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Tyrone Power Interview – Intro
22 hours ago | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Among the romantic leading men of the studio era, Tyrone Power, 20th Century Fox’s top male star from the mid-’30s to the late ’40s, is my favorite. He wasn’t the best actor of the bunch — I’d say that honor belongs to Gregory Peck. He wasn’t the sexiest, either — I’d say that honor belongs to Errol Flynn. Yet, in my view Power was the one who, more than anyone else, from Clark Gable to John Payne, from Laurence Olivier to John Garfield, from John Gilbert to John Wayne, came across as genuinely warm, sensitive, and unaffected. (Ramon Novarro, of whom I’ve written a biography, also possessed most of those qualities; Novarro, however, sometimes failed in the [...] »
- Andre Soares
'Brothers': Hollywood Effs Up Again
3 December 2009 3:12 PM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Desson Thomson
Talk about lost in translation.
When American movies try to remake European ones, why do they fail so frequently?
Latest case in point: “Brothers,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire and, in the worst bit of casting since John Wayne played Genghis Khan in 1950’s “The Conqueror,” Natalie Portman as a military wife.
Is it because English -- or Hollywood -- is the cultural equivalent of an X-ray machine that reduces all other languages and cultures to a sort of dorky banality? Is it because American scriptwriters can’t help thems... »
- Lew Harris
Downey Jr. Lands Top Hollywood Honour
2 December 2009 5:36 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Robert Downey Jr. is to become part of Hollywood royalty on Monday when his hand and footprints are added to the cement outside Tinseltown landmark Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
The Iron Man star will join the likes of George Clooney, John Wayne and Charlie Chaplin, who he once famously portrayed on the big screen, when he's honoured on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.
His wife Susan Downey and moviemaker Joel Silver will be among the guests paying tribute to the movie star. »
The Flickcast Presents: Western Wednesdays – ‘Two Mules For Sister Sara’
2 December 2009 3:30 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
I used to hate Westerns. I live in the wide and rugged expanse of Colorado, grew up in the shadow of the Rockies, and see cowboy boots on a daily basis. Heck, I even did a volunteer stint at a western museum. I couldn’t stand watching films that were basically set in my own backyard, even if the days of gunslingers and posses were long gone.
Later, I finally came around. I can’t say when this shift happened — probably upon my first adult viewing of Lonesome Dove, or maybe even as recent as James Mangold’s remake of 3:10 to Yuma. But I suddenly found Westerns to be a lot of fun, and I’ve enjoyed going back and watching all John Wayne and John Ford offerings that I’ve missed due to my snobbery.
Because I’m the type of girl who overshares everything, I thought it »
- Elisabeth Rappe
Brando, Depp, the missing millions and Divine Rapture, the lost movie
26 November 2009 2:15 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The first sign things were going wrong on the set of Divine Rapture was when Marlon Brando shaved his head. But that was the least of the film's troubles
If all the roads in Ireland were to converge at a final destination, you would probably find yourself in Ballycotton, Co Cork. A tiny village on a rocky headland, it is as removed and cosy as its name suggests. Its harbour is stocked with a colourful fishing fleet and traditional music seeps from the pubs on Main Street. Despite an annual running marathon that passes through the town, it is slow-paced, sleepy, and cocooned from the outside world. But although 200-ft cliffs keep the Atlantic at bay and an offshore lighthouse looks out for danger, nothing could protect Ballycotton from nature's cruellest force: Hollywood.
Back in 1995, Johnny Depp, Debra Winger, and Marlon Brando rolled into town to make a film called Divine Rapture. »
HBO’s ‘The Pacific’ Trailer
18 November 2009 11:43 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
HBO is bringing us The Pacific, a WWII story of what went down in the Pacific while the men from Band of Brothers were fighting in Europe.
The series is based on the memoirs of Eugene Sledge and Robert Leckie, both of whom were Marines that served in the Pacific Theater of Operations. It was produced by (you guessed it) Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks (both of whom produced BoB) and Gary Goetzman (producer of Charlie Wilson’s War).
