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Bill Murray Brings Joy To The World In 'Scrooged' For Today's Sick Day Stash
2 December 2009 12:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Call them "cult classics." "Guilty pleasures." "Comfort movies." We all have a mental rolodex of flicks that may not be terribly popular but, for one reason or another, they resonate in a very special way. Maybe you saw it at the right moment. Maybe you just see gold where everyone else sees feces. Whatever the case, these are the special favorites that you keep stashed away for sick days. Here are some of ours.
My "Rosenberg" last name speaks to my Jewish heritage, but that's never stopped "Scrooged" from being one of my favorite holiday movies. I can't remember the first time I saw this one. I might've been in a theater, but it could just as easily have been on cable. Doesn't matter. It's a brilliant send-up of Charles Dickens' classic story of Ebenezer Scrooge and his ghostly pursuers, "A Christmas Carol." And it stars Bill Murray. So it's pretty much perfect. »
- Adam Rosenberg
Michael Madsen is our nominee for Hardest-Working Man in Show Business
11 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Michael Madsen calls movies "pictures" and makes a new one every couple weeks. I happened to check his IMDb page recently, and I noticed something incredible: the man acted in 25 movies released this year. 25*! Sure, they all have dubious titles like You Might As Well Live, Lost in the Woods, and Road of No Return. Sure, Madsen mostly plays characters with names like "The Reverend," "The Associate," and "Clinton Manitoba." But the sheer quantity of Madsen-imprinted cinema in 2009 deserves a special kind of acclaim. Madsen is philosophical about his workaholic output. "I'm only good when I'm busy. When I've got nothing to do, »
- Darren Franich
The Stepfather (1987)
22 October 2009 8:17 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Stepfather (1987) Directed by Joseph Reuben Despite collecting positive reviews, director Joseph Ruben's The Stepfather was a box office flop, lost among the flood of slasher films saturating the market at the time. Still, the film managed to garner a small cult following, which has increased since its home video release. The Stepfather works for one reason: it's an exercise in despair framed as the portrait of a tragic man. Meet Jerry Blake, brilliantly portrayed by Lost's Terry O'Quinn. Jerry's the new guy in town, and has all the makings of a perfect friend, perfect neighbor, perfect boyfriend and even a perfect husband. But looks can be deceiving, as Jerry is really a homicidal maniac. He moves from town to town, marrying into a family and then wiping it out when it inevitably fails to live up to his Leave it to Beaver ideal. O'Quinn is well cast »
- Ricky
Mm@M: A Mama's Boy and a Man's Man
12 September 2009 2:41 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Mad Men at the Movies: Talking bout movies and movie stars referenced in the '60s set series. Previously: Gidget, The Wizard of Oz, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Natalie Wood and Joan Crawford in The Best of Everything.
1.8 "The Hobo Code"
Inside ad agency Sterling Cooper, three operators connect calls and listen in. One of them Lois, played by Crista Flanagan (right) has developed a crush on Salvatore Romano (Bryan Batt), the firm's closeted art director.
Lois: "Ciao Ciao". [smitten] My stars!
Operator #1: Two weeks in, she's already a goner.
Lois: He talks to his mother a lot.
Operator #2: Because he's not married.
Lois: He's in the art department? Well, what does he look like?
#1: Did you see that movie Marty with Ernest Borgnine? He lived with his mother.
#2: Stop teasing her. Marty, released in 1955, won Borgnine the Oscar for best actor but in this context it's a derogatory remark, »
- NATHANIEL R
'Beyond A Reasonable Doubt': Soft-Boiled, By Kurt Loder
11 September 2009 7:33 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
An undercooked crime flick whose real mystery is why it was made.
Jesse Matcalfe and Joel Moore in "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt"
Photo: Foresight Unlimited
The only thing that distinguishes "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" from the cheesiest of TV cop-and-courtroom shows is the fact that you're expected to pay money to see it. It takes a brave man to dare to attempt a remake of even a lesser film noir by the great Fritz Lang, and director Peter Hyams is obviously that man. He's just as obviously not the right man.
