Christie Brinkley may be 63-years-old, but that doesn’t mean she’s ready to hang up her skimpy bikinis for good. The three-time Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model loves the classic swimwear style so much, she even puts one on as she does household chores, and doesn’t plan on stopping no matter how old she gets.
“I always put a bikini on and say, ‘Oh, it is just to wear around the house. I am not going to go anywhere in it. I just want to get a little color while I am gardening,'” Brinkley, who stars in...
“I always put a bikini on and say, ‘Oh, it is just to wear around the house. I am not going to go anywhere in it. I just want to get a little color while I am gardening,'” Brinkley, who stars in...
- 6/6/2017
- by Kaitlyn Frey
- PEOPLE.com
It’s obvious conventional wisdom that winning a Grammy has a positive impact on an artist’s career. But in an age where Americans are by and large consuming music via streaming service, we can now see the extent of that impact in what is basically real time. Below, check out the artists who benefitted the most from the Grammys bump in Spotify streaming numbers.
Maren Morris
The best country solo performer‘s duet with Alicia Keys caused streams for her song “Hero” to skyrocket. Spotify reports that the track saw an astonishing 2884 percent increase after her win.
William Bell
Bell,...
Maren Morris
The best country solo performer‘s duet with Alicia Keys caused streams for her song “Hero” to skyrocket. Spotify reports that the track saw an astonishing 2884 percent increase after her win.
William Bell
Bell,...
- 2/13/2017
- by Alex Heigl
- PEOPLE.com
2017 is William Bell’s 60th year in the music industry. He’s 77 years old. Cream, the Byrds and Linda Ronstadt have recorded his songs. And this year, he’s up for his first Grammys.
Strangely, they’re in what could be considered opposing categories — American and traditional R&B — but it makes sense for Bell, who never quite fit into easy categories. Performer, songwriter, producer — Bell has done it all.
Born William Henry Yarborough in Memphis on July 16, 1939, Bell, like a lot of soul singers from his era, first started singing in church when he was just 8 years old. He...
Strangely, they’re in what could be considered opposing categories — American and traditional R&B — but it makes sense for Bell, who never quite fit into easy categories. Performer, songwriter, producer — Bell has done it all.
Born William Henry Yarborough in Memphis on July 16, 1939, Bell, like a lot of soul singers from his era, first started singing in church when he was just 8 years old. He...
- 2/10/2017
- by Alex Heigl
- PEOPLE.com
Where I live in Texas, it's incredibly hot and uncomfortable, so the very idea of attending classes devoted to studying film and pop culture in cool, cool London this fall sounds like a fantasy. Yet it's a reality. Read onward for the details, provided through an official statement, and maybe pour yourself a cold beverage and dream a little dream of London, pop culture, and films, films, films... The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies - London returns to the Horse Hospital for another semester of film and pop culture classes, with a 2016 fall semester lineup led by some of the genre world's most renowned critical luminaries. Mark Pilkington (Owner of Strange Attractor Press, writer/director of Mirage Men) launches the season in September with his...
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- 8/5/2016
- Screen Anarchy
There are many reasons people choose to have sex. There are also many reasons people don't have sex, even it's something they desperately want. These 24 adults took to Reddit to open up about what's stopped them from losing their virginity - and how it has impacted their lives. via Giphy • "I'm 33. I never learned how to ask a girl out, even though several of them asked me out, and it led to some very shallow relationships. In university, I was in clubs that kept me very busy and had little time for a social life. I got into World of Warcraft for a year,...
- 6/20/2016
- by Maria Yagoda, @mariayagoda
- PEOPLE.com
Shide Nyima in Tharlo: 'When I gave the screenplay to him, he was fascinated because it was a challenge for him and the first time that he was going to have this kind of role.' Tibetan director Pema Tseden adapted his own novella into Tharlo - the story of a Tibetan shepherd. Shot in black and white, the film looks at Tharlo's identity in crises, a situation sparked by a chance meeting with a young hairdresser who seems to offer the shepherd a way out of his loneliness. We caught up with Tseden after the film's world premiere in the Orrizzonti section at Venice Film Festival (it is also currently online to watch at Sala Web)
Yangshik Tso and Pema Tseden in Venice for the world premiere of Tharlo Photo: Anne-Sophie Lehec Aw: Can we talk about the tension in the film between the central character's incredible...
