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'2012' Is Old News: Hollywood Apocalypses Through The Decades
13 November 2009 1:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Today, Roland Emmerich's latest world-ending epic, "2012," hits theaters. John Cusack, Amanda Peet and their pals race around the world, beholding one scene of devastation after another as an eco-catastrophe tears the planet apart. The story's premise is built on the belief that the apocalypse will come in the year 2012, as foretold by the Mayan calendar.
Unfortunately for Mr. Emmerich, Hollywood has already trashed the lovely planet Earth roughly a bazillion times over. From viral outbreaks to zombie uprisings, global warming to alien incursions... the people of this world have seen, suffered through and been almost completely annihilated by any threat you can imagine. Looking back through Hollywood history, the world was wiped out countless times, and long before the year 2012.
The '60s
For any movies where the time of the apocalypse isn't specified, it's a safe bet that the action occurs in the "present day" in which the movie was made. »
- Adam Rosenberg
Why Richard Kelly's The Box could be the best film of the year
12 November 2009 10:36 AM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
Year: 2009
Directors: Richard Kelly
Writers: Richard Kelly
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: agentorange
Rating: 9 out of 10
Richard Kelly channels no less than the ghost of Stanley Kubrick to turn Richard Matheson's blip of a Twilight Zone idea into one of the most astounding pieces of cerebral science fiction cinema I have ever seen. Yes, The Box is that good. It dares to scale the same intellectual heights as 2001: A Space Odyssey and it revels in the potent, restrained formalism of The Shining without ever leaving its two main characters or plot too far behind. In fact, Kelly is so self assured in executing this delicious layer-cake of a movie that The Box is now a front runner for my choice of best film of the year (yep, move over Moon) and I absolutely can't wait to see it again so I can dig even deeper into its box of mysteries. »
Veteran's Day Honored, Hollywood-Style
11 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Today is Veteran's Day. It is a time when we step back for a moment to honor the bravery and sacrifices of our nation's soldiers. Men and women who give everything, up to and including their lives, all in the name of protecting this country and all that it represents. Also known as Armistice Day and Remembrance Day in other parts of the world, the holiday always falls on November 11, commemorating the anniversary of the 1918 armistice that brought an end to World War I.
The history of film is rife with stories pulled straight from the front lines. War stories make great cinema, both because they serve up gripping tales of heroism and because they honor those who take on such acts in the real world. So today, in honor of the veterans from wars past and wars ongoing, we give you this small selection of classics to spend some time with. »
- Adam Rosenberg
Free Flick of the Day: Spartacus
10 November 2009 12:03 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
"You can't put words back in your mouth. What you can do, is spread false gossip so people think that everything that's been said is untrue ... It's like the end of Spartacus. I have seen that movie half a dozen times and I still don't know who the real Spartacus is. And that is what makes that movie a classic whodunnit." -- The Office
I know very well there isn't a single Cinematical reader who doesn't know who the real Spartacus is. There's probably little children who haven't even seen Stanley Kubrick's Roman epic who know who the real Spartacus is because the movie has become such a cultural touchstone. But just because it's ubiquitous doesn't mean you shouldn't sit down and watch the movie again, especially since it's playing for free on SlashControl. Its lengthy runtime might make it a little uncomfortable to view on your laptop, but »
- Elisabeth Rappe
Blu-ray Review: Monsters, Inc.
10 November 2009 1:39 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
This was originally supposed to be released earlier this year, but it's finally getting its day on Blu-ray this month, hitting shelves the same day as Up, which means dedicated Pixar fans are going to need to open their wallets a little wider, but the pay-off is certainly worth it. Monsters, Inc. was a film I had only seen once until earlier this year when I put together my list ranking the first ten Pixar films. Monsters, Inc. came in at #8, but after watching it two more times in an effort to review this Blu-ray, it's grown on me much more and there would definitely be some upward movement on my list.
