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Viola Davis Puts her 'Trust' in Indie Film
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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I'm wouldn't necessarily call her the Parker Posey indie girl of today, but since Steven Soderbergh's Solaris and Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, Viola Davis is taking on more supporting cast pinch hitter in independent films. - I'm wouldn't necessarily call her the Parker Posey indie girl of today, but since Steven Soderbergh's Solaris and Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, Viola Davis is taking on more supporting cast pinch hitter in independent films. The actress who essentially got her start in film with bit roles in Soderbergh's Out of Sight and Traffic, has just signed up for a pair of indie films. Davis will be featured in Ryan Fleck's adaptation of Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Thing for Focus Features. The story is described as a young-adult One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and centers on a clinically depressed 15-year-old who checks
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DS Icon: Christopher Lloyd
3 December 2009 10:00 PM, PST
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Great Scott!! Very few actors are blessed enough to earn the status of cult icon for just one thing, which makes the career of Christopher Lloyd all the more amazing. As well as starring alongside Jack Nicholson in the movie adaptation of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Lloyd also appeared in Danny DeVito sitcom Taxi, as Uncle Fester in both Addams Family movies and as the terrifying Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. What he's best known for is, of course, his three Back To The Future movies as the irrepressible Doctor Emmett Lathrop Brown. We caught up with The Doc (and newly-crowned Digital Spy Icon) ahead of the release of new kids' movie Santa Buddies. You've been in a lot of really well-loved work - do you consider yourself something of a cult icon?
"I've never really given it much thought, but (more)
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Bww Interviews: Kaye Ayers-Sowell, A Life in the Theatre
24 November 2009 1:01 PM, PST
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Most recently, she appeared in Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Boiler Room Theatre and now serves as secretary of the board of directors for Street Theatre Company. She's appeared in productions for Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre, Actors Bridge Ensemble, Circle Players, Act I, Nashville Shakespeare Festival - well, you get the idea...this woman has built an impressive resume in Nashville, including an acclaimed turn as the Stage Manager in Act I's production of Our Town, Nurse Ratched in Street Theatre Company's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and one amazing turn as Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show for one very lucky and grateful director (yours truly).
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'Big Bang Theory' recap: Sheldon gets to second base with Penny. That's not a typo.
17 November 2009 4:30 AM, PST
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I can't say I'm a Sheldon/Penny 'shipper myself, so I'm not entirely sure whether last night's episode was cause to rejoice or not for those rather insistent Big Bang Theory fans who subscribe to the notion that the otherwise asexual quantum physicist should shack up with the rather sweet blonde Cheesecake Factory waitress who lives across the hall. True, Sheldon quite clearly, if accidentally, got to second base with Penny. And a drug-addled Penny did coyly joke at the end of the episode about Sheldon helping her to bed. But the vibe between them felt pretty much little sister
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- Adam B. Vary
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Big Home Video releases Rock On, Jodhaa Akbar on Blu-Ray
4 November 2009 1:18 PM, PST
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As the world consumers and all major studios shift to Blu-ray, Big Home Video, which has already released approximately 90 Blu-ray titles in English, has now released Rock On and Jodhaa Akbar on the format. Big Home Video has previously released films like The Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Dark Knight, Gladiator, Matrix, Batman, Body of Lies, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Blood Diamond etc on Blu-ray. Big Music & Home Entertainment CEO Kulmeet Makkar said, "Our target is an audience who demands the best in content and quality. Blu-ray is a
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'The Crow' Remembered: All This Week On MTV Splash Page
29 October 2009 9:30 AM, PDT
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From Splash Page: Our five-part Halloween Week retrospective on "The Crow" continues, celebrating the film's 15th anniversary with cast and filmmaker interviews that explore its origin and legacy. Check back each day this week for another installment of our "15 Years Of Devil's Night" series.
Part Three: The Skull Cowboy Speaks! The Crow'S Lost Character.
