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Video of the Day: Watch Rose McGowan’s directorial debut ‘Dawn’
4 hours ago
Rose McGowan has, over the course of her career, become a recognisable name both in film for her work in features such as Planet Terror and Jawbreakers, and television for her work in shows such as Charmed. The 2014 Sundance Film Festival, however, saw McGowan step behind the camera for the first time, as she unveiled her directorial debut short film.
Titled Dawn, the short is written by the duo of M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller, and stars God Bless America‘s Tara Lynne Barr as the titular character, with Hannah Marks and Reily McClendon co-starring. The synopsis is as follows.
Dawn is a quiet young teenager who longs for something or someone to free her from her sheltered life.
McGowan has now released the short in its entirety on Youtube, with this message
Dear viewer,
Dawn is a cautionary tale. We hurt girls with casual negligence. We change the »
- Deepayan Sengupta
‘John Wick’ announces that Keanu Reeves is definitely back
9 hours ago
Written by Derek Kolstad
Directed by Chad Stahelski and David Leitch
U.S.A., 2014
As the film opens, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is breathing what appear to be his dying breaths. Battered and bruised, he stumbles out of the van he just crashed at the docks on Manhattan’s outskirts. In an instant viewers are taken back to a more pleasant time for John, back when he lived a happier life with his lovely wife, the latter eventually succumbing to an unnamed disease. A broken man without his soulmate, a glimmer of positivity arrives at his door in the shape of a puppy his wife seemingly purchased for him in anticipation of the mourning that was looming on the horizon. The bitter sweetness is short loved, shifting over the sheer bitterness when Iosef (Alife Allen), the overly cocky son of Russian mafia lord Viggo (Michael Nyqvist), kills the pup. »
- Edgar Chaput
Filmmaker Marc Forster to make Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Downslope’ into a trilogy
15 hours ago
As reported by Deadline, Stanley Kubrick’s written script for The Downslope will now be made into a film series by World War Z and Finding Neverland director Marc Forster, who will serve as producer for all three films and director for the first. Kubrick wrote the script in 1956 after his film Fear and Desire hit theaters, and before he started working on Paths of Glory. The film is said to be “a sweeping, historical action-drama,” according to Deadline, and will revolve around the Civil War. The first film of the trilogy will be based on Kubrick’s script and concept, and the subsequent films will expand on his original ideas and focus on the after-effects of the Civil War.
Kubrick’s death in 1999 has obviously not stopped his ideas from reaching the big screen, as seen with Spielberg’s film A.I. Artificial Intelligence in 2001. That film was brought about »
- Sarah
‘Titanic’ and ‘Avatar’ composer James Horner dead after plane crash
16 hours ago
The composer of Titanic, Braveheart, Avatar, and The Amazing Spider-Man has died after a plane crash earlier today.
James Horner, known for writing the famous Celine Dion song for Titanic, was pronounced dead after his plane crashed on Monday. He was not accounted for in the crash, but his assistant later confirmed that the songwriter had passed away. He was 61.
Horner earned two Oscars in his career for his score for Titanic and for best original song for “My Heart Will Go On.” His resume included work on The Rocketeer, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Aliens, Field of Dreams, Glory, Apollo 13, and A Beautiful Mind.
His last work was on the Jake Gyllenhaal boxing film, Southpaw, which comes out this fall. He was also in pre-production on James Cameron’s two Avatar sequels.
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- Zach Dennis
Punching the Numbers: Where Liam Neeson Lies in the History of “Hollywood’s Most Bankable Action Star” Runs
16 hours ago
Liam Neeson is Hollywood’s most bankable action star. That’s a statement of fact, but how do we know it is fact? How much more bankable is he than others? First off, we take a look at the box office returns for his action films and match them against the budgets and see what sort of averages and trends pop up.
1st Disclosure: I am not a sabermetrics genius, I’m just a guy that likes to write about action movies. If somebody out there who is a sabermetrics genius saw this and said “There’s a better way to do this.”, it would only bring me joy to see my amateur work improved upon.