To talk too long on the film would seem a bit meaningless since everyone has pretty much seen it at this point and you are more interested in learning what this new Blu-ray release offers that may or »
- Brad Brevet
Arnold Schwarzenegger And Screen Legend Kirk Douglas In Today's Daily TwitPic
9 November 2009 6:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Arnold Schwarzenegger is always going to be a movie star to me, even though the duty of governing California has kept him away from Hollywood in recent years. Here's hoping that his cameo appearance in "The Expendables" is a sign that he wants to get back to acting after he finished with politics.
He's still hooked in enough that he'll take a trip to present an award. Kirk Douglas, one of the original tough guy actors, was recently given the British Film Academy's Britannia Award, and Schwarzenegger was the one to present it to him. Douglas has been quiet in recent years, but he's also 92 years old. With classics like "Spartacus," Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" and "Gunfight at the Ok Corral" under his belt, the man has earned himself a rest, the better to observe the success of his son, Michael, and to collect lifetime achievement awards, like »
- Adam Rosenberg
“Ticket Stubs” Review: ‘Antichrist’ - Lars Von Trier’s controversial award winner
6 November 2009 3:15 PM, PST | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »
“Ticket Stubs” review of ‘Antichrist‘ by Austin Lugar
for MovieSet.com
In all regards, you should not watch ‘Antichrist‘. My position as a reviewer is to guide you into seeing or not seeing a film by providing my own opinions. Throughout this review, I shall remark a lot of the achievements of this film, but I warn you this is not a recommendation.
So why shouldn’t you see a film that I will label as technically good? When you look as Lars Von Trier’s canon, there are a variety of films designed to make you feel uneasy. His greatest films in my mind (Dogville, Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves) are films that I have no interest in experiencing for a second time. Von Trier has the uncanny ability to delve in to the dark parts of the human psyche and create remarkable works of art from it. »
- Austin Lugar
Really long first trailer for The Killer Inside Me
6 November 2009 1:00 PM, PST | 24framespersecond.net | See recent 24FramesPerSecond news »
Straight out of the American Film Market comes this almost 6 minute long trailer for Michael Winterbottom's upcoming The Killer Inside Me. The cast on this film is pretty hefty with Casey Affleck leading as the sheriff of a small town who slowly goes from mild-mannered lawman to murdering psychotic trying to cover his own tracks. Kate Hudson, Simon Baker, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty and Bill Pullman also star. The film is an adaptation of the classic book by Jim Thompson, who also wrote the book that Stanley Kubrick's The Killing was based on »
Really long first trailer for The Killer Inside Me
6 November 2009 1:00 PM, PST | 24framespersecond.net | See recent 24FramesPerSecond news »
Straight out of the American Film Market comes this almost 6 minute long trailer for Michael Winterbottom's upcoming The Killer Inside Me. The cast on this film is pretty hefty with Casey Affleck leading as the sheriff of a small town who slowly goes from mild-mannered lawman to murdering psychotic trying to cover his own tracks. Kate Hudson, Simon Baker, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty and Bill Pullman also star. The film is an adaptation of the classic book by Jim Thompson, who also wrote the book that Stanley Kubrick's The Killing was based on »
The Origins Of Hal 9000's Singing Revealed
6 November 2009 8:19 AM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Though it's not a horror movie, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey still contains some of the scariest stuff I have seen in a film. No, I'm not talking about the giant baby, but rather Hal 9000, the on-board computer system of Spaceship Discovery. Because the film was made in 1968, people didn't know that they were supposed to be afraid of computers yet (Terminator was still a few years away), but Hal taught them all a lesson they would not forget. Backed by the unwavering voice of Douglas Rain and represented by a simple red dot, Anthony Hopkins only wishes he could reach that level of terror. One of the most iconic scenes in the film, however, is when Dave Bowman has reached the Cpu and slowly begins to remove Hal's programming (watch it here). As he reaches the end, Hal resorts back to his earliest data: the song 'Daisy Bell. »
Why Hal 9000 Sings "Daisy Bell" in 2001: A Space Odyssey
6 November 2009 6:38 AM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Ok, if you haven't seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, get to the nearest video store now. And don't listen to your friends who tell you it's boring. Try to imagine seeing it in 1968 in the midst of the "Space Race," and try to imagine you've never seen Star Wars, whose visual effects were a direct result of those in Stanley Kubrick's movie.
