.
Case in point: Joss Whedon. Really, Rick? How could an episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" not even make your main list and only warrant an "also" mention? Hmph.
My list:
"The Body" ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer")
Although "Hush" and its creepy Gentlemen freaked me out (and earned "Buffy" its only writing Emmy nom), it aired in December 1999, just »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Films Of The Decade – Martyn’s List
14 December 2009 5:30 PM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
The first decade of the new millennium would see an abundance of cinematic treasures, disasters and all things in between. It was the decade in which the Webbed-Wonder swung through the streets of New York and battled the Green Goblin, Doc-Ock, Sandman and Venom. It would be the decade of torture porn. It would be the decade in which The Matrix sequels thoroughly disappointed. It would be the decade Michael Bay came into his own as the purveyor of crash-bang action flicks and discovered the photogenic quality of Megan Fox’s ass. It would be the decade that many screen icons left us, whilst others were made. It would be the decade that belonged to high school musicals, vampires, wizards, hobbits and superheroes. It would be the decade that saw the return of Indiana Jones and would see the last screen performance of Clint Eastwood. So many films, so many hours. »
- Martyn Conterio
South Park Season Thirteen Headed to Blu-ray
14 December 2009 8:15 AM, PST | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
The thirteenth season of Comedy Central's South Park has been announced for a simultaneous Blu-ray Disc and DVD debut on March 16.
The release marks the third appearance of South Park on Blu-ray with the first two being comprised of the Bigger, Longer and Uncut film and season twelve. There is no word yet on back seasons making their way to Blu-ray.
Season thirteen on Blu-ray will span three discs and include all 14 episodes in 1.78:1 1080p video and 5.1 Dolby TrueHD audio. Mini-commentaries by show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone will be included on every episode.
Check back regularly for South Park Season Thirteen high-res cover art and Amazon pre-order information. »
Clip joint: the best film clips featuring montages
10 December 2009 7:35 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This week Pinkos wants your help to assemble a sequence of clips featuring Eisenstein's much-copied creation
Sergei Eisenstein presented his theory of montage to an august group of cineastes in the 1920s. It was, he said, "the nerve of cinema", and that "to determine the nature of montage is to solve the specific problem of cinema". Eighty odd years later, his theory finally came to the attention of the wider world, as the subject of a song in Team America: World Police.
The word can be taken in several different ways. Deriving from the French word for "assembly", in Gallic film practice it simply refers to the editing process. For Eisenstein's Soviet colleagues, it was a means to derive an abstract meaning from a combination of shots in sequence. Nowadays, thanks to Rocky et al, a montage is a cliched sequence where a song (usually a pounding rock anthem) or »
Team America: World Police and Avatar Trailer Remix
9 December 2009 4:00 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
There’s no escape from the constant mockery of Avatar before its release date (December 18th) as CollegeHumor has a put forward a trailer which uses the audio from the Avatar trailer and combines it with Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s Team America: World Police. There are moments where it works far too well. Not perfectly of course as they have two different plots but better than you would expect. Check it out after the jump and wonder if Avatar will be subjected to more mockery before its release or after. I want to place my money on “after” simply because there has to be at least some comedic fodder in its 160-minute runtime.
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
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- Matt Goldberg
Amazing 'Avatar' Mashup Trailer
9 December 2009 6:54 AM, PST | AMC - Script to Screen | See recent AMC - Script to Screen news »
Are you excited about "Avatar," hitting AMC Theatres on December 18th? Just wait until you see it with puppets.
Yes, we said puppets. Matt Shapiro has created what might just be the best trailer mashup we've ever seen. Taking the audio from the "Avatar" trailer and combining it with clips from Matt Stone and Trey Parker's "Team America: World Police," Shapiro wound up with something extremely cool.
Check it out:
MovieWatchers, what film would you rather see -- "Avatar" as "Avatar" or "Avatar" with marionette puppets?
