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Review (Sort Of): Gentlemen Broncos
6 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST | Slackerwood | See recent Slackerwood news »
I'm one of those people who screw up Netflix's "Movies You'll Love" programming: I can't stand Napoleon Dynamite. It's too sitcom-y, the characters' quirks have no basis in character depth or complexity, and it's just plain annoying. Gentlemen Broncos, the latest comedy from the same writers and director as Napoleon Dynamite -- Jared and Jerusha Hess -- has many of the same problems, and adds a giant dose of gross-out humor to boot.
The story focuses on high-schooler Benjamin (Michael Angarano), who is somewhat out of step with his peers. He wants to be a science-fiction writer like his hero, Dr. Roland Chevalier (Jemaine Clement). Ben's been writing a series of books about Bronco, a warrior hero who seems to resemble Ben's departed dad. His mother (Jennifer Coolidge) tries to encourage him, but has little attention to spare from her work designing and selling nightgowns.
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- Jette Kernion
Kristen Stewart Seen Stepping Out With Mystery Guy, Without Robert Pattinson
5 November 2009 7:47 PM, PST | Celebrity Mania | See recent Celebrity Mania news »
Rumor has it, Kristen Stewart has been seen hanging out together without the companion of her alleged boyfriend Robert Pattinson. According to E! Online, the "Twilight" actress has been caught leaving the L'Ermitage Hotel in Los Angeles recently along with an unidentified guy.
At that time, Stewart and the mystery man were reported "almost bumping into" Kayla Ewell, who has been starring as Vicki on "The Vampire Diaries". During the outing, the 19-year-old beauty was spotted donning a baseball cap and her signature Raybans.
E! Online reports there isn't romantic thing happen between Stewart and the dude. However, they looked to be in a rush as the guy, who drove her silver Dodge Magnum, was snapped almost hitting a passerby walking along the street when they attempted to leave the venue.
About her love life, Kristen Stewart was romantically linked to Robert Pattinson when she still dated "Gentlemen Broncos" actor Michael Angarano. »
- celebrity-mania.com
Fox Searchlight in trouble? No More Broncos.. I won't see Angarano!
5 November 2009 4:33 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Is today's business of making movies really going through very rough times? In the case of Fox Searchlight, it seems 2009 is their year of 'financial reckoning'. - - -
- - - Come to think of it, the studio was the best performer last year - Take a look: Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine and Juno.
More about the studio's line up of movies for 2009 and some Box Office reports after the jump!
- - -
Just take a look at this January 2009 report from Reuters:
Independent film label Fox Searchlight Pictures racked up more awards than any other movie studio at the Golden Globes on Sunday thanks to big wins for "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Wrestler. »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Fox Searchlight in trouble? No More Broncos.. I won't see Angarano!
5 November 2009 4:33 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Is today's business of making movies really going through very rough times? In the case of Fox Searchlight, it seems 2009 is their year of 'financial reckoning'. - - -
- - - Come to think of it, the studio was the best performer last year - Take a look: Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine and Juno.
More about the studio's line up of movies for 2009 and some Box Office reports after the jump!
- - -
Just take a look at this January 2009 report from Reuters:
Independent film label Fox Searchlight Pictures racked up more awards than any other movie studio at the Golden Globes on Sunday thanks to big wins for "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Wrestler. »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Fox Searchlight in trouble? No More Broncos.. I won't see Angarano!
5 November 2009 4:33 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Is today's business of making movies really going through very rough times? In the case of Fox Searchlight, it seems 2009 is their year of 'financial reckoning'. - - -
- - - Come to think of it, the studio was the best performer last year - Take a look: Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine and Juno.
More about the studio's line up of movies for 2009 and some Box Office reports after the jump!
- - -
Just take a look at this January 2009 report from Reuters:
Independent film label Fox Searchlight Pictures racked up more awards than any other movie studio at the Golden Globes on Sunday thanks to big wins for "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Wrestler. »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Fox Searchlight in trouble? No More Broncos.. I won't see Angarano!
