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A Serious Man and the odd movie out
7 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A Serious Man may be getting rave reviews – but it's like nothing the Coens have made before. Joe Queenan on weird one-offs and the directors who make them
About halfway through the very funny, very disturbing, very ethnic new film A Serious Man, the modern-day Job who is the serious man in question climbs up on to the roof of his ghastly 1960s Minneapolis suburban home and tries to adjust the antenna to improve his TV reception. Beleaguered on all fronts – conjugally, professionally, medically – Larry Gopnik, a dorky physics professor who may be about to lose his job and is very likely to lose his family, is a bright, principled Jewish man whose children have begged him to fix the antenna so they can watch F Troop, an idiotic 1960s comedy. Many of Larry's travails unfold as songs from Jefferson Airplane's seminal 1967 LP Surrealistic Pillow play in the background. »
- Joe Queenan
Fuqua & Spike Lee Adapting 'Miss: Better Living Through Crime'
18 November 2009 12:02 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Filmmakers Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Shooter) and Spike Lee (Inside Man) are teaming up for an adaptation of the French graphic novel Miss: Better Living Through Crime. Fuqua will direct the crime thriller with John Ridley, who also recently wrote George Lucas' Red Tails, writing the script and Spike Lee executive producing. The project is one of the first at the newly formed Vigilante Entertainment. The comic is published through Les Humanoides Associes in France and first hit Us shelves back in 2002. Vigilante is currently shopping the project around with studios before moving forward. Read on for more info on this. Miss: Better Living Through Crime is about Nola and Slim (seen above), two unlikely partners in crime in the early 1920s in New York. Nola is a poor white girl who has learned to survive by hook or by crook since being expelled from the orphanage. Slim is »
- Alex Billington
Antoine Fuqua and Spike Lee Team Up for Adaptation of Graphic Novel Miss: Better Living Through Crime
17 November 2009 10:39 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
It’s been twenty years since Do the Right Thing but Spike Lee has continued to grow and innovate as a filmmaker, pushing himself to work outside his comfort zone while never completely leaving his deep-seated convictions about race in America.
It’s been eight years since Training Day but Antoine Fuqua has yet to make another successful film and even Training Day succeeded more because of Denzel Washington than because of Fuqua’s direction. While he did receive positive notices for his most recent film Brooklyn’s Finest, which played at Sundance earlier this year, it’s been a long dry spell for Fuqua. Can he finally up his game by joining forces with Lee? Their collaboration in adapting the graphic novel Miss: Better Living Through Crime may answer that question. Hit the jump for details.
Here’s what Variety has to say about the source material:
[Miss, by French writers Philippe Thirault, Marc Riou and Mark Vigouroux] revolves around Nola and Slim, »
- Matt Goldberg
Clive Owen: The Hollywood Interview
4 November 2009 12:49 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Clive Owen Gets Back
By
Clive Owen is one of those actors that keep surprising you. Just when you think the audience, and the Hollywood establishment, has pegged him as an action hero, a leading man, or a romantic comedy pin-up, Owen pulls an about-face and does something unexpected.
It all started October 3, 1964 in Coventry, England. Owen’s father, a country music singer, abandoned the family when he was just three. His mother later remarried, with Clive and his four brothers raised by his mother and stepfather, who worked for British Rail. Owen has characterized those early years as "rough." A self-described “solidly working class” kid, Owen was bitten by the acting bug at age 13 and followed his dream to The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art several years later. Initially cutting his teeth on high-profile British television programs such as “Chancer” and “Sharman,” as well as art house »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
/Filmcast Ep. 72 - Where the Wild Things Are (Guest: Stephen Tobolowsky from Glee)
20 October 2009 8:10 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
In this week's /Filmcast, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley praise The Inside Man, wonder why America can't handle miniseries, celebrate the joys of Glee, and explain the similarities between Where the Wild Things Are and Children of Men. Special guest Stephen Tobolowsky joins us for this episode. You can currently see Stephen on Glee, which airs on Fox, Wednesdays at 9 Pm Est. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(At)gmail(Dot)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us next Monday at 9 Pm Est / 6 Pm Pst at Slashfilm's live page as we review Lars von Trier's Antichrist. Download or Play Now in your Browser: [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/slashfilmcast/Slashfilmcastep72.mp3] Subscribe to the /Filmcast: Shownotes Introduction (01:30) Stephen Tobolowsky and the mystery behind his family name What We've Been Watching David Chen (05:10): Law Abiding Citizen, Glee Devindra (31:32): Inside Man Stephen (37:17): Children of Men, »
- David Chen
NCIS Recap: "Inside Man"
7 October 2009 6:46 AM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
On last night's NCIS, the team was forced to reopen the case of a dead Navy officer because a political blogger who accused them of a cover up turned up dead himself.
