14 articles from 2009
[K-film Reviews] 애자 (Goodbye Mom)
3 December 2009 2:28 PM, PST
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It's kind of ironic that the realization came by watching something as far from the concept of femininity as Kwak Kyung-Taek's 친구 - 우리들의 전설 (Friend - Our Legend) is, but maybe that's another proof of how much depth and meaning his first ever TV drama had. That is, in the midst of what you'd expect to be raging machismo and tidal waves of testosterone, what often stood out instead were the women - Busan's tough as nails women, with the charisma and panache of divas from the Golden Age, their often rugged exterior chiseled by time. Generalizations are always the most friendly of compeers when trying to make a point, but meet any woman (particularly of a few generations older than today's teenagers) from Busan, and you'll feel that unique color, mixing their often disarmingly pragmatic ways with the irresistible warmth and joie de vivre their exterior seldom reveals.
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Gay Of The Dead #29 - Socket’s Alexandra Billings
1 December 2009 2:29 AM, PST
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December 1 is World AIDS Day, and I have the pleasure of knowing someone HIV+ who is both connected to the horror/sci-fi world and a huge fan, actress Alexandra Billings.
I met Alexandra ages and ages ago, right around when someone invented fire. We were both eyeballs deep in the Chicago theater community, doing show after show, sometimes two or even three different plays a night, with the energy only a 20-something possesses. We worked together, became friends, and eventually both moved to La around the same time. You can read a fairly detailed account of her Chicago days (through my eyes) including a lot of info about her transgender journey in my other blog here: http://zombietruckstop.livejournal.com/2006/12/01/ - and of course on her own website.
After so much theater, Alexandra now swims around the Los Angeles on-camera, TV and film pool, slowly but surely convincing forward-thinking casting
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Sean Abley)
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Box-Office Wrap-Up: Nov. 27 - Nov. 29, 2009
29 November 2009 11:03 AM, PST
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It was the third strongest box office weekend of the year, and that's coming on the heels of the strongest weekend in the last 16 months. So it looks like people are hungry for films, even if they aren't necessarily quality efforts.
#1 movie predicted correctly: 5 Weeks In A Row
1. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Alert commenter Nick put a $41.7m call on the board on Friday morning, a very nice prognostication. It looks as though New Moon was even more frontloaded than Twilight, this fell over 70 percent. Still, it will hit $400m with ease, and as Eli pointed out - when a film passes that 2.5x its production budget threshold we finally consider it profitable.
Result: 42.5 million (My rank: #1, $18.5m off)
2. The Blind Side
Wow. It pulled off an old school trick, gaining 17.6 percent in its second weekend. Very well timed to coincide with the Thanksgiving holiday, where family films bank.
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- Laremy Legel
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Cineastes List "Most Important" Films of the Decade
27 November 2009 4:49 AM, PST
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We broke down the Paste list of the best films of the decade. It's tough business, but I thought that list was consistent, had enough mass appeal and artsy oomph, and was worthy of future discussion. What Paste did that I'm not sure I agree with was extend the list past the usual ten to encompass 50 movies. Even because you're looking at ten years instead of one, I think 20 or 25 is about the limit. Fifty or 100 just seems like overkill. To me, anyway.
Here's a list you'll probably have to check with the ol' IMDb or something, because chances are you won't have seen them all. The Auteurs has the details of "a curated series based on a poll conducted by [Toronto International Film Festival] Cinematheque's Senior Programmer James Quandt," which includes input from film historians, curators, film festival programmers, and other like-minded individuals.
The list isn't really "the best," but rather "the most important.
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- Colin Boyd
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Desperately seeking Sendak
23 November 2009 2:32 AM, PST
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Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers relive the cold winter's day when they went to visit famously prickly writer Maurice Sendak, to talk about filming Where the Wild Things Are
Dave Eggers: So here we are. It's always awkward doing this kind of thing together. If we wrote this the way we wrote the script, fighting over every word, it would probably take a year.
Spike Jonze: We should just have a conversation. Then we can fight over every word when we edit it.
De: But let's be really eloquent. We can talk, and then after we transcribe the talk, we can make ourselves seem articulate.
Sj: Yes, we shall do that. It brings to mind something the bard once said: "Tis excellent to be spontaneous, tho better to be brilliant."
De: He didn't say that.
Sj: He did. In one of his lesser-known plays, The Sisters of Hannah.
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- Dave Eggers
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Gay of the Dead #27: The Lair, Season Three (Part 1 of 2)
16 November 2009 10:27 PM, PST
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The Guilty Pleasure Fairy visited me in my sleep recently and left The Lair: Season Three under my pillow. Woo-hoo! The Fred Olen Ray vampire-sex-club soap opera is back—now with 100 percent more Sybil Danning! Courtesy of the friendly folks at here! TV (I really wish they’d just break down and capitalize “Here”—seriously), which is currently airing the series on-demand, I had a chance to chat briefly with a few of the stars of this new season.