With that bit of evangelism out of the way, let's talk Hal. Yes Hal, the spaceship computer system whose calm, icy voice (well, actually it was Douglas Rain's voice) made him one of the most terrifying villains in movie history. Rather than include a spoiler, we'll simply say that at a crucial moment, Hal starts singing the 19th-century ditty "Daisy Bell."
For those who've seen the movie: Ever wondered why Kubrick and author Arthur C. Clarke decided on "Daisy Bell" as the tune of choice? Well, »
- Rich Z Zwelling
Firth, Blunt & De Niro Honoured At Britannia Awards In Los Angeles
6 November 2009 12:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Colin Firth, Emily Blunt, Kirk Douglas and Robert De Niro were among the honourees at the 2009 BAFTA/La Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday night.
Firth claimed the night's Humanitarian Award, Blunt was named British Artist of the Year and Douglas took home the Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment.
De Niro picked up the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film.
Filmmaker Danny Boyle was honoured with the John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence.
The event, held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, was hosted by comedian and author Stephen Fry. »
25 Most Disturbing Movies List, #10: Clockwork Orange
5 November 2009 2:25 PM, PST | GreenCine | See recent GreenCine news »
Continuing Simon Augustine's countdown of the Most Disturbing Movies (Read Part 1 for the previous 13). [<< #11]
10. A Clockwork Orange (1971) 10/7
A film of such high artistic merit that I hesitate to place it here, but Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Anthony Burgess's sci-fi novel must grace any list with "disturbing" in the title. Mainstream enough to have been seen by countless neophytes, but twisted enough to be treasured by the more perverse among us, A Clockwork Orange (even the title is unsettling in its somewhat arbitrary and colorful surrealism) evokes a not very distant dystopia that is both absolutely convincing and yet disorienting in its restrained mix of futurism and contemporary realism: Kubrick infuses the early 70s overt, garish style with "things to come" details to create an effect both familiar and strange. »
- underdog
Promo Trailer for Winterbottom's 'The Killer Inside Me'
5 November 2009 1:18 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Thanks to The Playlist we have been made aware of a promotional trailer for Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me based on the Jim Thompson novel and starring Casey Affleck, Simon Baker, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Elias Koteas, Bill Pullman and Ned Beatty.
Thompson, as many of you may already know co-wrote Stanley Kubrick's killer heist flick The Killing, which was part of my list of top ten heist films back in early 2008. This also isn't the first time "The Killer Inside Me" has been adapted for a feature film as Burt Kennedy directed a version in 1976 starring Stacy Keach and Susan Tyrrell.
The story centers on a West Texas sheriff (Affleck) and his downward spiral from a boring small-town cop into a ruthless, sociopathic murderer. The cast also includes Jessica Alba as a prostitute and Kate Hudson as the sheriff's schoolteacher girlfriend. Baker plays a county attorney »
- Brad Brevet
Matthew Modine: The Hollywood Interview
2 November 2009 10:20 AM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Matthew Modine: Better Angels
By
Matthew Modine has been something of an iconoclast most of his working life. After being groomed for ‘80s teen idol status in early films such as Private School and Vision Quest, Modine was also one of the first actors of his generation, along with Sean Penn, to take on riskier projects, such as Robert Altman's Streamers, Alan Parker’s Birdy, Gillian Armstrong’s Mrs. Soffel, and Alan J. Pakula’s Orphans. It was his lead role as the cynical Marine Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam epic Full Metal Jacket that put Modine into the pantheon of young actors who were more than just pretty faces and knowing winks at the camera. This, after all, was the young man who turned down the lead in Top Gun, arguably the prototypical ‘80s blockbuster, due to its cold war politics. From the beginning, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Bronson Movie Review
2 November 2009 4:58 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
The London penal system has no idea what to do with Michael Peterson, famously on record as its most violent criminal. If the film Bronson can be believed, their solution was to beat him intensely and often. Strangely, that’s also director Nicolas Winding Refn’s answer to his subject. Bronson, so named because Peterson adopts the full name of action star Charlie, is a pseudo-biography about a real life man who entered prison as a low-level bank robber and is still there today, infamous for taking hostages and inciting riots that would make Ufc fighters cower. Refn’s film isn’t the whole truth; it might not even be half the truth, but it creates a violently swirling vortex around its central figure, played to rage-filled precision by Tom Hardy.
