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Even a Master Sleuth Couldn't Untangle 'Sherlock Holmes'
24 December 2009 9:05 PM, PST
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Boasting enough slow-motion action to please even Watchmen’s Zack Snyder, this is not your English teacher’s Sherlock Holmes. Director Guy Ritchie honed his high-energy approach to the British crime genre with the excellent Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, and he brings that aesthetic to this adventure starring literature’s most famous detective (sorry, Nancy Drew). But despite its top-caliber cast and talented director, Sherlock Holmes is a mess that even the master sleuth couldn’t untangle.
Sherlock Holmes gets off to a fast and furious start, barreling right into the action. With the help of the ever steadfast Dr. John Watson (Jude Law), Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) captures multiple murderer Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong, Body of Lies). Though the black-magic-loving aristocrat is hanged for his crimes, he soon resurfaces, much to the surprise of Watson, who, embarrassingly, pronounced the man dead.
Holmes struggles to
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"Ugly Betty" (4.7) Recap: "Level (7) With Me"
30 November 2009 6:01 AM, PST
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This episode featured zilch Justin and Hilda and very little Marc, but it deserves a quick clip recap because it brought a quick end to two storylines I thought for sure were going to be season-long arcs.
First up is Wilhelmina, who's been photographed in *gasp* sweat pants and Crocs, prompting Marc (who's always been Smithers to Willi's Mr. Burns ... without the sexual tension) to tempt death and try to slap some sense into his boss.
Having survived giving Willi the Cher-esque "snap out of it" slap of life, Marc decides to stage his own fashion intervention and throw away Willi's offending garments, which leads to two shocking scenes — One involving Willi's daughter (whose name is Nico, but is no icon), and Marc suffering a moment of fashion insanity.
Next Page - Daniel's Angels to the rescue!
Scurrying back, Marc tells Willi what he saw, and the two of them confront the conniving Nico.
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Decade in Review: 2001 Top Ten
17 November 2009 8:41 PM, PST
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What follows is my original top ten list of 2001. We'll discuss each year of the decade over the next month or two (we already did 2000). I do this because I am curious about which films "stick" and which fade and why and maybe you are too? Best year of the decade I think. The top five films would all be valid #1 film choices in some years. New comments are in red.
Note: This list references films released in NYC in 2001, not year of production or year in which they first the hit festival circuit or whatnot.
Runners Up (in descending order): Sexy Beast, Ali, Series 7: The Contenders, The Others, Last Resort and Waking Life. I don't remember loving Ali that much... and more than The Others? I don't remember that at all. I mean Nicole Kidman was the shit Twice Over in 2001.
In my round up of the
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CinemaSpy's Week-End TV Recap (Nov. 7)
7 November 2009 9:05 PM, PST
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Many television viewers — and pop culture critics — are wondering just what's up with Fox's Fringe. Watchers of the show were caught unaware this past week, not realizing that the network was airing a new episode of the skein until they read about it the next day in various news outlets. Fringe simply wasn't in the listings. People's DVRs didn't pick up the show, because Fox was listed as running Game 7 of the World Series. People believed that the show would be absent one more week.
All of this is raising serious questions about how seriously Fox is treating the show, or indeed, if they're trying to kill it. The Thursday night time slot was their first error in judgment, but lapses in playing to the viewer base by neglecting to promote episodes and air times is something else entirely.
The impression left is that Fox used first-run programming as a backup to a sporting event.
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CinemaSpy's Week-End TV Recap (Nov. 7)
7 November 2009 9:05 PM, PST
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Many television viewers — and pop culture critics — are wondering just what's up with Fox's Fringe. Watchers of the show were caught unaware this past week, not realizing that the network was airing a new episode of the skein until they read about it the next day in various news outlets. Fringe simply wasn't in the listings. People's DVRs didn't pick up the show, because Fox was listed as running Game 7 of the World Series. People believed that the show would be absent one more week.
All of this is raising serious questions about how seriously Fox is treating the show, or indeed, if they're trying to kill it. The Thursday night time slot was their first error in judgment, but lapses in playing to the viewer base by neglecting to promote episodes and air times is something else entirely.