Hyams is candid about wanting to appeal to a young demographic here, and this is the source of the movie's problems. The characters in the old noir films of the '40s and '50s had mileage on them — they had a past; they'd lived, often disreputably. Casting Jesse Metcalfe, of "Desperate Housewives," in the lead role of a »
Where My Heart Lies: My Favorite Actors. And Yours?
29 August 2009 10:05 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
instead of a tues top 10, a 25.
I did this once for the actresses but I'm always giving the ladies their due. So, here's to the silver screen men that have enriched my movie-life. I admit up front that I haven't investigated Classic Hollywood actors to the extent I've investigated their leading ladies, so this list is highly subject to change the more old movies I see in my life.
Nathaniel's 25 all time favorite leading men
In no particular order and extremely subject to change
Gene Kelly | Tony Leung Chiu-Wai |
Montgomery Clift | Jeff Bridges | Paul Newman
Jude Law | James Dean | William Holden | Gene Hackman | Rock Hudson
Jack Lemmon | Gael García Bernal | Ewan McGregor | James Stewart | Gregory Peck
Steve Martin | Marlon Brando | Jack Nicholson | Burt Lancaster | Richard Burton
Brad Pitt | Johnny Depp | Cary Grant | Warren Beatty | William Hurt
Because sometimes you just want to name names
The list is not comprehensive, not set in stone, »
- NATHANIEL R
The gathering Dark Age
10 August 2009 6:28 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
Apparently unconnected items appeared within two days of each other in the Los Angeles Times, and together confirmed my fear that American movie-going is entering into a Dark Age. The first was in a blog by Patrick Goldstein, who said: "Film critics are in the same boat as evening news anchors -- their core audience is people 50 and over, and getting older by the day. You could hire Jessica Alba to read the evening news -- or review 'G.I. Joe' for that matter -- and younger audiences still wouldn't care." The other was in a report by John Horn that despite "The Hurt Locker's" impressive box office success, "younger moviegoers are not flocking to the film, which could limit its ticket sales."
The obvious implication is, younger moviegoers don't care about reviews and have missed the news that "The Hurt Locker" is the best American film of the summer. »
- Roger Ebert
‘Ryan’s Daughter’ sequel sets Irish gossip abuzz! (IrishCentral)
10 August 2009 9:44 AM, PDT | IrishCentral | See recent IrishCentral news »
The 1970 Irish film “Ryan’s Daughter” was carpeted by critics and bombed at the box office but it put Dingle in County Kerry on the map. Now, English actress Sarah Miles - who played Rosy Ryan in the movie - is penning a sequel and Dingle locals are wondering what's next! Local historian Micheál de Mordha says Dingle was an off-the-map, quiet rural village, before legendary British director David Lean brought “Ryan’s Daughter” and its huge cast and crew to town. Famous faces such as Hollywood great Robert Mitchum, who played Rosy Ryan’s husband, schoolmaster Charles Shaughnessy, failed to impress the locals. Case in point: one day, during a break from filming, Mitchum took his Porsche out for a spin on Kerry’s country roads when he came across a traffic jam - a farmer walking his cattle in the road. The story goes that the actor impatiently »
'Ryan's Daughter' sequel in the works (IrishCentral)
4 August 2009 5:54 AM, PDT | IrishCentral | See recent IrishCentral news »
Many consider the original to be perfect, but “Ryan’s Daughter” star Sarah Miles has set out to pen a sequel to the classic Irish film. Miles’ agent announced that the English actress, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role as the unforgettable Rosy Ryan in the award-winning film, is currently conducting research in Ireland for the sequel. “She is writing a script and there is a producer for a film, but it's very early days,” her agent said. Miles’ husband, Robert Bolt, who penned “Doctor Zhivago” and “A Man for All Seasons,” wrote the original script, while David Lean, the famous director of “Lawrence of Arabia” and “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” directed. “Ryan’s Daughter” bombed in box offices when it was released in 1970, but has since become a beloved, classic Irish film, and is considered to be one of Lean’s best works. The »
King, you're one of the best!
6 June 2009 5:54 AM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
I met John McHugh in the autumn of 1966, when I was a cub reporter on the Sun-Times and he was a rewrite man, two years my senior, on the Chicago Daily News. We are still best friends. He worked the overnight shift, and among his duties was taking calls from readers. After midnight, they wanted to settle bets. "And what do you say?" McHugh would ask. He would listen, and then reply, "You're 100% correct. Put the other guy on." Pause. "And what do you say?" Pause. "You're 100% correct." If he was asked for his name, he said, "John T. Greatest, spelled with three Ts."
