In his final public appearance before the series finale of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Larry David joined MSNBC’s Ari Melber Friday night for a special discussion in Manhattan hosted by Tribeca Festival.
David, a Brooklyn native whose distinctly New York Jewish comedy migrated to the golf courses of West Los Angeles, was warmly welcomed by an audience of a few hundred. He waved off a standing ovation before taking a seat.
When asked if he feels more Jewish when returning to New York, David scoffed: “Can I feel more Jewish? … That’s maxed out. But I do feel comfortable here.”
After a highlight reel of “Curb Your Enthusiasm’s” funniest moments, Melber began the night by asking David to weigh in on issues of social etiquette — “Curb”-ian conundrums such as when it’s appropriate to leave a dinner party (“10 minutes after dessert”) and how long it should take to...
David, a Brooklyn native whose distinctly New York Jewish comedy migrated to the golf courses of West Los Angeles, was warmly welcomed by an audience of a few hundred. He waved off a standing ovation before taking a seat.
When asked if he feels more Jewish when returning to New York, David scoffed: “Can I feel more Jewish? … That’s maxed out. But I do feel comfortable here.”
After a highlight reel of “Curb Your Enthusiasm’s” funniest moments, Melber began the night by asking David to weigh in on issues of social etiquette — “Curb”-ian conundrums such as when it’s appropriate to leave a dinner party (“10 minutes after dessert”) and how long it should take to...
- 4/6/2024
- by Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
April on Prime Video is stacked with returning favorites, the launch of one of Amazon’s biggest shows ever and a bevy of great movies to watch. The fifth and final season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” launches on April 14, while Amazon will premiere the globe-trotting action-thriller series “Citadel” – starring Priyanka Chopra-Jonas and Richard Madden – on April 28. The show hails from “Avengers: Endgame” filmmaker Joe and Anthony Russo.
Noteworthy movies arriving on April 1 include the “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” movies, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “The Big Lebowski,” “Looper,” “Vanilla Sky” and “Top Gun.”
You can also stream the Billy Eichner rom-com “Bros” starting April 4 and the George Clooney/Julia Roberts rom-com “Ticket to Paradise” on April 11.
Check out the full list of what’s new on Amazon Prime Video in April 2023 below.
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April 1
American Gigolo
At the Gate...
Noteworthy movies arriving on April 1 include the “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” movies, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “The Big Lebowski,” “Looper,” “Vanilla Sky” and “Top Gun.”
You can also stream the Billy Eichner rom-com “Bros” starting April 4 and the George Clooney/Julia Roberts rom-com “Ticket to Paradise” on April 11.
Check out the full list of what’s new on Amazon Prime Video in April 2023 below.
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The 41 Best Movies on Amazon Prime (April 2023)
April 1
American Gigolo
At the Gate...
- 4/1/2023
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
The jury system can by trying, but “Jury Duty” — a doc-style comedy series coming to Freevee on April 7 — examines it through the eyes of one juror. The catch: The actual juror, Ronald Gladden, doesn’t realize the case is fake and everyone else is an actor. All the crazy machinations inside the courtroom are planned, and everyone is in on it, except for Gladden. Will this lone juror be able to find his way to justice despite all of the chaos surrounding the case?
Watch the trailer for ‘Jury Duty’:
Also coming to Amazon’s free streaming service next month will be the five seasons of Rod Serling’s groundbreaking show “The Twilight Zone.” The original 1950s series took psychological insights into new TV territory. The 2019 reboot of the series from Jordan Peele will stream on the service alongside the original. Either coincidentally, or perhaps suspiciously, both versions of...
Watch the trailer for ‘Jury Duty’:
Also coming to Amazon’s free streaming service next month will be the five seasons of Rod Serling’s groundbreaking show “The Twilight Zone.” The original 1950s series took psychological insights into new TV territory. The 2019 reboot of the series from Jordan Peele will stream on the service alongside the original. Either coincidentally, or perhaps suspiciously, both versions of...
- 3/27/2023
- by Fern Siegel
- The Streamable
Festival’s 68th edition set to go ahead in September.
Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival is to receive its world premiere as the opening film of the 68th San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff).
Rifkin’s Festival was shot in and around San Sebastian last summer and centres on a married American couple who attend the film festival, only for the wife to have an affair with a French movie director and the husband to fall in love with a local woman. The cast includes Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Gina Gershon, Sergi López, Wallace Shawn and Christoph Waltz.
Also written by Allen,...
Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival is to receive its world premiere as the opening film of the 68th San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff).
Rifkin’s Festival was shot in and around San Sebastian last summer and centres on a married American couple who attend the film festival, only for the wife to have an affair with a French movie director and the husband to fall in love with a local woman. The cast includes Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Gina Gershon, Sergi López, Wallace Shawn and Christoph Waltz.
Also written by Allen,...
- 6/25/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Woody Allen’s “Rifkin’s Festival” will world premiere this September as it opens the 68th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, where it will play out of competition.
San Sebastian’s Kursaal building hosted the film’s initial announcement 11 months ago where, apart from a boycott by leftist Basque party Eh Bildu of a party thrown for Allen by the San Sebastian mayor, Spain’s reception of Allen has largely been warm.
This will be the second time that Allen will have opened the festival. He first curtain raiser came in 2004, when he received the Donostia Award for career achievement, with “Melinda and Melinda.” Allen’s films “Manhattan,” “Zelig,” “Manhattan Murder Mystery,” “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” “Match Point,” “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” “Whatever Works” and “Irrational Man” have all participated in some capacity at San Sebastian over the past four decades.
“Rifkin’s Festival” was shot last...
San Sebastian’s Kursaal building hosted the film’s initial announcement 11 months ago where, apart from a boycott by leftist Basque party Eh Bildu of a party thrown for Allen by the San Sebastian mayor, Spain’s reception of Allen has largely been warm.
This will be the second time that Allen will have opened the festival. He first curtain raiser came in 2004, when he received the Donostia Award for career achievement, with “Melinda and Melinda.” Allen’s films “Manhattan,” “Zelig,” “Manhattan Murder Mystery,” “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” “Match Point,” “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” “Whatever Works” and “Irrational Man” have all participated in some capacity at San Sebastian over the past four decades.
“Rifkin’s Festival” was shot last...
