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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Seven
29 December 2009 7:16 AM, PST
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Mother and Child
Opens: 2010
Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Summary: A tale of a mother and daughter, separated at birth, who struggle with the damage done by the most important person missing in their lives while a young African-Americn woman deals with an unwanted pregnancy and the adoption process.
Analysis: Scoring rave reviews in Toronto, the $7 million latest effort of Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her") once again shows off his skill at weaving multiple narratives together in clever and unexpected ways. At its heart it's an emotional family drama, but Garcia excels with his female characters which makes the involvement of Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and especially Annette Benning thrilling.
The few criticisms levelled at the film were toward some pacing and credibility issues in the last act, but otherwise praised it for not
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- Garth Franklin
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The Best Films of the Decade (aka "The Naughties")
27 December 2009 9:03 PM, PST
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Best Films Of The Decade (aka The Naughties) From Alex & Terry
List # 1
By Alex Simon
When Terry and I initially discussed writing these lists, I had a tough time thinking back on 20 films over the past decade which I was really taken with, thinking that movies have sunk so low over the past ten years, that even choosing a dozen would be a short-order job. Thirty minutes into it, my list had nearly 60 titles! After much cutting, pasting, and re-cutting and pasting, here are my top 20 films (in no particular order) of the first decade of the 21st century, dubbed by many as “the naughties.” --A.S.
1.No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007) An elegiac blend of stark beauty and full-throttle despair from two of our finest filmmakers, set in the contemporary American West. Every frame is damn near flawless, and would have been an even more perfect vehicle for the late Sam Peckinpah.
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Exclusive stills from Albert Pyun's Bulletface
27 December 2009 3:10 PM, PST
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We've just learned that Tales of an Ancient Empire will not be the next film released from director Albert Pyun. Rather Bulletface, Pyun's revenge fueled, scifi pot-boiler is expected to hit in late January while Tales heads into a final round of post.
Pyun is also telling us to expect something very different from the project: "Bulletface is a departure for me because of how gritty and hardboiled it is. Its a very taut horror/sci-fi film with a plot that twists and turns and it's more sexually explicit than my other films and is not for the feint of heart."
Victoria Maurette, who was in Pyun's Left for Dead plays Dara, a female DEA agent who, in protecting her petty criminal younger brother, gets arrested and imprisoned in a nightmarish penal colony outside Tijuana that's so brutal, prison officials even harvest organs from the inmates. While in prison, Dara's
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I am very shy Zeta Jones
22 December 2009 2:56 AM, PST
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Actor Catherine Zeta-Jones insists she is conscious of her looks and often insecure, but she still has the passion to start the second phase of her career.
The Hollywood beauty, who made her Broadway stage debut last week with A Little Night Music, believes that people misunderstand her as diehard ambitious. “The biggest misconception of me is that I’m some diehard, ambitious, do-anything-to-get-anything kind of person. I'm not. I’m very shy socially,” ,” The Daily Express quoted her as saying.