Joseph Mazzello and James Badge Dale have tackled the roles of Sledge and Leckie, respectively. John Seda rounds out the lead parts playing Sergeant John Basilone. Mazzello played the little boy in Jurassic Park (!) all those years ago, Dale popped up in The Departed and The Black Donnellys and Seda’s a former boxer who appeared in Twelve Monkeys and more recently, Bad Boys II.
Here’s the trailer for The Pacific. »
- Scott Miller
Besson, Reno, Portman, Oldman: 'The Professional' 15 Years Later
18 November 2009 2:23 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Jean Reno and Natalie Portman in The Professional
Photo: Columbia Pictures Is Luc Besson an overrated filmmaker? I think he's a fine director but reviewing his resume he's usually a pretty average writer and his movies are kind of hit-or-miss. But every once in while he sneaks in an effort that surprises you, makes you take a step back and think, Whoa, where'd that come from? My most recent such reaction came while watching his last directorial effort, Angel-a, a sweet and moving love story dropped into a hotzone trifecta of mediocrity including The Fifth Element, The Messenger and Arthur and the Invisibles. To that point, outside of Angel-a he hasn't made a substantial contribution to the medium since Leon - The Professional, a contribution certainly worth celebrating, and will be done so over the next ten paragraphs.
I didn't see The Professional in the movie theater. I watched it on VHS. »
- Andre Rivas
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
16 November 2009 4:26 PM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
Directed by: Troy Duffy
Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, Billy Connolly, Clifton Collins Jr., Julie Benz
Running Time: 2 hrs
Rating: R
Release Date: November 13, 2009 (Limited)
Plot: The vigilante assassins (Flanery, Reedus) return from hiding in Ireland to stop a copycat killer who is putting a bad mark on their legacy. While back home they attempt to fix the unfinished business with the powerful Yakavetta Mob.
Who’S It For? If you like action movies with slow motion shootouts, slim plots, and shabby moral lessons, then you probably saw 1999’s original The Boondock Saints. Now that ten years have past, do you want the same thing again, or would a hundredth re-watch of the first suffice?
Expectations: The first film succeeded with a few clever ideas, such as a different way to imagine a shootout. Now that the Saints aren’t particularly new to us, »
- Nick Allen
Iconic Shots: Empire Captures 50 Picture Perfect Film Moments
16 November 2009 5:39 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
It may be an advertising grab if there ever was one, but that doesn't make Empire's Picture Perfect: Iconic Movie Stills feature any less impressive. The popular British film magazine's online arm has assembled 50 of the most memorable scenes from the history of film and delivered them in a glorious high resolution gallery. After browsing through much of the gallery, I clipped one of my personal favorites -- from the opening T-Rex scene in Jurassic Park -- to share with all of you above. Other great moments include one of the more beautiful shots from Hitchcock's The Birds, Al Pacino sitting in his throne-like arm chair in The Godfather Part 2 and the savage Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) heading out toward the fringes of life in The Searchers. Just to name a few. Head over to Empire and see the entire gallery for yourself, then come back and let me know which pics are your favorites in »
- Neil Miller
Pass notes No 2,683: Cinématon
15 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The longest film ever made, all six days of it
What's that? The world's longest film.
How long is it? One hundred and fifty hours. That's six days. Or, if you prefer, six economy-size bags of Revels, three furtive bottles of gin, at least 12 trips to the loo, two sore buttocks, a pair of red eyes and one overwhelming sense of the utter pointlessness of human existence.
Not a date movie then? Don't be so sure. You could date, snog, get engaged, marry, conceive your first child, have a thing with someone else in row seven, divorce, have torrid make-up sex and settle in for the long haul with your original date all before the closing credits.
I'll bet it's French. Of course it is. Cinématon will be shown in Avignon later this month. Director Gérard Courant had the idea in 1978 and has spent 31 years making it. The film consists of three-minute, »
Interview – Troy Duffy, Chris Brinker, and Sean Patrick Flanery of The Boondock Saints II
13 November 2009 5:19 PM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Like many, I came to know and love The Boondock Saints through DVD (and now Blu-ray.) Browsing through my local DVD retailer, I checked out their new releases and saw the film for a reasonable price. This was also at a time I had decided I wanted to be a filmmaker so I was interested in seeing obscure, off-beat films. So I purchased the flick, went home, and was instantly assaulted by all of it’s awesome. From the unrelenting action to Willem Dafoe’s outlandish performance, I was thoroughly entertained by what Troy Duffy had delivered and eagerly anticipated the sequel, which by this point in time was still rumored.
