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Ethan Hawke ('Daybreakers')
13 hours ago
Daybreakers has all the pieces of a great film. Its sole and constant disappointment is that it does not behave like one. The writer-director team of Peter and Michael Speirig diligently assemble a darkly brilliant vision of a future ruled by vampires, but the narrative that inhabits it is built from bombastic lines and cliché drama fitting a blockbuster action flick. They take a piece of art and use it for a newsstand-caliber comic book.
One of the artists lending a grim shine to the film is Ethan Hawke, who I interviewed at the Sls Hotel. The Sls was an ideal venue for Daybreakers-a stark setting with blank, geometric furnishings that suggest both luxury and sterility-and Hawke conveys this aesthetic of chill immortality well in the film. A dramatic actor, his resumé finds him at the center of artistic visions such as Waking Life and Gattica. In Daybreakers, he »
- M C Funk
Time to vote for Scary Stud of the Year 2009
4 January 2010 3:52 PM, PST
It's time to vote for Scary Stud of the Year 2009! Stroll down memory lane with our funny, sexy, charming scary studs of 2009 and let us know which one you think deserves the crown. Voting ends January 31, 2010.*
Dani Filth, Billy Garberina, Robert Patrick, Eli Roth, Corin Nemec, Mike J. Nelson, Tom Atkins, and Scott Norton.
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*FAQs:
Q: Is this a sexist contest?
A: Yes.
Q: Isn't that hypocritical of Pretty/Scary?
A: Well, we're using irony and sweet sweet sarcasm to point out how ridiculous contests like these really are. We're actually trying to show how, when reversed, these kind of cheesecake genre layouts and interviews are really pretty silly and unnecessary. It is intended to be lighthearted and funny, while celebrating these men's careers in genre film.
Q: Do the men know what they're being interviewed for?
A: Yes, the interviewees are all in on the joke. »
- Superheidi
'The Hurt Locker' sweeps Society of Film Critics' awards
4 January 2010 3:25 PM, PST
Kathryn Bigelow's action war movie The Hurt Locker just won the National Society of Film Critics' awards for picture, director and actor for Jeremy Renner. The Hurt Locker is the first film since L.A. Confidential (1997) to take all three mentions from the Los Angeles, New York and national critics' groups.
Agnes Varda's self-portrait The Beaches of Agnes won the documentary prize.
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- Superheidi
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