Whether you’re new to L.A., a seasoned professional, or just looking for some inspiration, we’ve gathered information on upcoming performances, events, dance auditions and more for you to check out this month! Let’s finish the year with more passion for dance than ever. Performances The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater will be showing the 41st edition of Studio: Fall 2017 on Nov. 4th to showcase the new and in-progress works of L.A.’s next-gen artists. Also at the theater is“Tesseract,” a virtuosic experience created by former Merce Cunningham dancers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener and video artist Charles Atlas, opening Nov. 30. More information here. Ebony Repertory Theater, Dance@TheHolden, and Jazzantiqua Dance & Music Ensemble present “Breath: Part 2.” Don’t miss this jazzy, evocative, and bubbling textures of these artists Nov. 11 at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center. Tickets and more info here! Brockus Project is holding Dance/Back,...
- 11/1/2017
- backstage.com
Charming indie film The Origins of Wit and Humor, which screened earlier this month at the Hill Country Film Festival, appears at first to be a romantic comedy, but ultimately leans heavily on the comedy, as hinted in the title. In fact, you could argue that this movie is a romantic comedy in which humor portrays the femme fatale the protagonist pursues -- the storyline chronicles the repercussions of his entanglements with this demanding love interest.
Les (Joe Hursley) is a comedy writer who's completely devastated when seemingly out of nowhere, his longtime girlfriend moves out. He can't write, he can't function, he has no idea how to approach women, despite encouragement from his best friend Pops (Steve Lemme). On a whim, Les sends off a mail-order form from the back of an old book (with the same title as the film) and receives a "potion" that will allegedly make...
Les (Joe Hursley) is a comedy writer who's completely devastated when seemingly out of nowhere, his longtime girlfriend moves out. He can't write, he can't function, he has no idea how to approach women, despite encouragement from his best friend Pops (Steve Lemme). On a whim, Les sends off a mail-order form from the back of an old book (with the same title as the film) and receives a "potion" that will allegedly make...
- 5/12/2015
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
Cameos, mistakes and in-jokes. We’ve trawled the Game Of Thrones season 4 DVD commentaries for what went on behind the scenes…
Warning: contains spoilers for Game Of Thrones season 4.
If you’re a busy Game Of Thrones fan who can’t find the spare ten hours required to re-watch season four with the accompanying disc commentaries, then we have your back. Gleaned from said audio tracks provided by the cast, crew and creators George R.R. Martin, Dan Weiss and David Benioff, is the below list of nerdy facts and anecdotes about the making of season four.
Granted, skip the commentaries and you won’t experience first-hand Peter Dinklage’s rendition of Let It Go from Frozen, a stream of filthy innuendo from Lena Headey, or the general sense of awe, adoration and good-natured mockery everyone who works on the show has for everyone else (“If only you could act, Peter...
Warning: contains spoilers for Game Of Thrones season 4.
If you’re a busy Game Of Thrones fan who can’t find the spare ten hours required to re-watch season four with the accompanying disc commentaries, then we have your back. Gleaned from said audio tracks provided by the cast, crew and creators George R.R. Martin, Dan Weiss and David Benioff, is the below list of nerdy facts and anecdotes about the making of season four.
Granted, skip the commentaries and you won’t experience first-hand Peter Dinklage’s rendition of Let It Go from Frozen, a stream of filthy innuendo from Lena Headey, or the general sense of awe, adoration and good-natured mockery everyone who works on the show has for everyone else (“If only you could act, Peter...
- 2/15/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
The Gutters (Indefinite hiatus; 2010-2014)
Written by Ryan Sohmer
Art by various
Colored by Ed Ryzowski
First and foremost, The Gutters was a twice weekly webcomic that made fun of various aspects of the comics industry. It took the comics news of that week and spinned into something hilarious and self-contained with a rotating cast of artists, including ones you might know like Annie Wu (Hawkeye), Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan), Joe Eisma (Morning Glories), Nick Bradshaw (Wolverine and the X-Men), and even comics legend Neal Adams, who pencilled a heartfelt tribute to the late Joe Kubert in 2012. The humor of The Gutters is highly topical. However, in the tradition of the best Mad Magazine strips or SNL sketches, it can act as a nice time capsule to 2010 when people were arguing whether Steve Rogers or Bucky Barnes (or Clint Barton) should be Captain America, or 2012 when the circle of snark around...