The The Mask of Zorro and Traffic actress added: “There is a much shyer quality to me
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Topher Grace Is No Longer Venom
20 December 2009 3:41 PM, PST
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Topher Grace is no longer Venom Fans of the popular Spider-Man comics' villain, Venom, were excited when they heard that he would be one of the antagonists in Spider-Man 3 but the luke-warm reaction from fans after the movie was released left much doubt that the character would ever be seen on celluloid again. However, much to everyone's surprise, Marvel Studios founder Avi Arad announced in summer of 2007 that a spin-off featuring the character was in the works. Writer Jacob Aaron Estes was first commissioned to draft a script but after the studio rejected it, Zombieland writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese were brought on to write the screenplay. Wernick and Reese turned in two drafts of their script and the studio decided to push forward by bringing in Seabiscuit writer/director Gary Ross to do a rewrite and possibly direct the film. But the obvious question still remains, will Topher Grace,
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Sippy inspired by Soderbergh's realism
17 December 2009 3:37 AM, PST
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Rohan Sippy has said that he wants to make realistic films like Steven Soderbergh. The director, whose latest movie is about drug-peddling in Goa, claimed that he was inspired by the American filmmaker's drama Traffic. "I want to get into the cinema verite with this film," Rohan told Ians. "I'm deeply inspired by the realistic style used in Steven Soderbergh's (more)
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Viola Davis Puts her 'Trust' in Indie Film
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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I'm wouldn't necessarily call her the Parker Posey indie girl of today, but since Steven Soderbergh's Solaris and Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, Viola Davis is taking on more supporting cast pinch hitter in independent films. - I'm wouldn't necessarily call her the Parker Posey indie girl of today, but since Steven Soderbergh's Solaris and Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, Viola Davis is taking on more supporting cast pinch hitter in independent films. The actress who essentially got her start in film with bit roles in Soderbergh's Out of Sight and Traffic, has just signed up for a pair of indie films. Davis will be featured in Ryan Fleck's adaptation of Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Thing for Focus Features. The story is described as a young-adult One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and centers on a clinically depressed 15-year-old who checks
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The Naughts: The Director of the '00s
10 December 2009 7:37 PM, PST
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Steven Soderbergh had a remarkable 12 films in theaters between 2000 and 2009. That includes two shiny Oscar winners, "Erin Brockovich" (which nabbed Julia Roberts a statuette) and "Traffic," and a potential third, "The Informant!"; all three installments of the blockbuster "Ocean's" franchise; three fast-and-loose video experiments ("Full Frontal," "Bubble" and "The Girlfriend Experience"); an anti-period piece period piece ("The Good German"); an anti-biopic biopic ("Che"); and a sorely underrated remake/distillation of a sci-fi classic ("Solaris").
And that's not even counting his contribution to the 2004 omnibus "Eros," or the ten episodes of HBO series "K Street" he helmed. By virtue of unstoppable output alone, Soderbergh's made more of a mark on the '00s than any other working director. But that's not why he's my pick for director of the decade.
Back in 1989, Soderbergh kicked off the giddy golden age of independent film with "Sex, Lies, and Videotape," and while the following
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Promo Videos for 'Parenthood'
9 December 2009 7:59 AM, PST
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March may seem like a long ways off, but its closer than you think, and it's when NBC will finally roll out their new dramedy Parenthood which stars Craig T Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia, Lauren Graham, and funnyman Dax Shepherd, just to name a few. Below is an overview of Parenthood as well as some new promotional clips of the show.
"Parenthood" is a one-hour drama inspired by the box-office comedy hit of the same name. This re-imagined and updated NBC Universal Media Studios/Imagine Television production introduces audiences to the very large, very colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
The dynamic star-studded cast includes Peter Krause, Lauren Graham, Craig T. Nelson, Dax Shepard, Bonnie Bedelia, Monica Potter and Erika Christensen.
Sarah Braverman (Lauren Graham, "Gilmore Girls"), a financially strapped single mother, brings us into the fold of her parents and siblings who will make us laugh and cry, and on occasion,
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Graham King on Producing and Future Projects Like The Tourist, Edge Of Darkness, Rango, More
6 December 2009 8:13 PM, PST
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A native of the United Kingdom, Graham King has emerged as a formidable producer of both major motion pictures and independent features. His independent production company, Gk Films, launched in 2007 with business partner Tim Headington and the soon to be released period film The Young Victoria was the first film produced under this new banner.
Since then, Gk Films completed shooting the thriller Edge of Darkness, based on the BBC mini-series of the same name and starring Mel Gibson, which will be released in January 2010. Other Gk Films projects in various stages of production or development are The Tourist with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, Rum Diary starring Johnny Depp, the crime drama London Boulevard starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley, the children’s book adaptation The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Ben Affleck’s latest directorial feature The Town and the animated feature Rango, featuring the voice of Johnny Depp.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones is hottest ticket as she debuts on Broadway
30 November 2009 5:03 AM, PST
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The revival of a Sondheim musical with a very British flavour lures recession-hit New York audiences back to the theatre
She made her stage debut as the lead in Annie at the Swansea Grand Theatre at 12. Now, 28 years later, the Hollywood star Catherine Zeta-Jones is again treading the boards, although in slightly more grandiose surroundings.