First up is Frankie Valenti, or, as he’s more widely known, adult-film star Johnny Hazzard. His bad-boy image has served him well in the adult world since 2003, and he has won several “Grabby” and GayVN Awards for his performances in videos like Detention and Wrong Side Of The Tracks. Season two of The Lair was his first straight acting gig, and he returns in the third as Tim, having
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Sean Abley)
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Diabolic Debate: The Nightmare on Elm Street Remake
9 November 2009
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Ryan Rotten: Rob, our readers are getting downright rabid about Platinum Dunes' Nightmare on Elm Street . Rabid, I tell ya! There's a whole lot of fuss over this movie, especially since that AICN test screening review. And I'll reveal this, when I check our top stories on a weekly basis, Nightmare always ranks in the top five. Go figure, because it seems to have a lot of haters. But site traffic is telling me even the haters are interested in it to some degree. Unless they're just fascinated to watch the train wreck it could possibly be. Without a doubt, it's the film to watch for next spring, and I'm curious as hell to see what they've done with Freddy Krueger, but that early review has me concerned. You and I are both children of Krueger, having been raised on the series, and
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Which of These Stars Has the Best Critical Track Record in Hollywood?
6 November 2009 8:30 AM, PST
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You and I may lose hours of work every week addictively trolling the rankings and comments at places like Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic, but one obsessive decided to make the latter site his job for the sake of science. The experiment: to find the most consistent critical voices working today (or at least posting to Metacritic), and the stars who benefit the most from those voices. Culled from reviews and films over the last decade, the results are certainly... interesting.
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Now Sam Worthington is Rumored for 'Mad Max 4'
24 October 2009 6:30 PM, PDT
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So it appears that Charlize Theron might be in Mad Max 4: Fury Road. Her name first came up earlier this week, when she was connected along with British actor Thomas Hardy, most recently of Bronson. Now, in an article from Australia's Daily Telegraph that touts what producing the film Down Under will mean to the economy there, Theron is named again, but Hardy has been replaced by fellow Aussie Sam Worthington.
It's a better fit pretty much all the way around: Worthington has name recognition in the Us, which will only grow after Avatar and Clash of the Titans, and he's Australian. You and I don't care about that, but because this series is so important in the history of Australian cinema, it's probably wise to keep that role home grown.
The truth is we still don't know for sure who will play Mad Max Rockatansky; there was
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- Colin Boyd
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Rick James Biopic Coming To Life As A Feature Film, Will It Star Terrence Howard?
21 October 2009 1:30 AM, PDT
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Today we discovered that another biopic is in the works as a feature film, and this time the film will be about R&B icon, Rick James. As we all know, James was an extremely popular R&B and funk singer in the late 1970s and 1980s, scoring four #1 hits on the U.S. R&B charts. Among his best-known songs are "Superfreak" and "You and I".
In addition to his music, he gained notoriety for his wild lifestyle: later in life, James' drug abuse led to widely publicized legal problems.
All of this is said to be documented in the upcoming film, and we discovered this news from James' daughter Ty James.
We even heard that there are discussions with actor Terrence Howard (of Hustle & Flow fame) to play the lead role but nothing has been finalized yet. For more information about the film check back here as we
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- noreply@blogger.com (The Humor Mill Magazine)
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Alynda Wheat's Beat Cop: Having fun storming the 'Castle'
13 October 2009 11:55 AM, PDT
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There was a book? All this time there was an actual, buyable, readable Castle book and nobody told me? I mean sure, I could've read this post from Jeff, this one from Mandi, or this one here. But Jeff and Mandi are all the way across the country in the New York office! You and I are, we're right here. All I know is, if Beckett gets to read that book, then I'm getting my hands on it too. But—and let me know if this is a step too meta—what I really want is a book about Beckett
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- Alynda Wheat
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Paranormal wants you!
6 October 2009 1:16 PM, PDT
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So are you really itching to to see Paranormal Activity?
If you're ready to see Oren Peli's terrifying debut, you can demand it. That's right. Paramount needs help if you want to see the film go nationwide. The current number of demands so far are close to 400,000. They need to reach one million in order to give it the wide release treatment.
You and I both know that they will hit their goal, but if you want to see it at your local theater, go here to contribute. There's really no
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- Niki Stephens
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Carol Channing Presents Broadway Voices For Arts in Education On 10/11
10 September 2009 3:46 PM, PDT
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The Suite Life of Zach and Cody's Kim Rhodes will Host this one night only event as a number of celebrated Broadway veterans including Mary Jo Catlett, Carole Cook, Jason Graae, Ilene Graff, Sam Harris, as well as students from Creative Planet School of the Arts (www.cpsoa.org) will be joining Carol Channing as they gather together for a one night only event at UCLA's Royce Hall for the purpose of raising money and awareness with regard to the need for arts in the public school system. Exposure to the arts in school, builds self-confidence, self-discipline and teamwork. And, ultimately these things create better, safer schools for our children. "You and I don't need to save the arts. We need to help the arts save our children," says Carol.
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Music: Review:Yo La Tengo: Popular Songs
7 September 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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Popular Songs, Yo La Tengo’s 12th album in nearly 25 years, only sounds like the title of a greatest-hits collection. Its 12 tracks offer variations on what fans have come to expect from the band, but those variations come filled with surprises. The album-opening “Here To Fall” begins with the slow tick-tock of echo-laden noise, but the sudden entrance of pounding drums and insistent strings better represents Popular Songs. Attention, in other words, must be paid.
Like 2006’s I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass, Popular Songs gives up early on sticking with
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