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Check Out The Trailer For Ian Dury Biopic 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll'
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Kids today may not remember who Ian Dury was, but like many British music legends, he's something of a national treasure over in the UK. And he's got a great-looking new biopic titled "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll," directed by Mat Whitecross ("The Road to Guantanamo"), which opens across the pond this weekend.
It stars Andy Serkis, who you should definitely know as the actor behind Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and King Kong in Peter Jackson's remake, as well as Ray Winstone ("Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"), Olivia Williams ("Rushmore"), Toby Jones ("Frost/Nixon") and Naomie Harris and Mackenzie Crook (both of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy).
Our friends over at The Playlist take a look at some stills and a trailer for the film today, and I have to agree that I wish Dury was popular enough in America to
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- Christopher Campbell
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Film Weekly meets Andy Serkis and reviews The Road
7 January 2010 7:31 AM, PST
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Film Weekly gets 2010 off to a blistering start with actor Andy Serkis, who has gone from playing Gollum and King Kong to inhabiting the skin and withered limb of the late Ian Dury in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. Serkis tells Jason Solomons about channelling the spit and fury of the uncompromising late 70s jazz-punk warrior, and how bringing Dury to life on the big screen forced him to dig deep into his skills as an artist, actor and musician. Serkis also discusses his return to playing Gollum in The Hobbit and why motion-capture technology will never put actors out of work.
The hard-hitting documentary Mugabe and The White African – about a white Zimbabwean farmer's attempt to take his country's president to the international court over his brutal land-reform programme – took the top prize at the recent British Independent Film awards and is released in the UK this week. Co-director Andrew Thompson
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- Jason Solomons, Xan Brooks, Jason Phipps, Observer
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Who Wants to See The Lovely Bones With The Movie Geeks?
6 January 2010 4:52 PM, PST
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It’s Peter Jackson’s return to the film world after 2005’s King Kong, and it is hitting St. Louis on January 15th. However, lucky for you, we have passes to give away for a showing of The Lovely Bones three days earlier.
Here’s all you have to do to get one of these, sweet, admit 2 passes, shoot us a comment below telling us what aspect of this movie you are most looking forward to. Is it Jackson’s directing? Is it the brilliant visual effects courtesy of Weta? Is it Stanley Tucci’s performance, which, evidently, is being deemed Oscar worthy? Let us know you opinions in that little comment section below, and we’ll be picking our favorites for the tickets Sunday night.
Remember, the screening is in the St. Louis area, so don’t enter unless you’re planning on driving in from out of town
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- Kirk
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Andy Serkis: From Gollum to Ian Dury
2 January 2010 8:31 AM, PST
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He's very good at playing bad guys, so how will he handle a punk poet turned posthumous national treasure?
Lefties among us might recognise Andy Serkis. Of course he was bug-eyed hobbit Gollum in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Sure, he gave us a supremely tender King Kong. Yes, he was terrifyingly eloquent as serial killer Ian Brady in the television drama Longford, horribly creepy as French prisoner Rigaud in Little Dorrit and simply monstrous as the interrogator in Extraordinary Rendition. But there's something else. Wasn't he the fella who sold the Socialist Worker on the streets of London back in the early 90s?
Serkis says it was his days in the Swp, and his subsequent rejection of the party line, that made him the actor he is today. As a young socialist he was angry about so much: Thatcher, unemployment, racism, you name it. Actually, his anger went back further.
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- Simon Hattenstone
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Andy Serkis: From Gollum to Ian Dury
2 January 2010 8:31 AM, PST
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He's very good at playing bad guys, so how will he handle a punk poet turned posthumous national treasure?
Lefties among us might recognise Andy Serkis. Of course he was bug-eyed hobbit Gollum in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Sure, he gave us a supremely tender King Kong. Yes, he was terrifyingly eloquent as serial killer Ian Brady in the television drama Longford, horribly creepy as French prisoner Rigaud in Little Dorrit and simply monstrous as the interrogator in Extraordinary Rendition. But there's something else. Wasn't he the fella who sold the Socialist Worker on the streets of London back in the early 90s?
Serkis says it was his days in the Swp, and his subsequent rejection of the party line, that made him the actor he is today. As a young socialist he was angry about so much: Thatcher, unemployment, racism, you name it. Actually, his anger went back further.
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- Simon Hattenstone
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