Well here we are, ten years after the first film debuted and The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is upon us. While it’s been playing New York and L.A., everyone else gets it this weekend. When »
- Philip Barrett
Gold Derby nuggets: 411 on 'Nine' | Two perspectives on 'Avatar' | Four toons top 50 Oscars snubs
13 November 2009 3:04 PM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
• Tony-winning composer Maury Yeston talked in great detail to Harry Haun about the journey of "Nine" from screen (as "8 1/2") to stage and back to screen. "There are only two ways to approach Broadway shows becoming movies," Yeston says. "One of them is to be an over-controlling fuddy-duddy and not let anybody change anything. The other is to step back and go with the new medium." For Yeston, "The adaptation back into film was a very organic one that made a tremendous amount of sense. It was a great opportunity to allow this piece -- which had been so cinematic to begin with -- to find again its place in the grammar of cinema. That means things like dissolves, edits, close-ups, lighting effects -- things film can do for exposition to get inside the mind." Playbill
• Steve Pond delivers more scoop on Saturday's inaugural Governors Awards at Hollywood and Highland's Grand »
- tomoneil
Movie Reviews: “The Men Who Stare At Goats”
6 November 2009 10:23 PM, PST | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
We get more paranormal activity this week in The Men Who Stare at Goats, starring George Clooney, Jeff Bridges and Stephen Lang about a reporter's efforts to reveal the story of an Army unit (supposedly real) seeking to harness the parapsychology for the benefit of the U.S. The movie, writes Steven Rea in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "has a glorious good time satirizing the extravagant lengths to which the military and intelligence establishments will go if they think there's a payoff at the other end." That's especially true in the case of Clooney, several critics observe. Roger Moore in the Orlando Sentinel, for example, observes that "'Wacky' isn't George Clooney's strong suit as an actor. But it's always at least amusing to watch the suave, silky leading man let his freak flag fly." In the San Francisco Chronicle Mick Lasalle writes that the movie shows just how far Clooney has come in his acting ability, "building a screen identity that's as specific and engaging as that of any classic film star. Like a James Stewart or a John Wayne, Clooney represents something just standing there - integrity, shrewdness, irony and self-deprecation. Or, to put it simply, today's American man." But Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times writes that although the movie may have initially been conceived as a showcase for Clooney, "more or less stealing the picture from Clooney is Jeff Bridges, an actor you can never see often enough." »
Defending Modern Warfare: Call of Duty 4 Rewind
6 November 2009 9:09 PM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
We here at Reel Loop are expanding our horizons a bit. While we’ll still continue to be primarily a film website, me (Philip) has tortured the site editor (Mr. Erik) to the point where he had no other option to do this. In addition to film and television, we’re going to start covering the other visual medium. No, I’m not talking about pornography, I’m talking about something I have my first memory of; video games.
To kick off this celebration, we’ll be doing what any other gaming site in their right mind is doing and going ga-ga over a certain thing coming out this Tuesday, the tenth of November. It’s an entity so powerful, it’s said to cure cancer. This is something so miraculous, that the poison that is Twilight will implode on itself when the clock strikes 12:01 Am Est on Tuesday. »
- Philip Barrett
[TV] Zorro: The Complete Second Season
5 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
By the time that Zorro had completed its first season, the Disney company had virtually cornered its television demographic through various programs, not the least of which were Zorro, Walt Disney Presents, and the Mickey Mouse Club. Uncle Walt having the dedication to perfection that he did, he set the bar pretty high for the second season, wanting to maintain everything that had made the show so popular (granted, most shows face such a challenge, but many producers are content to allow their product to suck as much as it did the first time around). Back again to kick around some more bad guys are Diego de la Vega (Guy Williams) the young, rich son of a don whose alter ego should be painfully obvious to anyone in the immediate area, his faithful manservant Bernardo (Gene Sheldon), who speaks only through pantomime, and Sergeant Garcia (Henry Calvin), the obese, villainous comic relief. »
- Anders Nelson
The Good, The Bad And The Wtf: Sands of Not My Freakin' Dime
4 November 2009 1:09 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
It's the mid-week report of the good, bad and you-know-what-the-what here, as we compile the movie news from the past week and a half. Yes, you'll have more at the end of the week—but for now, let us all cringe together as we see stomach news of the 2012 motion sickness experience, an Mib without Will Smith, and the audacity of some people to shoot a barely visible topless scene and hype it up like it was Basic Instinct 3.
