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I Fell in Love with "The Hurt Locker" and You Should Too! The Best Movie of the Summer!

25 July 2009 10:36 AM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

I'm exploding with joy to tell you that "The Hurt Locker" is definitely the best movie of the summer, and is a contender to be one of the best of the year!

Written by Mark Boal (pictured on left) and directed by Katherine Bigelow (pictured on right), the film made its debut at the Venice Film Festival last year, and didn't make its way to the Us until March 2009 at the South by Southwest Film Festival.

(From L to R: Anthony Mackie, Jeremy Renner, Brian Geraghty)

"The Hurt Locker" tells the story of an elite Army bomb squad in Iraq and the highly-combustible game they play against potential enemies. And those enemies can also be the war raging within each characters.

Anthony Mackie ("We Are Marshall," "Million Dollar Baby") stars as the by-the-books Sergeant Jt Sanborn. All he wants is to get out of Iraq.

Brian Geraghty ("Bobby," "The Guardian »

- Manny

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Kasabian 'not right-wing lad rock'

29 May 2009 5:32 AM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Tom Meighan has complained that his band are wrongly perceived as a right-wing "lad rock" group. The Kasabian frontman told The Guardian that he was upset when one interviewer suggested that it might have been unwise for him to wear a Paul Smith union flag shirt on stage. Meighan said: "People think we're lad rock. People think we're rowdy guzzlers, man. Beer guzzlers. I wore the shirt because it represents The Who, Keith Moon, Pete Townshend, the Pistols, all the great things that have come out of Britain, Noel Gallagher with his union jack guitar. "It's not a f**king (more) »

- By Mayer Nissim

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April Fools' Day: How Pranking Your Customers Can Buoy Your Brand

1 April 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »

Ashton Kutcher might have coined the term, but it was Richard Dimbleby--as in, the usually somber BBC news anchor--who pioneered the “punk.” On April 1, 1957, during his widely respected news program, Panorama, Dimbleby voiced a two-minute segment on “spaghetti harvesting” in Switzerland (right). As he championed the practice, viewers watched “real” footage of spaghetti farmers pulling pasta from trees. “There’s nothing like real, home-grown spaghetti,“ he concluded.

The footage, of course, was fake. But its impact was very real: Hundreds of viewers called the BBC, wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. (The network’s response: “Take a sprig of pasta, place it in tomato sauce, and wait.”) Today, the gag remains one of the greatest corporate stunts of all time, according to the Museum of Hoaxes.

Since the BBC broadcast, many big-name brands, like Google, Microsoft and Burger King, have played their own April Fools’ Day pranks. »

- Dan Macsai

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Costner and Jones are in 'The Company Men'

19 March 2009 1:54 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Perhaps Kevin Costner has lined up a film worth watching after the dismal Swing Vote last year and films such as Mr. Brooks, The Guardian and Rumor Has It... rounding out his last four films. However, an indie feature with Tommy Lee Jones sounds interesting as the two will star in The Company Men, joining the already cast Ben Affleck . The film is described as a drama about the impact a corporate downsizing has on both its casualties and survivors. Affleck plays a corporate hotshot whose Porsche and six-figure salary vanish after he gets laid off. Costner plays his brother-in-law, a salt-of-the-earth drywall installer who gives him a construction job. Jones plays a senior partner in the firm, a principled man who struggles with the greedy actions of his partners. John Wells wrote the script and will direct. Production begins in April in Boston. On top of this news we »

- Brad Brevet

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Interview: Personal Effects Director David Hollander

15 March 2009 7:37 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

When you make a movie with stars like Ashton Kutcher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Kathy Bates, based on a novella by an acclaimed writer like Rick Moody, you might figure you were on your way to arthouse success. But David Hollander learned the hard way when he made his directorial debut Personal Effects that getting your movie seen by audiences is never as easy as getting great actors and a promising story. Personal Effects, a story about two people overcoming grief and falling in love in the process, will be premiering for one night only in a theater in New York and Los Angeles apiece. After that it will debut on DVD in May, where the investors figure they'll be able to make back their money. Hollander, who has previously worked on TV shows like The Guardian and The Cleaner, is clearly disappointed about the route his film has gone, but »

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Favorite Movie Theaters: Bob Collins' Video Tribute To The Uptown In Washington D.C.

28 January 2009 9:44 AM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

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By Bob Collins

There was a time in the grand era of movie palaces where the theater we saw a movie at was as important as the film itself. Names like Marcus Loew and William Fox built and operated theater palaces that were created to give the common man a feeling of royalty, even if only for a couple of hours while they were entertained by the latest fare from Hollywood.  Studios, too, built monuments to showmanship where the movies they made could be seen in all their splendor.

 

Many of these theaters still exist; Grauman’s Chinese in Hollywood, The Loew’s Jersey in Jersey City, the Fox Theatres in Atlanta and Detroit, among others.  Some are now performing arts centers, but a few still operate the way they were originally conceived – as movie theaters.

 

Washington, D.C. does not come »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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