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2009 | 2008
13 articles from 2009
Vegas will have a Silent Night, Zombie Night
2 December 2009 8:43 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Sin City is suddenly becoming a genre town. The Blacklist Film Festival brought their indie flavor to Las Vegas; Live Evil hit the Sci-Fi Center; and the Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors took over The Palms.
Now William Powell’s comic shop and grindhouse theater hosts the Las Vegas premiere of Sean Cain’s Silent Night, Zombie Night (which we last covered here). The event, celebrating independent cinema, Christmas and zombies all in one night, takes place December 5 at 8 p.m. and costs $5.
Cain, who Fangoria calls a “Indie Horror Specialist,” will be on hand for a Q&A and autograph signing session after the film, as will producer Wes Laurie, and co-stars Chris Gabriel (”One Long Day,” “Devotion,” “S4″), Chad Clinton Freeman ("Killer Biker Chicks"), Luke Y. Thompson (”Wicked Lake,” “Mad Cowgirl”) and Sean Decker ("Alluvial"). Dread Central's Heather Wixson, aka The Horror Chick, will be hosting the event.
The »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
Watch: My Dear Enemy at MoMA
18 November 2009 10:00 PM, PST | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
An older version of this piece originally ran as a Q and A during the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. More often than not, the romantic comedy is an utter wasteland of a film genre, giving the world two one-dimensional characters played by very pretty actors with some amount of platable quirks - She likes getting married! He likes drinking beer! - and pushes them together at the end. The results, more often than not, are insulting to the average moviegoer. There's a reason that Woody Allen's masterpiece Annie Hall is, across the board, the only romantic comedy cited as a favorite or influence in the past thirty years. (And not enough people give the delightful, sex-charged interplay of your average 1930s screwball comedy credit these days; say, something by Preston Sturges or Myrna Loy and William Powell in The Thin Man.) That said, there's something special in the South Korean »
Stana Katic: The Hollywood Interview
4 November 2009 12:57 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Actress Stana Katic looking tailored as Detective Kate Beckett in Castle.
Storms The Walls Of Castle
By
Actress Stana Katic is on a roll. After scoring supporting roles in two of last year’s highest-profile films, Quantum of Solace and The Spirit, the statuesque Canadian stunner landed the female lead in ABC’s new police drama/romantic comedy Castle, playing Detective Kate Beckett, a tough-as-nails NYPD officer who finds herself with the regrettable assignment of allowing cocky, best-selling crime novelist Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) to shadow her for research on his next book. Not only does she find that Castle’s creative instincts for the criminal mind help her solve some of the city’s most challenging murders, she finds her tough exterior melting under Castle’s considerable charms. The show airs Monday nights on ABC.
Stana Katic sat down with us at a local »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
A Wistful Champagne Toast to William Powell
15 July 2009 1:51 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
One of the finest actors and leading men from Hollywood's Golden Age, William Powell was born towards the end of this month way back in 1892. It's unlikely most people under 30 would even recognize his name, which is sad, but also easily remedied. Whatever your age, there's good reason to re-acquaint yourself with him, since no other American performer came even close to matching his unique brand of effortless, sophisticated charm. Surveying the field of male stars today offers not one successor to Powell's authentically debonair yet wholly likeable swell. It's a sad statement indeed if his appeal has simply gone out of style in what seems a blunter, coarser world. But it may well be so. Ironically, when he began in the silent era of film, Powell's swarthy looks often found him cast as the villain. But in 1929, with... »
- John Farr
CTU Exclusive: Check Out Channing Tatum in the August 2009 Issue of Vanity Fair
2 July 2009 7:43 PM, PDT | Channing Tatum Unwrapped | See recent Channing Tatum Unwrapped news »
I would say this CTU Exclusive is hot off the presses, but I don't think the August 2009 issue of Vanity Fair has even been printed yet, so today's exclusive is just plain Hot!!!
Channing Tatum and his 'Dear John' co-star Amanda Seyfried are featured in Vanity Fair's “Ain’t We Got Style?” article in their upcoming issue that features Heath Ledger on the cover, and you get to see it all here first!
“Ain’t We Got Style?” is a portfolio in the August issue where photographers Michael Roberts, Norman Jean Roy, Mark Seliger, and Art Streiber teamed up with Chan, Amanda, Josh Duhamel, Mila Kunis, Emile Hirsch, and a total of 31 hot, young rising stars to re-enact classic Depression-era films.
In the exclusive below, you can check out the part of the article where Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried pose for photographer Norman Jean Roy as William Powell and »
- Blog Expert
Movie Review: Public Enemies (2009)
1 July 2009 1:37 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Marion Cotillard and Johnny Depp in Public Enemies
Photo: Universal Pictures It's no secret how the life of John Dillinger came to an end; so when Michael Mann begins his telling of the Dillinger story in 1933 only allowing for just over a year's worth of story to be told he isn't giving himself a lot of time. However, in a matter of only a few scenes Mann establishes his lead as a calculated and loyal criminal capable of breaking his friends out of jail, but unwilling to lose one along the way -- that is unless you are the man upon which Dillinger places blame. Here is our hero, or anti-hero as it is, and Johnny Depp plays him with an accomplished steely gaze. It's a low-key performance surrounded by menace, desire and love, but at the same time this film won't be for everyone as its slow pace and »
- Brad Brevet
Interview: 'Warehouse 13'
17 June 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
In July, Sci Fi Channel, which by then will be called by its new moniker, Syfy, debuts a new series, Warehouse 13. Starring Joanne Kelly (Vanished, Jeremiah), Eddie McClintock (Bones, Desperate Housewives), and Saul Rubinek (Frasier, Leverage), the paranormal themed show is set in South Dakota, where the U.S. government maintains a warehouse that houses “strange artifacts, mysterious relics, fantastical objects and supernatural souvenirs”.
