1985: Santa Barbara's Brick & Amy were married.
1995: Loving spinoff The City premiered on ABC.
1998: Guiding Light's Danny met Michelle.
2003: One Life to Live's Blair married Walker."The best prophet of the future is the past."
― Lord Byron
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1942: On Clara, Lu and Em, Emma "Em" Krueger (Helen King) threw a party.
1964: On Another World, Mitchell Dru (Geoffrey Lumb) asked John Randolph to take on Pat Matthew's case. Michael M. Ryan and Gaye Huston made their first appearances as John and Lee Randolph.
1967: On Dark Shadows, Julia Hoffman (Grayson Hall) panicked when Woodard's ghost appeared.
1979: On As the World Turns,...
1995: Loving spinoff The City premiered on ABC.
1998: Guiding Light's Danny met Michelle.
2003: One Life to Live's Blair married Walker."The best prophet of the future is the past."
― Lord Byron
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1942: On Clara, Lu and Em, Emma "Em" Krueger (Helen King) threw a party.
1964: On Another World, Mitchell Dru (Geoffrey Lumb) asked John Randolph to take on Pat Matthew's case. Michael M. Ryan and Gaye Huston made their first appearances as John and Lee Randolph.
1967: On Dark Shadows, Julia Hoffman (Grayson Hall) panicked when Woodard's ghost appeared.
1979: On As the World Turns,...
- 11/15/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
The Cold War isn’t over. At least, within the confines of Christiano Dias’ award-winning short, “Hurricane,” it’s not.
Starring Lisa Roumain, Corey Page and David Jay, the short is a dark comedy set against the backdrop of the Cold War that chronicles a seemingly normal husband and wife’s unexpected encounter with a suspected Communist. It’s funny and sharp and charmingly relevant. Despite its period setting, for writer and director Dias, “Hurricane” couldn’t be a more timely outing.
“‘Hurricane’ was made as a direct result of my own illogical fears of the growing threat of terrorism in the United States,” Dias said in an official statement. “Much like the Cold War sparked the same fears of Communism in the 1950s, the growing threat of terrorism can lead many people to ‘over-react’ concerning these same insecurities. Additionally, some of the same feelings toward Russia and Communism as...
Starring Lisa Roumain, Corey Page and David Jay, the short is a dark comedy set against the backdrop of the Cold War that chronicles a seemingly normal husband and wife’s unexpected encounter with a suspected Communist. It’s funny and sharp and charmingly relevant. Despite its period setting, for writer and director Dias, “Hurricane” couldn’t be a more timely outing.
“‘Hurricane’ was made as a direct result of my own illogical fears of the growing threat of terrorism in the United States,” Dias said in an official statement. “Much like the Cold War sparked the same fears of Communism in the 1950s, the growing threat of terrorism can lead many people to ‘over-react’ concerning these same insecurities. Additionally, some of the same feelings toward Russia and Communism as...
- 10/20/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The last we heard about Wrath, from writer-director Jonathan Neil Dixon, was last fall. With the film now poised for a screening in Australia - where the film hails from - we have a trailer to share with you.
You'll find it after the jump. Corey Page, Stef Dawson, Rebecca Ratcliff and Xavier Fernandez star.
Traveling through a remote region of the Australian Outback, a road-tripping group of friends encounters a female stranger desperately in need of their help. What unfolds next is a shocking, unrelenting game of cat-and-mouse and psychological terror as they are victimized by three unknown strangers. The friends must fight for their lives to escape this unforeseen terror.
When the film lands on U.S. soil, we'll let you know.
Read more...
You'll find it after the jump. Corey Page, Stef Dawson, Rebecca Ratcliff and Xavier Fernandez star.
Traveling through a remote region of the Australian Outback, a road-tripping group of friends encounters a female stranger desperately in need of their help. What unfolds next is a shocking, unrelenting game of cat-and-mouse and psychological terror as they are victimized by three unknown strangers. The friends must fight for their lives to escape this unforeseen terror.
When the film lands on U.S. soil, we'll let you know.
Read more...
- 7/2/2012
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Here's the thing, people ... Picking up someone on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere is never a good thing. It's better to keep to yourself and live another day, no? Wrath is the next film on tap ready to teach that lesson.
The film from Dark Forest Pictures has been directed by Jonathan N. Dixon and stars Stef Dawson, Rebecca Ratcliff, Corey Page, Xavier Fernandez, William Emmons, Michael Windeyer, Charlie Falkner, Rod Ramsay, Michael Cullen, and Bianca Brade.
Check out the artwork after the plot crunch.