One night in autumn 1969 we found ourselves in the Old Town Gate, three blocks from our customary posts at O'Rourke's Pub. "I had my first job in Chicago here," he reminisced. "I invented the Roquefort Burger. Somebody ordered a cheeseburger and I, being a dumb Mick, »
- Roger Ebert
My DVD Shelf: Criterion's 'The Friends Of Eddie Coyle'
3 June 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Selling out is never as easy as you're led to believe. Seriously. If you decided right now, as you're sitting there reading this review on this website, that you were going to sell out all of your ideals and totally roll over on everything that's important to you and you were willing to trade it all in for easy cash and decadence... who the hell would you offer to sell out to? Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum in another in a long line of amazing, nuanced, seemingly effortless performances) is a mid-level scumbag. He's not a killer. He's not a bad guy. ... »
DVD Round Up, May 27, 2009: ‘Eden Log,’ ‘El Dorado,’ ‘Yonkers Joe’
27 May 2009 11:57 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Welcome back to the Round-Up, a safety net to catch the DVD titles that fell off the mainstream tightrope. The titles this week have virtually nothing in common other than coming in two waves from two studios - a pair of classics from Paramount’s Centennial Collection and a trio of indie films from the great Magnolia Pictures.
All five titles were released on May 19th, 2009.
“Centennial Collection #8: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”
Photo credit: Paramount Synopsis: “”This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Behind the camera? John Ford, a director whose name is synonymous with “Westerns.” Gathered in front of it? An ideal cast – James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles and Lee Marvin. Now presented on two discs, with all-new special features, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance rides into town as classic entry in the Paramount Centennial Collection. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
El Dorado (Centennial Collection) - DVD Review
27 May 2009 9:59 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Director Howard Hawks liked his own Rio Bravo so much that his final two projects would bear a striking resemblance to it. El Dorado would be his second to last film and would feature both John Wayne and Robert Mitchum in the cast. Gunslinger Cole Thornton (John Wayne) has been hired by rancher Bart Jason (Ed Asner) who is in a land war with the MacDonald family. Cole is on his way to Jason.s ranch when he stops in to see old friend Sheriff J.P. Harrah (Robert Mitchum) in El Dorado. Harrah sets him straight on some things that Jason left out of the situation and Cole decides not the take the job. Kevin MacDonald (R.G. Armstrong) »
- Jeff Swindoll
Monday Night Poll: What Did You Watch?
25 May 2009 7:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
We're four weeks into 2009's summer movie season. X-Men Origins: Wolverine got things off to a soggy start and was eclipsed by Star Trek as a popular favorite. Not many were impressed by Angels & Demons (though it did big business overseas), leading into this long weekend with Terminator Salvation and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian doing battle (and a little Dance Flick on the side).
So what are your general impressions so far? I was disappointed by Wolverine and loved Star Trek. My ambitious weekend viewing plans began with a viewing of Terminator Salvation, which satisfied the 12-year-old boy in me, but left the adult me sorely hungry for more substantial entertainment. So I watched two DVDs that came out last Tuesday. Fritz Lang's Man Hunt (1941) stars Walter Pidgeon as a British big game hunter whose "sporting stalk" of Hitler ends up with the hunter becoming the hunted. »
- Peter Martin
[DVD Review] El Dorado: The Centennial Collection
21 May 2009 3:13 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
I'm not the biggest fan of Westerns; in fact the last Western I really, truly loved was The Proposition, which was penned by Nick Cave - yes, that Nick Cave - and it was much more highly stylized than the "classic" Westerns we are familiar with. With El Dorado, Howard Hawks carries out a film that is more along the lines of a traditional Western, and makes it appealing even to a lukewarm Western fan like myself.