- 6/25/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Carmen Aumedes Mier is a director from Spain. She graduated in 2019 from from Escac (Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia) She was selected for ‘Looking China Youth Film Program’, which led to her shooting “I’m Too Busy” in Shanghai.
On the occasion of “I’m Too Busy” screening in Vienna Shorts, we speak with her about shooting a film in China, the concept of idols, humor, and many other topics.
Can you give us some info on your background on cinema?
I graduated in 2019 from Escac (Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia) near Barcelona. I specialized in direction with the short film “Marleni, not Marlen”. Music is a huge part of my life – which I try to reflect in my work – and I’ve been learning guitar and singing since I was very young. Last September, I started studying for a combined degree on philosophy, politics and economy, in...
On the occasion of “I’m Too Busy” screening in Vienna Shorts, we speak with her about shooting a film in China, the concept of idols, humor, and many other topics.
Can you give us some info on your background on cinema?
I graduated in 2019 from Escac (Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia) near Barcelona. I specialized in direction with the short film “Marleni, not Marlen”. Music is a huge part of my life – which I try to reflect in my work – and I’ve been learning guitar and singing since I was very young. Last September, I started studying for a combined degree on philosophy, politics and economy, in...
- 6/2/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Rifkin’s Festival, the upcoming Woody Allen pic starring Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel and Gina Gershon, has been picked up by Spanish distribution outfit Tripictures.
The movie tells the story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastián Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there.
The pic, which is produced by The Mediapro Studio and Gravier Production in co-production with Wildside, shot in San Sebastian last summer. Mediapro Studio Distribution is working with Gravier and Mediapro on international sales.
The movie tells the story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastián Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there.
The pic, which is produced by The Mediapro Studio and Gravier Production in co-production with Wildside, shot in San Sebastian last summer. Mediapro Studio Distribution is working with Gravier and Mediapro on international sales.
- 4/22/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Larry David, who starred in Woody Allen's 2009 romance comedy Whatever Works, doesn't believe the 84-year-old director "did anything wrong" after reading his memoir. After Allen's memoir was dropped by Hachette Book Group in early March following condemnation by his estranged children Ronan Farrow and Dylan Farrow, Apropos of Nothing was later published by Arcade Publishing on March 23. In the memoir, Allen addresses his affair with Mia Farrow's adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn to Dylan's molestation accusations against him. Above all, Allen continues to maintain his "total" innocence in Apropos of Nothing—and apparently,...
- 4/5/2020
- E! Online
Autism Speaks is hosting their 6th Annual Chip In Celebrity Poker Tournament on Saturday, August 18th at Hudson Loft in Downtown Los Angeles.
This lively evening of poker and philanthropy will be hosted by Jeff Michael, Co-Anchor of CB2 News This Morning, and will bring together a diverse group of celebrities including: Rj Mitte (“Breaking Bad”), Ed Begley Jr. (“Whatever Works”), Fred Melamed, Patrika Darbo (“Days of Our Lives”), Sean Kanan (“Bold and the Beautiful”), Brandon Black, M.J. Dougherty (“Life Lessons from a Total Failure”), Elizabeth J. Carlisle, Erin Murphy (“Bewitched”), Massi Furlan (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”), Monty Geer (“Awkward”), Ty Olsson (“X-Men 2”), Niko Pepaj (Daytime Divas), Michael Patrick Lane (“Dynasty”), Lea Coco (“Queen Sugar”), William Marquart (Subject 5"), Michael Dargatis (“Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice”), Katy Bodenhamer (“The Office”) and more celebrity guests to be announced all supporting Autism Speaks in its mission to promote solutions,...
This lively evening of poker and philanthropy will be hosted by Jeff Michael, Co-Anchor of CB2 News This Morning, and will bring together a diverse group of celebrities including: Rj Mitte (“Breaking Bad”), Ed Begley Jr. (“Whatever Works”), Fred Melamed, Patrika Darbo (“Days of Our Lives”), Sean Kanan (“Bold and the Beautiful”), Brandon Black, M.J. Dougherty (“Life Lessons from a Total Failure”), Elizabeth J. Carlisle, Erin Murphy (“Bewitched”), Massi Furlan (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”), Monty Geer (“Awkward”), Ty Olsson (“X-Men 2”), Niko Pepaj (Daytime Divas), Michael Patrick Lane (“Dynasty”), Lea Coco (“Queen Sugar”), William Marquart (Subject 5"), Michael Dargatis (“Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice”), Katy Bodenhamer (“The Office”) and more celebrity guests to be announced all supporting Autism Speaks in its mission to promote solutions,...
- 8/17/2018
- Look to the Stars
In this week’s edition of Canon Of Film, we take a look at one of Woody Allen‘s most popular films, ‘Crimes and Misdemeanors’. For the story behind the genesis of the Canon, you can click here.
Crimes And Misdemeanors (1989)
Director/Screenwriter: Woody Allen
Part dark tragedy, part dark comedy, or is it all comedy? It’s certainly all dark to say the least. Considered by almost everybody as one of Woody Allen’s very best films (although I’m not sure Woody would agree), ‘Crimes and Misdemeanors’, wasn’t his first dramatic film, that was the Ingmar Bergman-esque ‘Interiors,’ and it certainly wasn’t his last comedy, yet it clearly represents the moment in Allen’s career when he started to abandon comedy in favor of drama and tragedy. Well, maybe “abandon,” is the wrong word, but he certainly began to lose interest in comedy around here.
Crimes And Misdemeanors (1989)
Director/Screenwriter: Woody Allen
Part dark tragedy, part dark comedy, or is it all comedy? It’s certainly all dark to say the least. Considered by almost everybody as one of Woody Allen’s very best films (although I’m not sure Woody would agree), ‘Crimes and Misdemeanors’, wasn’t his first dramatic film, that was the Ingmar Bergman-esque ‘Interiors,’ and it certainly wasn’t his last comedy, yet it clearly represents the moment in Allen’s career when he started to abandon comedy in favor of drama and tragedy. Well, maybe “abandon,” is the wrong word, but he certainly began to lose interest in comedy around here.
- 11/14/2017
- by David Baruffi
- Age of the Nerd
Need to catch up? Check out the previous Outlander recap here.
If this ship’s a rockin’… you can go ahead and knock. Or do whatever else you like. Because this week’s Outlander takes place almost entirely on a ship, and it rocks, sways and bobs. A lot.