The impression left is that Fox used first-run programming as a backup to a sporting event.
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'Smallville' Fan Columnist: How Do You Solve A Problem Like Lois? And Chloe Must Have Done Something Good
6 November 2009 4:57 AM, PST
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Smallville Fan Columnist, Trish Neale is here again with some news. If you're interested in becoming a fan columnist, click here.
She might as well be Supergirl! And yes: I realize Kara would object to that statement.
But even without superpowers, Smallville's Lois Lane (Erica Durance) combines the talents of Nancy Drew, Sarah Connor and Katie Couric all in the body of Heidi Klum. Guys dream of her--a girl who drinks beer, calls out football plays in her sleep, attends monster truck rallies and still drops jaws in that little black dress. So what is the problem? Lois seems to have forgotten just how great she is herself. Let me quote:
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Eric Roberts: The Hollywood Interview
2 November 2009 10:23 AM, PST
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(Eric Roberts in "Crash," above.)
Rediscovering Roberts
Eric Roberts never really left, but 2009 audiences are learning (or relearning) the charms of the actor Mickey Rourke has called the best he ever worked with.
By Terry Keefe
(This article is currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)
“Eric Roberts is the [expletive deleted] Man,” proclaimed Mickey Rourke at this past year’s Independent Spirit Awards, while accepting his trophy for Best Male Lead, at the very beginning of a speech which then saw him singling out Roberts, his one-time co-star in 1984’s The Pope of Greenwich Village, as someone who was worthy of a comeback like Rourke had with The Wrestler. From the audience, Roberts himself watched his friend at the podium with what looked to be a combination of embarrassment at being mentioned and some pleasure at the same, finally throwing it back at Rourke by shouting good-naturedly, “Accept your award!” For
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Emma Roberts pulls a Miley Cyrus and kills her Twitter
21 October 2009 2:12 PM, PDT
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Is the Twitter fad over? It is for Miley Cyrus who turned off the Twitter switch earlier this month because her boyfriend demanded it. It also seems true for another teen celeb: Emma Roberts.
The Nancy Drew and Hotel For Dogs star was on her account last week threatening to stop using the social network due to repeated hack attempts. “i will be deleting my twitter today because Everyday someone tries to hack on reset my password. Sorry to everyone who doesnt do that,” the 18-year-old said on her account. Later, feeling the fury from her followers, she replied the following:
“Okay everyone making me feel really guilty so I’m not gonna delete my twitter … for now. But please whoever it is Stop trying to get on!”
Now it seems her account is terminated. Sorry for to those sad 12-year-old boys.
Besides starring in a few kids movies, Roberts
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Disney Won’t Not Celebrate Opposite Day
8 October 2009 11:14 PM, PDT
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Ready to have some fun and a headache? If it actually was opposite day, this news story would read as follows:
Oren Aviv, who is not the studio production president at Disney, is terrible at coming up with fun story ideas for Disney to exploit. He didn't conceptualize National Treasure, a film I totally couldn't stand, and definitely did not see in theaters upwards of 4 times. The basic conceptual idea for Opposite Day -- a movie not about a day wherein someone has to do the opposite of their normal daily routine -- hasn't been popular in Hollywood's recent past, and definitely not in movies like Sliding Doors and The Family Man.
Disney will not employ Nancy Drew writer Tiffany Paulsen for the Opposite Day project. Paulsen is not also attached to a project that will not be a reboot of the Adventures in Babysitting franchise. That film will definitely not be called Further Adventures in Babysitting
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Disney does Opposite
8 October 2009 7:02 PM, PDT
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Wasn't that the subject of a Spongebob episode? Should say so to Disney production president Oren Aviv who claims his idea to be an original one...
The studio is developing a pitch called Opposite Day with a screenplay commissioned from Nancy Drew scribe Tiffany Paulsen who's also contracted by the Mouse to pen Further Adventures In Babysitting. 'Cause the original is an 80s classic so it Has to be desecrated. Though if they get Vincent D'Onofrio back as Thor, I'll forgive that
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Disney Developing Opposite Day
8 October 2009 5:52 PM, PDT
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In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, Disney is developing Opposite Day.