“All my life I’ve wanted to be famous” says Bronson in the film’s opening which has Hardy »
- Nathan Bartlebaugh
The Shining: Scariest Hallowe'en Book -- and Movie! -- Ever
31 October 2009 12:10 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
I read The Shining before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12. It's an incredible book, one which taught me to fear hotel room bathtubs, what a topiary was, why you can't forget about the boiler, and the phrase "officious little prick" (I've met plenty of them since then). It's also one of the scariest movies I have ever seen — despite the fact that I knew the book backwards and forward and knew exactly what was coming. Yeah, right — Stanley Kubrick had me right where he wanted me. But back to the book, in honor of my younger self reading it breathlessly at 2 a.m. with a flashlight. It was scary — oy, so scary! — but that was just part of it. The book was about so much: The uneasy relationship between Jack and... »
- Rachel Sklar
Happy Halloween! See the Top 13 Scary Flicks of All Time! Boo!
30 October 2009 8:16 PM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Halloween season is upon us and one of the best ways to celebrate is by watching horror movies. You don.t need any costumes or put on make up to enjoy the season. All you need is your DVD player. Here.s my list of the Top 13 Best Scary Flicks of all time. Let.s count them down, one scare at a time.
1. .Psycho. . Alfred Hitchcock created the mother of all slasher flicks. Based on the novel by Robert Bloch, the script by Joseph Stefano is part drama, part thriller that featured an unlikely heroine in Janet Leigh. Anthony Perkins. performance as Norman Bates became the pop culture touchstone of evil reincarnate. Add Bernard Hermann.s memorable score and you get the scariest film of all time. To this day, I can.t forget the images in .Psycho. every time I take a shower.
2. .The Exorcist. . This 1973 shocker made a star out of Linda Blair. »
- Manny
Halloween List-Making Invades The MTV Newsroom
30 October 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
For this week's final Halloween movies list, I decided to turn hit up the real superstars: my co-workers here in the MTV Newsroom who keep this great ship moving every damn day. After the jump you'll find recommendations and reminiscences from around the office. If you're game for some heavy reading, make sure to check out the last write-up, detailing Joel Hanek's pick: "Ernest Scared Stupid." Oh yes, he went there.
As for myself (MTV Movies Blog editor Adam Rosenberg), it's a toss-up. To this day I still have occasional nightmares relating to "Candyman," the Bernard Rose-directed, Virginia Madsen-starring horror flick based on a tale by novelist Clive Barker. There's something uniquely terrifying about the Candyman's ability to attack at any time, day or night. When horror can touch you even in the relative safety of sunlight, that's something to fear.
The other one that still gets me, »
- MTV Movies Team
The Shining Tops Frightening Film List
28 October 2009 5:16 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
The Shining has been named the most terrifying film of all time in a new poll.
The 1980 Stanley Kubrick classic, starring Jack Nicholson as a deranged writer, topped the list of the world's scariest movies ahead of Rosemary's Baby, directed by Roman Polanski.
The original Wicker Man from 1973 came in third in the Totalscifionline.com poll, which was dominated by horror classics.
The top ten also included Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller Psycho, John Carpenter’s slasher Halloween, and Night of the Living Dead from 1968. »
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