Yangshik Tso and Pema Tseden in Venice for the world premiere of Tharlo Photo: Anne-Sophie Lehec Aw: Can we talk about the tension in the film between the central character's incredible...
- 9/7/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Early on in Irrational Man, Woody Allen’s latest half-narcotized attempt to dramatically grapple with a philosophically tinged moral crisis, a fellow academic tells Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix), “I loved your essay on situational ethics.” Abe, being a newly appointed professor/radical free thinker to the philosophy department of a picturesque Rhode Island college and himself awash in career disillusionment and an existential dilemma involving writer’s block, smiles and nods appreciatively and noncommittally. However, the audience may consider the Big Theme bell well and truly rung. Allen, who would never be so satisfied with a single easy proclamation of achievement, pads the first half of the movie with apparently awe-inspired compliments from fellow professors, administrators and students directed toward Abe’s prodigious intellect—his reputation doth well precede him, and he knows it. And you can bet that every classroom scene will be occasion to name-drop the heavy hitters-- Kant!
- 7/16/2015
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Neil Patrick Harris opened the 87th Academy Awards ceremony with a song called “Moving Pictures,” featuring lyrics that apply not only to film, but lyrics that can be adapted to describe television and every other medium of fictional storytelling:
“Moving pictures: millions of pixels on screens. They may not be real life, but they’ll show you what life really means. More than any one image, more than any one star–truly, moving pictures shape who we are.“
The sentiment is another one of many different sayings and quotes that suggest that fiction can paradoxically be more “real” than real life. The logic, of course, is that worlds and characters created from the imagination have the capacity to penetrate and stir us by presenting certain truths about ourselves that day-to-day life manages to obscure. Whether that’s because of monotony or routine or something else will probably depend on the person,...
“Moving pictures: millions of pixels on screens. They may not be real life, but they’ll show you what life really means. More than any one image, more than any one star–truly, moving pictures shape who we are.“
The sentiment is another one of many different sayings and quotes that suggest that fiction can paradoxically be more “real” than real life. The logic, of course, is that worlds and characters created from the imagination have the capacity to penetrate and stir us by presenting certain truths about ourselves that day-to-day life manages to obscure. Whether that’s because of monotony or routine or something else will probably depend on the person,...
- 2/24/2015
- by Sean Colletti
- SoundOnSight
This is Where I Judge You: In the Great Well of Family Drama, Levy Is Dry
Based on the acclaimed novel by Jonathan Tropper, who adapts his own screenplay, This Is Where I Leave You hardly lives up to the Sirkian soap as its delightfully sappy title would lead you to predict. Tropper, with the aid of mainstream heavy Shawn Levy (who sports a resume that includes those Night at the Museum films and Real Steel), has managed to give us a film that feels like the Grand Hotel of family reunion dramas. A nest of WASPs wades around under the disguise of their mixed Jewish ancestry to gimmicky effect in a drama about a large number of otherwise privileged people chronically unhappy with their inability to transcend their conditioning and seek fulfillment from a fabricated, pedestrian lifestyle. Levy and Tropper aim for middle ground with a portrait of familial...
Based on the acclaimed novel by Jonathan Tropper, who adapts his own screenplay, This Is Where I Leave You hardly lives up to the Sirkian soap as its delightfully sappy title would lead you to predict. Tropper, with the aid of mainstream heavy Shawn Levy (who sports a resume that includes those Night at the Museum films and Real Steel), has managed to give us a film that feels like the Grand Hotel of family reunion dramas. A nest of WASPs wades around under the disguise of their mixed Jewish ancestry to gimmicky effect in a drama about a large number of otherwise privileged people chronically unhappy with their inability to transcend their conditioning and seek fulfillment from a fabricated, pedestrian lifestyle. Levy and Tropper aim for middle ground with a portrait of familial...