Source:Dark Horizons
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- Christina Warren
Sundance Announces 2010 Short Film Program
7 December 2009 3:41 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Sundance has announced the short films that will be playing at this year’s Festival. Some of the notable filmmakers include James Franco, Spike Jonze, Rory Kennedy, Patrik Eklund and Paper Heart director Nicholas Jasenovec.
Also, as Sundance points out in the press reelease:
The Sundance Film Festival’s shorts program has long been established as a discovery for directors, including: Wes Anderson, Todd Haynes, Paul Thomas Anderson, David O Russell, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Tamara Jenkins, Ted Demme, Tim Blake Nelson, Alexander Payne, Paul Dinello, Martin McDonagh, and Jason Reitman.
Since there are so many short films playing at the Festival, hit the jump for the full press release, which lists the categories, the films, and the synopses.
2010 Sundance Film Festival Announces Short Film Program
70 Short Films Chosen from a Record 6,092 Submissions
Program of Four Short Films by Spike Jonze, Rory Kennedy, Patrik Eklund; and François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy, »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Eric Cartman Might've Botched His Progressive Anti-Gay Rally With Misplaced Vulgarity
6 November 2009 1:00 PM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
Following Wednesday's episode of South Park in which Cartman and the crew try to re-brand the word "faggot" as a way to describe "annoying and inconsiderate" riders of Harley-Davidsons, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) released a statement saying that Trey Parker and Matt Stone's intentions were noble, but their methods awry. "The creators of South Park are right on one important point: more and more people are using the F-word as an all-purpose insult. However, it is irresponsible and wrong to suggest that it is a benign insult or that promoting its use has no consequences for those who are the targets of anti-gay bullying and violence." Clip of Kyle and Stan's attempt at a sociological shift after the jump. »
Comedy Terrorists
2 November 2009 3:21 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Comedy is caricature: exploding the bad bits until they fill the stage. And the simplest caricature makes the most cutting satire. Borat roadtripped the Us with racism, sexism and an obscene moustache. Brüno showed off the best bleaching in fashion celebrity. Throwing the Jew down the well or chatting up a terrorist, it is a shocking, savage level of comedy. But with Sacha Baron Cohen the caricature is in fact the person being interviewed. When comedy tells the truth it can be painful, and using an idiot alter-ego softens the blow. In the same way, Trey Parker and Matt Stone (guys behind South Park and Team America) push satire to the places stand-up is too scared to visit. Because you can hit a cartoon character as hard as you like. They all piss on taboos. But, just as important, they pack in as much vulgarity as an 18 certificate can take: »
- Uprising
As Devil's Night Descends, Here Are Cinema's Greatest Satans
30 October 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Is it a widely known fact anymore that the evening before Halloween is called Devil's Night? I'm not sure of the history myself, but the term has its origins in 1930s Detroit, if Wikipedia is to be believed (I know, I know-- that's a big "if"). According to tradition, the night would be marked by youthful acts of vandalism and petty crime, though the transgressions increased in severity through the years, with arson unfortunately becoming a common practice through the 1970s and '80s. That all changed in the mid-'90s, when the city organized the volunteer-driven "Angel's Night" and started enforcing age-based curfews. Fans of "The Crow" -- currently in the midst of a week-long retrospective on MTV Splash Page -- are of course familiar with the term, as it factors heavily into that movie.
