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Who do you read? Good Roger, or Bad Roger?
15 December 2009 9:18 PM, PST
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This message came to me from a reader named Peter Svensland. He and a friend have been debating about my qualities as a film critic, and they've involved a considerable critic, Dan Schneider, in their discussion. I will say that he has given the question a surprising amount of thought and attention over the years, and may well be correct in some aspects. What his analysis gives me is a renewed respect and curiosity about his own work.
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Dear Roger,
A friend and I would like to have your opinion. It's basically so that we can settle an argument (and small side bet) with a friend over what your opinion would be. My friend and I have carefully co-drafted this email to try to eliminate one or the other of our biases. I hope we succeeded!
I have read your columns and watched your tv shows for many years now
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- Roger Ebert
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Review: Law Abiding Citizen - Stupid and nasty
3 December 2009 3:08 AM, PST
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If you’ve read any of my other reviews, you might have picked up that I quite like action films. If you haven’t, allow me to explain; I quite like action films. That is to say Die Hard is my favourite film of all time, and Crank is the best action film of recent years bar none. That doesn’t mean that I don’t have extensive tastes, it just means that my tolerance for terrible Hollywood tripe is pretty high*. I will actively seek out films that look like they are going to be so-bad-they’re-good. Which is why the Jamie Foxx/Gerard Butler vehicle Law Abiding Citizen appealed to me. The trailers made it look really awful, and one reviewer described it as the ‘ultimate popcorn movie’, whatever that means. I was prepared for my thumbs to be thoroughly erect in appreciation.
Sadly Law Abiding Citizen falls at the first hurdle,
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- Joe West
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6 Actors That Should Probably Not Watch Their Own Movies
23 November 2009 7:16 PM, PST
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When I interviewed Bill Nighy last year, three things seemed to stand out about the man. One, he shakes hands with only the front part of three fingers like I have to imagine witches do. Two, he had a greater sense of humor about himself than anyone else I've ever met. Three, he was insanely, effortlessly cool.
He continues to exude both coolness and the self-effacing grace that makes him such a charismatic personality (aside from the willingness to star in serious work and movies about werewolves fighting vampires) by claiming that he can't stand the experience of watching movies that he's in. He, like most actors who have thrown out that claim in the past, seems completely put off by seeing himself on screen. Hardly an original claim, but one that rings true for anyone who has ever seen a bad photo of themselves (be they regional theater actors or international film stars).
So I decided
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- Dr. Cole Abaius
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Update on Unique Zombie Film Devil's Playground
10 November 2009
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Black & Blue Films is amassing a number of horror productions on its growing resume and we've got the details on one film that's getting ready to shoot in just a matter of weeks.
Presently, Black & Blue is in production on Dead Cert , a vampire film, however, they're lurching into zombie territory with Devil's Playground . But this isn't just any undead romp, it's got a touch of film noir to it.
The cast includes Danny Dyer ( Severance ), Janet Montgomery ( The Hills Run Red ), Jaime Murray ( Dexter ), MyAnna Buring ( The Descent ), Del Henney ( Straw Dogs ) and Dead Cert 's Craig Fairbbrass. Bart Ruspoli wrote the script.
Fairbrass plays a hardened killer named Cole who's searching for a cure to the illness causing a zombie apocalypse across the globe, and that
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Actor MacCorkindale Has Terminal Cancer
9 November 2009 4:16 AM, PST
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Doctors have given British actor Simon MacCorkindale just three years to live after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
The 57-year-old actor, best known for his roles in Jaws 3 and U.K. medical drama Casualty, was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2006 after complaining of stomach cramps while filming in Bristol, England.
He only disclosed the terrifying news to his wife of 25 years, Straw Dogs actress Susan George, and the pair kept the cancer a secret while MacCorkindale underwent surgery to remove a section of his bowel.
But just a year later, doctors admitted the disease had spread to his lungs and was incurable.
MacCorkindale has revealed medics have now given him just three years left to live.
He says, "It came as a complete bombshell. I thought I had beaten bowel cancer. The oncologist said I had lung cancer - me, who never smoked a cigarette my whole life and always tried to live a healthy lifestyle.