Synopsis
6:00 Am on a perfect morning in the Australian Outback as photographer Caroline Webster and her husband, Matthew, set out from a small roadside motel with two close friends. Traveling south to the coast through the remote region of the Boanyoo Ranges, they encounter a female stranger desperately in need of their help. What unfolds next is a shocking...
The film from Dark Forest Pictures has been directed by Jonathan N. Dixon and stars Stef Dawson, Rebecca Ratcliff, Corey Page, Xavier Fernandez, William Emmons, Michael Windeyer, Charlie Falkner, Rod Ramsay, Michael Cullen, and Bianca Brade.
Check out the artwork after the plot crunch.
Synopsis
6:00 Am on a perfect morning in the Australian Outback as photographer Caroline Webster and her husband, Matthew, set out from a small roadside motel with two close friends. Traveling south to the coast through the remote region of the Boanyoo Ranges, they encounter a female stranger desperately in need of their help. What unfolds next is a shocking...
- 10/25/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Writer-director Jonathan Neil Dixon is making his directorial feature debut with Wrath , a film ready to screen next week at the American Film Market. Starring Corey Page and Michael Windeyer, the film concerns a road-tripping group of friends encounters a female stranger desperately in need of their help in the Australian countryside. What unfolds next is a shocking and unrelenting game of cat-and-mouse and psychological terror as they are victimized by three unknown strangers - and they must fight to survive and escape this unforeseen terror. For a behind-the-scenes look at the film, head over to this Facebook page for photos.
- 10/25/2011
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Dark Forest Productions and Wrath Movie Productions have completed post-production on the Australian shot Wrath. This is a psychological thriller that puts one stranger up against a group of friends in a dangerous game of "cat and mouse" (Film).
The first poster for the film can be seen left as the graphic's tagline suggests: "in the outback some secrets should never be known." Some of those secrets will remain in the film, as the released plotline for Wrath is more mystery than reveal. Recently this title was picked up by Lightning Entertainment for distribution in North America. Try to decipher the synopsis below.
Tagline: "Some secrets should never be known."
The synopsis for Wrath is here:
"6am on a perfect morning in the Australian Outback as photographer Caroline Webster and her husband Matthew set out from the small roadside motel with two close friends. Traveling south to the coast through...
The first poster for the film can be seen left as the graphic's tagline suggests: "in the outback some secrets should never be known." Some of those secrets will remain in the film, as the released plotline for Wrath is more mystery than reveal. Recently this title was picked up by Lightning Entertainment for distribution in North America. Try to decipher the synopsis below.
Tagline: "Some secrets should never be known."
The synopsis for Wrath is here:
"6am on a perfect morning in the Australian Outback as photographer Caroline Webster and her husband Matthew set out from the small roadside motel with two close friends. Traveling south to the coast through...
- 8/5/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Although the title might at first blush suggest a comedy about drag queens, "Mascara" is a drama about a trio of female best buddies on the cusp of 30 who decide to conceal their emotional blemishes no longer and to get their messy lives in order.
The second feature from Linda Kandel ("Naked Jane") is fraught with self-absorbed, touchy-feely psychobabble - the kind of chick flick that gives chick flicks a bad name.
While bright performances and somewhat gratuitous nudity keep it from being completely insufferable, even the indie's target audience will turn elsewhere for messages of empowerment.
Kandel, who has said her intention was to update the classic women's film, does the genre no favors with her tediously insular profile of three Southern California friends at a crossroads.
First, there's Laura ("Like Water for Chocolate"'s Lumi Cavazos), a therapist who needs a little counseling after her marriage to selfish, big-spending Donnie (Steve Schub) goes south shortly after the wedding.
Then there's free-spirited Rebecca (Ione Skye), who's on the verge of committing to a relationship with older photographer Nick (played nicely by ex-Sex Pistol Steve Jones) when his incestuously flirtatious daughter (Tara Subkoff) moves back in with him, propelling Rebecca instead to have a tryst with a young man (Corey Page) who turns out to be Nick's son. Oh, and her life takes on deeper meaning when she learns that the father she thought long dead is alive and well and selling used cars in Northern California.
Last but not least, there's highly unsympathetic Jennifer Amanda De Cadenet), who, unable to forgive her husband for a past infidelity, ups and leaves him and their young daughter one day, checks into a San Francisco hotel, gets drunk and picks up a creep who subsequently rapes her.
Given what they have to work with, the cast - particularly Skye and Cavazos - does an admirable job grounding their soapy characters in credibility, and Kandel coaxes good things out of them.
While her script isn't always somber and introspective, Kandel's periodic attempts at light comedy fall awkwardly flat.