5 November 2009 4:33 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Is today's business of making movies really going through very rough times? In the case of Fox Searchlight, it seems 2009 is their year of 'financial reckoning'. - - -
- - - Come to think of it, the studio was the best performer last year - Take a look: Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine and Juno.
More about the studio's line up of movies for 2009 and some Box Office reports after the jump!
- - -
Just take a look at this January 2009 report from Reuters:
Independent film label Fox Searchlight Pictures racked up more awards than any other movie studio at the Golden Globes on Sunday thanks to big wins for "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Wrestler. »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Fox Searchlight in trouble? No More Broncos.. I won't see Angarano!
5 November 2009 4:33 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Is today's business of making movies really going through very rough times? In the case of Fox Searchlight, it seems 2009 is their year of 'financial reckoning'. - - -
- - - Come to think of it, the studio was the best performer last year - Take a look: Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine and Juno.
More about the studio's line up of movies for 2009 and some Box Office reports after the jump!
- - -
Just take a look at this January 2009 report from Reuters:
Independent film label Fox Searchlight Pictures racked up more awards than any other movie studio at the Golden Globes on Sunday thanks to big wins for "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Wrestler. »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Monthly Movie Preview – November 2009 … A Christmas Carol, 2012, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and more
3 November 2009 5:34 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
It’s the holidays. We know this because the movies tell us so. This year they waited exactly one week after Halloween to start the Christmas fare with Jim Carrey’s A Christmas Carol. But even though the month starts with Christmas, the movie month plays out just like Thanksgiving.
At first, we’re given an array of wonderful treats that’s we’ll happily gobble up like George Clooney in The Men Who Stare at Goats or George Clooney in the stop-motion Wes Anderson movie Fantastic Mr. Fox. Plus, teenage girls and a few others, will have their vampire appetites filled with The Twilight Saga: New Moon. But then, just like Thanksgiving, you gorge a little too much. And even though you’re full, you look around for something more to eat … and that’s when Old Dogs seems to be your only option.
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- Jeff Bayer
Robert Pattinson: Kristen and I Are Just Friends
2 November 2009 9:52 PM, PST | Reel Empire | See recent Reel Empire news »
Come on Rob! You've made it far too obvious that you and Kristen are just friends. The "Twilight" actor recently stated in an interview that he and his co-star are just good friends. Catherine Hardwicke said, "What Rob and Kristen had is a multitude of feelings for each other. Complex feelings for each other. It was what we needed. Complex, intense fascination." Writer Evgenia Peretz also added to the hype, saying, "It's very likely that their off-screen relationship mirrored their on-screen one: an intense attraction that couldn't be realized. During the shoot, Stewart was with her long-term boyfriend, actor Michael Angarano." Read on for more!
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- Chad Langen
Review: Gentlemen Broncos
31 October 2009 7:02 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
By Peter Hall (reprinted from 9/28/09 -- Fantastic Fest review)
Quirkiness only carries so far. Napoleon Dynamite, the film that ushered in the career of Gentlemen Broncos director Jared Hess, is enjoyable because it cherishes the nervous twitches of puberty, identity crisis, and the weird kind of people who worship at Walmart strip malls. The director embraced his small-town roots to assemble a film in love with those who don't have any station in life, who have no big conflict in their mundane lives, and who have no particularly interesting story to tell, either. Hess' latest film, on the other hand, does have an interesting story to tell and it does have a three-act conventional conflict, but it barrels past being quirky into the weird-for-weird's-sake hinterland of comedy where subtlety is abolished in favor of broad, hit-and-miss gags.
Gentlemen Broncos could have been great. It's about a teenage boy (Michael Angarano »
- Cinematical staff
Plucky 'Broncos': Jared and Jerusha Hess on Gentlemen Broncos
30 October 2009 11:02 AM, PDT | GreenCine | See recent GreenCine news »
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jared Hess, 30, and Jerusha Hess, 29, met in film class at Brigham Young University and together wrote a little independent movie called Napoleon Dynamite, which Jared directed. Released in 2004, the movie was a once in a lifetime success story, earning a genuine cult following and inspiring a generation of dialogue-quoters and "Vote for Pedro" t-shirt wearers. Hollywood loved it too, and it wasn't long before the Hesses were in charge of the bigger budgeted Nacho Libre (2006). Despite considerably less flattering reviews, the film went on to gross over $80 million, more than doubling its production budget.
