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TV's Best of the Decade: No. 15 -- 'The Office'
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How successful was NBC's formula for "The Office"? It was later lifted for a British series, containing almost all of the same characters and elements. Of course, as so often happens, the British remake was much less successful and was cancelled after only 12 episodes, which must have been extra frustrating since "Tim" and "Dawn" (the British names for Jim and Pam) didn't even have time to hook up, much less get married. Tee-hee. That was fun. In college, when Gus Van Sant remade "Psycho," one of our film editors at the school paper thought that it would be
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- Daniel Fienberg
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Directors of the Decade: Gus Van Sant
10 December 2009 5:47 PM, PST
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Robert here, continuing my series of the directors that shaped the past 10 years. Most of the directors I’ve written about have been either newcomers or have taken their earlier success and continued it into the aughts. Not many have reinvented themselves for this decade. But today’s man did: Gus Van Sant
Number of Films: Six
Modern Masterpieces: Oh who’s to say. I don’t expect this to be echoed but I’m going with Gerry.
Total Disasters: No. Psycho was last decade.
Better than you remember: All three entries in the death trilogy have gotten somewhat of a bad rep.
Awards: Nominated for Best Director for Milk and the Palme D’or for Elephant
Box Office: With over 51 mil, Finding Forrester understandably tops the more experimental fare.
Critical Consensus: With a Rotten Tomatoes score over 90%, Milk understandably tops the more experimental fare.
Favorite Actor: Matt Damon in
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Review: Tom Ford’s “A Single Man”
10 December 2009 11:08 AM, PST
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Part of the life-story-in-a-day genre that encompasses everything from Mrs. Dalloway to A Christmas Carol to Agnès Varda’s French New Wave classic Cléo from 5 to 7, Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man ranked among the minor wave of major novels of the post-wwii era that examined the inner workings of an unequivocally gay protagonist.
Isherwood’s novel is now the basis for an extraordinarily assured directorial debut by fashion designer Tom Ford, who — with the able assistance of a crack team of performers and technicians — appears to have an instinctive gift for screen storytelling.
What’s most likely to be debated about the movie is its vivid, and some might say overwhelming, sense of visual style, an attention to handsome detail that permeates every frame. But whether viewers embrace its aesthetic as part of Ford’s worldview or get annoyed by the fashion-spread-ishness of A Single Man’s look, there
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- alonsoduralde
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Advance Review - The Crazies (Remake; 2010)
16 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST
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Remakes fall into two categories, "Wow" and "Why did they bother". Sadly, the "Wow"s are few and far between.
For every Zack Snyder's Dawn Of The Dead or David Cronenberg's The Fly, there's five Gus Van Sant's Psycho. Breck Eisner's The Crazies clearly falls into the "Wow" category. A fast-moving, exciting thrill ride that builds to a flat-out apocalyptic conclusion, this Crazies also has a healthy respect for the George A. Romero original even as it goes off in it's own direction.
David (Timothy Olyphant) is the Sheriff of Ogden Marsh, a small midwestern town. Judy, his doctor wife (Radha Mitchell), is pregnant and everything seems idyllic until a townsperson carries a loaded shotgun to a little league game. From that point on, the two realize the locals of their beloved little town are going insane. Government help is Not helpful, as fighter planes and gun-toting
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Pat Jankiewicz)
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The Forgotten: Gorgeous Lifelike Color By Deluxe
29 October 2009 6:58 AM, PDT
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Gus Van Sant's Psycho remake is always going to divide opinion, those who see it as a conceptual art statement being able to argue, quite reasonably, that its failure to do the things Hitchcock's original does—create a consistent story world, stylized but credible characters, a sense of doom, suspense—is exactly the proof needed of its success as a conceptual artifact, dramatically redundant yet stubbornly existent.
Would the same people say the same thing for Edward Dmytryk's The Blue Angel, a faithful yet utterly arbitrary remake of Josef Von Sternberg's Der blaue Engel. Sternberg's production, Germany's first sound film, is so iconic and so utterly of its time—it marks the beginning of the Marlene myth, as well as the end of silence—that any kind of remake seems like an exercise in redundancy, like the Coens's joke proposal to re-shoot Stanley Kramer's well-intentioned liberal
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'Nightmare On Elm Street' New Freddy Krueger Thanks Fans For Casting
29 October 2009 3:52 AM, PDT
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'The first I heard about it was people were suggesting me on the Internet for the part,' Jackie Earle Haley says.