By Ryan J. Downey
The Skull Cowboy appears in James O'Barr's comics and nearly made it into "The Crow." An other-worldly guide for Brandon Lee's resurrected avenger Eric Draven, the mysterious figure would have provided a great deal of the film's exposition, setting up the "rules" of the afterlife and Draven's mission.
The character, portrayed under heavy prosthetics by actor Michael Berryman ("The Devil's Rejects," "Weird Science," "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"), can be glimpsed in a deleted footage montage on the collector's edition DVD of "The Crow" and longer scenes, including one with dialogue,
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- Adam Rosenberg
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The Crow: 15 Years Of Devil's Night
28 October 2009 5:46 PM, PDT
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Our five-part Halloween Week retrospective on "The Crow" continues, celebrating the film's 15th anniversary with cast and filmmaker interviews that explore its origin and legacy. Check back each day this week for another installment of our "15 Years Of Devil's Night" series.
Part Three: The Skull Cowboy Speaks! The Crow'S Lost Character.
By Ryan J. Downey
The Skull Cowboy appears in James O'Barr's comics and nearly made it into "The Crow." An other-worldly guide for Brandon Lee's resurrected avenger Eric Draven, the mysterious figure would have provided a great deal of the film's exposition, setting up the "rules" of the afterlife and Draven's mission.
The character, portrayed under heavy prosthetics by actor Michael Berryman ("The Devil's Rejects," "Weird Science," "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"), can be glimpsed in a deleted footage montage on the collector's edition DVD of "The Crow" and longer scenes, including one with dialogue,
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Obama and 'Wild Things': President as movie critic
22 October 2009 1:40 PM, PDT
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I'm surprised there's been little media reaction to the casual comment President Obama made the other day about Where the Wild Things Are: The president was visiting a local public school, he's known to be a big fan of Maurice Sendak's book, he's screened the movie, and, as reported in The Washington Post, he told his kid constituency, "it's worth seeing." Given the dust stirred up by adults when Obama made a speech to schoolchildren last month on the apolitical subject of studying hard and doing one's homework, it's easy to imagine a grown-up anti-Wild Things faction criticizing
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- Lisa Schwarzbaum
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Cinematical Seven: Therapists and Their Nutty Patients
8 October 2009 8:02 PM, PDT
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An IMDb search for "therapy" as a plot device in movies will turn up hundreds of titles -- the Woody Allen catalog alone would take weeks to wade through. For some reason, psychological counseling is a well that screenwriters never tire of dipping into, with wildly mixed results. This week's addition to the oeuvre is the Jon Favreau penned Couples Retreat, in which he, Vince Vaughn and their wives take part in a week's vacation that involves time on the couch ... because nothing's funnier than watching bitter, middle-aged people kvetch about how much sex they're not having anymore.
The arguable quality of Couple's Retreat aside, therapy is, when done well, a potentially fascinating hook on which to hang a plot. From asylum-based films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Girl, Interrupted to stories about the unhinged like What About Bob? and Don Juan DeMarco, there's a daunting list
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- Dawn Taylor
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Next Week's Heroes Will Feature Claire and Gretchen Kissing
6 October 2009 10:14 PM, PDT
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Things will be heating up in next week's episode of Heroes, entitled Hysterical Blindness, which will air on Monday, October 12 at 8 Pm Et on NBC, and we have a new image to prove it. Take a look at Hayden Panettiere's Claire and guest star Madeline Zima's Gretchen locked in their first kiss.
The episode will also feature guest-starring stints from Ernie Hudson and Oscar-winning actress Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). Take a look at the new synopsis for the episode below.
Samuel (Robert Knepper) prepares for new additions to his family, while Lydia (guest star Dawn Olivieri) warns him of the consequences. Claire (Hayden Panettiere) discovers that her roommate Gretchen (guest star Madeline Zima) may have a hidden agenda. Meanwhile, Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) finds an unexpected way to connect with Emma (guest star Deanne Bray), who would prefer to stay distant. Elsewhere, a different side
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Minds In Progress (Part II): Sanity Is Not the Opposite of Vibrancy
2 September 2009 11:52 AM, PDT
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By Simon Augustine, M.Div
[Continued from "Part I" here.]