The Navy officer, suspected of insider trading, was thought to have been killed in a car accident and the case was closed by NCIS. But the blogger alleged wrongdoing.
The officer's death had no discernible link to the blogger's murder - until they exhumed the body and found there was no body. Was the blogger trying to frame NCIS?
Click here for our full episode recap of "Inside Man."
Here are some of our favorite NCIS quotes from last night ...
McGee: I can take care of the video surveillance, it's the K-9 patrol I'm worried about.
Tony: Chillax, bro. All these budget cuts and economic problems, they can't afford dogs. Trust me. | permalink Tony: [to McGee] That's like a yoga position. »
- steve@iscribelimited.com (Dr. Shepherd)
The softer side of Clive Owen: Can you dig it?
26 September 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Ever since I saw Croupier while visiting London with my folks years ago, Clive Owen has been one of my very favorite actors. No one does that British brooding thing quite like he does (see: Gosford Park, Closer, Inside Man), and when he's bad-ass (i.e. King Arthur, Children of Men, Shoot 'Em Up), he's thrilling. But in his latest movie The Boys Are Back (directed by Shine's Scott Hicks), Owen sheds that stoic persona to play Joe Warr, a father of two sons who, following the death of his second wife, is faced with raising both of them on his own. »
- Missy Schwartz
Darren Aronofsky Pulls Off a Heist Movie
22 September 2009 12:08 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
We'll start with the good news: Darren Aronofsky has signed up to direct and produce an adaptation of one of the most daring crimes of the century. In Tonbridge, Kent, a group of criminals lifted $85 million from a Securitas warehouse, although they didn't exactly get away with it.
Five people were convicted in January of last year in the largest cash theft in British history, but the story has lived on, and Variety says the film with Aronofsky's name on it will be adapted from a Sports Illustrated article called Breaking the Bank and Howard Sounes' book, Heist: The Inside Story of the World's Biggest Bank Robbery.
Tough to beat a good heist flick, really. We've been spoiled in that regard recently; both The Bank Job and Inside Man are great fun, and two-thirds of the Ocean's trilogy works, even though it's much lighter fare. Still, it's an ageless genre »
- Colin Boyd
Fame, Rage and Capitalism
21 September 2009 6:55 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
This week, contrasting approaches to filmmaking bring about balance and equilibrium. Experimentalism (Sally Potter's "Rage" and Michael Almereyda's "Paradise") collides head on with tried and tested formulas (the Clive Owen starrer "The Boys Are Back" and a remake of "Fame").
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Stanley Tucci adapts and stars in the second remake from the canon of slain Dutch director Theo Van Gogh, the first being Steve Buscemi's 2007 "Interview." A whimsical psychological tussle between a husband and wife who play games to patch up their marriage, the story hones in on the attempted romantic rediscovery between long-married Don (Tucci) and Jenna (Patricia Clarkson).
Opens in New York.