2nd Disclosure: I won’t be including results of The Grey and A Walk Among the Tombstones in this pool of data, while both were marketed as action vehicles and have moments of action in them, »
- Dylan Griffin
‘Tales From the Crypt’ Volume 1 The early days of the horror icon crawl back from the grave
17 hours ago
Few comics sit at the intersection of “fan beloved,” “industry defining,” and “absolutely impossible to acquire” the way the EC Comics library does. For a while they almost felt like Comics’ very own Holy Grail. On one hand, you’ve got the Tales From The Crypt brand itself, which has left an indelible mark on pop culture with films, cable TV series, Saturday morning cartoons, and a line of revival graphic novels from Papercutz — a proud legacy, to be sure. But on the other hand, you enter into the more nebulous region of pop cultural osmosis, and it’s there that the legend of Bill Gaines’ little comic line that could grows to gargantuan levels. The baby boomers that ate his ghoulish “mags” up in the early ‘50s eventually grew into the genre fiction movers and shakers of the ‘70s and ‘80s — from cult directors like George Romero and Joe Dante, »
- Luke Dorian Blackwood
E3 2015 Hands-On: ‘Cuphead’
17 hours ago
Cuphead was the Xbox One’s most creative and artistically ambitious title presented at E3 and its presence on the showfloor helped solidify its place as one of Microsoft’s mainstays.
Cuphead’s most drawing feature is its art style. Based on 1930s era American cartoons, Cuphead replicates these old animations almost effortlessly. The developers, Chad & Jared Moldenhauer of Studio Mdhr, had an idea of how they wanted their game to play but didn’t quite know how it should look. They were suggested an old-timey cartoon approach to the art style, one in which they had never attempted to create. They admitted that it was fun how they slowly found that style and replicated it into game form.
The time and effort shows in-game as Cuphead feels like an interactive time portal into the early days of Mickey Mouse and Popeye animations. They even went through the trouble of »
- Ryan Espinoza
NBC cancels ‘Hannibal’, with the current season being its last
21 hours ago
Among the more critically acclaimed network shows over the past few seasons has been the NBC series Hannibal. Developed by Pushing Daisies and Wonderfalls creator Bryan Fuller, the series, which follows the titular character of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, played by Mads Mikkelsen, began its third season roughly three weeks ago, to the excitement of many. Now news has emerged from NBC, however, that this ongoing third season will be the show’s last, as the network has cancelled the series, with the third season finale to serve as the series finale.
The decision appears to be an amicable one, as Fuller had this to say as part of NBC’s press release.
NBC has allowed us to craft a television series that no other broadcast network would have dared, and kept us on the air for three seasons despite Cancellation Bear Chow ratings and images that would have shredded the »
- Deepayan Sengupta
Dispatch from the La Film Festival 2015: ‘The Vanished Elephant (El elefante desaparecido)’
22 hours ago
From the very opening, we are warned that this is a film of doubling and illusion. A car slowly pulls up and to a stop in a nighttime Lima street, but we gradually realise that we are observing the scene through a large window, with the street and headlamps subtly reflecting and shifting in the pulled focus. It turns out that this sequence – man with gun stealthily enters house – forms the final chapter of Edo Celeste’s latest in a long line of successful detective novels, and he is composing it as we watch, before deleting it in disgust at his reliance on cliche – a black cat. It also turns out that later on Edo himself will repeat the exact same actions, via the same shots, trying to find the woman who can help him find the mysterious man who has posed for a photographic project depicting his works’ hero, »
- Tom Newth
Watch the trailer for Michel Gondry’s ‘Microbe et Gasoil’
22 June 2015 7:53 AM, PDT
Michel Gondry, best known for his classic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, returned to his French roots in 2013 with the whimsical Mood Indigo. And with his latest film Microbe et Gasoil, though he has remained in France, he’s scaled back the fantasy and magic to a more modest and realistic form of whimsy.
Microbe et Gasoil, or the American title Microbe and Gasoline, is a coming-of-age story of two teenage boys, one popular and one horribly awkward, who become friends and build a moving house on wheels to travel across country.
The film opens in France on July 8 but does not yet have an American distribution or release date. Watch the trailer below via Facebook:
Je tiens mes promesses. Voici la bande-annonce de Microbe et Gasoil, sous-titrée en anglais. Le 8 juillet au cinéma !I wouldn’t lie to you, right? Here’s the Microbe and Gasoline trailer with English subtitles. »
- Brian Welk
Cannes winner ‘The Wonders’, from Alice Rohrwacher, gets a new trailer
22 June 2015 7:45 AM, PDT
Way back in May of 2014, Alice Rohrwacher’s Italian coming of age story The Wonders, about a family of farmers and beekeepers won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. And after over a year of touring festivals, it’s finally getting a release date in the UK.
