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'You've Been Trumped' documentary director talks about taking on The Donald
3 August 2012 9:23 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
In 2005, Donald Trump announced plans to build two golf courses and a 450 bedroom hotel at the Menie Estate on Scotland’s east coast. The bad news for local residents? Trump’s golf complex was to be situated on the Menie Estate’s dunes, a beautiful wilderness area and a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest. The bad news for Trump? British journalist Anthony Baxter decided to make a documentary about what he regarded as a David-and-Goliath struggle between the local population and the Apprentice star.
Baxter’s film, You’ve Been Trumped, debuts today at New York’s Angelika cinema »
- Clark Collis
New to Theatres This Weekend: Total Recall, The Babymakers, 360
3 August 2012 6:33 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Now that we're into the first week of August, the end of the summer is in sight and the theatrical releases will soon start dropping off in quality. In fact, that drop in quality may have already begun this weekend with Len Wiseman's remake of Total Recall being the only major release along with the third installment in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. In select theatres, we've got 360 from the director of City of God, the Broken Lizard comedy The Babymakers starring Paul Schneider and Olivia Munn, and a handful of documentaries including the Zach Galifianakis-produced Craigslist Joe. It's certainly not the strongest crop of new films, but it will be interesting to see how Total Recall performs and whether loyalty to the original will hold it back. What will you be watching this weekend? Total Recall Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days Soldiers of Fortune »
- Sean
Out This Week: A Dozen Reviews of New Indie Releases
2 August 2012 6:56 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
This weekly column is intended to provide reviews of nearly every new indie release, including films on VOD. Specific release dates and locations follow each review. Reviews This Week: "360" "Assassin's Bullet" "The Babymakers" "Celeste and Jesse Forever" "Craigslist Joe" "Dreams of a Life" "Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film" "Girlfriend Boyfriend" "Mosquita y Mari" "[Rec]³ Genesis" "Sushi: The Global Catch" "You've Been Trumped" "360" Whatever possessed three of Britain's most talented actors (Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz) to join the ensemble cast of this discombobulated drama? Whatever the reason, the result is embarrassing. Another in a long line of variants on Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 play "La Ronde,'' the film, »
- Indiewire
The Amazing Spider-Man causes a spin at the UK box office
10 July 2012 8:19 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The superhero's latest sticky situation ensnares viewers, despite the tennis, and India-produced movies make their mark
The winner
Following four consecutive weeks when Euro 2012 football saw a succession of commercially modest titles land into an ever-diminishing market, salvation for cinemas has arrived at last in the guise of a familiar costumed superhero. The Amazing Spider-Man debuted with a hefty £11.09m, including £4.33m in previews earned from Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. That's the second-highest opening of the year, after The Avengers on £15.78m, including £2.55m in previews. For a like-for-like comparison, looking just at the Friday-to-Sunday periods of the films' opening weekends, the new Spider-Man picture grossed 51% of Avengers' total.
If it continues in the same vein, it will get to around £26.5m in the UK, but Sony will be banking on a slower burnout. Five years ago, Sony's last Spider-Man movie, the third in the Sam Raimi trilogy, opened with »
- Charles Gant
This week's new films
6 July 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Amazing Spider-Man (12A)
(Marc Webb, 2012, Us) James Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Denis Leary. 136 mins
New, improved-formula Spider-Man: does whatever last decade's Spider-Man couldn't! The world was hardly screaming out for a rejigged "origins" story, but this at least gives you less comic-book primary colour and more teen-drama shading. Plus better special effects, although the rooftop monster-battle climax feels same-old. Yes, it's a brazenly commercial exercise, but Garfield's limber geekiness tips the balance.
God Bless America (15)
(Bobcat Goldthwait, 2011, Us) Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr, Mackenzie Brooke Smith. 105 mins
American media idiocy literally comes under fire in this outlandish Falling Down-meets-Natural Born Killers shooting spree.
The Hunter (15)
(Daniel Nettheim, 2011, Aus) Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor, Sam Neill. 102 mins
Dafoe's craggy gravitas dominates this scenic tale of a hunt for the extinct (or is it?) Tasmanian Tiger.
Strawberry Fields (15)
(Frances Lea, 2012, UK) Anna Madeley, Christine Bottomley. »
- Steve Rose
You've Been Trumped – review
5 July 2012 4:02 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This documentary about Donald Trump's bid to build a golf course in Scotland treads lightly between subtle portrait and panto smackdown
Superficially, this is a tub-thumper, a stonking panto smackdown between Donald Trump, riding roughshod over the law and the landscape in his bid to build a colossal golf course in Aberdeenshire, and the revolted locals fighting compulsory purchase. You've Been Trumped works rousingly as that: first-time director Anthony Baxter neatly marshals arguments and wrangles warring sides. He's helped by the scale of the hubris on display: the toadying and the arrogance, the cheek of the villains and the charm of their victims. But Trumped finds breath for subtler touches to make a complex portrait of a singular wilderness. It treads lightly on the earth: an example, as well as an education.