Considering the picture's low budget, technical contributions are impressive, though after the first half-hour of enduring cameraman Francois Dagenais' fondness for handheld sequences, you want to take up a collection and buy him a tripod.
MASCARA
Phaedra Cinema
An Anamorph Films production
Director-screenwriter: Linda Kandel
Producer: Crocker Coulson
Director of photography: Francois Dagenais
Editor: Jane Pia Abramowitz
Music: Steven Medina Hufsteter
Music supervisor: Tequila Mockingbird
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rebecca: Ione Skye
Laura: Lumi Cavazos
Jennifer: Amanda de Cadenet
Nick: Steve Jones
Donnie: Steve Schub
Daphne: Tara Subkoff
Andrew: Corey Page
Aunt Eloise: Karen Black
Running time - 94 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
The second feature from Linda Kandel ("Naked Jane") is fraught with self-absorbed, touchy-feely psychobabble - the kind of chick flick that gives chick flicks a bad name.
While bright performances and somewhat gratuitous nudity keep it from being completely insufferable, even the indie's target audience will turn elsewhere for messages of empowerment.
Kandel, who has said her intention was to update the classic women's film, does the genre no favors with her tediously insular profile of three Southern California friends at a crossroads.
First, there's Laura ("Like Water for Chocolate"'s Lumi Cavazos), a therapist who needs a little counseling after her marriage to selfish, big-spending Donnie (Steve Schub) goes south shortly after the wedding.
Then there's free-spirited Rebecca (Ione Skye), who's on the verge of committing to a relationship with older photographer Nick (played nicely by ex-Sex Pistol Steve Jones) when his incestuously flirtatious daughter (Tara Subkoff) moves back in with him, propelling Rebecca instead to have a tryst with a young man (Corey Page) who turns out to be Nick's son. Oh, and her life takes on deeper meaning when she learns that the father she thought long dead is alive and well and selling used cars in Northern California.
Last but not least, there's highly unsympathetic Jennifer Amanda De Cadenet), who, unable to forgive her husband for a past infidelity, ups and leaves him and their young daughter one day, checks into a San Francisco hotel, gets drunk and picks up a creep who subsequently rapes her.
Given what they have to work with, the cast - particularly Skye and Cavazos - does an admirable job grounding their soapy characters in credibility, and Kandel coaxes good things out of them.
While her script isn't always somber and introspective, Kandel's periodic attempts at light comedy fall awkwardly flat.
Considering the picture's low budget, technical contributions are impressive, though after the first half-hour of enduring cameraman Francois Dagenais' fondness for handheld sequences, you want to take up a collection and buy him a tripod.
MASCARA
Phaedra Cinema
An Anamorph Films production
Director-screenwriter: Linda Kandel
Producer: Crocker Coulson
Director of photography: Francois Dagenais
Editor: Jane Pia Abramowitz
Music: Steven Medina Hufsteter
Music supervisor: Tequila Mockingbird
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rebecca: Ione Skye
Laura: Lumi Cavazos
Jennifer: Amanda de Cadenet
Nick: Steve Jones
Donnie: Steve Schub
Daphne: Tara Subkoff
Andrew: Corey Page
Aunt Eloise: Karen Black
Running time - 94 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 5/17/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Like a promising student who never quite delivers on their potential, "Dead Man on Campus" had the makings of a quirky college comedy going for something a little different than the usual sophomoric approach.
Despite the intent, it doesn't make the grade. Episodic and unevenly paced, the comedy stalls every time it threatens to gain momentum, boosted by colorful character turns.
While its back-to-school timing is understandable, its core audience will likely be too preoccupied getting its own dorms in order to pay much attention to the MTV Films/Paramount collaboration.
Tom Everett Scott ("That Thing You Do!") is Josh, an earnest freshman attending ivy-covered Daleman College on a scholarship. Unfortunately, his roommate is Cooper (Mark-Paul Gosselaar of "Saved by the Bell"), a party-all-the-time rich kid who proves a bad influence.
As Josh's baptism by bong water results in plummeting grades with semester's end rapidly approaching, the pair turn to the renowned "Dead Man's Clause" as a last, desperate resort.
Qualifying as the stuff urban legends are made of, the clause apparently awards a 4.0 grade-point average to a student whose roommate dies -- provided, of course, that said student didn't cause the death.
With little time to waste, Josh and Cooper break into the mental health clinic to steal files of potential victims to recruit as roommates. But things turn out more complicated than they seem.
Working from a script by Mike White and Michael Traeger, frequent MTV director Alan Cohn eschews the loud, obvious route for something more subtle and Laid Back. The problem is, while that might have worked in a small-screen format, the direction and material scream for forward momentum here.