Writer/director Russell Brown's comedy stays true to the adage "write what you know," as a miserably bad screenplay threatens to »
- Neil Pedley
Mad Men's Night of the Deerely Departed
20 September 2009 9:24 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
Even on a second or third viewing, Spike Lee’s Inside Man makes engrossing viewing, with Clive Owen’s voice supplying a second layer of scratchy stubble. But I can’t keep watching it all the way to the neatly wrapped end because it’s time for Mad Men and the dark at the top of the Draper stairs, which is where we begin this week as daughter Sally remains haunted by the death of her grandfather, and milking it for all its worth. Don tries to comfort her as best he can, given his own perpetual five o'clock shadow of the soul that, with a little careful negligence, might someday grow into Clive Owen sardonic beard stubble. He gives Sally a little peck on the head to pretend to show that he pretends to care when what he really wants to do is knock off to sleep while wife »
Lee and De Niro Team for Showtime Drama
17 September 2009 2:58 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »
Robert De Niro and Spike Lee have teamed with Showtime to develop a drama series about Manhattan's Alphabet City, report the trades. The project, titled Alphaville, will be written by John Ridley (Red Tails, Three Kings), with Lee on board to direct the potential pilot. Alphaville is an ensemble drama chronicling Alphabet City's gritty and tumultuous past before it became the gentrified East Village. Set during the 1980s, it will re-create the neighborhood's eclectic mix of struggling artists and musicians living alongside Puerto Rican and black families. Along with its growing bohemian and celebrity population that also included graffiti artists, break-dancers, rappers and DJs, the neighborhood was plagued by illegal drug activity and violent crime. Local tensions culminated in the Tompkins Square Park riot of 1988, in which police clashed with anarchists and homeless activists. The 1980s Alphabet City was the setting for the musical Rent. The neighborhood also served as »
- James Cook
Duplicity Blu-ray Review
17 September 2009 7:01 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Clive Owen is one of those actors who hasn’t found his audience yet, but has a devoted following of men and women who get him. It’s easy to see why he’s got something of a cult following: The man gives off the air of casual cool, and has what magazines refer to as “a rugged sex appeal” in a way that few modern actors possess. He looks like he could have been a day laborer at one point or another, probably did some boxing, but knows how to wrap his way around words. He’s got those penetrating eyes that suggest the sort of world-weariness that was of fashion in the 30’s and 40’s. And yet when a film of his clicks with an audience (Inside Man, Sin City), it’s usually because he’s an ensemble player. Duplicity did not find its audience, and Clive Owen »
- Andre Dellamorte
Spike Lee Hosts Massive Michael Jackson Birthday Celebration
29 August 2009 12:15 PM, PDT | TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news »
Dancing Michael Jackson fans reportedly numbering in the thousands filled up a New York park where director Spike Lee hosted a ceremonial birthday bash for the late King of Pop, who would have turned 51 on Saturday. The party-goers danced beneath a shower of rain in Brooklyn's Prospect Park as a DJ spun Jackson's classic songs, says the Associated Press. "I was just like everyone else. I loved his talent," Lee said. Known for films such as 'Do the Right Thing' and 'Inside Man,' Lee also directed Jackson's music video for "They Don't Care About Us."
[Read full story on The Insider]
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- TheInsider
[DVD Review] Chaos
15 August 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
While the big names above the title might suggest an a high-octane cops and robbers caper with intelligent plotting and pounding action, you would do well not to be fooled. Shot on the down slope of Wesley Snipes’s career, prior to the upswing of Jason Statham’s, and well into the wilderness of Ryan Phillippe’s, this shockingly lackluster thriller from writer/director Tony Giglio (the man who brought us Soccer Dog) is plodding, predictable, and oh so very boring.
The timing of this project is likely crucial to its blundering inability to resonate on pretty much any level as an engaging thriller. Snipes was neck deep in a legal dispute with New Line (the IRS was still to come) over the debacle that was Blade: Trinity, Phillippe’s marriage to Reese Witherspoon was imploding (the couple would file for divorce a year later), and Statham, who had yet »
- Neil Pedley
The A-List Stars Who Haven't Tainted Themselves with Sequels
17 June 2009 11:02 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
With Hollywood's neverending desire to milk every story and success for all its worth, it's easy to assume that no one is impervious from part 2, 3, 4, 10 -- especially A-listers. Part of the reason for their success is starring in successful films, and the better a movie does, the better the chance we'll get at least one sequel. But did you know that some of the biggies have only stuck to numero uno?
Movieline has a great post up about the A-listers who have headed for sequel land, and those that have stayed blissfully away -- and they're not necessarily the actors you'd guess. Some are easy: Brad Pitt and Clooney had those Ocean's films (and does it count that Clooney once got some tomato revenge?). Ben Stiller is all about the sequels. Clint Eastwood got dirty for Harry in 5 films.
But who hasn't return for a part 2? I'll give you one: Denzel Washington. »
- Monika Bartyzel
Friday Report: 'Hangover,' 'Up' Stay on Top
13 June 2009 4:53 PM, PDT | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
The party didn't stop for The Hangover, which led Friday with an estimated $10.4 million. The comedy was off 38 percent from last Friday, increasing its gross to $82.4 million in eight days. By comparison, Wedding Crashers saw a smaller drop at the same point (28 percent) but was grossing less with an eight-day tally of around $70 million, adjusted for ticket price inflation. Hangover's trajectory suggests a weekend of around $32 million, which would be enough for the top spot.