Currently, the studio has hired writer Tiffany Paulsen (Nancy Drew) to write the project.
The story centers around an original idea by studio production president Oren Aviv. It will follow a corporate hatchet man who wakes up one day to find that he must follow the exact opposite of his daily routine.
Mara Jacobs and Scott Sanders are producing this project.
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Christian Slater: ‘Having Kids Is a Phenomenal Eye-Opener’
30 September 2009 12:30 PM, PDT
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Some roles hit closer to home than others, and for Christian Slater portraying a detective haunted by the disappearance of his daughter on the new show The Forgotten is one of them.
“I certainly know that I can identify with loving your family and loving your kids and thinking they’re the most important things in your life,” says the 40-year-old dad-of-two. “Losing one of them is just not something you want to give a lot of thought to, but I do face it on the show.”
For a time, the Heathers star admits that high school was something
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The Kid-Lit Hollywood Hasn't Grabbed Yet
24 September 2009 10:15 AM, PDT
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It all started with a little Cam Jansen and Encyclopedia Brown. I chose my own adventure all the way to Nancy Drew, and then things changed. Onto the scene burst the likes of Paula Danziger, R.L. Stine, Lois Duncan, Christopher Pike, and L.J. Smith. I read fast, and I read a lot. When bored, I used to dream of making all my beloved teen books into movies, wondering who would play The Final Friends, and just what Stefan Salvatore would've looked like.
Fast-forward a decade and change, and bit by bit things are coming true. We've gotten a sweetly chaste Nancy Drew, CW's show that vaguely resembles Smith's The Vampire Diaries has capitalized on Twilight mania, and Diablo Cody is taking a stab at Sweet Valley High. So what's left?
A lot, and I wouldn't be surprised if we hear about more '80s fare coming back to life soon.
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Sherlock Holmes 2 to Possibly Star Brad Pitt. Today in Film Bloggery 09/22/09
22 September 2009 3:22 PM, PDT
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When I was a kid, I wished for a sequel to Barry Levinson's not-so-loved yet respectable-for-its-groundbreaking-effects film Young Sherlock Holmes. I was simply all about young detectives at the time. I wasn't about to read any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's actual books, but I loved Encyclopedia Brown and the Three Investigators (the kids who were friends with Hitchock) and was curious about Nancy Drew (I never dared read her stories because they were for girls).
Anyway, that bit of backstory is hardly important to the news that Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes </stro
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It’s a Funny Story for Zach Galifianakis
17 September 2009 2:48 PM, PDT
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Hangover star Zach Galifianakis has signed on to star in It's Kind of a Funny Story, a coming-of-age dramedy from writer-directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden. Fleck and Boden previously wrote and directed the acclaimed indie drama Half Nelson.
Emma Roberts, whose credits include Aquamarine, Nancy Drew, Hotel for Dogs and The Winning Season, is also in talks to join. The film is based on the young-adult novel of the same name by Ned Vizzini.
The film centers on a teenage boy who, after a bout of depression, is sent to a mental institution, where he ends up in the adult ward and meets a number of offbeat adults as well as a quirky teenage girl. Galifianakis would play one of the main adult roles, while Roberts would star as the teenage love interest.