- 9/17/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Tim here. The recent release of Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty on a DVD/Blu-Ray combo from the Criterion Collection means that most of us in North American finally have our first decent chance to see the most recent winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. And by “decent chance”, I mean two things: one is that if you live outside of any of the usual big urban centers that get little foreign releases, The Great Beauty hasn’t been remotely near your home before now. The other is that even if you live in one of those places, The Great Beauty isn’t likely to have played in any of the best & shiniest multiplexes, but in the dogged little art theaters that don’t have the money to do much besides show movies in a more or less tolerable environment. Where I live in Chicago, for example,...
- 4/4/2014
- by Tim Brayton
- FilmExperience
Happy March, stokers of all things flammable. Where I live, it.s Mardi Gras season, so the mood is a little more festive than the usual dripping darkness. Plus, red velvet king cake. So forgive me if I sit back and stare into space while you read through the following pages. If you read through the whole article, you.ll find out about some genuinely interesting things happening in in the genre, and there will be king cake for you at the end. The king cake is not a lie. Because I love Stephen King and because upcoming adaptations of his works are currently plentiful, here are a couple of tidbits about that. Blumhouse.s Mercy, starring Dylan McDermott and Mark Duplass, isn.t leaving Universal.s shelf anytime soon, and they.re considering tinkering with reshoots on The Strangers.s director Bryan Bertino.s thriller Mockingbird, but nothing is...
- 3/2/2014
- cinemablend.com
Marco Zappia, award-winning TV editor of Hee-Haw, All In The Family, Home Improvement and dozens of additional TV series and specials, died December 22 in Ventura, CA. He was 76. Los Angeles-born Zappia went from owning a TV repair shop to an award-winning career in editing that spanned four decades when he joined CBS in 1968 as an engineer in the videotape department, where he helped install the network’s first electronic editing system. His first editing gig on CBS’s variety show Hee Haw nabbed him his first Emmy and also marked the network’s first-ever win for editing. Zappia went on to edit numerous TV specials and series including Maude, The Jeffersons, The Sonny & Cher Show, All in The Family, Archie Bunker’s Place, Roseanne, and Faerie Tale Theatre. His prolific ’90s sitcom credits include My Two Dads, Dinosaurs, Who’s The Boss?, The Torkelsons and spin-off Almost Home, Where I Live,...
- 12/29/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
[Caution: Spoilers for tonight's season 6 premiere!]
Okay, so nobody actually uttered Joey Tribbiani’s temporary catchphrase during tonight’s supersized Parks premiere. Still, I can’t be the only one who thought of Friends’ big season 4 trip when Leslie, Ben, Ron, April, and Andy briefly ditched Pawnee for stately London, home of goofy nobility, multiple rom-com bus tours, and something called Picadilly Circus that isn’t even a real circus. (Quoth Andy: “There’s no elephants, there was no cotton candy, there’s no clowns. One bearded lady — she got all rude when I marveled at her.”)
But while the Friends went to London to celebrate a wedding,...
Okay, so nobody actually uttered Joey Tribbiani’s temporary catchphrase during tonight’s supersized Parks premiere. Still, I can’t be the only one who thought of Friends’ big season 4 trip when Leslie, Ben, Ron, April, and Andy briefly ditched Pawnee for stately London, home of goofy nobility, multiple rom-com bus tours, and something called Picadilly Circus that isn’t even a real circus. (Quoth Andy: “There’s no elephants, there was no cotton candy, there’s no clowns. One bearded lady — she got all rude when I marveled at her.”)
But while the Friends went to London to celebrate a wedding,...
- 9/27/2013
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell is a hit and will be one of the shows that helps launch the Fxx Network this September, along with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The League. Season 2 of Totally Biased will also go daily Monday thru Thursday with a “Best of” show on Fridays, continuing to bring a much needed voice of comedy and social-political commentary that stands next shoulder-to-shoulder with The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. To help drum up awareness of the new channel and schedule, Bell and his fellow writers/comics are going on a 10-city tour in July performing live shows around the country starting in Boston, this Thursday July 11. It even includes a stop at The House of Blues in San Diego next week during Comic-Con.
