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FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
ACE IN THE HOLE (a film review by Mark R. Leeper) CAPSULE: ACE IN THE HOLE from 1951 is Billy Wilder's take on human selfishness and callousness makes for one of the most angry and cynical films ever made. Kirk Douglas stars as a newsman who manipulates people to develop an unfortunate accident into a national news story at the expense of all who cross his path. There is a lot of bitterness and a...
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Movie-Moron (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Without a doubt, the hands-down best movie related magazine on the market is Empire. Every month they bring news, reviews, interviews and many more things ending in ‘-ews’. This month they have released their list of the 500 greatest movies of all time, as voted for by both the general public, directors such as Quentin Tarantino, and ‘industry insiders’ i.e. everyone on the Empire payroll. They are...
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Explore : Actors and Actresses, Christopher Nolan, Cinema, Directors, Entertainment, Frank Darabont, Gene Kelly, Irvin Kershner, Michael Curtiz, Music, Rock and Pop, Sergio Leone, Spinal Tap, Stanley Donen
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Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
It's nice to see the critical consensus... if not turning around on Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK, then at least balancing out. Some people are confounded by it, others unmoved, but there is a very vocal camp out there claiming that Kaufman has delivered something very close to a masterpiece. I know Moriarty really liked it (though he's not one using the "m" word); I also know he interviewed...
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Wizbang Pop! (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Tony Curtis still regrets his flippant crack about how kissing Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot" was "like kissing Hitler." In fact, he now reveals, he was extremely...
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Later On (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Last night I watched Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (1950), with William Holden and Gloria Swanson (and a very young Jack Webb in a bit part). Excellent movie, with two things that leapt out at me. First was the bridge game that Norma Desmond plays with her old friends from the days of silent film. What was [...]
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Explore : Actors and Actresses, Andie MacDowell, Cinema, Directors, Ellen DeGeneres, Entertainment, Frances McDormand, Gloria Swanson, Holly Hunter, Jack Webb, Jamie Lee Curtis, Madeleine Stowe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Miranda Richardson, Rita Wilson, Sharon Stone, William Holden
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Hollywood star TONY CURTIS regrets criticising his kiss with late screen star MARILYN MONROE in SOME LIKE IT HOT - insisting their clinch was very passionate.
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Hollywood star TONY CURTIS regrets criticising his kiss with late screen star MARILYN MONROE in SOME LIKE IT HOT - insisting their clinch was very passionate. Curtis ...
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PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Click Here to download full episode Already established in their separate careers, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau became one of the screen’s great comedy teams — and they were first paired by director Billy Wilder in this 1966 satire, which earned Matthau an Oscar. The actor plays a scheming attorney who convinces his brother-in-law (Lemmon), a [...]
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Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
There's something about the time, the weather, or the giant pink exploding elephant that is our financial system that has me craving whiskey. I have two ways to drink whiskey: bourbon to celebrate and rye to forget. I'm not the only one. Rye whiskey is cast as a supporting actor in Billy Wilder's...
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A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The entertainment reporter-turned-actor talks about a pair of new movies ( Ghost Town and Flash Of Genius ) why he doesn't mind playing abrasive characters.
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Happy Catholic (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Taking a look at the stats from yesterday's angel-fest, I did a double take. The number of hits doubled my all-time high. Welcome to anybody who comes back by today for a follow-up ... not so many angels, but hopefully there's still a little something interesting going on.
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Happy Catholic (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Delores asks: Joan, Thanks for visiting Happy Catholic. Why do you think God speaks to us through angels when he could speak to us in many other ways? What is it about angels that grabs our attention?
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
argues that what was once a sophisticated genre has become gross, coarse and lazy over the last 15 years, while thinks that crude, low-brow comedy isn't a modern intention but goes back to the first time a man slipped on a cowpat.