And because of that, James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Landlubber Fraser is a bit green — and worse — throughout the hour. But that’s hardly his and Claire’s biggest problem in “The Doldrums,” given that they encounter forced separation, pestilence and near-mutiny within the course of the episode. (At least they’re...
If this ship’s a rockin’… you can go ahead and knock. Or do whatever else you like. Because this week’s Outlander takes place almost entirely on a ship, and it rocks, sways and bobs. A lot.
And because of that, James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Landlubber Fraser is a bit green — and worse — throughout the hour. But that’s hardly his and Claire’s biggest problem in “The Doldrums,” given that they encounter forced separation, pestilence and near-mutiny within the course of the episode. (At least they’re...
- 11/13/2017
- TVLine.com
As The Voice’s Season 13 Blind Auditions drew to a close Tuesday, coach Miley Cyrus made a big to-do about her hopes of rounding out the show’s first-ever all-female team. But the chatter might have been just a distraction technique, as she was stealthily assembling the season’s strongest lineup, including standouts Ashland Craft and Moriah Formica. Do you think Miley’s got the crew to beat? Before you size up the coaches’ rosters in the comments, let’s review the final group of singers advancing to next week’s Battles and see if the erstwhile Hannah Montana managed to make Voice herstory.
- 10/11/2017
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Nikki Bella Reveals How Fiancé John Cena Reacted to Her Steamy 'DWTS' Latin Night Routine
Nikki Bella has brought the hotness to the ballroom!
Et caught up with the WWE wrestler backstage at Dancing With the Stars on Tuesday, where she got candid on her sexy Latin Night routine with her pro partner, Artem Chigvintsev, and what her fiancé, John Cena, thought of it.
In case you missed the performance, the brunette beauty didn't hold back with the sultry moves, wowing the audience in a sparkly purple costume while dancing the samba to "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee. She strutted across the dance floor with a shirtless Artem, proving #TeamSmackdown is here to stay!
"I'm used to it," Nikki joked to Et's Cameron Mathison about her barely-there outfit. "Working in WWE, no one wears clothes around there. Backstage we're all half naked."
Watch: 'DWTS' Cuts 2nd Contestant of the Week Following Latin Night Dances -- Find Out Who Went Home!
Following the performance, Nikki said John...
Et caught up with the WWE wrestler backstage at Dancing With the Stars on Tuesday, where she got candid on her sexy Latin Night routine with her pro partner, Artem Chigvintsev, and what her fiancé, John Cena, thought of it.
In case you missed the performance, the brunette beauty didn't hold back with the sultry moves, wowing the audience in a sparkly purple costume while dancing the samba to "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee. She strutted across the dance floor with a shirtless Artem, proving #TeamSmackdown is here to stay!
"I'm used to it," Nikki joked to Et's Cameron Mathison about her barely-there outfit. "Working in WWE, no one wears clothes around there. Backstage we're all half naked."
Watch: 'DWTS' Cuts 2nd Contestant of the Week Following Latin Night Dances -- Find Out Who Went Home!
Following the performance, Nikki said John...
- 9/27/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Four movies in — with at least three more on deck — and the burgeoning The Conjuring Universe is continuing to scare up big box office bucks with no sign of slowing down. Even during the downturned, dog days of summer, the latest film in the franchise, prequel-to-a-sequel “Annabelle: Creation,” topped out as the weekend’s biggest winner, pulling in over $35 million in domestic returns and handily dispatching with its nearest competition (“Dunkirk,” now in its fourth week, made just $11.4 million to take second place). The 21st century has already played home to one of the genre’s biggest hit franchises ever and has steadily rolled out new offerings that seem destined to inspire their own series but, for now, “The Conjuring” is king. And it won’t stop until it becomes the biggest horror franchise of the century.
The franchise has some stiff competition, including the “Paranormal Activity” films ($401.4 million) and...
The franchise has some stiff competition, including the “Paranormal Activity” films ($401.4 million) and...
- 8/14/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The news cycle surrounding Woody Allen these days tends to go as follows: Reminder of previous allegations, followed by announcement of new film, followed by talent in new project being asked about allegations, followed by new film receiving either critical acclaim or relative indifference, followed by new reminder of previous allegations.
Right now, we’re in the “announcement of new film” phase, with Tuesday’s casting of Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, and Selena Gomez in Allen’s upcoming untitled feature film. But that same morning, Hulu premiered the most savage takedown yet of not just Woody Allen’s modern day work as an auteur, but the cult of personality around him.
“Difficult People” in general and creator Julie Klausner in particular have never been shy about poking fun at certain topics the rest of Hollywood might consider taboo. Just consider the metric ton of jokes about Kevin Spacey’s sexuality...
Right now, we’re in the “announcement of new film” phase, with Tuesday’s casting of Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, and Selena Gomez in Allen’s upcoming untitled feature film. But that same morning, Hulu premiered the most savage takedown yet of not just Woody Allen’s modern day work as an auteur, but the cult of personality around him.
“Difficult People” in general and creator Julie Klausner in particular have never been shy about poking fun at certain topics the rest of Hollywood might consider taboo. Just consider the metric ton of jokes about Kevin Spacey’s sexuality...
- 8/9/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Fans of Batman are going to get an extra special treat this weekend as Will Arnett’s incarnation of the Caped Crusader introduced in 2014’s The Lego Movie gets his very own solo adventure in The Lego Batman Movie, opening Friday.
The animated film is directed by Chris McKay, who was animation director on The Lego Movie and who cut his teeth as a director and producer of Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken before joining Phil Lord and Chris Miller to create a new animated Lego universe.
In the new movie, Batman has to deal with the fact that his desire to be a loner has left him rather lonely (not that he’ll admit it) and the introduction of a young orphan named Dick Grayson (voiced by Michael Cera) and the new Commissioner, Barbara Gordon (Rosario Scott), gives him and Alfred (Ralph Fiennes) a chance to form a family...
The animated film is directed by Chris McKay, who was animation director on The Lego Movie and who cut his teeth as a director and producer of Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken before joining Phil Lord and Chris Miller to create a new animated Lego universe.
In the new movie, Batman has to deal with the fact that his desire to be a loner has left him rather lonely (not that he’ll admit it) and the introduction of a young orphan named Dick Grayson (voiced by Michael Cera) and the new Commissioner, Barbara Gordon (Rosario Scott), gives him and Alfred (Ralph Fiennes) a chance to form a family...