Each show is lot packed full of hot topics discussed regarding race, social issues, discrimination, or just plain silliness.
Each show is lot packed full of hot topics discussed regarding race, social issues, discrimination, or just plain silliness.
- 7/9/2013
- by Ernie Estrella
- BuzzFocus.com
Donald Trump is suing Bill Maher. Maher, making a joke on Leno, said he'd give $5 million to charity if Donald Trump could provide documentation to prove he wasn't the result of his mother mating with an orangutan. Trump sent over his birth certificate, and now is demanding Maher pay up. Or he could be building hype for the new season of Celebrity Apprentice.
As you know, I love Phineas & Ferb. It seems their latest video on YouTube with Dr. Doofensmirtz got some automated closed captioning, and it's comedy gold.
Where I live, giant pickup trucks are kings of the road, and seldom does a day pass when I'm not screaming at some giant lifted pickup truck with exhaust pipes the size of my waist, "Sorry about your penis!" My buddy Brett Berk attempts to convince us that the new generation of trucks aren't just to help you compensate for a deficiency.
As you know, I love Phineas & Ferb. It seems their latest video on YouTube with Dr. Doofensmirtz got some automated closed captioning, and it's comedy gold.
Where I live, giant pickup trucks are kings of the road, and seldom does a day pass when I'm not screaming at some giant lifted pickup truck with exhaust pipes the size of my waist, "Sorry about your penis!" My buddy Brett Berk attempts to convince us that the new generation of trucks aren't just to help you compensate for a deficiency.
- 2/5/2013
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
Maybe "Doomsday Preppers" have it right.
Hanging out with them in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, after escaping suburban New Jersey (where we are without power five days after Sandy hit), it is difficult to not respect them.
After all, while my house is freezing, theirs have generators that run on gas. Where I live, it's a four-hour line for gas and it's now rationed. So listening to these folks who might once have seemed extreme, makes some sort of sense.
"Doomsday Preppers" is National Geographic's No. 1 rated show, and it returns for a second season Tuesday, Nov. 13. The show focuses on people convinced that a cataclysmic event looms, and they are preparing for it by stockpiling water, food, medicine and weapons.
To kick off the season, National Geographic invited some journalists and preppers to meet at The Greenbrier, a resort hotel, where hunting, fishing and archery are part of the experience.
Hanging out with them in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, after escaping suburban New Jersey (where we are without power five days after Sandy hit), it is difficult to not respect them.
After all, while my house is freezing, theirs have generators that run on gas. Where I live, it's a four-hour line for gas and it's now rationed. So listening to these folks who might once have seemed extreme, makes some sort of sense.
"Doomsday Preppers" is National Geographic's No. 1 rated show, and it returns for a second season Tuesday, Nov. 13. The show focuses on people convinced that a cataclysmic event looms, and they are preparing for it by stockpiling water, food, medicine and weapons.
To kick off the season, National Geographic invited some journalists and preppers to meet at The Greenbrier, a resort hotel, where hunting, fishing and archery are part of the experience.
- 11/3/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Lynn Shelton has made a splash in the independent film section for the last few years. She truly made a name for herself with Humpday, an interestingly moving film starring Mark Duplass and Josh Leonard about two straight guys who explore making a gay porn with entertaining results. Her newest film, Your Sister’s Sister, explores the unbreakable bonds of siblings and how that can complicate things. Duplass returns as he is stuck between Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt. Charming, thoughtful, and full of awkward moments that are truly funny, and a mix of sad, the film plays largely within the confines of a cabin that isn’t quite big enough. Earlier this month I had a chance to sit down with Shelton in Dallas as we discussed the genesis of the film, how her parents react to her movies, her directing stint on Mad Men, and much more.
The...
The...
- 6/28/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
MTV
I’d like to preface this recap by saying that I think this season is really boring. There’s more down time, they don’t do as much, and we’re all just waiting for the blow-up between Mike and Snooki.