We originally compared the film in our Cannes 2014 review to an Italian Little Miss Sunshine, writing, “Rohrwacher takes a standard fish-out-of-water comedy , throwing in a few moments of beauty and absurd humor, but ultimately falls short of anything other than an updated but familiar tale of adolescence.” Here’s the full synopsis:
At twelve years of age Gelsomina runs her unconventional Italian family with her three younger sisters working under her watchful eye. Together they keep the bees and make the honey on their father’s farm oblivious to the world outside of their own.
Whilst all around them the »
- Brian Welk
Listen to the ‘Jurassic Park’ theme 1000x slower
22 June 2015 7:13 AM, PDT
Jurassic World continues to make an absolute ton of money. People just really like to see Chris Pratt chasing dinosaurs around.
And with so many people still enthralled with the nostalgia of Steven Spielberg’s classic Jurassic Park, this latest rendition of John Williams’s iconic score seems more than fitting. 1000 percent slower, Williams’s score is a beautiful, spacey rendition of sonic waves and tones easy to get lost in. It sounds incredible, although at a rate that slow, even Justin Bieber can sound pretty incredible.
Hear it below via Soundcloud:
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- Brian Welk
Penny Dreadful, Ep. 2.08, “Memento Mori”: “We are the dead!”
22 June 2015 3:36 AM, PDT
Penny Dreadful, Season 2, Episode 8, “Memento Mori”
Written by John Logan
Directed by Kari Skogland
Airs Sundays at 10 pm Et on Showtime
As Penny Dreadful nears the end of its second season, it decides to acknowledge that it has characters beyond Vanessa and Ethan. The pair don’t even appear in this week’s episode, “Memento Mori,” but there’s enough going on to fill up the void.
Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton) has become aware of his enchantment by Evelyn Poole (Helen McCrory), and he doesn’t just mean in the romantic sense — he recalls how on the day of his wife’s funeral, he was at a ball waltzing. That’s simply not the kind of man he knows he is. Evelyn confirms his suspicions by possessing him and causing him to throw a tantrum, but Sir Malcolm is able to break the enchantment, and then unwisely goes off to »
- Chris Evangelista
True Detective, Ep. 2.01: “The Western Book of the Dead”: Oh, why you look so sad?
22 June 2015 3:23 AM, PDT
True Detective, Season 2, Episode 1, “The Western Book of the Dead”
Written by Nic Pizzolatto
Directed by Justin Lin
Airs Sundays at 9pm (Et) on HBO
Near the midway point of the first season of True Detective, Nic Pizzolatto became the de facto face of the show. A writer who clearly wanted to take most of the credit for one of the most popular shows on television, Pizzolatto gave off an air of entitlement throughout that season’s last few episodes and then continued to give interviews in which comparing himself to the second coming would have been one of the humbler comments included, deflecting praise to the rest of the team responsible for the gorgeous establishing shots or murky Southern murder mysteries. These details aren’t laid out to place all the blame on Pizzolatto for the average opening episode of True Detective season two, but it does seem as »
- Whitney McIntosh
Weekend Box Office: ‘Jurassic World’ continues to hold strong
21 June 2015 8:56 PM, PDT
The Colin Trevorrow feature Jurassic World continued to hold strong in its second weekend, bringing in $102 million to retain the top spot at the box office. Jurassic World‘s total earnings to date also brought it to second place among the highest grossing films of the year, ahead of Furious 7 and just behind Avengers: Age of Ultron. The Chris Pratt-starring feature managed to hold off the newest Pixar film Inside Out, which earned $91.1 million in its opening weekend, ending up in second place. The box office totals saw a steep drop-off from that point, as the Melissa McCarthy-starring Spy‘s $10.5 million total was enough to land it in third place.
Inside Out wasn’t the only new film to land a spot on the box office chart, as Rick Famuyiwa’s newest film Dope landed in fifth place with a $6 million total, behind the earthquake film San Andreas, »
- Deepayan Sengupta
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