Kelly and McClintock are two Secret Service agents who, after saving the life of a president, are transferred to the South Dakota facility, where they meet the caretaker, Artie Nielsen, played by Rubinek.
McClintock’s Pete Lattimer sees the assignment as a reward, but Kelly’s Myka Bering can’t help but feel like she’s being punished. Regardless, their new responsibility is to chase down new objects that belong in the warehouse.
Warehouse 13 is lensed largely on location in and around Toronto. The »
Festival of Preservation 2009: Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, William Powell, Fay Wray, William Desmond Taylor
4 April 2009 2:08 PM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Tonight at 7:30 pm at UCLA’s Festival of Preservation you’ll be able to catch a screening of Fritz Lang’s unfairly neglected Secret Beyond the Door (above), a 1947 noirish psychological melodrama starring Joan Bennett as woman married to Michael Redgrave, whom she suspects is out to kill her (possibly for her money). Unlike Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion (1941) and George Cukor’s similarly themed Gaslight (1944), Secret Beyond the Door boasts a highly stylized Gothic feel that makes the viewer feel just as off-kilter as both the heroine and the hero. Stanley Cortez, who also shot Orson Welles‘ The Magnificent Ambersons, was the cinematographer. Tomorrow, Sunday, April 5, at 7pm, the Festival of Preservation will feature two rarities from the 1910s: Lena Rivers, a 1914 drama whose director is unknown, and the 1916 melodrama He Fell in Love with His Wife, directed by William Desmond Taylor. He Fell in Love with His Wife »
- Andre Soares
The best train set a boy could ever want
27 March 2009 12:43 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
It's a good thing Ebertfest is no longer called the Overlooked Film Festival. One of my choices this year, "Frozen River," was in danger of being overlooked when I first invited it, but then it realized the dream of every indie film, found an audience and won two Oscar nominations. Yet even after the Oscar nods, it has grossed only about $2.5 million and has been unseen in theaters by most of the nation.
Those numbers underline the crisis in independent, foreign or documentary films--art films. More than ever, the monolithic U.S. distribution system freezes out films lacking big stars, big ad budgets, ready-made teenage audiences, or exploitable hooks. When an unconventional film like "Slumdog Millionaire" breaks out, it's the exception that proves the rule. While it was splendid, it was not as original or really as moving as the American indie "Chop Shop," made a year earlier. The difference is, »
- Roger Ebert
Sam Fell Becomes a 'Demonkeeper'
21 March 2009 9:02 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
We've got wizards and other children of fantasy. We've got teen girls falling for vampires. And soon, we'll have a young tyke who's a demonkeeper. All the way back in 2006, Fox 2000 bought the rights to an upcoming kid's book called Demonkeeper by Royce Scott Buckingham. Finally, the project is moving somewhere, and Variety reports that Sam Fell will direct the script that Laeta Kalogridis is currently adapting. With these two, that means The Tale of Despereaux and Flushed Away meets Shutter Island. Not too shabby.
The book follows a young kid named Nat who becomes a demonkeeper when he inherits an old, magical house filled with demons. When Nat goes off for a date one night, kids break in and end up unleashing a vicious demon -- the Beast, Killer of Lost Children. He then must work with a mousy library assistant and a tough street kid to stop the »
- Monika Bartyzel
Why Do So Many Romantic Comedies Suck?
11 March 2009 12:16 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
A reader sent in a link to E's interview with Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (featured to the right) and the interviewer asks the two stars of the upcoming 500 Days of Summer, "Why do you think so many romantic comedies suck?" A valid question and Deschanel beats around the bush to ultimately come to the conclusion that once you tell the same story 100 different times just with different people it kind of gets old. Gordon-Levitt believes the films seem to fall into the trap of pandering to their audience rather than say something true, which sounds to me like a roundabout way of saying filmmakers are treating the audiences as idiots when they aren't. I haven't seen 500 Days of Summer yet, but I have heard good things, but this question of why have romantic comedies gone so far downhill in the recent years is something I have talked about with »
- Brad Brevet
Invitation Only Reading Of My Man Godfrey Presented 3/6
4 March 2009 11:16 AM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
East of Doheny has announced that it will present an invitation-only reading of the new screwball musical comedy My Man Godfrey on Friday, March 6, 2009. The musical, based on the book by Eric Hatch and the Universal Pictures film starring Carole Lumbard and William Powell, features music and lyrics by Tony Award-winner Mark Hollmann (Urinetown, The Musical) and book by Tony Award-winner Rupert Holmes (Curtains, The Mystery by Edwin Drood). Matthew August (Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas) directs. »
"There's No Story In The Book!" - Six Films Adapted From Non-Narrative Nonfiction
5 February 2009 7:22 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
By Matt Singer
"He's Just Not That Into You" is a great title. Born from a "Sex in the City" episode, it's adorned a bestseller (by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo) and as a phrase has quickly wormed its way into the lexicon. Now it's got its own movie, too, opening this Friday and starring a slew of stars including Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson and Justin Long. What it does not have, at least in book form, is a story. "Hjntiy" is a dating advice book, a guide for women who can't get it through their heads that the dude they're interested in isn't reciprocating. It's long on helpful tips and sarcastic quips, but not necessarily on plot or character developments. That's an extra-heavy burden for the film's screenwriters, Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, who must fashion an entire story that can »
- Matt Singer
2009 | 2008
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