- 2/9/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
It's raining something biblical in Nashville, coming down like vengeance between the roadway signs for chicken wings and Jesus and Donald Trump. And here, inside a farm-fresh joint called Butcher and Bee, at a table spread with pickled okra and fried chicken and kale, Evan Rachel Wood is questioning the nature of our reality, the cogs and wheels that have created this very scene, up to and possibly including the guy posted up at the bar who looks like an older Elvis, if Elvis were crazy tall and wearing vintage tweed.
- 11/17/2016
- Rollingstone.com
It's time to vote! Except, you're starving and can't wait in line with a hangry stomach. You'll definitely pull up and turn right back out of your polling place when you see the snackless, hour-long line. Bad news. Pizza to the Polls was created to combat just that. What is it? If the outcome of the election isn't motivation enough for you to wait out the long lines at your polling place, perhaps pizza will keep you. Whatever works! Their website notes, "Americans are hungry for democracy and are turning out in record numbers to vote. But that means long lines and sometimes empty stomachs, which might discourage these brave patriots from performing their civic duty. Fortunately, Pizza to the Polls is...
- 11/8/2016
- E! Online
Clip It: Each day, Jon Davis looks at the world of trailers, featurettes and clips and puts it all in perspective. Woody Allen hasn't written for television since the '50s, when he was crafting jokes for talk show hosts like Sid Caesar. The TV medium has changed a lot since then, so much so that Woody Allen can come full circle because, at this point, his movies are less likely to be something we'd spend 90 thousand dollars to see in the theater, and more like something we'd wait to see on various screens in our house. So Amazon TV is a smart venue for Woody Allen. That is, if you want to see Woody Allen at all. I've heard through the grapevine that he's a little controversial. We don't know much about this particular project: A Crisis in Six Scene. But we do know It takes place in the swingin'' '60s,...
- 8/9/2016
- by Jon Davis
- Hitfix
Woody Allen narrates CAFÉ Society, his 47th film and at age 80, his voice is sounding sadly geezerish. Set in the mid-1930’s, CAFÉ Society has a cool period soundtrack, an older man courting a much younger woman, a Jewish family kibitzing around the dinner table, quotable dialog on love and life, and a neurotic Jewish hero channeling a much younger Woody. In other words, all the elements of a great Woody Allen film. It also has Vittorio Storaro’s rapturous cinematography (a Woody first) and a terrific and complex central performance from Jesse Eisenberg. CAFÉ Society is the most romantic Woody since Annie Hall and one of his best.
Leaving his (very) Jewish family back in the Bronx, young Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) heads west to “learn the movie business” from his Uncle Phil (Steve Carell), a bigtime Hollywood talent agent. Phil assigns his captivating, but romantically unavailable, secretary Vonnie...
Leaving his (very) Jewish family back in the Bronx, young Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) heads west to “learn the movie business” from his Uncle Phil (Steve Carell), a bigtime Hollywood talent agent. Phil assigns his captivating, but romantically unavailable, secretary Vonnie...
- 7/28/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
There is a mantra that every parent of toddlers knows: Whatever works. At Friday's christening of 3-month-old Prince Oscar at Stockholm's Royal Palace Chapel, his 11-month-old first cousin, Prince Nicolas, found entertainment in a most everyday object: an electric toothbrush. The prince, whose mom is Sweden's Princess Madeleine, was spotted chomping on the light-up toothbrush during the baptism of Prince Oscar, the newborn son of Madeleine's older sister, Crown Princess Victoria. • Want to keep up with the latest royals coverage? Click here to subscribe to the Royals Newsletter.Both sisters appear to be relaxed moms, with Madeleine previously sharing a...
- 5/30/2016
- by Michelle Tauber, @michelletauber
- PEOPLE.com
This review was originally published in Nathaniel's column at Towleroad. It's reprinted here in a slightly expanded version...
Few things in life are as regular as Woody Allen movies. For the past 40 years or so they arrive exactly once a year. In recent years they generally premiere out of competition at Cannes and predictably reignite the endless cycle of media wars about Woody Allen.
The only thing irregular about the experience is the reviews, box office, and Oscars. For the past 10 years or so it’s been especially hard to predict. In that time he’s delivered critical and commercial Oscar winning hits that the media fawned over (Blue Jasmine, Midnight in Paris), well received films that didn’t quite crossover to that same extent (Match Point, Vicky Cristina Barcelona), critical flops that did surprisingly okay at the box office (To Rome With Love), trifles that people tolerated (Scoop), reanimated...
Few things in life are as regular as Woody Allen movies. For the past 40 years or so they arrive exactly once a year. In recent years they generally premiere out of competition at Cannes and predictably reignite the endless cycle of media wars about Woody Allen.
The only thing irregular about the experience is the reviews, box office, and Oscars. For the past 10 years or so it’s been especially hard to predict. In that time he’s delivered critical and commercial Oscar winning hits that the media fawned over (Blue Jasmine, Midnight in Paris), well received films that didn’t quite crossover to that same extent (Match Point, Vicky Cristina Barcelona), critical flops that did surprisingly okay at the box office (To Rome With Love), trifles that people tolerated (Scoop), reanimated...
- 5/14/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Welcome to Bravo, Jules! The Real Housewives of New York City's latest, season 8 addition Julianne "Jules" Wainstein has officially made her reality television debut - and already fallen victim to a Bethenny Frankel zinger. While the ladies may speculate on her weight this season, Wainstein, 35, has bigger things to tackle - like corralling her two children (Rio, 8, and Jagger, 5) with husband Michael and running her business. It doesn't seem like Wainstein will quake in the presence of Dorinda Medley or Sonia Morgan. In fact, the stylish star says she lives for time in the spotlight. Here's more on that,...
- 4/7/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
Welcome to Bravo, Jules! The Real Housewives of New York City's latest, season 8 addition Julianne "Jules" Wainstein has officially made her reality television debut - and already fallen victim to a Bethenny Frankel zinger. While the ladies may speculate on her weight this season, Wainstein, 35, has bigger things to tackle - like corralling her two children (Rio, 8, and Jagger, 5) with husband Michael and running her business. It doesn't seem like Wainstein will quake in the presence of Dorinda Medley or Sonia Morgan. In fact, the stylish star says she lives for time in the spotlight. Here's more on that,...