The Good
• For years, there have been several attempts to do a sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, none of them ever came close to moving ahead. Speaking to MTV last week, director Robert Zemeckis set the record straight: that this time he is personally involved and really excited to do the sequel, and that he has commissioned original scribes Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman to write the screenplay. Let's hope »
- Arya Ponto
Matt Damon and Josh Brolin Join Coen Brothers’ True Grit
29 October 2009 10:02 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are in discussions to join the next Coen brothers film – remake of the 1969 western classic “True Grit.”
Jeff Bridges is already a member of the cast as Marshall “Rooster” Cogburn, originally played by John Wayne who won an Oscar for this role.
The original “True Grit,” based on the Charles Portis novel, tells the story of U.S. marshal Rooster Cogburn and another man in uniform tracking the killer of a 14 year-old girl’s father.
The Coens are planning a more faithful adaptation of the novel so the story is told from the point-of-view of the young girl, and not of Rooster Cogburn (Bridges’ character).
Damon will play the Texas Ranger (originally played by Glen Campbell) that works with Cogburn and Brolin will fill the villain part – the murderous man they’re chasing.
Bridges already worked with the Coen Brothers and famously portrayed Jeffrey “The »
- Fiona
Jeff Bridges is the new John Wayne in True Grit
28 October 2009 4:15 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Jeff Bridges is set to play John Wayne's iconic character in 'True Grit'.
The 59-year-old actor will portray legendary cowboy Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn in the modern-day remake of the 1969 blockbuster, which is due to be made by renowned filmmakers the Coen brothers.
Jeff revealed to Britain's FHM Magazine: "I'm hoping that it goes down. We don't know for sure. The Coens want to do it and the studio wants to make it, it's just a matter of executing the desires of all these people.
"I'll be playing the John Wayne role."
The plotline - which was based on the 1968 book of the same name, by Charles Portis - is about a drunken Us Marshal and a Texas Ranger's journey to help a stubborn young woman track down her father's murderer.
The original film was directed by Henry Hathaway and saw John win the Best Actor Oscar »
- Paul
Coen Brothers Talk Casting and Storyline for True Grit Remake
27 October 2009 5:03 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Just yesterday we tipped you off about the recent talks of Matt Damon and Josh Brolin joining Jeff Bridges in the Coen Brothers remake of the classic 1969 western True Grit that starred John Wayne. After it was announced IGN took it upon themselves to get this info straight from the horse's mouth, and the Coens went even further to offer up some more details on the story and poke a little fun at the entertainment trades (Variety / Hollywood Reporter). On the casting announcements, without hesitation, Joel Coen said: "Yes. Jeff, Matt and Josh, that's true -- something that you read in the trades that actually turns out to be true!" What the trades haven't seemed to pick up or clarify, however, is the presentation style that this story will take on and how it is different from the original film in its more accurate portrayal of the source material ... »
- Ethan Anderton
Damon, Brolin have 'Grit'
27 October 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are in talks with Joel and Ethan Coen to join the cast of "True Grit," the remake of the 1969 Western. Paramount is set to begin production in March for release late next year.According to Variety, Jeff Bridges is set to star as U.S. marshal Rooster Cogburn. John Wayne won his only Oscar for his portrayal of Cogburn in the original. Damon would play the sheriff who teams with Cogburn and a 14-year-old girl to track her father's killer. Glen Campbell played the part in the original.Brolin is in talks to play the killer. The Coens are producing with Scott Rudin and Steven Spielberg. »
- Adnan Tezer
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