Both films contained the same kind of off-kilter rhythms and dry, almost-but-not-quite cruel humor that fans seem to love. Their new film, Gentlemen Broncos (opening Oct. 30 and Nov. 6), is more complex in the plot department but still hangs onto these unique rhythms. Michael Angarano stars as Benjamin, a home-schooled teen who is also a burgeoning sci-fi writer. »
- underdog
'Gentlemen Broncos': Mope City, By Kurt Loder
30 October 2009 7:32 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Jemaine Clement almost saves Jared Hess' latest low-key comedy.
Michael Angarano and Jemaine Clement in "Gentlemen Broncos"
Photo: Fox Searchlight
Jared Hess' peculiar specialty as a filmmaker is understandably rare. Hess is the laureate of the American Outback, capturing perfectly the awful desperation of life in small-time, small-town nowhere — the sunny monotony, the cramped aspirations, the eternal lack of action. In his first feature, the 2004 "Napoleon Dynamite," this anesthetized milieu was a resonant backdrop for the deadpan absurdity of the story and the fresh eccentricity of its star, Jon Heder. But in Hess' new film, the even wispier "Gentlemen Broncos," the backdrop swallows up the generally low-voltage characters and takes over the picture. The result is oddly oppressive, and anyone who's ever managed to escape from a stultifying childhood backwater may feel, in watching it, an attack of anxiety hives coming on.
The movie's nominal protagonist is Benjamin »
Jared and Jerusha Hess Talk Gentlemen Broncos
30 October 2009 2:12 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
The Hesses have spent their short career making eccentric comedies like Napolean Dynamite, Nacho Libre, and the upcoming Gentlemen Broncos, which opens in limited release today. The movie follows a teenager (Michael Angarano) who finds that his novel has been plagiarized by a legendary novelist (Jemaine Clement). While Jared usually directs, the married duo typically co-write the movies, bringing elements of their family and home life into the scripts. Jared told Collider that Gentlemen Broncos is so personal, even the title is taken from his childhood.
The title of the film comes from my mom, who had this really weird parenting book when I was growing up. I have five younger brothers, and it was this book, called So You Want to Raise a Boy?, written in the 1950s. There's a chapter in there where it talks about the age from 16 to 17 and the author referred to it as the gentlemen bronco phase of life, »
- Ryan Gowland
Review: Gentlemen Broncos
30 October 2009 1:51 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Plot: Benjamin (Michael Angarano) is a young man living in a small town. This unassuming nerd lives with his mother Julia (Jennifer Coolidge), who designs frumpy nightgowns and sells popcorn balls on the street. To escape, our young hero writes bad science fiction. (And I say that with love.) He goes to a writing camp, desperately hoping that his idol, secretly washed up novelist Ronald Chevalier, (Jermaine Clement-the Flight Of The Conchords) will take notice. And he does...by stealing... »
- Jenna Busch
Exclusive Video: Gentlemen Broncos Cast Interviews
29 October 2009 9:25 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
By all accounts Napoleon Dynamite is still one of the funniest and most successful independent movies of all time. The movie, which is still highly prevalent in pop-culture, has had a lasting affect on audiences in a way that few films do. Filmmakers Jared and Jerusha Hess followed up their success by teaming with School of Rock writer Mike White and star Jack Black to make the Mexican wrestling comedy Nacho Libre. White has teamed with the Hess's again, producing their new comedy the science-fiction paperback spoof Gentlemen Broncos, which is being released in theaters on October 30th. We had a chance to talk with the film's creators, writer and director Jared Hess, his co-writer Jerusha Hess, producer and actor Mike White and stars Jermaine Clement and Jennifer Coolidge. To watch our exclusive interview click on the video clips below.