Grim associations aside, it's a cool name that lends itself well to this particular list feature. »
- Adam Rosenberg
‘Blue Movies’ is Silicone Valley’s ‘30 Rock’
30 October 2009 8:09 AM, PDT | Tubefilter.tv | See recent Tubefilter News news »
In a previous life I think I was a fluff girl so I’m kind of sensitive about behind the scenes porno shows. While most of you were laughing it up watching Trey Parker shave his balls in Orgazmo I was strapped into a 94-minute emotional roller coaster ride of painful memories. So what can be expected from Blue Movies, a new web series from creator/director Scott Brown? Well if you don’t have painful and repressed memories of pleasuring the leading man off camera while trying to support three children all under the age of four I think you’ll be getting some pretty fantastically good awesomeness out of this one. Episode 1 (above), “The First Time,” opens with a “pivotal scene” from a special Batman adaptation, “The Dark Night: Full of Hot Freakin’ Orgies,” where an actually well costumed and acted Joker Zack Gold reenacts the famous disappearing pencil scene. »
- Jake Weaver
South Park to Rip Apart Japanese Dolphin Killers in This Week’s Episode
26 October 2009 3:25 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
I haven’t seen “The Cove” and so I’m forced to countdown to December 8th when the film comes out on DVD so I can see the documentary everyone is raving about. “The Cove” follows a group of activists infiltrating a Cove near Taijii, Japan to expose the brutal murder of dolphins by relentless fishermen. Now “South Park” is taking its shot with this Wednesday’s episode entitled “Whale Whores”. Hit the jump to learn how Trey Parker and Matt Stone plan to beat the shit out of this disgusting industry.
SouthParkStudios released a very brief clip from “Whale Whores”. It has Randy being hilarious so you must watch it.
And here’s the synopsis for the episode:
Stan and his family are spending his birthday at the Denver Aquarium where they will get to swim with the dolphins. Things turn bloody when the Japanese attack, kill all the »
- Matt Goldberg
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Blu-ray Review
22 October 2009 8:16 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
South Park is now an institution. Something to take for granted. The show struggled early on after it became a breakout sensation, but now it’s there, always there. You know what Trey Parker and Matt Stone are going to do to a certain extent. Their comic rhythms are familiar, and they know how to tell a joke. The fun in revisiting the movie is that Trey Parker obviously loves musicals, and he made one with his film. My review of South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut after the jump.
The film concerns the four boys, Kyle, Stan, Cartman and Kenny as they get to see the Terrence and Phillip movie “Asses of Fire.” In it, the Canadian duo swear like sailors, with the hit single “Uncle Fucker.” Seeing the movie leads Cartman to challenge Kenny to light his farts on fire, and the act of doing so kills Kenny. »
- Andre Dellamorte
Your Jeff Zucker Laugh For The Day
19 October 2009 5:11 PM, PDT | Deadline Hollywood | See recent Deadline Hollywood news »
Atlantic Magazine has published its first annual "Brave Thinkers" issue naming 27 "most provocative thinkers" who "had the courage to step outside the consoling persuading flow of tradition and ask fundamental questions about why things are the way they are, and how they might be instead". There's Steve Jobs and John Lasseter, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Pixar Animation Studios, as well as Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park. But also Jeff Zucker. That's right -- Jeff Zucker. As the magazine says, "Some of them may prove to be wrong, and others wrong-headed. But all of [...] »
- Nikki Finke
DVD Weekly Roundup – Mon 19th October 20099
18 October 2009 4:54 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
It’s quite unfortunate that the X-Men films having started strong are now reduced to this shoddy piece of cinema really. Let’s face it; it all started going downhill around number 3 but this attempt at a prequel just doesn’t deliver at all.
The script is all over the place, not knowing if it wants to be taken seriously or just be a no brainer action film. What we get is cheap dialogue being delivered like it’s Shakespeare. Hugh Jack man is charismatic enough but he hasn’t exactly had a good year, what with the complete bollocks that was Australia and now this.
I think Origins biggest failure is treating Wolverine’s relationship with his brother Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber) like some sort of Eastenders sub-plot. That’s what it is! The whole film feels like a daytime soap opera. The romantic element of »
- Alex Wagner
Balloon Boy Spewage Gets Us Thinking About Classic Hollywood Barf Scenes
16 October 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Concerned civilians the world over watched in horror yesterday as a runaway helium balloon with six year-old Falcon Heene allegedly trapped inside sailed over the Colorado countryside, only to arrive on the ground safely without child. Falcon, now widely known as Balloon Boy, was napping in the attic the entire time.