- 4/7/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
February 29 is Leap Day and with it comes several traditions... Buying a little extra time on that rent check, celebrating newborn babies who will only technically have birthdays every four years, oh, and there's that old school tradition in Ireland where women can propose marriage to men. You're probably familiar thanks to the Amy Adams' documentary* on the subject, Leap Year, in which a woman follows her boyfriend to Dublin to pop the question. (*Note: This is a 2010 romantic-comedy film, not a documentary.) Obviously, this is an outdated move. Anyone can propose to anyone else—or not propose at all. Whatever works best for a couple. In fact, there are several female...
- 2/29/2016
- E! Online
Look, you're not proud you haven't been thinking a lot about Freddie Mercury recently, but sometimes these things slip your mind. The holidays happen; you get so busy. The most important things in life, specifically the late, extremely great Queen front man, can slip from your mind. Luckily, Stuart Leathem remixed Mercury's vocals from "When This Tired Old Body Wants to Rest" and "The Golden Boy" with singer Esther Trousdale to create "Little Freddie Goes to School." Created for World AIDS Day, proceeds from the single will go to the Mercury Phoenix Trust, created by members of Queen in Mercury's memory. Listen to it, think for a while about Freddie Mercury, and do not let this happen again. Put "Thinking about Freddie Mercury" in your Google Calendar if you have to. Whatever works for you.
- 12/3/2015
- by Halle Kiefer
- Vulture
There's another presidential candidate joining the already crowded field: The Good Wife's Peter Florrick. Ok, so he's a fictional presidential candidate, but still. In the world of The Good Wife, Chris Noth's character is running for president with the help of Ruth Eastman (Margo Martindale) and Alicia (Julianna Margulies) is along for the ride with Eli Gold (Alan Cumming) by her side. But Eli is just there to undercut Ruth and potentially destroy Peter. Whatever works best for him, clearly. Peter's running to be Hillary Clinton's vice president, he knows he can never win the presidential election, but he wants on the center stage. So, would The Good Wife stars vote for Peter Florrick? Click play on the...
- 10/9/2015
- E! Online
Nicholas Hoult (upcoming Equals, Mad Max: Fury Road), Luke Evans (Furious 7, The Hobbit film series) and Henry Cavill (upcoming Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, Man Of Steel) are set to star in the intense war drama Sand Castle, produced by Oscar nominated Mark Gordon (Steve Jobs, Saving Private Ryan) of The Mark Gordon Company, Justin Nappi (Arbitrage, All Is Lost) through his company Treehouse Pictures and Ben Pugh (upcoming Collide, Welcome To The Punch) of 42, it was announced today.
Set in Iraq circa 2003, Sand Castle is based on Roessner’s experience as a machine gunner in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle. The story centers on Matt Ocre (Hoult) who is part of a mission to repair a broken water system in the dangerous and unstable Iraqi village of Baqubah. While the people of Baghdad welcome the Americans as saviors, the villagers resist their presence and Matt and his unit...
Set in Iraq circa 2003, Sand Castle is based on Roessner’s experience as a machine gunner in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle. The story centers on Matt Ocre (Hoult) who is part of a mission to repair a broken water system in the dangerous and unstable Iraqi village of Baqubah. While the people of Baghdad welcome the Americans as saviors, the villagers resist their presence and Matt and his unit...
- 10/8/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Early on in Irrational Man, Woody Allen’s latest half-narcotized attempt to dramatically grapple with a philosophically tinged moral crisis, a fellow academic tells Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix), “I loved your essay on situational ethics.” Abe, being a newly appointed professor/radical free thinker to the philosophy department of a picturesque Rhode Island college and himself awash in career disillusionment and an existential dilemma involving writer’s block, smiles and nods appreciatively and noncommittally. However, the audience may consider the Big Theme bell well and truly rung. Allen, who would never be so satisfied with a single easy proclamation of achievement, pads the first half of the movie with apparently awe-inspired compliments from fellow professors, administrators and students directed toward Abe’s prodigious intellect—his reputation doth well precede him, and he knows it. And you can bet that every classroom scene will be occasion to name-drop the heavy hitters-- Kant!
- 7/16/2015
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Jenny McCarthy clearly isn't afraid of color! The "Donnie Loves Jenny" star traded in her signature blonde tresses for a neon pink hue, debuting her wild new look on Twitter on Tuesday. "Thank you to my amazing hair & makeup team this morning! @JuliusMichael & @mspriscillanyc," she captioned the pic of her mane makeup, crediting her glam squad for their skills. The 42-year-old bombshell talked about her newly-dyed locks during an appearance on "Today." "This morning I woke up and said, 'I'm feeling pink," she told Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford. "This is something I've wanted to do forever. I've always been told by networks and bosses, 'Don't do it ...' So, I figured, I'm still at the age when I can get away with it." So, what does hubby Donnie Wahlberg think of her new 'do? "I showed him this morning quickly," she revealed. "And he said, 'You look beautiful.
- 7/14/2015
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
A review of last night's "Mad Men" coming up just as soon as I'm the quick brown fox... "We both know things can't be undone." -Trudy "Says who?" -Pete "Mad Men" has chronicled a period of enormous social change (and taken place in a time of enormous change in television), yet it's often seemed agnostic on whether individual change is possible. Over the course of the series, fashions shifted and opportunities rose for women and minorities, but were the "Mad Men" characters themselves really changing with the times? Peggy has certainly grown, yet we've seen Don and Roger and Joan and others have epiphany after epiphany, only to eventually lean back on their old habits. (And even Peggy hasn't been immune to stagnation in her personal life, even as she's evolved professionally.) If anything, Don's frequent backsliding has been one of the most common complaints I've heard about the series'...
- 5/11/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Ben Stiller just crushed Jimmy Fallon at his own game.
While paying a visit to The Tonight Show on Thursday evening, Stiller sat down with the host for an "Emotional Interview" – that is, an interview in which the two had to act out an emotion or situation until a bell sounded. Fallon never stood a chance.
It kicks off innocently enough with "Overly Polite." "Is it okay if I have my foot here?" asks Stiller.
"You can sit anywhere you want! Whatever works for you. You can sit on the desk if you want," answers Fallon with the most disturbing grin you've ever seen.