Rating: 4/5
DocumentaryDonald TrumpCatherine Shoard
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- Catherine Shoard
Film Review: 'You've Been Trumped'
4 July 2012 4:00 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★★☆ Anthony Baxter's immensely compelling low budget documentary You've Been Trumped (2011) begins with a well-placed clip from Bill Forsyth's acclaimed Scottish comedy-drama Local Here (1983), which tells the story of a small coastal town standing up to a wealthy American oil tycoon. In Baxter's protest piece, Us billionaire Donald Trump plays the role of main antagonist, seemingly intent on destroying not only an area of biological and scientific, but also the lives of a sleepy fishing village's senior residents with his construction plans for a multi-million dollar luxury golf course.
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- CineVue
This week's new films
29 June 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Dark Horse (15)
(Todd Solondz, 2011, Us) Selma Blair, Jordan Gelber, Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow, Justin Bartha, Zachary Booth. 86 mins
Trust Todd Solondz to give us the flipside of movie man-childhood. There's nothing funny or adorable about 35-year-old Abe (Gelber), who lives with his parents, collects action figures and has no idea of his own uselessness. He meets his match (sort of) in the virtually comatose Blair, and what ensues is a romcom that's neither romantic nor comical, but beneath the misanthropy lurks some kind of compassion.
Killer Joe (18)
(William Friedkin, 2011, Us) Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple. 102 mins
Curdling Texan noir and melodrama in a bizarre, curiously fascinating thriller.
The King Of Devil's Island (12A)
(Marius Holst, 2010, Nor/Fra/Swe/Pol) Stellan Skarsgård, Benjamin Helstad. 116 mins
Prison thriller set on a 1950s Norwegian borstal island.
Storage 24 (15)
(Johannes Roberts, 2012, UK) Noel Clarke, Colin O'Donoghue. 87 mins
Minimal sci-fi thriller set in a London storage unit. »
- Steve Rose
Watch: Donald Trump Puppet 'Sings' Bohemian Rhapsody
29 March 2012 10:54 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Scotland’s Aberdeenshire coastline is home to some of Europe’s last remaining wilderness areas of shifting sand dunes. Dubbed "the Amazon Rainforest of Europe," by a leading scientist from the University of Glasgow, the irreplaceable land holds Britain’s top conservation ranking.
So when billionaire property developer Donald Trump expressed an interest to build a $1.2 billion golf resort on the precious coastline eight years ago, outraged local residents and environmentalists objected to the move and refused to sell their homes. Ignored by the Scottish government, the community has protested ever since.
Now, the Scottish residents have opted for a new tactic to outmaneuver the billionaire. With Queen's permission, according to the Scotsman, they've created a satirical musical spoof of Donald Trump -- as a 3 ft puppet -- singing "Bohemian Rhapsody."
The rewritten version of the 1975 smash hit tells the tale of the local community's struggle with the Trump empire since the development began. »
- The Huffington Post
'Mad Men's' Jon Hamm Slams Kim Kardashian... and Kim Strikes Back!
13 March 2012 10:38 AM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »
"Mad Men" star Jon Hamm was recently interviewed by Elle UK and said, "Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated. Being a f*****g idiot is a valuable commodity in this culture because you're awarded significantly. It's celebrated. It doesn't make sense to me."
Kim, who has been trashed in the past by Daniel Craig (he called her a "f*****g idiot") and Jonah Hill ("The fact that the »
Elton John's Husband Downplays Fb Comments on Madonna
20 January 2012 8:12 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
When Madonna won a Golden Globe for Best Song last weekend, Elton John's husband, David Furnish, took to his Facebook page, slamming Madge's win. Furnish posted a follow-up on Friday, saying he was caught up in the moment.
"My comments regarding the Golden Globes have been blown way out of proportion. My passion for our film, "Gnomeo & Juliet" and belief in Elton's song really got my emotional juices going. But I must say for »
The Extra List: Top 5 Celebrity Feuds
17 January 2012 12:12 PM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
"Extra" takes a look back at the top five celebrity feuds... check it out!
The Extra List: Top 5 Celebrity FeudsKirstie Alley and David Letterman
When Kirstie Alley boogied her way to a slimmer figure on "Dancing with the Stars," it wasn't without some criticism along the way.Late night host David Letterman poked fun at Alley's weight, but it was Alley who had the last laugh when she confronted Letterman on his show back in July. »
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