Thanks to Richard Metzger & DangerousMinds.net for the following... http://www.prehensile.com/tales/zeldman/zeldman.htm Tattle Tales are true tales of sex, madness, and the planet by guest writers. And this week's offering is a humdinger of a Tale. "Jeffrey Zeldman Presents" was one of the first sites I ever visited on the web. Years later, Jeffrey Zeldman contributes this week's Tale...
FROM MTV.COM: Seventeen years ago, the legendary Harvey Keitel launched the second act of his movie career with a pair of tough-guy instant classics: Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" and Abel Ferrara's "Bad Lieutenant." A crack-pipe-smoking breath of fresh air, "Lieutenant" predated "The Shield" by a decade in telling the NC-17 story of a junkie, [...]
Baby did a bad, bad thing: Lieutenant McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) during a reflective moment in the midst of his usual drinking, leching, and lying. It's difficult to enter into Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans expecting a comedy. That's despite a title more ridiculous and unwieldy than even a CSI spin-off would accept, and a trailer that features star Nicolas Cage waxing rhapsodic on his lucky...
"Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" is a terrible title for Werner Herzog's new film. It's not that it's an untruthful one. The character of the title, played intensely with a kind of world-weary finesse by Nicolas Cage, is certainly one dirty cop. And, in an inspired bit of location casting, he does use his badge to procure drugs and sex in post-Katrina New Orleans. The problem is...
Abel Ferrara's original Bad Lieutenant didn't really strike me as a movie that cried "sequel". It was dark, gritty, and and a little hard to watch at times, but was well worth watching, if only for a great gonzo performance from Harvey Keitel, and the scene where he pulls over two New Jersey club rats and makes them do sexually degrading things while he pleasures himself. In Bad Lieutenant:...
I just finished watching season 1 of the television show Heroes and I can honestly say I’m a little obsessed. It’s not a great show but it is totally my kind of show, a sort of sprawling mishmash of elements from X-Men , Watchmen and the Manchurian Candidate and post 9/11 paranoia with lots of grandiose themes, moral ambiguity, family dysfunction and general angst. I find myself particularly...
Wrong Turn At Tahoe (2009) Director: Franck Khalfoun Writer: Franck Khalfoun Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Harvey Keitel, Miguel Ferrer MPAA Rating: R Synopsis: After bumping off a rival drug dealer, a tough-as-nails collector finds himself in the middle of a gang war. Thoughts: Despite a number of moderately enjoyable action sequences, Franck Khalfoun's "Wrong Turn at Tahoe" is, unfortunately,...
We give you a peek at 30 seconds of the video before it premieres tonight on MTV.com. By Kyle Anderson Beyoncé in the "Video Phone" video It's been a great season for high-profile video premieres. Last week saw the unveiling of Lady Gaga's hyper-kinetic clip for her new single "Bad Romance," the new video for the Chris Brown ballad "Crawl" and the unleashing of...
The cast for Paul Weitz's upcoming sequel "Little Fockers" is still growing, and the latest to join he third installment in the popular comedy series is... Harvey Keitel! That's right, Harvey Keitel! Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Teri Polo, Blythe Danner and Jessica Alba are also part of the upcoming project, which will focus on Pam and Greg (Gaylord) as they deal with having...
In a reunion that promised to be as momentous as when De Niro reunited with Pacino for Righteous Kill , word has reached us that De Niro will be joined by former Mean Streets co-star Harvey Keitel in the second sequel to…