Oprah Winfrey commands the attention and loyalty of millions of adoring disciples. The books she selects for her famous book club enjoy unprecedented boosts in sales. The medical remedies and social taboos featured on her television show immediately spike on internet searches following a broadcast. The media mogul even helped elect the nation’s very first [...]
In the last two years, Peter Greenaway has made two films about Rembrandt. More accurately, he’s made two versions of the same film about Rembrandt – a tableau-vivant period piece (“Nightwatching”) and an academic video essay (“Rembrandt’s J’Accuse”) – both of which come stocked with all the director’s signature tics. They also intensely plumb the [...]
Count on Roland Emmerich, the Master of Disaster, to base an entire film on the (false) pretense that the ancient Mayan calender predicts Earth’s demise in three years, and then scarcely mention the source of the ensuing pandemonium. Less than a handful of sentences are spent on the pop-culture rumor oft-repeated about the so-called predictions [...]
Nine is a vibrant and provocative musical that follows the life of world famous film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) as he reaches a creative and personal crisis of epic proportion, while balancing the numerous women in his life including his wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress (Penelope Cruz), his film star muse (Nicole Kidman), his [...]
It’s been a couple of weeks since our last show, but this one is worth the wait (we hope). This week we tackle Oren Peli’s viral, scare-fest phenomenon “Paranormal Activity,” and then on to Ruben Fleischer’s Woody Harrelson-is-a-hillybilly-zombie-killer flick, “Zombieland.” Too much horror to handle? Find somebody to hold on to and let us guide [...]
“Journey with our Fearless Explorer into the carnivorous depths of the Feminine Mind! Here is where fantasy becomes reality -and women come easy. But BEWARE! Keeping them is another story. For within the womb of desire lurk MADNESS and the seeds of DREADFUL FOLLIES! Fetish, Fear, & Folly! – all with an undercurrent of unsettled [...]
Martin Scorsese has been selected by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as the recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 17. DeMille, one of the fathers of film and a preeminent Hollywood director, is most famous for co-founding the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, [...]
The 2009 Tallgrass Film Festival has been a great success. You can read our full round-up here. The Tallgrass folks have just released the statistics. The Stats: Films Submitted: 189 Features & 263 Shorts KS Connection: 41 Kansas-connected films were submitted Films Screened: 28 Features & 72 shorts Visiting Filmmakers: 32. From cities including LA, [...]
BURBANK, Calif., November 12, 2009 – The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) today reported earnings for the fiscal year and fourth quarter ended October 3, 2009. Diluted earnings per share (EPS) for the year was $1.76, compared to $2.28 in the prior year. EPS for the current and prior year include certain items that are [...]
BURBANK , Calif. — In line with The Walt Disney Company’s goals of advancing its global businesses and brands while providing new opportunities and challenges to executives, Disney President and Chief Executive Officer Robert A. Iger announced today that two of the company’s most senior leaders would assume new roles at the end of the [...]
Loco: London’s 1st Comedy Film Festival
Orlando: Does Sex Matter?
A soothing demise: Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ considered
The Power of Limits in The Five Obstructions
Surviving ‘Surviving Life’
‘The Other’ at The 2nd London Iranian Film Festival
‘Leaving’: Made in Prague
A Step Forward: New African Film in Paris
Adapting to The Skin I Live In: The Antidote to Horror
Chicken with Plums: Better on Paper