Dramas (And Documentaries)
"A sane person to an insane society must appear insane."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: The Battle of Imagination and Order
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
- George Gascoigne, Renaissance poet
"I turned down a job in 'Cuckoo's Nest' for this?!"
- John Belushi, bemoaning how Saturday Night Live cost him a film role
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is based on Ken Kesey's novel about Randall P. McMurphy, a rebellious spirit who pretends to be insane to trade prison for the comfy (or so he thinks) environs of the mental institution. All leering smiles, arched eyebrows, and devilish merriment, McCurphy is a virtuoso ne'er-do-well; a man propelled by a mania of bravura horniness, hot temper, and humanity that is infectious, inspiring, and eventually affects
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Easy Rider Hits the Open Road to Blu-ray on October 20th
31 August 2009 6:41 AM, PDT
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You can bring home of one the most important pictures of the 60s home in 1080p this October. Easy Rider will be released on Blu-ray on October 20. We don't have any cover art for this release as of yet, but the disc will be priced at $38.96 Srp and will also come with a collectible booklet. The film stars Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.
Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson (Best Actor, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975) stars withPeter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (who also directs) in this unconventional classic which Time Magazine hails as "one of the ten most important pictures of the decade." Experience the real, uncensored '60s counterculture in this compelling mixture of drugs, sex and armchair politics. In the role that catapulted him to stardom, Jack Nicholson portrays an alcoholic attorney who hooks up with two part-time, drug-dealing motorcyclists (Fonda and Hopper) in search of their "American Dream.
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Psychiatrist attacks Joker and Two-Face portrayals in The Dark Knight
25 August 2009 5:36 AM, PDT
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Christopher Nolan'S Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight made over a billion dollars at the global box office and was viewed by many as a high point of moviemaking, within the superhero genre and beyond it.
But a new report says the film was a low point for the film industry in its depiction of mental illness.
Screening Madness, a report by psychiatrist and film expert Dr Peter Byrne for anti-discrimination campaign Time to Change, says characters with mental health problems are being depicted on the big screen as more demonic and cruel than at any time in film history.
Dr Byrne said The Dark Knight's violence and humour was based almost entirely on a misunderstanding of schizophrenia.
He said: "Batman describes the Joker as a schizophrenic clown, and when the film's second hero Harvey Dent becomes Two-Face (pictured below right) and embraces evil, the familiar stereotype of schizophrenia is activated.
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The Joker is a Harmful Stereotype?
19 August 2009 2:00 PM, PDT
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An influential report cited that The Joker from "The Dark Knight" is an example that Hollywood portrays people with mental health problems as being evil. Dr Peter Byrne, a psychiatrist and film expert who wrote the report for the Time to Change campaign, said: "Mental health stereotypes have not changed over a century of cinema. If anything, the comedy is crueler and the deranged psycho killer even more demonic." He continued: "Batman describes the Joker as a schizophrenic clown, and when the film's second hero Harvey Dent becomes Two-Face and embraces evil, the familiar stereotype of schizophrenia is activated. This is omnipresent in cinema misrepresentations . the psycho killer is immortal and sadistic, motivated by madness." A YouGov survey found that almost 50% of the public have seen people with a mental illness acting violently in films. And almost half the people polled (44%) believe that people with a mental illness will act violently in real life.
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Christian Slater on family, theatre and film: An exclusive profile
14 August 2009 7:09 AM, PDT
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A world class actor both on screen and stage, Christian Slater is one of the most renowned actors of our time - whether it's tackling modern classics, like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or the Bible - in the Ten Commandments.
t5m caught up with Christian exclusively to talk about everything from his theatrical upbringing with his casting agent mother and stage actor father, to his experiences of fatherhood and his appreciation for London and British theatre.