Mike calls Unit to come down to Seaside to tell Jionni about how Snooki cheated on him with Mike. Unfortunately for Mike, Unit is in Miami, so Mike’s gonna have to wait.
Deena’s sister slept with Mike’s brother.
I’d like to preface this recap by saying that I think this season is really boring. There’s more down time, they don’t do as much, and we’re all just waiting for the blow-up between Mike and Snooki.
Mike calls Unit to come down to Seaside to tell Jionni about how Snooki cheated on him with Mike. Unfortunately for Mike, Unit is in Miami, so Mike’s gonna have to wait.
Deena’s sister slept with Mike’s brother.
- 2/10/2012
- by Josée Rose
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
If you were in the movie ticketing business and attendance is lower than expected, what would you do? Well if you ask the people in charge right now, they'll raise prices to make up the revenues. Personally, this is exactly the opposite of what you should do. It's obvious that the theater going experience has gotten too expensive for families.
In 1998 the average price of the ticket was $4.69! Today, it's around $8. I still ask, where can you watch a movie for $8? Where I live, regular admission is $13.50. But we're not done yet. Regal says that they expect average ticket prices to go up another 3% by the end of this year. ...
In 1998 the average price of the ticket was $4.69! Today, it's around $8. I still ask, where can you watch a movie for $8? Where I live, regular admission is $13.50. But we're not done yet. Regal says that they expect average ticket prices to go up another 3% by the end of this year. ...
- 8/2/2011
- by Get The Big Picture
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Discount movie tickets for $6.60? Sign us up!
Where I live in West Los Angeles, AMC charges $13.50 for a regular admission movie ticket. That’s without 3D or IMAX surcharges. However, I noticed that many people use AMC Gold Experience tickets or AMC Silver Experience tickets at my theater which allows them to see a movie for a fraction of the price. After investigating, I found that these tickets were being offered for employees of many of the studios in the La area. I also found some websites selling them without permission from AMC and other major theater chains and charging $8.95 plus shipping. Others had minimum purchase quantity of eight tickets (AMC’s minimum is 50) and shipping costs that practically ate up all the savings unless you ordered 10 or 20 tickets. Finally, all of those sites used some archaic e-commerce systems that really made you feel like you’re buying some fake tickets in the back alley.
Where I live in West Los Angeles, AMC charges $13.50 for a regular admission movie ticket. That’s without 3D or IMAX surcharges. However, I noticed that many people use AMC Gold Experience tickets or AMC Silver Experience tickets at my theater which allows them to see a movie for a fraction of the price. After investigating, I found that these tickets were being offered for employees of many of the studios in the La area. I also found some websites selling them without permission from AMC and other major theater chains and charging $8.95 plus shipping. Others had minimum purchase quantity of eight tickets (AMC’s minimum is 50) and shipping costs that practically ate up all the savings unless you ordered 10 or 20 tickets. Finally, all of those sites used some archaic e-commerce systems that really made you feel like you’re buying some fake tickets in the back alley.
- 7/6/2011
- by Get The Big Picture
- GetTheBigPicture.net
'The person I most despise? Tony Blair, he's done more damage than Thatcher'
Bob Hoskins, 68, was born in Bury St Edmunds and raised in London. Having left school at 15, he worked as a porter, lorry driver and window cleaner. In 1968, he accompanied a friend to a play audition and ended up with the lead. Ten years later, he starred in his first TV drama, Dennis Potter's Pennies From Heaven, and in 1980 he made his major film debut with The Long Good Friday. He went on to star in The Cotton Club in 1984 and Mona Lisa in 1986, a performance that earned him an Oscar nomination. He is in Neverland, a Peter Pan prequel, on Sky Movies Premiere HD on 8 and 15 July.
When were you happiest?
When the kids were babies.
What is your greatest fear?
Loneliness.
What is your earliest memory?
The face of a cat looking into my cot...