Naturally, the Heene family is making the press rounds following the kinda-sorta disaster, and there's already compelling evidence that the whole incident could be a hoax. What's not a hoax, of course, is poor Falcon's on-air vomiting during a recording of the Today Show. Ill timing, really. While I could sit here and think of a variety of different lists — best balloon chases caught on film, the greatest cinema hoaxes of all time — I just can't get my head around the Today Show throw-up. The result of that mental block is this list of the five greatest vomit scenes in movie history. »
- Josh Wigler
New on DVD: Gay men from Broadway to Asia and points in between
14 October 2009 12:09 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
If you've been lamenting the lack of DVDs of specifically queer interest in the past few weeks, now would be a good time to check out the New Releases shelf for a song-and-dance documentary, an international romance and a potty-mouthed animated musical.
Read on for more!
You don't have to be a Broadway fanatic to love the fascinating documentary Every Little Step, about the audition process for the 2005 revival of A Chorus Line. The directors were granted unprecedented access to the months of tryouts—and since A Chorus Line itself is a musical about an audition, the movie has a fascinating meta quality as it mirrors itself throughout.
If you're one of those people who wish the film had spent more time talking about the original production conceived by gay producer Michael Bennett in the 1970s, don't miss the DVD extras, which include lots more interviews — Donna McKechnie (above, with »
- ADuralde
Sam Raimi Drags Us 'To Hell,' Will Ferrell Gets 'Lost' And More In The DVD Report For October 13
13 October 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Director Sam Raimi made a name for himself (and boyhood friend Bruce Campbell) with a series of low-budget horror films that began in 1978 with "Within the Woods," a short college project that would chart the rest of his career. While that particular movie remains little seen, it led directly to the cult classic "Evil Dead" and its two sequels, "Evil Dead II" and "Army of Darkness," and forever cemented Sam Raimi as a bonafide member of the horror club.
So it was with some regret among his fans that -- as his career progressed -- Raimi drifted into other areas of cinema, most notably the billion dollar blockbuster "Spider-Man" franchise, and seemingly left his chainsaw and boomstick behind. That was until 2009, when he came roaring out of the gate with "Drag Me to Hell," the veteran filmmaker's return to the genre that made him a legend. The film stars Alison Lohman »
- Brian Jacks
London Film Festival: ‘The Informant!’
13 October 2009 8:32 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Dir: Steven Soderbergh Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey ‘The Informant!’ is the true(ish) story of Mark Whitacre, the highest ranking whistleblower in corporate history. Mark (Damon) is a biochemist who has been promoted to the heady heights of agricultural giant Adm’s corporate infrastructure. But when his division loses money for a record year, he pretends that a Japanese competitor has infected Adm’s corn stock, and before he knows it the FBI is involved. Mark is clearly not a man who thinks his decisions through very carefully – he is one of those polite and hopelessly naïve Americans that we don’t see enough of outside the Us – and so he decides to tell Agent Shepherd (Bakula) about Adm’s involvement in one of the largest global price-fixing scandals in corporate history. What follows is basically what ‘The Insider’ would have looked like if Mel Brooks owned the rights. »
- Nicholas Deigman
This Week in Blu-ray: Get Dragged to Hell in HD
13 October 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
In this edition of This Week in Blu-ray, it is slim pickings all around. From horror comedy with lazily constructed special feature selections to mediocre comedies that just won't go away. And it comes at the perfect time, as I believe I may have cleaned out the savings accounts of many readers with last week's buy-a-thon. Looks like we can all add a few dollars to the piggy bank this week in hopeful anticipation of Blu-ray releases to come. This week, for the first time in the history of this fair column, we're going to skip the 'Buy' and go right to the 'Rent'... Please use that fancy scroll bar on your browser to take a look at this week's releases below... Drag Me to Hell Pitch: Sam Raimi brings his sense of horrific comedy (or comedic horror) to high definition. Why Rent? Despite what my beloved colleague Rob Hunter might tell you, Sam Raimi »
- Neil Miller
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