Whether talking about encouraging his sons to read, or sharing an anecdote, Christian Slater on t5m provides fascinating, intimate and exclusive insight into the world of film, acting and fatherhood.
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Sad Story Turned into Funny Story for Fleck
11 August 2009
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- Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (Half Nelson, Sugar) are moving into the bigger leagues, striking a deal with Focus Features to produce a project that they originally had set up with Paramount Pictures. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the indie distributor will finance, produce and distribute the pic the 8 million dollar pic with shooting beginning sometime this fall for a probably Fall 2010 release. Misher Films is still on board to produce, and now Wayfare Entertainment will also finance and produce; Ben Browning will produce on behalf of the New York-based shingle, and Michael Maher and Peter Rawlinson are exec producing. Based on Ned Vizzini's young-adult novel (with whom we featured in an article here), It's Kind of a Funny Story is described as a young-adult One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and centers on a clinically depressed 15-year-old who checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward where he
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Remembering Burton's Batman 20 years later
23 June 2009 12:44 AM, PDT
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June 23, 1989: the day that Tim Burton's Batman opened in theaters.
Before there was an internet and back when the idea of 24/7 news reporting still seemed strange, the hype that preceded the opening of Batman was like nothing that's come before or since. And that's taking into reflection the immense hype that led up to The Phantom Menace ten years ago which itself was a one of a kind event but still not on the same level as the critical mass that Batman '89 had achieved. Have you forgotten the buzzcuts of the Bat-symbol that people were getting shaved into the back of their hair? Do you remember when you could walk into a theater and see a sea of teens wearing Batman t-shirts? Back in December 1988 people bought a ticket to see the Batman trailer playing in front of Tequila Sunrise and then left after it was shown.
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Hotties go crazy
18 June 2009 2:08 AM, PDT
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Danielle Panabaker and Amber Heard have signed on to star in the upcoming John Carpenter thriller The Ward. The film stars Heard as a girl admitted to the psych ward of a hospital. There she meets some fellow crazy hot chicks and battles yet another hot chick that stalks the halls at night. Kinda sounds like Girl Interrupted meets One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by way of Halloween. Panabaker and Mamie Gummer will play friends of Heard's who, presumably, are victims of the slightly more
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AFI Gives Michael Douglas an Lifetime Achievement Award. No, Really.
14 June 2009 3:03 PM, PDT
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Maybe it gives away my age, but I really do think I remember a time when awards were given to people purely because an organization thought they'd actually earned them. I'm not crazy, am I? That really used to happen, right?
Well, this week Michael Douglas was honored by the American Film Institute, who threw a gala black-tie shindig at Sony Pictures Studio and handed him their 37th AFI Life Achievement Award. Bob Dylan sang a song, and Douglas' wife Catherine Zeta-Jones performed an adorable little tap dance number, and Jack Nicholson was Jack Nicholson, and a stuntman fell through the ceiling in an homage to the ending of The Game. All in all, a nice evening of entertainment that'll be televised next month. But ... Michael Douglas?
The AFI award started out as a true Lifetime Achievement trophy -- the first went to John Ford in 1973. Over the next two decades,
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Romancing the Douglas
12 June 2009 7:35 AM, PDT
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Greed has definitely been good for Michael Douglas.
The Wall Street star was feted in grand style last night, receiving the 37th AFI Life Achievement Award at a tribute attended by longtime pals Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Kathleen Turner and Oliver Stone, along with former costars Tobey Maguire, Benicio Del Toro, Sharon Stone, Martin Sheen and Matthew McConaughey.
Douglas, 64, beamed as friends old and new shared favorite stories of the Oscar-winning actor-producer amid clips of his greatest hits.
"I've had so many of my high moments and so many of my fine moments with you," said Nicholson, recalling their work together on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which
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