While paying a visit to The Tonight Show on Thursday evening, Stiller sat down with the host for an "Emotional Interview" – that is, an interview in which the two had to act out an emotion or situation until a bell sounded. Fallon never stood a chance.
It kicks off innocently enough with "Overly Polite." "Is it okay if I have my foot here?" asks Stiller.
"You can sit anywhere you want! Whatever works for you. You can sit on the desk if you want," answers Fallon with the most disturbing grin you've ever seen.
- 3/20/2015
- by Tara Fowler, @waterfowlerta
- People.com - TV Watch
Ben Stiller just crushed Jimmy Fallon at his own game. While paying a visit to The Tonight Show on Thursday evening, Stiller sat down with the host for an "Emotional Interview" - that is, an interview in which the two had to act out an emotion or situation until a bell sounded. Fallon never stood a chance. It kicks off innocently enough with "Overly Polite." "Is it okay if I have my foot here," asks Stiller. "You can sit anywhere you want! Whatever works for you. You can sit on the desk if you want," answers Fallon with the most disturbing grin you've ever seen.
- 3/20/2015
- by Tara Fowler, @waterfowlerta
- PEOPLE.com
Eight exes have already rocked up on the Ex On The Beach beach, but we wouldn't expect that to be the last of it - would you? And sure enough, a certain Mr Ashley Cain from series one emerged from the ocean tonight to cause havoc in the villa (he's Emily's ex, as it goes - she now has four exes in the show and admitted feeling "embarrassed" about it).
But of course there was plenty of drama caused by Ashley's arrival and everything else that was going on in the sunshine, so read on for 8 things we learned tonight...
1. Anita has an interesting way to figure out what happened the previous night.
"I'm trying to piece the night back together," she explained to us. "I look down at my T-shirt..." And yes, that is her asking Gary if her T-shirt was stained with "fake tan" or "what I think it is". Gary,...
But of course there was plenty of drama caused by Ashley's arrival and everything else that was going on in the sunshine, so read on for 8 things we learned tonight...
1. Anita has an interesting way to figure out what happened the previous night.
"I'm trying to piece the night back together," she explained to us. "I look down at my T-shirt..." And yes, that is her asking Gary if her T-shirt was stained with "fake tan" or "what I think it is". Gary,...
- 3/10/2015
- Digital Spy
James Dornan and Dakota Johnson star in the adaptation of E L James' Fifty Shades Of Grey. Here's our review...
In the second scene of Fifty Shades Of Grey, the enigmatically smouldering Christian Grey forces Anastasia Steele to confess that her favorite author is Thomas Hardy. It’s an innocuous detail for a sequence ripe with more erotic imagery than a Calvin Klein commercial: from his firm grip on the desk to her unworldly innocence while a pencil with his surname drips out her mouth. The steamy exchange becomes so much that Ana will finally need a Seattle rain shower just to clear the fog.
Yet, my mind goes back to Hardy, an apparently E L James-approved scribe that created Bathsheba Everdene, the complex heroine who also had an older man leering after her to physically dangerous ends. Would Bathsheba in a modern context likewise find the greatest...
In the second scene of Fifty Shades Of Grey, the enigmatically smouldering Christian Grey forces Anastasia Steele to confess that her favorite author is Thomas Hardy. It’s an innocuous detail for a sequence ripe with more erotic imagery than a Calvin Klein commercial: from his firm grip on the desk to her unworldly innocence while a pencil with his surname drips out her mouth. The steamy exchange becomes so much that Ana will finally need a Seattle rain shower just to clear the fog.
Yet, my mind goes back to Hardy, an apparently E L James-approved scribe that created Bathsheba Everdene, the complex heroine who also had an older man leering after her to physically dangerous ends. Would Bathsheba in a modern context likewise find the greatest...
- 2/11/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
I really love how Woody Allen tries to keep as much as he can secret about the films he makes. I love going into his films not knowing what to expect, even if a lot of the time the film is not spectacular. Well, the American Film Market is happening at the moment, which is basically a place where people try to sell their films. Allen's latest, starring Joaquin Phoenix and his Magic in the Moonlight star Emma Stone, is one film being shopped around. Due to it being out in the public, we have gotten some information on what the film is about, and for all the people out there who hate Allen for his personal life, this will not turn you around on him. The film centers on an angsty philosophy professor who has an affair with one of his students. You see why this will not do...
- 11/5/2014
- by Mike Shutt
- Rope of Silicon
If cable television is experiencing a golden age, it seems network television is responding by trying to take movie properties and turn them into hit shows. Whatever works... By the way, did you ever wonder what happened after "Marley & Me"? Well, NBC is going to try to give you the answer with a show that will "pick up where the movie left off. John and Jenny Grogan and their three kids, a 16-year-old boy and a 13-year-old and 6-year-old girls, have just moved back to Florida so that John can take up his newspaper column once again. However, when a stray puppy (“owned” by their neglectful neighbors) ends up on their doorstep, they are forced to adopt it. This dog, named Marley for the fact that they use Marley’s old leash and tags, is as willful, destructive and delightful as her original namesake. And she will help shed light...
- 10/23/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
In my opinion a new Woody Allen movie every year is a bit of a treat. Yes, they can disappoint such as Whatever Works, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and To Rome with Love, but they can also be true knock outs such as Vicki Cristina Barcelona and Midnight in Paris, along with the stunning performance from Cate Blanchett in last year's Blue Jasmine, and that's only looking at the last six Allen films. He's directed nearly 50 over his illustrious career and I'd say his latest, Magic in the Moonlight, falls somewhere in the middle. Set in France in the 1920s, the film is complete with all the acerbic wit, pessimism for life and otherwise charm the better Allen films often exude. Magic in the Moonlight's first two-thirds are delightful as we're first introduced to Colin Firth in the role of Stanley Crawford, a pompous and arrogant...
- 7/21/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
-By Jarvis!
Legendary actor Larenz Tate is super busy right now promoting his new USA show Rush along with the film Gun Hill, but luckily we both just happened to be in the same VH1 elevator on the same day. Whew!!!
I mean, he’s been one of my favorite actors since way back in his Menace II Society days, so how could I Not freak out? 20 years later and he still looks good — thanks to the apparent vampire blood running through his veins. (Whatever works, right?) I never thought I’d stalk him in an elevator, let alone get acting lessons and advice on how to play twins. Awesome! I think meeting Larenz Tate defiantly counts as a life moment for me. Woohoo!!!!