Galifianakis has been in high demand After his breakout role in The Hangover. The comedian was
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Noel Clarke Begins Shooting 4.3.2.1
17 September 2009 5:23 AM, PDT
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Noel Clarke, Dr Who star and director/ screenwriter/ star/ tealady of Adulthood, has announced he's starting principal photography on his new film 4.3.2.1.Awarded a 'Rising Star' Bafta earlier this year for his impressive work in British film and TV, Clarke is looking to follow up the success of his directorial debut, Adulthood (sequel to Kidulthood, which he merely wrote and starred in), with an unconventional heist movie based on the four different lives of four different girls, all somehow linked to the robbery.Clarke's pulled together a good chunk of young acting talent for the project, including Emma Roberts (Nancy Drew); Tamsin Egerton (St. Trinian’s); Ophelia Lovibond (London Boulevard) and Adulthood co-star Shanika Warren Markland. Rosanna Arquette will also appear, as well as Empire favourite Sean Pertwee (well, somebody has to love Equilibrium) and Ben Miller.As one of the new movers and shakers of the British film world,
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Zach Galifianakis thinks It’S Kind Of A Funny Story
16 September 2009 8:00 AM, PDT
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The Bearded One, a.k.a. Bo, knows funny. Zach Galifianakis is nearing a deal to star in “It’s Kind of a Funny Story,” the next film from “Half-Nelson” writer-directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden. If he signs, “Story” would be the fourth film to feature Galifianakis coming out in the next few years, not counting his small role in Jason Reitman’s much talked about “Up in the Air.” He has already started filming Todd Phillips’ “Due Date” and is scheduled to shoot both Jay Roach’s “Dinner with Schmucks” and the sequel “Hangover 2″ (with Phillips again) next year. If you want to know more about Galifianakis’ newest project, sit yourself down between two ferns and hit the jump.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Story” is about a teenage boy who is sent to a mental institution after struggling with depression. There, he is put in the adult
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A different kind of Funny Story for Zach Galifinakis
16 September 2009 12:34 AM, PDT
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Zach Galifianakis is in contract discussions to star in the comedy-drama It's Kind of a Funny Story. If he inks the deal he'll be the first member of the cast.
The Hangover star would play a patient in a mental institution. While Galifianakis' stock has shot up into the stratosphere since he appeared in the highest-grossing comedy of all time, he wouldn't be playing the movie's central character. That part will go to a younger star, a teenage boy who is accidentally admitted to the adult ward of the institution after being diagnosed with depression.
The movie will be directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (Half Nelson) from their script which was adapted from the book written by Ned Vizzini.
Emma Roberts (Nancy Drew) is also in talks to star as a teenage girl that befriends the main character. Filming is scheduled to start before the end of the year.
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Ultimate Hotties: EW's staff picks
27 August 2009 5:00 AM, PDT
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We've spent the better (hotter?) portion of the summer reviving our fascination with the concept of the Ultimate Hotties of the Year -- in subcategories like Comedy, Action/Thriller, Crime-Fighting, Geek, and Vampires (apparently they're popular). In 2007, readers voted Angelina Jolie and Wentworth Miller as prom king and queen; this year, Robert Pattinson led your Top 25. And since favoritism can be limiting, here are the 25 hotties you can't believe we missed. Now that '09's long, strange trip is over, some EW staffers decided -- in the spirit of "why the heck not?" -- to create our own lists of Things That Are Hot. Slezak and Mandi followed the rules and chose broadly but from within the parameters of the past year, while Dalton and Josh went the esoteric route of just naming random people and/or characters they've at one point found intriguing. Hey, whatever. They go around the
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Ted Kennedy Notes, Warwick Davis' 'Harry Potter' Casting Switch And Shaq In A Speedo In Today's Twitter-Wood
26 August 2009 3:00 PM, PDT
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Ted Kennedy's passing this morning certainly didn't leave the Twitter-Wood feed untouched. I made my best attempt to summarize the spectrum of reactions today some retweets from Elizabeth Banks and Kevin Nealon.
It was also a massive photo-posting day for some reason. And when it came down to choosing between Shaquille O'Neal in a Speedo and Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Conan" sword, which in now housed at his California office, the hairs of choice were not easily split. Click on down there, and you'll find both of them, along with Warwick Davis' commentary on leaving his role as Filius Flitwick to replace Verne Troyer as Griphook the Goblin in "Harry Potter in the Deathly Hallows." Also, the lovely Emma Roberts talks bikinis. It's all in the Twitter-Wood report for August 26, 2009.
Twitter Pic of the Day:
@THE_REAL_SHAQ http://twitpic.com/fa4o5 - #pinkspeedo #superroos #shaqvs #watchoutphelps #shaq hahahah
-Shaquille O'Neal,
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