Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include Vince Vaughn in the romantic and very funny comedy Couples Retreat, Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana in The Time Traveler's Wife and action fans will be happy to see the return of Steven Seagal in A Dangerous Man... plus one of the most controversial films from The Coen Brothers will cause viewers to decide if A Serious Man is the best work to date from Joel and Ethan or is this one movie that is way over the top?
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Jay Steinberg | Movie Buzz
February 8, 1915: D.W. Griffith's Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation, opens. At a White House screening, President Woodrow Wilson calls it "like writing history with lightning."
February 8, 1926: The New York Sun is the first to use the term "documentary," in its review of Robert Flaherty's Moana.
February 10, 1940: Cartoon cat-and-mouse antagonists Tom (known in the film as Jasper) and Jerry make their debut in MGM's Puss Gets the Boot.
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Jason Marcewicz | Movie Mash-Ups
As I wrote in the first Movie Mash-Ups article, mash-ups are a recent trend where music club DJs take two or more songs and artfully combine them, creating a “new” hit.
Last time I combined the written plot elements from two separate real films to create a wacky—yet somehow plausible—new synopsis.
For this second part (and later in Part IV) I’ll be merging two film posters together to create a new, visually arresting one-sheet you’ll never see hanging in your local theater lobby. Let the strangeness begin…
Bloody Mamma Mia!
• Bloody Mama; Mamma Mia!
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Irv Slifkin | In The Star's Trailer, Movie Buzz
You may be able to take Channing Tatum out of the military, but you can’t take the military out of Channing Tatum.
That’s because the 29-year old actor keeps getting cast in roles in which he plays a soldier.
For example, in 2008’s Stop-Loss, directed by Kimberly Peirce, he played a young veteran of the Iraq War who returns to his Texas home with fellow townie Ryan Phillippe who decides to re-enlist in the service in order to become a sniper. And in last year’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, he was Duke, a buzz-cutted human incarnation of a 1980s Hasbro cartoon/action figure. Down the road there’s The Eagle of the Ninth, a sword-and-sandal epic directed by Kevin MacDonald (The Last King of Scotland) in which he plays a Roman centurion in the year 108 A.D.
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George D. Allen | Staff Notes
Hollywood Nostradamus (a friend on the outside who alerted me to the existence of this marvelous Steven Seagal program some time ago) pointed me towards these, and since his sentiments about the following exactly mirror my own, I might as well quote him directly.
You all know and love Charles Bronson from such classics as Chato's Land and The White Buffalo. You all know my affection for the man who used to wear his sister's clothes to school. But what you are about to see will shake you to the core. Perhaps the greatest collection of video ever presented (aside from the Atene audition tape), these not only hold up to repeated viewing, they utterly demand it. More drama than a Chekhov play, more joy than a Tesh concert, more heart than a Drew Barrymore movie. I give you...MANDOM:
More brilliance, below:
Jason Marcewicz | Poster Doppelgangers
Here's the fourth in our series of “poster doppelgangers” that confirm to movie fans like yourself that, yes, you have seen that poster before!
I've tried to keep parody posters and the obvious low budget rip-offs of famous movie one-sheets to a minimum.
The Blinds Side
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Irv Slifkin | In The Director's Chair, Movie Buzz
Since he hit the mainstream with good reviews for 1997’s Kurt Russell road thriller Breakdown, Jonathan Mostow has gotten the rep of being that rare director who can fluidly mix action and intelligence. His follow-up to Breakdown was 2000’s U-571, a WWII adventure starring Matthew McConaughey, Harvey Keitel and Bill Paxton. In 2003, he was handed the reins to The Temrinator franchise, delivering Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which offered dazzling special effects and a complex storyline, not to mention a cast that included Nick Stahl, Claire Danes and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a last pre-political career role. In addition, Mostow has producer credits on David Fincher 's The Game, which showcased Michael Douglas, and Peter Berg’s Hancock, the Will Smith starrer.
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Jason Marcewicz | Create-A-Caption
You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption.
You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below!
“Listen, Dude, I don’t mind all the cuss words,
but eating all the pretzels is uncool.”
Jay Steinberg | Movie Buzz
February 2, 1922: Hollywood has a real whodunit on its hands when Paramount Pictures director William Desmond Taylor is found slain.
February 5, 1927: Buster Keaton's comedic masterwork The General, based on a true Civil War incident, is released.
February 1, 1929: MGM's The Broadway Melody premieres in Hollywood, becoming the first musical with an original score.
February 5, 1936: At the New York premiere of Charles Chaplin's Modern Times, riot police are called in to control the crowds trying to see the stars attending the festivities.
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