See what happens when I ambush stars like Cee Lo Green, David Alan Grier and more, in the gallery below.
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Legendary actor Larenz Tate is super busy right now promoting his new USA show Rush along with the film Gun Hill, but luckily we both just happened to be in the same VH1 elevator on the same day. Whew!!!
I mean, he’s been one of my favorite actors since way back in his Menace II Society days, so how could I Not freak out? 20 years later and he still looks good — thanks to the apparent vampire blood running through his veins. (Whatever works, right?) I never thought I’d stalk him in an elevator, let alone get acting lessons and advice on how to play twins. Awesome! I think meeting Larenz Tate defiantly counts as a life moment for me. Woohoo!!!!
See what happens when I ambush stars like Cee Lo Green, David Alan Grier and more, in the gallery below.
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- 7/9/2014
- by VH1
- TheFabLife - Movies
-By Jarvis!
Legendary actor Larenz Tate is super busy right now promoting his new USA show Rush along with the film Gun Hill, but luckily we both just happened to be in the same VH1 elevator on the same day. Whew!!!
I mean, he’s been one of my favorite actors since way back in his Menace II Society days, so how could I Not freak out? 20 years later and he still looks good — thanks to the apparent vampire blood running through his veins. (Whatever works, right?) I never thought I’d stalk him in an elevator, let alone get acting lessons and advice on how to play twins. Awesome! I think meeting Larenz Tate defiantly counts as a life moment for me. Woohoo!!!!
See what happens when I ambush stars like Cee Lo Green, David Alan Grier and more, in the gallery below.
View Video Gallery...
Legendary actor Larenz Tate is super busy right now promoting his new USA show Rush along with the film Gun Hill, but luckily we both just happened to be in the same VH1 elevator on the same day. Whew!!!
I mean, he’s been one of my favorite actors since way back in his Menace II Society days, so how could I Not freak out? 20 years later and he still looks good — thanks to the apparent vampire blood running through his veins. (Whatever works, right?) I never thought I’d stalk him in an elevator, let alone get acting lessons and advice on how to play twins. Awesome! I think meeting Larenz Tate defiantly counts as a life moment for me. Woohoo!!!!
See what happens when I ambush stars like Cee Lo Green, David Alan Grier and more, in the gallery below.
View Video Gallery...
- 7/9/2014
- by VH1
- VH1.com
Since we never really know much about Woody Allen projects as the develop, this is a short but important update. The director and writer, who has been on a great run of films in the last decade that include Midnight in Paris, Blue Jasmine, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Match Point and Whatever Works, has picked one hell of a lead for his next film as Deadline reports The Master and Her star Joaquin Phoenix has been signed to lead the unknown project that starts shooting in July. This comes as we're still waiting to see a trailer for his forthcoming Magic in the Moonlight, slated to hit theaters late this summer on July 26th. Plot details are pretty scarce on Allen's summer release, but we know the film follows "an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle in the south of France in the 1920s against a backdrop of wealthy mansions,...
- 5/2/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Friday is Manhattan‘s 35th birthday, and while Woody Allen‘s black and white love story may not have the prestige of an Annie Hall or the out and out hilariousness of a Love and Death, it does have one unique aspect — one of greatest May/December affairs in cinema. Plus we’re still three years from Annie Hall‘s 40th anniversary, and we’ve got to kill time somehow. But what is it that’s so special about the love between Allen’s balding, bespectacled Isaac Davis and Mariel Hemmingway‘s genteel young Tracy? Well, part of it is that Manhattan isn’t the story of Isaac and Tracy. It’s not really about anyone. It’s a film about a city; something made achingly clear in the title and the first three and a half minutes. We view the scenery of New York, we hear the music equivalent of New York (George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue...
- 4/23/2014
- by Adam Bellotto
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
We have some info to share about Woody Allen’s upcoming film Magic in the Moonlight; it’s a romantic comedy about an Englishman (Colin Firth) brought in to expose a phony mystic (Emma Stone), only to end up falling for her. The film is set in the south of France in the 1920s against a backdrop of wealthy mansions, the Côte d’Azur, jazz joints and fashionable spots for the wealthy of the Jazz Age. Marcia Gay Harden will play Stone’s mother and co-conspirator.
Allen says he had the idea for “ages” but it only recently came together when he decided to set it in the south of France in the 1920s rather than the present day. He loves that Jazz age. I’ve enjoyed his more recent movies of the past few years (Match Point, Whatever Works, Midnight in Paris, Blue Jasmine) so I will no doubt...
Allen says he had the idea for “ages” but it only recently came together when he decided to set it in the south of France in the 1920s rather than the present day. He loves that Jazz age. I’ve enjoyed his more recent movies of the past few years (Match Point, Whatever Works, Midnight in Paris, Blue Jasmine) so I will no doubt...
- 4/16/2014
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
Now I'm not saying I'm not a fan of Adam Brody and Chloe Sevigny, but I don't like seeing their names as the leads of Whit Stillman's upcoming Amazon pilot "The Cosmopolitans". It's just casting that's too on-the-nose given the show's plot -- a group of young American expatriates in Paris who are searching for love and friendship in a foreign city. As much as I love the synopsis for a Stillman venture, with these two in the lead I can almost hear the whiny, "witty", back-and-forth banter now, increasingly grating with every punchline and sip of espresso. It's like when Larry David starred in Woody Allen's Whatever Works (my review), the writing was on point, but the actor delivering it just seemed a little too perfect for the part. It doesn't make it necessarily bad, but just not as good as it could have been. Both Brody and Sevigny are Stillman veterans,...
- 4/9/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Stars: Brie Larson, Frantz Turner, John Gallagher Jr., Stephanie Beatriz, Rami Malek, Alex Calloway, Kevin Hernandez, Lydia Du Veaux | Written and Directed by Destin Cretton
Destin Cretton (I Am Not A Hipster), who as well as this version also wrote and directed the short film on which Short Term 12 is based, is certainly a director to watch after his work on this movie, released in November of 2013 in cinemas and on Blu-ray and DVD just a week or so ago.