"We thought no one needed to know because, for the first year or so, we didn't think it was that serious. On a more practical level, showbusiness is a difficult place in which to work when people think you're sick. But the news has been slowly creeping out and at least this way we can tell the story in our own words."
And the actor is adamant he will continue fighting the disease. He adds, "I don't want people to think that I'm pale, losing my hair, losing weight and on the way out. I'm not. I'm as active as I've ever been. I really believe we will get through this."
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tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema
26 October 2009 1:46 AM, PDT
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If you're going to ask me (once again) who I considered to be one of the most controversial filmmakers today, then I would name Michael Haneke (right after Lars von Trier, of course). While von Trier's movies can be overwhelming at times, Haneke's can be very daunting and just like subjecting one self to torture. If von Trier loves to portray America without touching American soil, Haneke loves to teach his viewers a dose of their own medicine - patronizing American escapist movies is like committing a crime, there will be punishment sooner or later.
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But how to begin? Perhaps a look at The White Ribbon, his latest would be a good way to start. Instead of a chronological set of events, we start from the most recent.
More about The White Ribbon, Haneke's previous movie Funny Games and some insights into the Austrian filmmaker after the jump!
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema
26 October 2009 1:46 AM, PDT
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If you're going to ask me (once again) who I considered to be one of the most controversial filmmakers today, then I would name Michael Haneke (right after Lars von Trier, of course). While von Trier's movies can be overwhelming at times, Haneke's can be very daunting and just like subjecting one self to torture. If von Trier loves to portray America without touching American soil, Haneke loves to teach his viewers a dose of their own medicine - patronizing American escapist movies is like committing a crime, there will be punishment sooner or later.
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But how to begin? Perhaps a look at The White Ribbon, his latest would be a good way to start. Instead of a chronological set of events, we start from the most recent.
More about The White Ribbon, Haneke's previous movie Funny Games and some insights into the Austrian filmmaker after the jump!
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema
26 October 2009 1:46 AM, PDT
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If you're going to ask me (once again) who I considered to be one of the most controversial filmmakers today, then I would name Michael Haneke (right after Lars von Trier, of course). While von Trier's movies can be overwhelming at times, Haneke's can be very daunting and just like subjecting one self to torture. If von Trier loves to portray America without touching American soil, Haneke loves to teach his viewers a dose of their own medicine - patronizing American escapist movies is like committing a crime, there will be punishment sooner or later.
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But how to begin? Perhaps a look at The White Ribbon, his latest would be a good way to start. Instead of a chronological set of events, we start from the most recent.
More about The White Ribbon, Haneke's previous movie Funny Games and some insights into the Austrian filmmaker after the jump!
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema
26 October 2009 1:46 AM, PDT
| The Movie Fanatic
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If you're going to ask me (once again) who I considered to be one of the most controversial filmmakers today, then I would name Michael Haneke (right after Lars von Trier, of course). While von Trier's movies can be overwhelming at times, Haneke's can be very daunting and just like subjecting one self to torture. If von Trier loves to portray America without touching American soil, Haneke loves to teach his viewers a dose of their own medicine - patronizing American escapist movies is like committing a crime, there will be punishment sooner or later.
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But how to begin? Perhaps a look at The White Ribbon, his latest would be a good way to start. Instead of a chronological set of events, we start from the most recent.
More about The White Ribbon, Haneke's previous movie Funny Games and some insights into the Austrian filmmaker after the jump!
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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tMF Perspectives: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and his polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema
26 October 2009 1:46 AM, PDT
| The Movie Fanatic
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If you're going to ask me (once again) who I considered to be one of the most controversial filmmakers today, then I would name Michael Haneke (right after Lars von Trier, of course). While von Trier's movies can be overwhelming at times, Haneke's can be very daunting and just like subjecting one self to torture. If von Trier loves to portray America without touching American soil, Haneke loves to teach his viewers a dose of their own medicine - patronizing American escapist movies is like committing a crime, there will be punishment sooner or later.
