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/Filmcast Ep. 81 - Avatar (Guest: Dan Trachtenberg from the Totally Rad Show)
23 December 2009 6:37 PM, PST
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This week, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley have some harsh words for Rob Marshall's Nine, discuss the greatness of Terminator 2 on Blu-Ray, praise the works of David Cronenberg, and try to muster some excitement for Ridley Scott's rendition of Robin Hood. Special guest Dan Trachtenberg joins us from The Totally Rad Show.
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Introduction
(00:34) Dan Trachtenberg from the Totally Rad Show
What We've Been Watching
David Chen (04:12): Nine
Dan (17:09): Terminator 2 (Blu-ray), An Education
Devindra (29:40): 25th Hour
Adam (36:25): Naked Lunch
News Discussion
(43:28) Brittany Murphy
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Review of The Life And Death Of A Porno Gang
8 December 2009 4:51 PM, PST
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Year: 2009
Directors: Mladen Djordjevic
Writers: Mladen Djordjevic
IMDb: link
Trailer: link (Nsfw)
Review by: Dejan Ognjanovic
Rating: 8.5 out of 10
[Editor's note: Reposted from Dejan's blog The Temple of Ghoul]
Here is a film from Serbia which succeeds to be shocking and original: Zivot i smrt porno bande (The Life and Death of a Porn Gang, 2009), a debut feature by Mladen Djordjevic. He became known among horror fans with his short films Zivi mrtvaci (The Living Dead, 2000) and Glad (Hunger, 2002) and he earned a wider acclaim with his feature-length documentary about Serbian porn industry, Made in Serbia (2005). These concerns logically continue with his …Porn Gang.
The film deals with an aspiring filmmaker, Marko, who is unable to pursue a career in horror films. He ventures into the porn industry, but his unorthodox style fails to impress producers. Frustrated, he assembles a crew of junkies, homosexuals and transvestites and starts a traveling live porn show. It draws attention of the suspicious police,
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Ask the Flying Monkey! (November 23, 2009)
23 November 2009 5:03 AM, PST
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Have a question about gay male entertainment? Send it to aftereltonflyingmonkey@yahoo.com! (Please include your city and state and/or country.)
Q: On last week’s episode of The Amazing
Race, both Sam and Dan’s groin areas were pixelated during their mudflats
volleyball game in Tallinn, Estonia
– but no one else was. Upon arrival at the mudflats volleyball court, Sam,
after a thorough survey of their male competitors, remarked how gorgeous and
good-looking they all were in their black trunks. Could it be a case of
uncontrolled standing ovation or just attire malfunction? – Anonymous
Sam (left) and Dan McMillen
A: What are you suggesting – that they both
had uncontrolled standing ovations? That makes me wonder what’s in the water
back in Liberty, Missouri.
But it’s true: plenty of viewers were perplexed by the curious case of the pixilation
of the underwear of Amazing Race’s hot
gay brothers.
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Taking Woodstock and cinema's love of trippy scenes | Anne Billson
12 November 2009 2:30 PM, PST
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There are plenty of trippy movie scenes – but watching them sober makes you feel like the designated driver in a roomful of drunks
Thirty-six years ago, I dropped a tab of Lsd. It was Ok, but I never felt the urge to do it again, and never thought much about it – until the other day, when I was watching Taking Woodstock. To the sound of Love's The Red Telephone, Ang Lee serves up an acid trip so uncannily spot-on, I swear it gave me my first ever flashback.
It's not as though there's ever been a shortage of trippy scenes in films. It's just they always seemed to chime more with the experiences of the film-makers than with my own. Indeed, watching them sober, you often feel like the designated driver in a roomful of babbling drunks. In the aptly-named The Trip, Peter Fonda has a psychedelic experience in which,
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The Cultural Post Turns One
12 October 2009 6:56 AM, PDT
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One year ago, I decided to drop political blogging.* In doing so, I combined my love for writing (or should I say my desperate need to improve my English), movies, television and the Internet in order to deliver the second version of the blog (i.e.: Anh Khoi Do and Movies) that you're reading. One year later, I'm honoured to tell you that I'm keeping the course with my blog and I changed its name because I'm afraid that someone out there (except my acquaintances and my close friends from my daily life) might mispronounce my full name.
Obviously, one of the most wonderful moments was my discovery of the Lamb and its myriad of great movie blogs. Secondly, my main lowlight was this: after I saw Naked Lunch, a film directed by David Cronenberg, I didn't bother to write a review of it because I couldn't understand it.
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'Where The Wild Things Are' Gives Hope To Other 'Unfilmable' Books
12 October 2009 4:02 AM, PDT
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While 'Watchmen' and 'Fear and Loathing' made it to the big screen, 'On the Road' and others are still Hollywood headaches.
By Larry Carroll
"Where the Wild Things Are"
Photo: Warner Bros.
This weekend, "Where the Wild Things Are" finally comes to the big screen after being considered "unfilmable" for decades. But what, exactly, does that word even mean? And with this year's adaptations of "Wild Things" and "Watchmen," does it even still apply?