Bob Hoskins, 68, was born in Bury St Edmunds and raised in London. Having left school at 15, he worked as a porter, lorry driver and window cleaner. In 1968, he accompanied a friend to a play audition and ended up with the lead. Ten years later, he starred in his first TV drama, Dennis Potter's Pennies From Heaven, and in 1980 he made his major film debut with The Long Good Friday. He went on to star in The Cotton Club in 1984 and Mona Lisa in 1986, a performance that earned him an Oscar nomination. He is in Neverland, a Peter Pan prequel, on Sky Movies Premiere HD on 8 and 15 July.
When were you happiest?
When the kids were babies.
What is your greatest fear?
Loneliness.
What is your earliest memory?
The face of a cat looking into my cot...
- 6/19/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Who’s the breakout star of The Voice? Right now, we’d have to say coach Blake Shelton, whose sense of humor, sensitivity (catch those smiles when contestants sang songs by his fiancée, Miranda Lambert?), and toughness (he still didn’t pick either of ‘em!) is winning him fans who have no idea his hair used to look like this.
Go ahead, embrace him. PopWatch has been a fan since he nailed the EW Pop Culture Personality Test back in 2008. Below, we revisit that entertaining conversation and stand by what we concluded then — there’s nothing sexier than a straight...
Go ahead, embrace him. PopWatch has been a fan since he nailed the EW Pop Culture Personality Test back in 2008. Below, we revisit that entertaining conversation and stand by what we concluded then — there’s nothing sexier than a straight...
- 5/4/2011
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
For better or worse, we've come a long way from the days when rock & roll was an entirely pure form of generational rebellion. Even in my lifetime, I've seen fathers go from older dudes who yelled, "Turn that racket down!" to roving bands of aging dads in jeans and t-shirts who are more likely to ask the kids if they can sit in and jam with their emo bands. Where I live, when a dad tells you that he's taking his kid hunting, he generally means record hunting at Amoeba Music. I've been thinking about these issues lately because four talented dads in my neighborhood -- Freddy Curci, Rick Neigher, Adam Gorgoni and Chris Cote -- got together recently and formed an acapella group that's fittingly called Who's Your Daddy! These are all men with distinguished credits...
- 9/20/2010
- by David Wild
- Huffington Post
I'm sure someone else has already noticed and publicized this (I'm weeks behind on my web reading... so far behind I have almost no idea what's going on. Where am I?) but I can't get over the fact that there's two Ryan Binghams in the Oscar race this year.
There's "Ryan Bingham", the latest vessel for George Clooneyism in Up in the Air and Ryan Bingham the songwriter/performer who wrote the lovely theme song for Clooney's big Oscar competition "Bad Blake", the latest incarnation of Jeff Bridges. How weird is that?
And which films will find Oscar favor this year in the Original Song category? The category is tinier then usual with stricter rules in place (one of them is that a film can't have more than two song nominated anymore) so all 63 of these songs will have a mighty struggle making it to the short(est) list. I...
There's "Ryan Bingham", the latest vessel for George Clooneyism in Up in the Air and Ryan Bingham the songwriter/performer who wrote the lovely theme song for Clooney's big Oscar competition "Bad Blake", the latest incarnation of Jeff Bridges. How weird is that?
And which films will find Oscar favor this year in the Original Song category? The category is tinier then usual with stricter rules in place (one of them is that a film can't have more than two song nominated anymore) so all 63 of these songs will have a mighty struggle making it to the short(est) list. I...
- 12/17/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
A staggering 63 songs have been submitted to the Academy for consideration in the Best Original Song category with a list of artists that span an incredible spectrum. The convoluted, complicated selection process means this number will ultimately be whittled down, however, to anywhere between zero and five nominees. The full rules on the nomination process can be found here.
As usual the list comprises an eclectic mix this year ranging from “Cinema Italiano” from Nine through to songs from the Hannah Montana film and the misfiring “Dove of Peace” from Bruno. Scanning the entrants brings up quite a few pleasant surprises though including, but not limited to, Through The Trees the wonderfully satiric song from Jennifer’s Body and the Jarvis Cocker performed “Petey’s Song” from The Fantastic Mr. Fox (a song which Michael Gambon refers to as “bad songwriting” in the film’s script). The most satisfying nominees...
