Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
In this Wednesday's episode of Glee (9/8c on Fox), New Directions finally meets some of the competition for sectionals: Jane Adams Academy, led by Grace Hitchens (guest-star Eve). The rapper-actress took a few minutes from her tour in Dubai — her ...
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Fox has released a teaser for this week’s episode of Glee, called “Hairography.” We get to meet one of the glee club’s main rivals, the Jane Adams Reform School for Girls, whose coach is played by guest-star Eve. And there’s a snippet of Eve’s gals’ covering Destiny’s Child classic, “Bootylicious,” which looks awesome! Also, there’s...
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Filming has begun on location in Portland, Oregon on an untitled project from two-time Academy Award®-nominated director Gus Van Sant, starring Mia Wasikowska (upcoming Alice in Wonderland ) and Henry Hopper. The film's screenplay was written by first-timer Jason Lew, based upon his original stage play "Of Winter and Water Birds." The film is produced by Imagine Entertainment's Brian...
/Film (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Gus Van Sant's next film, which was called Restless until recently, has been sounding very interesting. It already stars Mia Wasikowska in a "complex tale of a teenage boy and girl who share a preoccupation with mortality." The film may not currently have a title (Restless wasn't the best name for this movie, anyway) but it does have a lot of new cast members, a couple of which bear very...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Casting Tidbits assemble! First up, THR reports that Gus Van Sant's now untitled drama (formerly known as Restless) will be gaining the next generation of young actors as Henry Hopper (son of Dennis Hopper) and Schuyler Fisk (daughter of Sissy Spacek) join actress Mia Wasikowska in this story about a teenage boy (Hopper) and girl (Wasikowska) who share a preoccupation with mortality. Fisk will play...
Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The actors will play teenagers in Gus Van Sant's new film.
Last Blog On Earth (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
According to a press release sent last night, the producers of San Diego IndieFest, Danielle LoPresti and Alicia Champion, have helped the producers over at Fox cast some local musicians in the network’s hit show Glee. According to the email, Champion will appear on the show alongside multi-instrumentalist Megan Jane (of Veronica May & The To Do List, [...]
Mind on Fire (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Because I’m focusing on NaNoWriMo and writing 50,000 words of fiction this month, I thought I’d pull up a few posts from the archives. This particular post was written about 3.5 years ago and was part of my OC Pilgrimage series, where I attended various churches and visited religious sites in Orange County and reported [...]
Dan's Media Digest (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
[SPOILERS] This episode arrived in the nick of time, as another weak-to-middling instalment would have found me hanging Hung out to dry. As it was, "The Pickle Jar" served up some good reasons for continuing to watch, as Ray (Thomas Jane) encountered a superficial downside to his gigolo venture... Having got Lenore (Rebecca Creskoff) on-side to spread the word about her new business, Tanya...
Dan's Media Digest (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
[SPOILERS] After a decent pilot and a good second episode, this third instalment didn't really click with me. Right now I'm concerned that, beyond the enjoyment of seing Ray (Thomas Jane) get it on with "clients" as a fledgling gigolo, there's not too much to entertain me elsewhere... In "Strange Friends, or The Truth Is You're Sexy", Ray locks horns with his irksome neighbour Howard...
Dan's Media Digest (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
[SPOILERS] There's a risk involved with any sex-related TV show of becoming sleazy, but that's neatly avoided by Hung simply because it focuses its attention on the male of the species. The notion of a gigolo is just funny somehow, probably because it's a reversal of expectation when it comes to prostitution, and Thomas Jane is a wonderful choice for a lead actor; handsome enough to be plausible as...
Lessons of Darkness (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Todd Solondz’s Happiness was greeted with controversy upon its 1998 release thanks to its empathetic portrait of a suburban husband and father of three who has a deviant taste for young boys. Detached from the hubbub, however, it’s harder to...
Austinist (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
calvinmarshall.com Austin Film Festival: Calvin Marshall Friday October 23rd @ 9:50 p.m. Paramount Theater ( 713 Congress Avenue ) Austin Film Festival [ info ] | [ tickets ] In our experience, a good baseball movie acts as the perfect antidote to a bad mood. Life is simpler when it consists of four bases, a set of clear rules and the ever-present possibility of hitting a home run, and watching a...
In Entertainment (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Joshua Leonard played a character that we are all envious off, in Humpday, a 30-year-old vagabond living a life of travel, adventure and sex. However it seems Joshua will slip into the different role in the Lie. It is an indie film that Leonard will direct based on T.C. Boyle’s short story. The story ran [...]
TV.com (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Like Breaking Bad , Hung is a potent Average Joe fantasy. In both shows an emasculated teacher hits rock bottom so formulates an unfeasibly macho plan to save himself from financial ruin and a numbing, tragi-normal existence. In the brilliant Breaking Bad , a dying chemistry teacher does everything he can think of to raise the money for his chemo but gets nowhere. So we buy into his desperate decision...
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