Zeta-Jones, 40, will make her first appearance on Broadway next month when the curtain goes up on Sir Trevor Nunn's eagerly awaited revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music. Preview performances at the Walter Kerr theatre began last week in advance of the opening night on 13 December and tickets, which are being sold on eBay for as much as $300, are like gold dust.
In the production Zeta-Jones, who plays the part of a flamboyant actress called Desiree Armfeldt, sings one of Sondheim's most famous songs, "Send in the Clowns". Although there have
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Damon's Delight At Informant Role
12 November 2009 11:16 AM, PST
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Matt Damon was thrilled to land his starring role in The Informant! in 2001 - because he feared his career was over after a string of flop movies.
Damon saw his popularity in Hollywood plunge in the early 2000s, and was convinced 2002 film The Bourne Identity would be a disaster following a series of problems on the shoot.
He tells Britain's Total Film magazine, "I had two movies that had come out that had tanked and Bourne had all the signals of being a disaster, because we shot so many times and it was delayed like a year coming out.
"The phone had stopped ringing completely. And you could really feel it. In Hollywood, by any measure, I was cold - cold as ice."
So the 39 year old was ecstatic when director Steven Soderbergh contacted him in 2001 to star as bipolar whistleblower Mark Whitacre in the thriller - despite production not beginning on the picture until 2008.
He adds, "Steven was coming off his Oscar for Traffic and two of his movies were Best Picture nominees in the same year. By Hollywood standards, he was as hot as you could get.
"He was really excited and he said, 'I've found something for us to do together.' I literally hadn't had a phone call in nine months. I was dumbfounded. I went home and read it (the script) and thought, 'This is one of those great roles that comes along every seven or eight years.'"
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The Tortured (2009) Trailer
9 November 2009 11:36 AM, PST
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"The producers of the Saw franchise" have yet to deliver anything good besides the original Saw movie (Dead Silence anyone), and even that had a lot more to do with luck than anything else. So hopefully for their sake The Tortured delivers, because if not, slapping "from the producers of Saw" on a movie to help sell it, is going to start becoming unproductive.
Taken from today’s news headlines (and Law & Order's tagline), The Tortured is about a young mother (Erika Christensen – Traffic, Flight Plan) and her husband (Jesse Metcalf – Desperate Housewives, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt) who decide that the criminal justice system hasn’t adequately punished the man who kidnapped their son.
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Abhishek to play undercover cop in Rohan Sippy's next!
19 October 2009 1:24 PM, PDT
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Rohan Sippy.s untitled film takes a lead from a number of headlines about the alarming crime situation in Goa. According to sources, it.s a gritty film about a cop on a drug-busting mission in Goa - quite unlike the Abhishek Bachchan starrer Bluffmaster, which Rohan had earlier directed.A source said, .Rohan and Abhishek are close friends. When they decided to work together again, they had many options, but they decided to swerve away from drama and romance and instead make a dark film based on real life incidents..The untitled film about drug trafficking in Goa will be largely shot on the beaches of Goa with Abhishek playing an undercover cop.Sridhar Raghavan known for his realistic newspaper-inspired work is said to be heavily influenced by Steven Soderbergh.s Traffic. Meanwhile, Abhishek has been asked to study narcotic neurosis and criminal quirks to master the role of the cop.
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Middle East International Film Festival: "The Informant!" (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
15 October 2009 7:02 AM, PDT
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Let's face it, for the past two years Steven Soderbergh has been making highly politicized cinema in a way no American director would dare to—calmly, methodically, and without baiting either press or audiences with self-important "topics." It is the steadiness of the filmmaker's vision that has perhaps kept many from seeing just how far his digital works like Che and The Girlfriend Experience—both light years ahead of the superficiality and pretense of Traffic—investigate the current American political landscape. Those pictures have approached the process of revolutions and capitalist economics with the cerebral cool and exactitude of Michael Haneke filming an Otto Preminger production. Excersies above all else, the two movies deserve aloof respect rather than aggressive engagement, and it has not been until the filmmaker's new movie and one of his very best, The Informant!, that he has been able to rectify conceptual intelligence with cinematic attack,
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The Girlfriend Experience Blu-ray Review
13 October 2009 9:07 AM, PDT
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The Girlfriend Experience (2009) covers several days in the life of a high-end escort in Manhattan. Media coverage surrounding this independent effort from director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Erin Brockovich) highlighted his choice of adult film star, Sasha Grey, to portray the main character, Chelsea. I had never heard of the aspiring actress (she's done over 100 "movies" to date) before the film's publicity efforts, but a quick Google search returned probably more info and pictures than most straight laced folks would desire. Those familiar with Sasha's oeuvre hoping to get artsy-fartsy Hollywood porn will be sadly disappointed, as there is barely any nudity and no explicit sex on display.