As usual the list comprises an eclectic mix this year ranging from “Cinema Italiano” from Nine through to songs from the Hannah Montana film and the misfiring “Dove of Peace” from Bruno. Scanning the entrants brings up quite a few pleasant surprises though including, but not limited to, Through The Trees the wonderfully satiric song from Jennifer’s Body and the Jarvis Cocker performed “Petey’s Song” from The Fantastic Mr. Fox (a song which Michael Gambon refers to as “bad songwriting” in the film’s script). The most satisfying nominees...
- 12/17/2009
- by Kieron Casey
- ReelLoop.com
5…Five!…songs from Hannah Montana The Movie??? Really??? Once again, a category that AMPAS will never take seriously. Then they proceed to leave off the list Mary J. Blige’s song from Precious, “I Can See in Color.” Nevermind that they complete lost me with “The Word Is Love” from “Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!” Please feel free to leave a comment below if you’ve heard of this one. However, I was thrilled to see two songs from one of my favorite films of 2009, An Education, make the cut, “Smoke Without Fire” and “You Got Me Wrapped around Your Little Finger.” A soundtrack I highly recommend.
The Official Press Release from AMPAS:
Beverly Hills, CA —Sixty-three songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures are contending for nominations in the Original Song category for the 82nd Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today.
The original songs,...
The Official Press Release from AMPAS:
Beverly Hills, CA —Sixty-three songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures are contending for nominations in the Original Song category for the 82nd Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today.
The original songs,...
- 12/17/2009
- by Michelle
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Every seven years, 30 of the world’s most deadly assassins take over a random city and compete for a ten million dollar prize. The rules are simple. The contestants have twenty-four hours to be the sole survivor, if not a tracking device implanted in their abdomen will detonate. Let the game begin.
If you’re a fan of action blockbusters like Transporter or Crank than The Tournament should excite you. The film is ninety minutes of explosions, slow-motion, 300-style fight sequences, and shoot-em-up action. But what really sets The Tournament apart from most films in this genre is the gratuitous gore, hence the appeal to fright fans. There are plenty of exploding heads/dismemberments and because the tournament takes place in a random city, there is no shortage of civilian casualties. The body count is high and unlike cartoonish films like Transformers, the mayhem is bloody and visceral.
But if you’re like me,...
If you’re a fan of action blockbusters like Transporter or Crank than The Tournament should excite you. The film is ninety minutes of explosions, slow-motion, 300-style fight sequences, and shoot-em-up action. But what really sets The Tournament apart from most films in this genre is the gratuitous gore, hence the appeal to fright fans. There are plenty of exploding heads/dismemberments and because the tournament takes place in a random city, there is no shortage of civilian casualties. The body count is high and unlike cartoonish films like Transformers, the mayhem is bloody and visceral.
But if you’re like me,...
- 11/7/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Rich Mallery)
- Fangoria
Every seven years, 30 of the world’s most deadly assassins take over a random city and compete for a ten million dollar prize. The rules are simple. The contestants have twenty-four hours to be the sole survivor, if not a tracking device implanted in their abdomen will detonate. Let the game begin.
If you’re a fan of action blockbusters like Transporter or Crank than The Tournament should excite you. The film is ninety minutes of explosions, slow-motion, 300-style fight sequences, and shoot-em-up action. But what really sets The Tournament apart from most films in this genre is the gratuitous gore. There are plenty of exploding heads/dismemberments and because the tournament takes place in a random city, there is no shortage of civilian casualties. The body count is high and unlike cartoonish films like Transformers, the mayhem is bloody and visceral.
But if you’re like me, it’ll...
If you’re a fan of action blockbusters like Transporter or Crank than The Tournament should excite you. The film is ninety minutes of explosions, slow-motion, 300-style fight sequences, and shoot-em-up action. But what really sets The Tournament apart from most films in this genre is the gratuitous gore. There are plenty of exploding heads/dismemberments and because the tournament takes place in a random city, there is no shortage of civilian casualties. The body count is high and unlike cartoonish films like Transformers, the mayhem is bloody and visceral.
But if you’re like me, it’ll...
- 11/7/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (Rich Mallery)
- Starlog
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