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| Carey Mulligan in My Fair Lady Movie Musical ... - Broadway World Posted: 25 Mar 2010 06:20 AM PDT · DVR Alert: Talk Show Listings Friday, March 26 - Neil Patrick Harris & More Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Movie Review: Losing steam - Arkansas News Bureau Posted: 26 Mar 2010 01:40 AM PDT Hot Tub Time Machine 79 Cast: John Cusack, Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry, Clark Duke, Lizzy Kaplan, Crispin Glover Director: Steve Pink Rating: R, for strong crude and sexual content, nudity, drug use and pervasive language Running time: 90 minutes Hot Tub Time Machine's title may say it all. But just in case it doesn't, here's [...] Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Movie review: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ soars - La Crosse Tribune Posted: 25 Mar 2010 10:12 PM PDT What a refreshing change "How to Train Your Dragon" brings to the cartoon world: The creatures are not all that cute, and they do not speak a word. DreamWorks Animation has been at the head of the pack for adorable, fast-talking critters with such movies as "Over the Hedge," "Kung Fu Panda" and the "Madagascar" series. With "How to Train Your Dragon," the filmmakers tone down the glib factor and tell a pretty good action yarn, a boy-and-his-dragon story filled with fiery Viking battles, swordplay and dazzling aerial imagery aboard the flying reptiles. For young children, the movie may not rate as high on the laugh and sight-gag meter as some of those earlier, more slapstick-y DreamWorks tales. After a slow, rather droning start, though, "How to Train Your Dragon" takes off on an exhilarating ride through the ancient Norse world, the hardscrabble landscape also a pleasant change from the softer realms of other cartoons. Based on Cressida Cowell's children's book, the movie follows the adventures of Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel), the scrawny, misfit son of Viking chief and master dragon-slayer Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler). A disappointment to his dad and a joke to his community, Hiccup is determined to make up for his lack of brawn by using his wits to bring down a Night Fury, the fiercest breed among the dragons that besiege his island village. He actually succeeds, but finds he lacks the hard heart it takes to finish off the dragon. Instead, Hiccup feeds and nurses the wounded dragon, which he names Toothless. A shrewd observer, Hiccup picks up on the finer points of dragon behavior from his new pet, which he applies to his dragon-slaying lessons run by blacksmith Gobber (Craig Ferguson). With his skills as a dragon whisperer, Hiccup becomes a local hero among the villagers and a rival for fierce classmate Astrid (America Ferrera). Inevitably, Hiccup must prove his worth in battle, banding with his fellow trainees in an assault against a colossal dragon that would send a T-Rex scurrying for cover. The voice work among the cast is a bit uneven, Baruchel's nasally monotone threatening to whine the movie to death early on. DreamWorks has gotten good mileage out of a Scottish accent in the "Shrek" movies, so the filmmakers let Scotsmen Butler and Ferguson go to town with boisterous brogues that liven up the dialogue. But their voices also beg the question, why do the adults speak in Scottish accents and the youths in American ones? No biggie, just wondering. In Cowell's book, the dragons also spoke in their own language. The filmmakers, including writer-directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois ("Lilo & Stitch"), wisely dispense with the talking reptiles. "How to Train Your Dragon" really soars in the visual department, the animators presenting a 3-D world of bleak, mythical beauty in the island's crags and mists. Some of the flying scenes are gorgeous, Toothless the dragon hovering above pillowy clouds against a shimmering night sky. And to clarify an earlier point: While these dragons are not all that cute, Toothless, like any faithful pet, proves utterly endearing by the end. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Filmmaker: HBO, Showtime switched 'The Hills Have ... - USA Today Posted: 23 Mar 2010 07:30 PM PDT James "Bubba" Cromer said the mix-up defamed him and caused emotional distress, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles. He accuses HBO and Showtime of negligence and is seeking unspecified damages. How the legal action came about is its own Hollywood story. It started as Cromer and his father surfed the TV listings on March 1 as they waited for his mother to finish her bridge game. The Columbia lawyer saw The Hills Have Thighs was set to make its television debut on The Movie Channel, which is owned by Showtime. He said the listing included the description of his movie and the names of its actors. It was the first Cromer had heard about it, but he had recently hired a talent agent to promote his work. And the 1:30 a.m. premiere was just hours away. So he called the cast of the film, his friends and family to tell them to set their digital recorders. He wrote to his more than 4,000 friends on Facebook: "The Hills Have Thighs is on The Movie Channel all month!!!" Cromer said he stayed up late even though he had to be in court at 8:30 a.m. and in the South Carolina House a few hours later, where he serves as reading clerk. Before the movie came on, Cromer said he heard a voiceover: "Bubba Cromer later tonight does it again with his second feature film The Hills Have Thighs. Deliverance in reverse." "All my words," Cromer told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "I got on my floor and I crossed myself because that was a dream come true." Then the appointed hour arrived, with a surprising plot twist: "I saw a set of thighs and realized instantly that wasn't my movie." Instead of his "hysterical Appalachian comedy," it showed the film directed by Jim Wynorski, a longtime cult favorite and director of exploitation films with plenty of skin and risque turns on popular movie titles, such as the The Da Vinci Coed and The Witches of Breastwick. The plot is pretty straightforward for its genre, according to its current Showtime listing: "A group searches the desert for a missing friend but instead find a trio of crazed, sex-starved mutant women." Cromer said he spent a long, sleepless night answering phone calls, e-mails and text messages. Some were from Cromer's colleagues in the House, whom he had told to watch. Several rebuked him, asking if he had lost his mind and accusing him of embarrassing the chamber. "It's been the most disturbing and frightening thing that has happened to me," Cromer said. Cromer said the movie also showed later in the month with the wrong listing on Cinemax, which is owned by HBO, though HBO disputes that. HBO spokesman Jeff Cusson said all references on Cinemax were to Wynorski's film, not Cromer's. Officials at Showtime didn't immediately responded to a message seeking comment. Cromer, a 46-year-old attorney, spent the first couple of years of his law career in Los Angeles with a writing sample under his arm, then got homesick and came back home to South Carolina. He was the first independent elected to the South Carolina House since Reconstruction. He stepped aside after eight years to become the chamber's reading clerk. But there was another itch he needed to scratch. So he made a fictional documentary called The Long Way Home: A Bigfoot Story and a year later he directed his second film, The Hills Have Thighs, financing the movie himself. The film's website said it is the story of the disappearance of "a local hillbilly icon named Daniel Boone Owen, who vanishes one night after a corn liquor-induced stupor." It pokes fun at Appalachian stereotypes, including the invasion of "limousine liberals" from outside the state. Cromer has not spoken with the makers of the 2010 version of The Hills Have Thighs. He referred questions about why he didn't sue the people involved with the other film to his lawyer, Patricia Millett, who didn't immediately respond to a message. A phone listing for Wynorski was not immediately found and he did not immediately respond to messages left on his Facebook and MySpace pages. The agitation in Cromer's voice was evident as he talked about the lawsuit Tuesday. "Associating my name with pornography is the last thing I would ever do," Cromer said. "That's just nuts. I could care less about marketing. I want my name back." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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