Pop veteran George Michael is hoping to be back onstage by the summer after losing his voice during a recent battle with pneumonia. The Faith hitmaker was hospitalized in Vienna, Austria at the en...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
George Michael Hoping For Late Summer Comeback
Kyra Sedgwick Explains Meaning Behind New Tattoo Seen at 2012 SAG Awards
Monday, January 30, 2012
SAG Awards 2012: Kelly Osbourne Dazzles in White, Lea Michele Wows in Silver
Sunday, January 29, 2012
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'Sleepwalk With Me' - Comedian Mike Birbiglia's Hilarious, Heartfelt Feature Debut [Sundance 2012 Video Blog]
There's a running joke amongst comedians that people get into stand-up just so they can be TV stars. It works for some but for others, it seems like stand-up might be a better route to get into film directing. It worked for Woody Allen, Louis CK and now it's worked for Mike Birbiglia, a successful touring comedian who turned his one man autobiographical off-Broadway show Sleepwalk With Me into a feature film. The movie just had its world premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
Birbiglia stars as Matt, a struggling stand-up comedian who has been with his girlfriend Abby (Lauren Ambrose) for eight years. When the couple begins to have problems, Matt uses that to finally find his voice, which in turn makes the relationship even more difficult. Then there's the tiny matter of Matt dangerously sleepwalking every night, all of which actually happened in Birbiglia's life.
Co-starring James Rebhorn, Carol Kane, Marc Maron and produced by Ira Glass (This American Life), Sleepwalk With Me is incredibly clever, well-directed and laugh out loud hilarious. The message isn't all that new, but the journey there definitely is.
Watch a clip from the movie as well as a video blog featuring myself and Jordan Raup from The Film Stage after the jump.
Thanks to Jordan from The Film Stage for once again helping with the video blog. The quality is lower because I shot it with the front iPhone camera as opposed to the back one.
I hope Sleepwalk With Me gets picked up as soon as possible because I'd love to turn people on to this well-made, funny smart film. It's a real crowd-pleasing delight.
/Film Rating: 8.5 out of 10
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Friday, January 27, 2012
'Parks And Recreation' - 'Bowling For Votes' Recap
This week's episode of Parks and Recreation brought to mind an interview I read recently with Chris Onstad, the writer-artist behind Achewood, a popular web comic about cats who make fun of The Cur...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Daniel Radcliffe Stars With Real-Life Godson In 'The Woman In Black'
Daniel Radcliffe turned the set of his upcoming horror film The Woman In Black into a family affair - he convinced director James Watkins to cast his real-life Godson as his child. The Harry Potte...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Chloe Sevigny Signs On For Linda Lovelace Biopic After Demi Moore Drops Out
Chloe Sevigny has signed on to join the Lovelace cast a day after Demi Moore quit the project to battle health issues. The actress will play a journalist in the biopic about porn star-turned-activ...
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The Carpetbagger: Is This the Last Year the Academy Votes by Mail?
The Academy opts for electronic voting next year, a move that may have ramifications for the date of the ceremony.
Q&A: Kiefer Sutherland Returns To TV In 'Touch'
He's leaving Jack Bauer behind (for now): Kiefer Sutherland is back on the FOX network, but it's with the new series Touch (which previews tonight). Here's what the 24 had to stay about stepping in...
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'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' Behind the Scenes Reel Highlights Adventurous Directors
It's been a bumpy ride for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. The film is a sequel to a movie very few people liked; when first announced there wasn't a lot of enthusiasm for the project. Then Crank and Gamer directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor came on board. Their hyper-kinetic, seat of the pants directorial style seemed so perfect for Ghost Rider that expectations elevated a bit. A Comic Con appearance featuring a lot of wild clips from the movie along with some great behind the scenes footage generated a legitimate sense of enthusiasm for the movie.
Then Spirit of Vengeance premiered at Harry Knowles' 24-hour film marathon / birthday party this year, and things deflated really fast.
Just for the sake of fun, let's turn back to the days of all that Comic Con excitement. If you weren't in Hall H when Sony showed off the behind the scenes footage from Spirit of Vengeance, you can now check it out below. No matter how the final film actually plays, this is a great making-of clip. It might be a lot more fun to watch than the film.
I like seeing Brian Taylor rocking his Comic Con-made Sex Bob-Omb shirt, but I really love watching some of the absurd stuff the two guys to to get a shot. I could almost see a feature-length making-of being something worth watching.
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance also stars Ciaran Hinds, Violante Placido, and Johnny Whitworth. It hits theaters on February 17, 2012.