Benjamin (Michael Angarano), home-schooled by his eccentric mother (Jennifer Coolidge »
Gentlemen Broncos Movie Review
29 October 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
Right from the opening credits, Gentlemen Broncos had me hooked. They're quite simple, similar to the Napoleon Dynamite credits, which is fitting seeing how this is the latest film from director Jared Hess. Instead of foodstuffs, we are treated to the cast and crew names of old pulp sci-fi book covers, while "In The Year 2525" plays on. It's the perfect set-up for yet another of Hess' tale of outcasts and their deadpan, almost absurdist comedic misadventures.
Broncos tells the story of Benjamin (Michael Angarano, playing the wallflower to perfection) a home-schooled lad who writes science fiction stories, following in the path of his idol, Dr.Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement, from Flight of the Conchords, and who steals every scene he's in with his facial hair and voice). Benjamin joins other home schoolers on a trip to Cletus Fest, a writing retreat/workshop/festival. Lecturing at the fest is Dr. Chevalier, »
The Week in Film: Halloween Weekend
29 October 2009 12:18 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Ho ho ho, Merry- wait, that’s not right. Gobble gobble! Happy Thanks- shoot, that’s not right either. Ahem. *evil high-pitched cackle* Happy Halloween! Ah, there we go. Sorry for the confusion there, folks. It happens when you try to get a Turkey Santa Claus costume for this special day. You get confused. For some reason, I couldn’t find one anywhere, but enough about me. And since it’s Halloween weekend, time for scary movies! Right?
Maybe not so much. At least not new ones, as it looks like Hollywood decided too many folks were going to be out trick-or-treating to check out a new movie this weekend. Fortunately or unfortunately, Saw VI came out last week and Paranormal Activity is still in theaters scaring up big bucks (more on that later).
First up this week, we have Michael Jackson’s sold out This Is It that opened on Wednesday. »
- Raiden251
Exclusive Interview: Gentlemen Broncos Director Jared Hess
29 October 2009 8:45 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Jared Hess, like it or not, will on some level always be the guy who directed Napoleon Dynamite. Not only was that movie such an unexpected hit, launching years worth of catchphrases and Halloween costumes, but it made such good use of the bizarre rural Utah landscape than any movie filmed there again would automatically be compared to Napoleon's world. But Hess wasn't too worried about that as he went to make Gentlemen Broncos, set in the same mountainous world full of Mom jeans and arts and crafts but with a distinctive sci-fi spin. Based freely on his own chlidhood, as he admits, Gentlemen Broncos stars Michael Angarano as Benjamin, a geeky 15-year-old who brings his prized sci-fi novel Yeast Lords to a weekend writer's retreat, only to find it completely stolen by his idol, sci-fi master Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement). While much of the film takes place in Benjamin's »
Q&A: Gentlemen Broncos
29 October 2009 1:28 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
I recently headed over to the Fox lot in Los Angeles to check out a screening of the upcoming film from the creators of Napoleon Dynamite, Gentlemen Broncos. In the film, seventeen-year-old Benjamin (Michael Angarano) attends a writing camp, where he hopes his sci-fi novel about Yeast Lords and battle stags will get noticed by his idol and famous writer, Chevalier (Jermaine Clement). Little does he know that Chevalier's star is fading...he steals Benjamin's story and publishes it under... »
- Jenna Busch
Gentlemen Broncos' Halley Feiffer and Mike White
28 October 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
Jared Hess' new film, Gentlemen Broncos, is a sci-fi goofball comedy hybrid, ostensibly about a 17-year-old science fiction writer named Benjamin Purvis (Michael Angarano) whose manuscript, Yeast Lords: The Bronco Years, is stolen by his literary idol, Dr. Ronald Chevalier (the wonderful Jemaine Clement). But it's also about living in a geodesic dome in Utah with a mom (Jennifer Coolidge) who sells popcorn balls and designs modest nightgowns, having a 'guardian angel' with an albino snake (Mike White), two friends (Halley Feiffer and Hector Jimenez) who make their own movies, and a panoply of sci-fi visions, professional and homemade, all starring Sam Rockwell. That's a lot of movie, toggling between sci-fi dreams, teenage class issues, and the struggle to be an artist. And when it comes to comedy, Hess (along with his wife and Broncos script co-writer Jerusha, who clearly plays a significant role in these films) occupies an »
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