By Larry Carroll, with reporting by Vanessa White Wolf
Jackie Earle Haley
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For decades, Hollywood cast the person they thought would bring in the most money for a movie role, often resulting in some odd choices (Vince Vaughn in "Psycho," Kevin Costner in "Robin Hood," Keanu Reeves in virtually everything) that were largely rejected by audiences. But now, it's the 21st century, and the Internet has made film more of a conversation than a monologue. From Michael Chiklis as The Thing in "Fantastic Four" to Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool in "Wolverine," several high-profile castings of the last few years have begun online — and Jackie Earle Haley couldn't be happier.
"The first I heard about it was people were suggesting me on the Internet for the part of Freddy.
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Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis Team Up for 'Golden Suicides'
14 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT
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One remade Hitchcock's "Psycho," the other wrote the novel "American Psycho." and they each often explore screwed up young characters, but otherwise Oscar-nominated filmmaker Gus Van Sant ("Milk") and author Bret Easton Ellis ("Less Than Zero") have little in common. The most significant contrast between them is that Van Sant's characters tend to have good souls, while Ellis' seem to have no souls at all. This makes it all the more exciting and curious to see how the duo collaborates on a script about the tragic true story of artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.
The lovers, who both ended their lives in 2007, were not household names, but they were important figures in the art world, and they both made contributions to cinema. Duncan, one of the first designers of video games for girls, made an animated short titled "The History of Glamour" (watch it here), and Blake did the
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- Christopher Campbell
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Julianne Moore to be honored at 2009 Hollywood Film Festival
13 October 2009 2:11 PM, PDT
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Julianne Moore will be honored with the "Hollywood Supporting Actress Award" at the 13th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards. An actress of great versatility, Julianne Moore has been nominated four times for Academy Awards for her work. She was FBI agent Clarisse Starling in Hannibal, a grieving mother in The Forgotten, Lila Crane in the Psycho remake, Susan in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, and the lead in the sci-fi Children of Men.
She just completed work on Atom Egoyan's noirish-b-movie parody Chloe, which also stars Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried...
She was last seen in sci-fi/fantasy/thriller Blindness, a film adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Jose Saramago's book of the same name, directed by Fernando Meirelles and also starring Mark Ruffalo. Moore will next be seen in Shelter, an independent psychological thriller, directed by Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein, and also starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
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- Superheidi
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Discuss: What's Your Favorite Remake?
2 October 2009 10:02 AM, PDT
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We often bash the neverending flurry of remakes, and frankly, it's hard not to. Nestled in between the possible gems are many projects that wrench the magic out of the original they're supposed to love. But luckily (especially in this remake-laden movie world) they're not all bad. In fact, sometimes they can be downright delightful, thought-provoking, or even awe-inspiring.
One of the top contenders, of course, is The Fly. The 1958 version was wildly popular and loved, yet David Cronenberg was able to sweep in and concoct a film that people rave about to this day. It remains one of the only movies able to rip through my adoration of the original and find a secure spot on the appreciation shelf. Beyond that, there are further remake chills with memorable projects like Dawn of the Dead and Cape Fear, plus a bunch of more mainstream-friendly, and beloved, remakes. Ocean's 11, anyone?
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- Monika Bartyzel
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The Week in Film: "Whip It" good, "Lying" bad and cool new trailers
2 October 2009 8:08 AM, PDT
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Reading about the health care reform battle has gotten depressing — except for that awesome Florida congressman who basically told the Republicans to cram it with walnuts when they demanded he apologize for saying the crux of the Gop health plan was "die quickly" — so let’s talk about movies for a bit.
Drew Barrymore makes a crowd-pleasing debut as a director with Whip It, an entertaining saga about a mousy teen (Juno’s Ellen Page) in small-town Texas who blossoms when she lies about her age and joins an Austin roller derby team.
In a year that's given us such awful movies like The Ugly Truth and All About Steve, finally here’s a chick flick that doesn’t seem to hate chicks.
The socko supporting cast includes Barrymore, Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis, Alia Sawkat (Arrested Development), Zoë Bell, Eve and Oscar-winner Marcia Gay Harden.
Opening on fewer screens but
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- ADuralde
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Reason 101 To Love Vince Vaughn: He Loves Country Music
24 September 2009 7:27 PM, PDT
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Vince Vaughn loves Buck Owens. He likes Gram Parsons and the Burrito Brothers. He reveres the work of Robert Plant with Alison Krauss. He has stories about George Jones and Merle Haggard -- current stories. He's hung with Willie Nelson. And he took the time to talk about all of this rather than simply discuss his newest movie, Couple's Retreat.