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But how to begin? Perhaps a look at The White Ribbon, his latest would be a good way to start. Instead of a chronological set of events, we start from the most recent.
More about The White Ribbon, Haneke's previous movie Funny Games and some insights into the Austrian filmmaker after the jump!
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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Movie Art As Life
22 October 2009 3:53 AM, PDT
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On
our second date in my studio apartment, my wife shared her spaghetti dinner with
a decaying corpse who had just climbed out of his grave.
This
not-for-the-squeamish image was from the 1972 horror anthology Tales from the Crypt, which also
featured a skull with cobwebs in its black eye socket. Dirty
Harry’s, .44 magnum pointed at her from another wall, while a hand beckoned
her into 1973’s The Vault of Horror.
You’re
an unusual decorator, she’d said. I told
her it was only art. That I wasn’t the
Starry Night type.
The
rest of my 350 square foot apartment was consumed with over 25 framed pieces of
movie memorabilia from the 1970s, horrifying and violent artwork which
symbolized, paradoxically, the nostalgia I felt for the innocence of my
movie-going youth. Equinox. Race with the Devil. Westworld. Straw
Dogs.
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True Love for True Blood Stud and Kate Bosworth?
19 October 2009 8:00 AM, PDT
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Is True Blood bad-boy vampire Alexander Skarsgard really sinking his teeth into Kate Bosworth?
Judging by the photos of the two making eyes at each other and then hopping into a car at Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood on Saturday night, it's obvious Skarsgard, 33, finds Bosworth, 26, delicious. The two are slated to star together in the remake of Sam Peckinpah's classic thriller Straw Dogs.Sure, maybe it was just because she'd presented him with the best villain award at Spike TV's Scream Awards earlier in the night, but reports say the two were holding hands and flirting heavily after the presentation.
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Former MGM Chief Daniel Melnick Dead At 77; Many Classic Films To His Credit
16 October 2009 9:58 AM, PDT
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Producer and former MGM chief Daniel Melnick died Tuesday at age 77. His credits are as diversified as they are impressive. Among the films and TV series he oversaw, produced or developed: Get Smart, Network, Straw Dogs, All That Jazz, That's Entertainment, Midnight Express, The Goodbye Girl, The Sunshine Boys, Kramer Vs. Kramer, Footloose and Altered States. For more click here
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The Planting of Dan Melnick and the Death of Hollywood Cool
15 October 2009 3:36 PM, PDT
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I woke up this morning enchanted by the first rain in Los Angeles in more than three months, and lay awake for a while to savor the sound of it.
Then I went to the computer and found out my old friend, the truly larger-than-life producer Danny Melnick, had died suddenly. What a flood of memories swept down with the rain ...
However you pictured Hollywood Cool, from the '60s through the '90s, Dan Melnick embodied the fantasy. Incredibly gifted -- CBS producer at 20, nurturer of Sam Peckinpah and Roman Polanski, head of MGM at 39, producer of All That Jazz, Straw Dogs, Altered States and the creative impetus behind Get Smart, the list goes on an on. He was also stylish, politically bold, dryly (and, on occasion, cruelly) hilarious, a patron of the arts and a provocateur
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- John Eskow
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Movie Maverick Melnick Dead At 77
15 October 2009 12:16 PM, PDT
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Emmy Award-winning movie maverick Daniel Melnick has died after battling lung cancer. He was 77.
The former head of production at MGM and Columbia studios made his name by signing off on bold and often controversial films like Straw Dogs, Network and Making Love.
Paying tribute to the mogul, his protege Sherry Lansing tells the Los Angeles Times newspaper, "He was an extraordinary producer and an extraordinary executive. He always thought out of the box and was never afraid to take a risk."
Melnick was also the brains behind cult TV show Get Smart.
He won Emmys in the mid 1960s for John Gielgud's Shakespearean TV special Ages of Man and Death of a Salesman.
Sam Peckinpah’s violent and controversial Straw Dogs was the first film Melnick produced.
He also helped to develop classic movies like Midnight Express, Kramer Vs. Kramer, All That Jazz and The China Syndrome at Columbia.