El Dorado stars cinematic legends John Wayne and Robert Mitchum, with Wayne exuding cool as effortlessly and nonchalantly as Michael Pitt does creepiness. The two play old friends Cole and J.P, the former being a well-known gunslinger and the latter being the sheriff of the eponymous town. The film begins with Cole stopping by El Dorado for a brief reunion before heading to a ranch to help a man named Bart Jason »
- Inna Mkrtycheva
DVD Review: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Criterion Collection)
21 May 2009 2:15 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I obviously need to acquaint myself more with director Peter Yates, which I quickly learned as he says in his commentary The Friends of Eddie Coyle is one of his three favorite films he directed. The other two are The Dresser (1983) and Breaking Away (1979), both of which I have never seen. The only other Yates feature I have seen is the celebrated 1968 Steve McQueen starrer Bullitt, and I would say Eddie Coyle is far more interesting than that feature, but I have a feeling some may disagree entirely considering Bullitt is most well known for its action, while Coyle is a good watch despite its action sequences. Starring Robert Mitchum in the best performance I have ever seen him in, Eddie Coyle is based on the novel by George V. Higgins and made its theatrical debut over 30 years before modern audiences were introduced to the Boston crime scene depicted in »
- Brad Brevet
DVD: Review: The Friends Of Eddie Coyle
19 May 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Thirty years before The Departed and Gone Baby Gone, director Peter Yates and writer-producer Paul Monash helped codify the look and feel of a Boston crime movie with their adaptation of George V. Higgins’ novel The Friends Of Eddie Coyle. The film stars Robert Mitchum as an aging, compromised fetch-and-carry man for the mob, but the real main character of the film is Boston itself, which Yates explores from the suburbs to the crumbling industrial sectors. In its eye-catching mix of sunshine and steely gray—and old-world elegance and urban rot—The Friends Of Eddie Coyle seems to offer its ... »
DVD’s I Bought This Week: May 19th
19 May 2009 9:37 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves taking pictures of people in uncompromising positions and situations. These two joys come together in the form of blackmail payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVD's. So join us each week as Rob takes a look at new DVD releases and gives his highly unqualified opinion as to which titles are worth BUYing, which are better off as RENTals, and which should be AVOIDed at all costs. Click on any of the titles below to magically head over to Amazon.com and pick up the DVD. El Dorado Pitch: For those of you who don't believe it's possible for a remake to (almost) equal the original. Why Buy? Yes, I know this isn't technically a remake of Rio Bravo, but it's pretty damn close. It's also a damn fine film in it's own right. This is one of two new additions to Paramount's Centennial »
- Rob Hunter
This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: May 19, 2009
19 May 2009 3:32 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
DVD Links: DVD News | Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed Before we get started there are a couple of things to point out. First off, Universal is selling quite a few of its DVD catalog titles for cheap as part of a promotion and including Movie Cash for one ticket to see Land of the Lost. One title I noticed on sale for only $9.99 was the 30th Anniversary Edition of Jaws, which you can buy directly right here, or you can search all of the titles by clicking here. Harry Potter Gift Set, The Fountain, Unforgiven, The Wild Bunch, The Searchers, Rio Bravo, Purple Rain, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, GoodFellas, The Fugitive, Enter the Dragon, Dog Day Afternoon, The Dirty Dozen, The Cowboys, Constantine, Bullitt, Blood Diamond, Blazing Saddles, Battle for the Bulge, The Last Samurai, Syriana, The Aviator, Million Dollar Baby and Lethal Weapon
Photo: Brad Brevet Next, »
- Brad Brevet
Classic Status
19 May 2009 2:39 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
The critical work on the American New Wave, it seems, has only just begun -- Robert Altman still gets a free skate (who thinks "M*A*S*H" is worthwhile anymore?), Hal Ashby has been sanctified, but Alan J. Pakula has not, and Robert Aldrich's contributions to the decade are forgotten, while the proper canonization of the films of Monte Hellman and Barbara Loden's "Wanda" is paperwork still waiting to be filed, and the few fascinating films Peter Fonda directed are still cinema non grata. The era's propensity for desperate road travel, dusty realism and pitiless narrative makes it the match for the meaning of film noir, but as yet it seems more critical and academic thought has been devoted, generally, to "Blade Runner" and "E.T.", to the least of Hitchcock's films and to the oeuvre of David Fincher. There's still so much that's left out of the discussion -- for example, »
- Michael Atkinson
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