Is it possible to essentially like a movie yet feel revulsion toward its script? David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars is clearly intended as a sharp satire of Hollywood ambition, vanity, avarice, and emptiness, and in places it's smart and astringently funny. Yet it seems to be fighting its own bone structure. The script is by Bruce Wagner, a screenwriter, producer, and novelist whose specialty, in bitter little books like Force Majeure and Dead Stars, is skewering Hollywood — he's like a jaundiced eye with a laptop attached. But unlike other novelists who've tackled Hollywood — among them Michael Tolkin, Terry Southern, Don Carpenter, and the lesser-known John Kaye, author of the splendid twin novels Stars Screaming and The Dead Circus &md...
- 2/25/2015
- Village Voice
As the Country Music genre continues to grow in popularity, shows like the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards are all the more important.
This year, Tim McGraw and Miranda Lambert are each up for seven trophies, while Grammy performer Keith Urban has half a dozen shots at glory.
Meanwhile, Taylor Swift and Blake Shelton will each compete in five categories, as will Kacey Musgraves and Lee Brice.
The 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards will go live on April 6th at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena, hosted by Shelton and three-time nominee Luke Bryan.
And the nominees are…
Entertainer Of The Year
• Luke Bryan
• Miranda Lambert
• Blake Shelton
• George Strait
• Taylor Swift
Male Vocalist Of The Year
• Jason Aldean
• Lee Brice
• Luke Bryan
• Blake Shelton
• Keith Urban
Female Vocalist Of The Year
• Sheryl Crow
• Miranda Lambert
• Kacey Musgraves
• Taylor Swift
• Carrie Underwood
Vocal Duo Of The...
This year, Tim McGraw and Miranda Lambert are each up for seven trophies, while Grammy performer Keith Urban has half a dozen shots at glory.
Meanwhile, Taylor Swift and Blake Shelton will each compete in five categories, as will Kacey Musgraves and Lee Brice.
The 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards will go live on April 6th at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena, hosted by Shelton and three-time nominee Luke Bryan.
And the nominees are…
Entertainer Of The Year
• Luke Bryan
• Miranda Lambert
• Blake Shelton
• George Strait
• Taylor Swift
Male Vocalist Of The Year
• Jason Aldean
• Lee Brice
• Luke Bryan
• Blake Shelton
• Keith Urban
Female Vocalist Of The Year
• Sheryl Crow
• Miranda Lambert
• Kacey Musgraves
• Taylor Swift
• Carrie Underwood
Vocal Duo Of The...
- 1/29/2014
- GossipCenter
As the Country Music genre continues to grow in popularity, shows like the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards are all the more important.
This year, Tim McGraw and Miranda Lambert are each up for seven trophies, while Grammy performer Keith Urban has half a dozen shots at glory.
Meanwhile, Taylor Swift and Blake Shelton will each compete in five categories, as will Kacey Musgraves and Lee Brice.
The 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards will go live on April 6th at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena, hosted by Shelton and three-time nominee Luke Bryan.
And the nominees are…
Entertainer Of The Year
• Luke Bryan
• Miranda Lambert
• Blake Shelton
• George Strait
• Taylor Swift
Male Vocalist Of The Year
• Jason Aldean
• Lee Brice
• Luke Bryan
• Blake Shelton
• Keith Urban
Female Vocalist Of The Year
• Sheryl Crow
• Miranda Lambert
• Kacey Musgraves
• Taylor Swift
• Carrie Underwood
Vocal Duo Of The...
This year, Tim McGraw and Miranda Lambert are each up for seven trophies, while Grammy performer Keith Urban has half a dozen shots at glory.
Meanwhile, Taylor Swift and Blake Shelton will each compete in five categories, as will Kacey Musgraves and Lee Brice.
The 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards will go live on April 6th at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena, hosted by Shelton and three-time nominee Luke Bryan.
And the nominees are…
Entertainer Of The Year
• Luke Bryan
• Miranda Lambert
• Blake Shelton
• George Strait
• Taylor Swift
Male Vocalist Of The Year
• Jason Aldean
• Lee Brice
• Luke Bryan
• Blake Shelton
• Keith Urban
Female Vocalist Of The Year
• Sheryl Crow
• Miranda Lambert
• Kacey Musgraves
• Taylor Swift
• Carrie Underwood
Vocal Duo Of The...
- 1/29/2014
- GossipCenter
Deborah Kerr in the classic ghost story The Innocents, screenplay by Truman Capote.
The Anthology Film Archives in New York is holding a unique film festival throughout the month of September honoring screenwriters who were best known for their work as novelists. Here are the details:
On this calendar we are highlighting the screenwriting work of writers best known as novelists – including pulp novelists like Richard Matheson, Donald Westlake, and Elmore Leonard, cult figures such as Don Carpenter and John Fante, and such highly respected authors as Truman Capote and Joan Didion. Paying homage to the long tradition of novelists trying their hand at writing for the movies, we will present a selection of films based not on these writers’ novels, but on their original screenplays (which are sometimes adaptations of other novelists’ work).
From The Pen Of is programmed in close collaboration with author/musician Alan Licht.
Very special thanks to Alan Licht,...
The Anthology Film Archives in New York is holding a unique film festival throughout the month of September honoring screenwriters who were best known for their work as novelists. Here are the details:
On this calendar we are highlighting the screenwriting work of writers best known as novelists – including pulp novelists like Richard Matheson, Donald Westlake, and Elmore Leonard, cult figures such as Don Carpenter and John Fante, and such highly respected authors as Truman Capote and Joan Didion. Paying homage to the long tradition of novelists trying their hand at writing for the movies, we will present a selection of films based not on these writers’ novels, but on their original screenplays (which are sometimes adaptations of other novelists’ work).
From The Pen Of is programmed in close collaboration with author/musician Alan Licht.
Very special thanks to Alan Licht,...
- 9/5/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
When Robert Angelo Masciantonio sat down to write and then direct Neighbor I wonder if he knew he'd be introducing us to a new character that would go down in movie history as one of the most brutal, unapologetic, imaginative, and comedic slasher-types simply known as "The Girl", that's right a female people! Yes move over Jason, Freddy and Leatherface there's a new female moving in the neighborhood and she has her eye on your zippers!
America Olivo plays our title character to perfection. The Girl is as entertaining from scene one to the finale and never misses a beat or a pulse for that matter. She lures her prey in with her " neighborly"charm (no pun intended) and then Bang, it's uh-oh time!
Christian Campbell plays her "main" interest Don Carpenter and goes through more torture, pain and abuse than I've ever seen one person go through in a...
America Olivo plays our title character to perfection. The Girl is as entertaining from scene one to the finale and never misses a beat or a pulse for that matter. She lures her prey in with her " neighborly"charm (no pun intended) and then Bang, it's uh-oh time!
Christian Campbell plays her "main" interest Don Carpenter and goes through more torture, pain and abuse than I've ever seen one person go through in a...
- 8/8/2010
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
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