The cast is fine, with Scott playing Tom Hanks to Gosselaar's Michael Keaton, but things only really come alive with a trio of scene-stealing turns from their potential victims: Randy Pearlstein as clinically paranoid Buckley, Corey Page as faux-depressive Morrissey clone Matt and, particularly, Lochlyn Munro as dangerously gonzo Cliff.
Technically, "Dead Man on Campus" receives high marks. There's definitely an MTV-style look, thanks to cinematographer John Thomas ("Barcelona") and Carol Winstead Wood's spare, unfussy production design.
The audio end is even more satisfying -- from the jittery score by Devo-tee Mark Mothersbaugh and college radio-ready tunes by the likes of Blur, Supergrass and Propellerheads to a Dust Brothers-Marilyn Manson cover of David Bowie's "Golden Years" and '60s supermodel Twiggy's take on "I Only Want to Be With You".
DEAD MAN ON CAMPUS
Paramount
in association with MTV Films
A Pacific Western production
Director: Alan Cohn
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
Screenwriters: Michael Traeger and Mike White
Story: Anthony Abrams & Adam Larson Broder
Executive producers: David Gale and Van Toffler
Director of photography: John Thomas
Production designer: Carol Winstead Wood
Editor: Debra Chiate
Costume designer: Kathleen Detoro
Score: Mark Mothersbaugh
Music supervisors: Peter Afterman and Amy Finnerty
Color/stereo
Cast:
Josh: Tom Everett Scott
Cooper: Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Rachel: Poppy Montgomery
Cliff: Lochlyn Munro
Buckley: Randy Pearlstein
Matt: Corey Page
Running time -- 89 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Despite the intent, it doesn't make the grade. Episodic and unevenly paced, the comedy stalls every time it threatens to gain momentum, boosted by colorful character turns.
While its back-to-school timing is understandable, its core audience will likely be too preoccupied getting its own dorms in order to pay much attention to the MTV Films/Paramount collaboration.
Tom Everett Scott ("That Thing You Do!") is Josh, an earnest freshman attending ivy-covered Daleman College on a scholarship. Unfortunately, his roommate is Cooper (Mark-Paul Gosselaar of "Saved by the Bell"), a party-all-the-time rich kid who proves a bad influence.
As Josh's baptism by bong water results in plummeting grades with semester's end rapidly approaching, the pair turn to the renowned "Dead Man's Clause" as a last, desperate resort.
Qualifying as the stuff urban legends are made of, the clause apparently awards a 4.0 grade-point average to a student whose roommate dies -- provided, of course, that said student didn't cause the death.
With little time to waste, Josh and Cooper break into the mental health clinic to steal files of potential victims to recruit as roommates. But things turn out more complicated than they seem.
Working from a script by Mike White and Michael Traeger, frequent MTV director Alan Cohn eschews the loud, obvious route for something more subtle and Laid Back. The problem is, while that might have worked in a small-screen format, the direction and material scream for forward momentum here.
The cast is fine, with Scott playing Tom Hanks to Gosselaar's Michael Keaton, but things only really come alive with a trio of scene-stealing turns from their potential victims: Randy Pearlstein as clinically paranoid Buckley, Corey Page as faux-depressive Morrissey clone Matt and, particularly, Lochlyn Munro as dangerously gonzo Cliff.
Technically, "Dead Man on Campus" receives high marks. There's definitely an MTV-style look, thanks to cinematographer John Thomas ("Barcelona") and Carol Winstead Wood's spare, unfussy production design.
The audio end is even more satisfying -- from the jittery score by Devo-tee Mark Mothersbaugh and college radio-ready tunes by the likes of Blur, Supergrass and Propellerheads to a Dust Brothers-Marilyn Manson cover of David Bowie's "Golden Years" and '60s supermodel Twiggy's take on "I Only Want to Be With You".
DEAD MAN ON CAMPUS
Paramount
in association with MTV Films
A Pacific Western production
Director: Alan Cohn
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
Screenwriters: Michael Traeger and Mike White
Story: Anthony Abrams & Adam Larson Broder
Executive producers: David Gale and Van Toffler
Director of photography: John Thomas
Production designer: Carol Winstead Wood
Editor: Debra Chiate
Costume designer: Kathleen Detoro
Score: Mark Mothersbaugh
Music supervisors: Peter Afterman and Amy Finnerty
Color/stereo
Cast:
Josh: Tom Everett Scott
Cooper: Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Rachel: Poppy Montgomery
Cliff: Lochlyn Munro
Buckley: Randy Pearlstein
Matt: Corey Page
Running time -- 89 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 8/21/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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