Set in a facility that cares for and houses foster kids that are in-between homes and for whatever reason are no longer with their birth families, the story of Short Term 12 follows a twenty-something manager of the facility named Grace, played with subtlety, heart and a wonderful sense of realism by Brie Larson (The Spectacular Now). Grace is juggling her work at the facility, her secret relationship with co-worker Mason,...
Destin Cretton (I Am Not A Hipster), who as well as this version also wrote and directed the short film on which Short Term 12 is based, is certainly a director to watch after his work on this movie, released in November of 2013 in cinemas and on Blu-ray and DVD just a week or so ago.
Set in a facility that cares for and houses foster kids that are in-between homes and for whatever reason are no longer with their birth families, the story of Short Term 12 follows a twenty-something manager of the facility named Grace, played with subtlety, heart and a wonderful sense of realism by Brie Larson (The Spectacular Now). Grace is juggling her work at the facility, her secret relationship with co-worker Mason,...
- 3/19/2014
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
News Ryan Lambie 13 Mar 2014 - 15:03
A stop-motion film by Terry Gilliam? The director's exclusively revealed that the makers of Coraline have approached about making one...
"The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea," director Terry Gilliam once said on the 1974 TV programme, Bob Godfrey's Do -It-Yourself Animation Show. "Whatever works is the thing to use."
Once he started directing live-action feature films with Monty Python And The Holy Grail (which he co-directed with Terry Jones) in 1975, Gilliam put aside the wonderfully creative cut-out animations that appeared in shorts like Storytime (1968) and Miracle Of Flight (1974), not to mention the surreal moments he brought to the TV series Do Not Adjust Your Set and Monty Python's Flying Circus.
For Gilliam, live-action became "the thing to use" for much of his feature directing career. But wouldn't it be great if he one day returned to animation,...
A stop-motion film by Terry Gilliam? The director's exclusively revealed that the makers of Coraline have approached about making one...
"The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea," director Terry Gilliam once said on the 1974 TV programme, Bob Godfrey's Do -It-Yourself Animation Show. "Whatever works is the thing to use."
Once he started directing live-action feature films with Monty Python And The Holy Grail (which he co-directed with Terry Jones) in 1975, Gilliam put aside the wonderfully creative cut-out animations that appeared in shorts like Storytime (1968) and Miracle Of Flight (1974), not to mention the surreal moments he brought to the TV series Do Not Adjust Your Set and Monty Python's Flying Circus.
For Gilliam, live-action became "the thing to use" for much of his feature directing career. But wouldn't it be great if he one day returned to animation,...
- 3/13/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Sony Pictures Classics has snapped up their seventh Woody Allen acquisition, taking North American rights to the director's next film, "Magic in the Moonlight," a period piece set in the South of France in the 1920s. It stars Colin Firth as an Englishman who arrives to investigate a possible scam among the high society of the Riviera. Eileen Atkins, Emma Stone, Marcia Gay Harden, Simon McBurney, Hamish Linklater and Jacki Weaver also star. Spc also nabbed 2013 hit "Blue Jasmine," "Midnight in Paris," "To Rome with Love," "Whatever Works," "Sweet and Lowdown" and "You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger." Meanwhile, Allen will be honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at Sunday's Golden Globes, but as per usual he's not expected to make an appearance; Diane Keaton will instead do the honors on his behalf.
- 1/10/2014
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
It's become quite obvious what draws me to the theater more than anything, the work of directors I've come to admire, appreciate and expect great things from. Certainly a film's subject matter adds to that excitement, but most often it's because the directors I most anticipate tell stories I most want to see brought to life. However, what today's list of my top ten most anticipated movies of 2014 illustrates is that even when the subject matter isn't necessarily something in my immediate wheelhouse, the thought of a new movie from one of my favorite directors makes such subject matter immediately more interesting. Or, as in the case with one particular film on this list, the subject matter, the development of the film itself and the talent involved makes it an obvious choice for my top ten, which we'll get to right now... If you've missed any of the previous installments...
- 1/9/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
So sad! Christopher, a character actor best known as Grant Test in the TV show ‘Rubicon’ died of lung cancer on Dec. 2. He was 48 years old.
Christopher Evan Welch, the well-known Hollywood film and television actor who won over legions of fans in Lincoln and Rubicon, passed away in Santa Monica, Calif. on Dec 2.
Christopher Evan Welch Dead: ‘Rubicon’ Actor Passes Away At 48
Christopher’s family members announced the sad news on Dec. 11 in a statement, nine days after his Dec. 2 death. He died in a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. of lung cancer complications.
The actor, who was born in Dallas, won an Obie Award in 2000 for his New York Theatre Workshop performance of ”A Streetcar Named Desire.”
Christopher is survived by his wife Emma Roberts Welch, their three-year-old daughter June Harper; his mother, Katherine Welch Burke; his father, William; his brother, Derek; and his sister, McKenna Marx.
Christopher Evan Welch...
Christopher Evan Welch, the well-known Hollywood film and television actor who won over legions of fans in Lincoln and Rubicon, passed away in Santa Monica, Calif. on Dec 2.
Christopher Evan Welch Dead: ‘Rubicon’ Actor Passes Away At 48
Christopher’s family members announced the sad news on Dec. 11 in a statement, nine days after his Dec. 2 death. He died in a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. of lung cancer complications.
The actor, who was born in Dallas, won an Obie Award in 2000 for his New York Theatre Workshop performance of ”A Streetcar Named Desire.”
Christopher is survived by his wife Emma Roberts Welch, their three-year-old daughter June Harper; his mother, Katherine Welch Burke; his father, William; his brother, Derek; and his sister, McKenna Marx.
Christopher Evan Welch...
- 12/12/2013
- by Ivy Jacobson
- HollywoodLife
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they will again release Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine on 300 screens nationwide this weekend. A definite Oscar hopeful, the film has garnered significant acclaim for the Cate Blanchett's leading performance as Jasmine, an elegant New York socialite who moves into her sister.s apartment in San Francisco after everything in her life falls to pieces. Among other accolades, Blue Jasmine has received Independent Spirit Award nominations including Best Actress, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Sally Hawkins. Blue Jasmine marks Allen.s sixth film with Sony Pictures Classics. The others include Sweet and Lowdown , Whatever Works , You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger , Midnight in Paris and To Rome with Love .
- 12/10/2013
- Comingsoon.net
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