Below is a list of the books that have given Hollywood headaches for decades. Some have been filmed, some currently linger in development hell, and others will never be touched by any sensible filmmaker. Read on, and ask yourself the two questions that always seem to come up with such projects: "Why not?" or "Why bother?"
"Where the Wild Things Are" (2009)
It's a 20-page book with nine sentences in it. Massive parts of the "plot" are
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Listen To Genius Producer Jeremy Thomas
10 October 2009 11:24 PM, PDT
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I knew there was a reason that David Cronenberg’s enigmatic film of J.G. Ballard’s Crash is one of my favorite motion pictures. So its producer, Oscar-winner Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, Naked Lunch, Sexy Beast, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Tideland, Fast Food Nation, and Creation), was the keynote speaker at Film Independent’s 5th annual Filmmaker Forum [...]
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David Cronenberg Remaking His Classic 1986 Film The Fly For 20th Century Fox
23 September 2009 9:32 PM, PDT
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Every day I read the latest film news and every couple of days there is always that one story which confuses me and makes me say “what.” out loud. I look forward to these news items just because I find them more fun than the average news item. Having said all that, I never thought that I would come home one of these days to see news pop out saying that David Cronenberg would be remaking his 1986 version of “The Fly” starring Jeff Goldblum. This all just confuses me so much because how could you make something that is already perfect better? If you are just as confused/fascinated as I am about this one, just hit the jump for more details.
THR’s Risky Buisness Blog tells us that the Canadian master of all things weird and fucked up will be developing a reboot of his film with Fox.
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Trailer for new documentary "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within"
18 August 2009 11:35 AM, PDT
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“I’m transcribing a movie, a film that I see in my mind as best I can in words.” – William S. Bouroughs
Some of the best actors, filmmakers and writers of the century assemble in William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, the first (and only) posthumous documentary about this legendary figure. an upcoming feature-length independent documentary on the writer directed by Chicago Director Yony Leyser.
To saw we're excited about this one is truly an understatement. Besides being a fan of his writing, Cronenberg's Naked Lunch is one of our go-to films, if not one of the most adventurous and provocative flims ever made.
Synopsis:
The film investigates the life of legendary beat author and American icon, William S. Burroughs. Born the heir of the Burroughs adding machine estate, he struggled throughout his life with addiction, control systems and self. He was forced to deal with the tragedy of killing
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Before the Oscars, They Belonged to Us, Part 3
26 February 2009 2:51 AM, PST
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Disclaimer: This article may contain sarcasm; irony and “LOLs” proceed with caution.
The Final Chapter (read Part 2 here)! We have Howard the Duck, Freejack and Shyamalan flicks on the list; these are never good signs. Nonetheless we are bringing it all to you in full-color and in 3-D. (Ed. Note: Due to the economy, 3-D has been dropped and will be replaced by Smell-o-vision — check for your scratch and sniff cards in about 4-6 weeks.) Best Sound went to rage-zombie veterans Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke, leaving Mark Weingarten who worked on Rejuvenatrix in the dust. The Sound Editing section contains one too many references to Ron Silver, and at least two references to a Roger Corman film.
The visual effects category pulled on our heartstrings this year due to the loss of Stan Winston, who was noted en memoriam along with other heroes, Vampira, Leonard Rosenman and Charles H. Schneer
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Cruise 'Circle's another Thriller
11 February 2009
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- Adhering to his label of "action" star, Tom Cruise is looking to follow December's Valkyrie and his upcoming role in the U.S. remake (The Tourist) of Jerome Salle's Anthony Zimmer with a spy vs. spy type of tale that would in essence bring United Artists back into MGM's fold. Variety announced that Cruise is currently in talks to star opposite Denzel Washington -- the signing would mean that Naked Lunch, Crash and Spider director David Cronenberg would not be paired again with Viggo Mortensen on what apparently seems to be a bigger ticket price project. I had thought that material that features the old Soviet Union and Kgb and ends up being directed by the Candian filmmaker would naturally include Mortensen.
Based on the novel by Robert Ludlum, and written by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, this is set during the Cold War, the book pairs rival spies,
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Creature FX wunderkind Chris Walas to birth Baby Zombies
16 January 2009 10:01 AM, PST
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This movie sounds absolutely retarded but because creature designer and FX wizard Chris Walas is in on the project I'm sort of interested. Walas may not be a household name but the projects he's worked on certainly are (or should be as far as I'm concerned). Cronenberg's Naked Lunch and The Fly, underwater monster flick Deep Star Six, Enemy Mine, and Raiders of the Lost Ark are only a few of the classics Walas' work is attached to. Here's what it's about:
When a top-secret experiment goes awry, bio-engineered infant super-soldier mutant zombies run amok at a military base. It is then up to a childless couple, Colonel Elisa Collins and her husband Jeremy, to save the day.
The film is currently in preproduction.
Update: We've received a new piece of promo art which you can see to the right and also got word this is supposed to be "horror
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