What makes Chelsea's services unique is that for $2000 per hour she provides what is alluded to in the title, time with a significant other. She gets wined and dined, for the most part, by high earning businessmen while making conversation about their daily
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Clifton Collins Jr. Talks the Future of Southland
13 October 2009 7:19 AM, PDT
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It's been quite a whirlwind few weeks for perhaps the hardest working man in the biz - and one of my favorite actors - Clifton Collins Jr. After it was announced that he landed a role in the NBC Southland, I got a chance to speak with the actor, who was incredibly excited for such a creative opportunity like this on the small screen ( for my exclusive interview with Collins Jr. about the show). Surprisingly, not long after that interview, NBC canceled the series and, not surprisingly, a few days after that, it was reported that the show could possibly have a new home at TNT.
With all of these new developments, I put in another call to Collins Jr. to find out his thoughts on what has happened over the last few weeks. Here's what he had to say.
First of all, can you talk about your first reactions
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Soderbergh Hopes More Realistic Spy Thriller will be 'Knockout'
9 October 2009 10:30 AM, PDT
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Steven Soderbergh wants to bring a sense of realism back to the action/spy genre, starting with the casting of mixed martial artist Gina Carano as his leading lady in his upcoming film, Knockout.
In Knockout, Carano will play a woman with incomparable hand-to-hand fighting skills, who gets hired by the government and subsequently involved in a globe-trotting plotline. Although the project may sound similar to James Bond or Jason Bourne’s exploits, there will be more logic involved, especially with regards to high-speed pursuit, Soderbergh told MTV.
"Very, very few people escape high-speed pursuit," he said. "It happens, but it's very rare. So I’ve already researched the six times in history it's happened, so if we do that and she gets out of it, she’s going to get out of it one of the ways they did. It's that kind of thing. It drives me nuts when
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"Predators" Announces Its Cast
7 October 2009 3:17 PM, PDT
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Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Danny Trejo, Walton Goggins, Alice Braga, Oleg Taktarov, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali and Louiz Ozawa are set as the main cast of Fox's reboot of the "Predator" franchise reports the trades.
The story of "Predators" follows a group of elite warrior-types who are being hunted by members of a race of merciless alien trackers.
Brody ("The Pianist", "King Kong") inherits the mantle of leader and is a skilled tracker and hunter of men. Grace ("That 70's Show","Traffic") would play an unassuming accountant-type who's actually a dangerous serial killer.
Braga ("I Am Legend", "Redbelt") is the tough female killer, while Trejo ("Con Air", "From Dusk Til Dawn") is a hardened warrior with twin uzis strapped to his back. Ali ("The 4400", "Curious Case Of Benjamin
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Adrien Brody and Topher Grace Join Predators
7 October 2009 6:30 AM, PDT
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Well if you were impressed with some of the A-list talent [1] that signed on for Robert Rodriguez's Machete feature film, you're going to continue to be impressed with a couple of the big names in talks to headline his Predators sequel/reboot as well. According to THR's Heat Vision Blog [2], Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal have apparently selected Adrien Brody for the lead role in the film, while Topher Grace is also in negotiations to join the cast. Other slightly less familiar faces already signed on include Alice Braga, Danny Trejo, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Walt Goggins, and Ufc fighter Oleg Taktarov. The casting breakdown is as follows:
Brody is a man who ends up inheriting the mantle of leader and is known as a hunter of men. Grace would play an accountant-type whose unassuming facade masks a dangerous serial killer. Braga is the tough female killer. Ali is a man not afraid to die,
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