I've been a Vince Vaughn booster since his beginnings, and even defend him in Psycho, so I was more than happy to learn that this tall glass of water isn't just one of the most talented and funniest actors working, he also has incredibly good taste in music -- and not just good taste but an impressive and extensive knowledge of music. And he thinks about it, he makes historical connections, he's moved by it.
Here was our exchange while he was promoting his
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- Kim Morgan
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The Sandbox: The Case for Remaking Games
28 August 2009 7:26 AM, PDT
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As a kid, point-and-click PC adventure games were my be-all and end-all. Sierra, in particular, with their almost uniformly awesome "Quest" titles ("King's Quest," "Space Quest," "Police Quest"), and their bawdy "Leisure Suit Larry" series, held a prime spot in my heart. I awaited their every new release with baited breath and consumed them with a fervor that led me, on more than one occasion, to secretly spend my parents' hard-earned cash on Sierra's 1-900 automated hint lines.
Sierra's genre adventures were the standard by which I judged all other games, but in 1990, that benchmark was not only met but surpassed by "The Secret of Monkey Island," a LucasArts romp cast in a Sierra mold but steeped with a liveliness and rollicking humor that struck me as revolutionary. 19 years later, the game remains an all-time great, which is why it was with great anticipation -- and more than a bit
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- Nick Schager
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Gus Van Sant growing Restless
24 August 2009 8:08 PM, PDT
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It pays to know people. Here's a story about how it is so:
Jason Lew was a guy attending New York University that wrote plays while going to school. He also acted in productions put on by Nyu and it was there that he met Bryce Dallas Howard, daughter of former Happy Days star and now A-list director Ron Howard. The younger Howard found out that Lew was a budding playwright and read some of his material. One of his works was a story about young love called Restless. Upon the encouragement of Bryce, Lew fleshed out his play into screenplay format, who then gave it to the woman to show to her showbiz connections, namely her father's production company, Imagine Entertainment.
Flash forward a few years and after Lew's screenplay has received feedback, notes and recommendations from Imagine's executives and now it's in the process of becoming Gus Van Sant's next movie.
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- Patrick Sauriol
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Gus van Sant is Getting 'Restless'?
24 August 2009
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- I've witnessed tales of scripts making it up the ladder in more obscure ways, but if this does get a greenlight you'll be sure that this will be mentioned in the press notes. The Hollywood Reports reports that Jason Lew's first screenplay made it into the hands of the great Gus Van Sant via actress Bryce Dallas Howard. If Van Sant is looking on making this studio project his next, then what does this tell us about the status of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and How Starbucks Saved My Life?
Here is how Restless landed in the Van Sant camp. The 15-million dollar project would be set up in Oregon.
The Lew-Howard connection: "Lew and Bryce Howard attended New York University together and it was there that Lew first wrote the story as a play. Howard, who had acted in plays with Lew, got a peek at the
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Julianne Moore + Annette Bening. Rejoice!
2 July 2009 8:00 AM, PDT
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Lisa Cholodenko is flirting with me*. How else to explain the multi-orgasmic news that the writer/director of High Art, one of my all time favorite lesbian movies, is making another and she's making it with two actresses whom I practically can't worship more than I already do? Yesterday, production supposedly began on The Kids Are All Right which will star Julianne Moore and Annette Bening as lovers who've raised two kids together. Their two teenagers (played by Josh Hutcherson and Alice in Wonderland herself Mia Wasikowska) decide to meet the original sperm donor (Mark Ruffalo).
Psycho, The Hours, Running With Scissors
Both actresses have played lesbians before. Moore re-interpreted Psycho's Lila Crane as a record shop dyke and she definitely didn't want to sleep with her husband in The Hours Come to bed, Laura BrownFor Bening's part she ditched her screen husband for some self-actualizing labia time in Running With Scissors.
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- NATHANIEL R
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"Happy Mother's Day" Starring Julianne Moore
10 May 2009 8:23 AM, PDT
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'now, go and wash your teeth!'
Julianne Moore isn't so good with her onscreen children. She ignores them, kills them, abandons them... even seduces them. Even when the famous redhead loves them (Children of Men, A Map of the World, The Forgotten) terrible fates await the poor tykes. If Moore didn't exude such warmth as a star onscreen she'd have a full-fledged Joan Crawford rep.