Melnick also produced 1984’s Footloose and Steve Martin's revamp of the Cyrano De Bergerac tale, Roxanne.
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'Robsessed' documentary: More interested in Pattinson or his fans?
6 October 2009 9:20 AM, PDT
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I think we can all agree that Robsessed is a great title for a documentary about the Robert Pattinson phenomena. But my enthusiasm waned when I saw the art for the DVD, which is expected to hit shelves next month in time for the release of The Twilight Saga: New Moon. It's not the slightly shell-shocked image of Pattinson: That amuses me. It's the tag line: "Inside the life of Robert Pattinson." According to a rep for the release, the documentary features people Pattinson's worked with talking about his life, as well as "industry commentators" and "a couple of diehard fans.
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- Mandi Bierly
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Buzz Break: Skars That Won't Heal
5 October 2009 12:50 PM, PDT
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· Stellan Skarsgård is joining the cast of Thor, even though its producers famously broke the heart of his son Alexander when they passed him over for the title role. Still, don't cry for Alex -- he's moved on, and is shown here flashing some sideboob on the set of Straw Dogs last week.
· Three Rivers flatlined in its debut last night, coming in fourth in its time period. We have found the outer limits of America's tolerance for hot doctors.
· It looks like Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are heading for the altar.
· Chris Rock is boarding the Oprah Winfrey-produced comedy Will You Be My Black Friend?
· When asked why he's accepting a stint on General Hospital, James Franco essentially confirms what we all figured: "It's performance art."
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Fantastic Fest: Alexander Skarsgard and the Cloud of Estrogen
1 October 2009 6:02 AM, PDT
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When I went to see Metropia (and reviewed it) at Fantastic Fest on Saturday night, all I knew about Alexander Skarsgard was that he had a role in the film, and that he was the son of actor Stellan Skarsgard -- I hadn't seen him in anything. Metropia director Tarik Saleh had told me earlier in the day that Alexander Skarsgard was in Shreveport shooting Straw Dogs, but would drive down here for the screening, and I thought that was awfully nice of him. I hoped the screening would have a full house so the actor wouldn't feel like his efforts were wasted.
I don't watch the TV show True Blood, and had no idea that Skarsgard had such a following of female fans. The theater was packed, and many attendees were nicely dressed women. During the Q&A, more audience members than usual were snapping photos. Admittedly, Skarsgard is very easy on the eyes.
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- Jette Kernion
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'Jennifer's Body' bad boy Adam Brody takes the EW Pop Culture Personality Test
18 September 2009 10:58 AM, PDT
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In Jennifer's Body (in theaters today), Adam Brody, our favorite geek hero from The O.C., tries evil on for size. He plays the lead singer of a devil-worshipping emo band that attempts to sacrifice Jennifer (Megan Fox) because they think she's a virgin and it will bring them greater fame. (He doesn't do his own vocals: "My singing voice is still going through puberty," he says. "They gave me a singing lesson or two, and it’s not the worst thing in the world, but it’s not anything anyone would choose to hear.") Unfortunately, since Jennifer's not pure, a demon takes over her body and starts feeding on high school boys. Almost as dangerous as Megan Fox with a supernatural appetite? The EW Pop Culture Personality Test. Brody submitted to one and had a couple of friends over in case he needed backup...
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- Mandi Bierly
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Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself
14 September 2009 5:54 AM, PDT
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Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself
Directed by: Tyler Perry
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez, Tyler Perry
Running Time: 1 hr 55 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Plot: A selfish lounge singer (Henson) must learn the responsibility of family when she is left in care of her misguided niece and two nephews.
Who’s It For? Perry’s faithful audience – both to a higher being and to everything the entrepreneur has ever released (plays, TV shows, feature films). They’ll have no problem accepting the same preaching echoed from his previous works. But those who haven’t already gotten into the world of Perry will probably be bored.
Expectations: Having seen a fair amount of Tyler Perry’s plays (and a few of his films), I didn’t expect much from I Can Do Bad All By Myself to be different. I assumed that a character
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