Coming in second with the smallest dip of all nationwide releases (32 percent), Up generated an estimated $8.9 million, growing its total to $165.5 million in 15 days. Pixar's comedy adventure has set a course for a third weekend in the vicinity of $29 million.
Debuting in third, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 brought in an estimated $8.2 million on approximately 4,400 screens at 3,074 sites. The action thriller featuring Denzel Washington and John Travolta was within the typical range for »
- Brandon Gray
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is Your Mediocre Summer Movie
11 June 2009 11:28 PM, PDT | www.canmag.com | See recent CanMag news »
I thought The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 looked like Inside Man vs Swordfish. I turned out to be right. It.s Denzel Washington at his most standard and John Travolta at his campiest in a completely mediocre summer filler movie.
Review: The Taking of Pelham 123
It goes through all the technical motions, setting stuff up in the beginning for later. It.s a passable hostage thriller in that you.ll follow it through to the end, but completely unmemorable. I mean, hostages in a train and a deadline for money? That.s not even a logline, it.s an episode of Fox.s short-lived Standoff. Sure, in the original, just renting a train was a big production value, but now it.s no big whoop.
There.s some character drama, something happened to them in the past that makes this situation ironic, although now we just Google for backstory exposition. Thank you, »
Box-Office Oracle: Jun. 12 - Jun. 14, 2009
11 June 2009 4:12 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
#1 movie predicted correctly: 0 Weeks in a Row 1. Up In a photo finish, I ended up losing last weekend as Hangover slipped past Up. So I'm taking Up again, if only to prove I'm stubborn. Estimate: $30.2 million 2. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 I've put it right smack dab in the middle of John Q and Inside Man (per theater). It's not doing well on Rt, which means it probably won't win the word of mouth battle either. Estimate: $27.7 million 3. The Hangover Simple math is going to get it, even it's a solid film. It's in 550 less theaters (than Up), and people already came out in droves last weekend. So I'm giving it a 40% bleed, which is fantastic, but not enough to win the weekend. Estimate: $27.0 million 4. Land of the Lost A $100m dollar budget, and it's made $24m so far. So no, not ideal. Estimate: $9.0 million 5. Night at the Museum: Battle of »
- Laremy Legel
New: U.S. Blu-ray Releases Double Edition (29/5, 5/6)
5 June 2009 3:23 PM, PDT | The Cinema Post | See recent The Cinema Post news »
As we explained in our UK releases article published earlier today, we have a double edition for you this week after we missed lasts week’s round up because of some technical difficulties that have now been resolved.
The last two weeks of new releases in North America haven’t been particularly great, especially if you compare them with the stacked release list for the 19th of May, which featured a whole bunch of must have discs. As always, check out our “pick of the week” and links to all of the new releases below.
Highlights this week start with our pick for the UK releases a couple of weeks back with Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber’s “Defiance” which we would still recommend, The BBC has another incredible nature documentary to follow up “Planet Earth” with in “Nature’s Most Amazing Events” which features more stunning HD footage, and »
- Paul Larn
New to DVD - June 2nd - June 9th
3 June 2009 7:37 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
It's been a really bad month for DVD releases. Luckily for us we usually choose the films we review. Unfortunately the only movie on the list we have previously reviewed is Revolutionary Road. If you missed the very controversial episode than click on the link below to have you re-directed. Revolutionary Road (DVD, Blu-ray) [1] He’s Just Not That Into You (DVD, Blu-ray) Defiance (DVD, Blu-ray) Spring Breakdown (DVD, Blu-ray) Anacondas: Trail of Blood Eddie Murphy: Delirious: 25th Anniversary Edition Elsewhere (DVD, Blu-ray) Home (DVD, Blu-ray) Razortooth Retardead Silent Venom Prison Break: Season 4, The Final Season Reaper: Season Two Weeds: Season Four (DVD, Blu-ray) Blood Ties: Season One Army Wives: The Complete Second Season The Hunger: The Complete First Season The Jetsons: Season 2, Volume 1 Raising the Bar: The Complete First Season Air Force One (Blu-ray) Anaconda (Blu-ray) Bruce Almighty (Blu-ray) Dark Blue (Blu-ray) Dragon’s »
- Ricky
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