Nicolas Cage returns as Johnny Blaze in Columbia Pictures' and Hyde Park Entertainment's Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. In the successor to the worldwide hit Ghost Rider, Johnny – still struggling with his curse as the devil's bounty hunter – is hiding out in a remote part of Eastern Europe when he is recruited by a secret sect of the church to save a young boy (Fergus Riordan) from the devil (Ciaran Hinds). At first, Johnny is reluctant to embrace the power of the Ghost Rider, but it is the only way to protect the boy – and possibly rid himself of his curse forever. Directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. Screenplay by Scott M. Gimple & Seth Hoffman and David S. Goyer. Story by David S. Goyer. Based on the Marvel Comic. Produced by Steven Paul, Ashok Amritraj, Michael De Luca, Avi Arad, and Ari Arad.
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VOTD: 'Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut'
Let's take a break from the flood of Sundance news and all the Oscar talk to look at one of the weirder indie projects out there: the crowd-assembled Star Wars remake. Star Wars Uncut is a project that started over two years ago when Casey Pugh invited Star Wars fans to do their own recreations of specific scenes from the 1977 film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Fifteen seconds at a time, fans made their own version of the '77 film, the most special of all editions.
You might have seen the first assembled release of Star Wars Uncut, but the entirety of the film has been re-edited into a more seamless whole, and it is the sort of weird, unpredictable ride that only the internet can provide. This movie is the internet, really, or at many of the internet's most common obsessions, all filtered through Star Wars. (Itself an internet obsession, of course.)
Despite the fact that fragments of scenes were created one bit at a time, in a wide variety of styles and with technique that ranges from 'inspired' (Darth Vader's breathing represented by a bottle of Johnny Walker Black that fills and drains) to the 'cute but clueless,' (quite a lot of it) there is a surprising uniformity here, and the assembled whole is more watchable than you'd expect. this one is a slightly more artfully assembled version that flows much better. Check it out below.
From the film's YouTube page comes this letter:
In 2009, Casey Pugh asked thousands of Internet users to remake "Star Wars: A New Hope" into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was unimaginable.
SWU has been featured in documentaries, news features and conferences around the world for its unique appeal. In 2010 we won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media.
Finally, the crowd-sourced project has been stitched together and put online for your streaming pleasure. The "Director's Cut" is a feature-length film that contains hand-picked scenes from the entire StarWarsUncut.com collection.
Many thanks to Aaron Valdez (video editor – http://www.aaronvaldez.com) and Bryan Pugh (sound design/mixing – http://www.pughtube.com) for the countless hours they put into this masterpiece.
We can't thank everyone enough for making this such a special project.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Drake Confirmed to Perform at 2012 NHL All-Star Game
Judge Delays Ruling On Halle Berry's Restraining Order Request
Halle Berry will have to wait until Monday to learn whether she can ban her ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry from having contact with their daughter after a former nanny accused him of battery. Alliance...
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'The Grey' Red-Band Trailer
Joe Carnahan's adventure/survival film The Grey opens this week, and a new red-band trailer has shown up to promote the movie in the final days before the movie hits. You probably know most of the basic info about the movie: Liam Neeson plays one of a group of roughnecks heading back to civilization from a remote Alaskan job who has to confront a hungry and vicious pack of wolves when a plane crash strands the men in the middle of nowhere.
The film became internet-famous for the teaser trailer's shot of Liam Neeson taping broken bottles to his knuckles in preparation for a battle with one of the wolves, but there's more to the movie than that. I liked The Grey quite a lot — it is a solid, satisfying B-movie that has just enough subtext to overcome the fact that the attacking wolves are, well, a little dodgy.
This red-band trailer will give you a taste of the film's full spectrum of intensity and violence. Check it out below.
The Grey also features Dallas Roberts, James Badge Dale, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo, Nonso Anozie, and Joe Anderson. It opens this Friday, January 27.
A group of oil-rig roughnecks are left stranded on the sub-arctic tundra after their plane experiences a complete mechanical failure and crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. The survivors, battling mortal injuries, biting cold and ravenous hunger, are relentlessly hunted and pursued by a vicious pack of rogue wolves.
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Blu-ray Review: 'Real Steel'
What could be better then Hugh Jackman and a fighting robot? How about a gaggle of fighting robots! The metal-minded new father/son bonding flick "Real Steel" hits Blu-ray Jan 24 from DreamWorks/...
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Mr. Ray was a colorful indie-film executive who helped steer art-house movies like "Bowling for Columbine" and "Hotel Rwanda" to the masses.
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