Still if you had to choose one MooreMommy to be yours: coked up sexual Amber Waves in Boogie Nights? pharmaceutically enhanced foul-mothed step-mom Linda Partridge in Magnolia? cake-hating lesbian Laura Brown in The Hours? inappropriate and domineering Barbara Baekeland in Savage Grace? or any of her distracted housewives from Far From Heaven, [safe] to The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio ... none of whom have any time for their children / step children what with their heavy marital problems and poisonous environments? Which would it be? Or
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- NATHANIEL R
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Hellboy, Let The Right One In score in horror-light Saturn nominations
10 March 2009 10:25 PM, PDT
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The nominees for the 35th Annual Saturn Awards were announced today, and fright features went largely unrepresented among the multiple noms for the likes of The Dark Knight, Iron Man, et al. Among horror/creature features, only Hellboy II: The Golden Army and Let The Right One In scored multiple nods, taking three each.
Guillermo del Toro’s sequel is up for Best Horror Film as well as Best Make-Up (Mike Elizalde) and Best Special Effects (Michael J. Wassel, Adrian De Wet, Andrew Chapman and Eamonn Butler). The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Whatever Films We Feel Like Nominating have Let The Right One In competing for Best “International” Film—quotation marks ours, as aside from Slumdog Millionaire (?), the other movies in this category are the English-language, partially or fully U.S.-financed likes of The Bank Job, The Forbidden Kingdom, In Bruges and Transsiberian. Let The Right One In
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Before the Oscars, They Belonged to Us, Part 1
24 February 2009 3:04 AM, PST
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Disclaimer: This article may contain sarcasm, irony and “LOLs”; proceed with caution.
It’s time once again for horror at the Oscars. Sunday’s festivities were filled with folks who have worked in the genre and per usual, I feel if it’s a win for Danny Boyle, it is a win for rage-zombie fans everywhere. Seems like a lot of folks this year are veterans of Exorcist: The Beginning, Amityville: A New Generation and Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Of course, the most important genre win would be Greg Cannom, a staple of 80’s horror effects; he worked on such films as Fright Night Part 2, The Lost Boys and The Howling.
Now some movies on this list might be “kinda horror.” These thrillers or genre-friendly frameworks are on the ghoulish cusp and are marked with an asterisk. Some flicks on the list are there because, what the fuck,
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- Heather Buckley
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Box Office Tracking: Friday the 13th Set to Win President’s Day Weekend
12 February 2009 11:20 PM, PST
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Sometimes pre-release industry tracking points to a very clear box office winner, and that’s the case for the upcoming Valentine’s Day/President’s Day 4-day weekend. The reboot of Friday the Thirteenth (Warner Bros) appears to be headed for a resounding win with a possible $34.1M by Tuesday morning.
There is a fine distinction between a sequel, a remake and a reboot. Let’s deal with pictures in the horror genre. The Saw 2 through Saw 5 are sequels. The narratives clearly build on each other. Gus Van Sant’s 1998 version of a Psycho ($10M opening - $21.5M cume) was a remake (virtually shot for shot). Then there’s Rob Zombie’s 2007 Halloween ($26.3M opening - $58.2M cume), which is a reboot. Zombie abandoned all of the previous narrative from the eight prior Michael Myers slasher pics, and started brand new.
Although Godzilla ($44M opening - $136.3M cume ) was rebooted
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- Steve Mason
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Psycho Bunny's Weekend Wrap 1.11.2009
10 January 2009 10:00 PM, PST
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Greetings Fango Fiends! Psycho Bunny here with another look back at the past seven days of blood-soaked horror goodness. The first full week of 2009 kicked off with a bloody Bang. with loads of Fangoria Exclusives, reviews, and more. For those not familiar with how this goes, I've broken down the entire week by section so that you can catch up on any news that may have passed you by!
Fangoria Entertainment Updates:
Fangoria to co-sponsor Underworld Charity Prop Auction
Gay Of The Dead: Fangoria.com’s new Bloody Blog
Get a scary start to 2009 on Fangoria Radio!
Sideshow Collectibles Win The Dead Winners!
Fearful Features & Bloody Blogs:
Netherbeast Incorporated: Jobs at Stake
Rip Ray Dennis Steckler
Gay Of The Dead: Blog 1 from Sean Abley
Horror Art from Down Under - from The Art Of Horror
Heavy Red from Cult Couture
Ole Bornedal: Not Just Another Genre Director by
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