Written by Ryan Sohmer
Art by various
Colored by Ed Ryzowski
First and foremost, The Gutters was a twice weekly webcomic that made fun of various aspects of the comics industry. It took the comics news of that week and spinned into something hilarious and self-contained with a rotating cast of artists, including ones you might know like Annie Wu (Hawkeye), Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan), Joe Eisma (Morning Glories), Nick Bradshaw (Wolverine and the X-Men), and even comics legend Neal Adams, who pencilled a heartfelt tribute to the late Joe Kubert in 2012. The humor of The Gutters is highly topical. However, in the tradition of the best Mad Magazine strips or SNL sketches, it can act as a nice time capsule to 2010 when people were arguing whether Steve Rogers or Bucky Barnes (or Clint Barton) should be Captain America, or 2012 when the circle of snark around...
- 12/29/2014
- by Logan Dalton
- SoundOnSight
Charles Atlas’ documentary Turning captures Antony and the Johnsons on tour in Europe in 2006, when the band was only part of the visual equation. Opposite Antony, 13 different women took the stage, revolving and acting out counterpoint emotions with their bodies. In this clip we have performance artist Johanna Constantine, an old friend of Antony’s since his first year at university. Turning hits DVD, CD and digital release on November 11 from Secretly Canadian.
- 10/28/2014
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Charles Atlas’ documentary Turning captures Antony and the Johnsons on tour in Europe in 2006, when the band was only part of the visual equation. Opposite Antony, 13 different women took the stage, revolving and acting out counterpoint emotions with their bodies. In this clip we have performance artist Johanna Constantine, an old friend of Antony’s since his first year at university. Turning hits DVD, CD and digital release on November 11 from Secretly Canadian.
- 10/28/2014
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Cap’n Dinosaur
Written by Kek-w
Art by Shaky Kane
Published by Image Comics
Remember those old ads in comic books, like Charles Atlas muscle builders, Frankenstein masks, and of course, the infamous Sea Monkeys? Well, they’re back as the dastardly Carnevil of Crime in Cap’n Dinosaur, a one-shot making fun of all things Silver Age, including the characters, cheesy dialogue, the trope of characters getting extra superpowers to deal with threats and much more. Kek-w, a veteran of the famous 2000 Ad anthology, parodies the ads, plots, and characters of comics from 50-60 years ago while also telling an superhero/mystery/horror story with art from Shaky Kane that would make Jack Kirby smile. There are a few panels where the storytelling is unclear, but Cap’n Dinosaur is mostly a hilarious, occasionally trippy parody and love letter to a time when comics cost twelve or fifteen cents and printed on newsprint.
Written by Kek-w
Art by Shaky Kane
Published by Image Comics
Remember those old ads in comic books, like Charles Atlas muscle builders, Frankenstein masks, and of course, the infamous Sea Monkeys? Well, they’re back as the dastardly Carnevil of Crime in Cap’n Dinosaur, a one-shot making fun of all things Silver Age, including the characters, cheesy dialogue, the trope of characters getting extra superpowers to deal with threats and much more. Kek-w, a veteran of the famous 2000 Ad anthology, parodies the ads, plots, and characters of comics from 50-60 years ago while also telling an superhero/mystery/horror story with art from Shaky Kane that would make Jack Kirby smile. There are a few panels where the storytelling is unclear, but Cap’n Dinosaur is mostly a hilarious, occasionally trippy parody and love letter to a time when comics cost twelve or fifteen cents and printed on newsprint.
- 7/16/2014
- by Logan Dalton
- SoundOnSight
Previously On Warehouse 13.
It’s the penultimate episode. Can they wrap up some dangling threads?
Claire is gone! And so is the record player that was keeping her in a coma. But who could have the knowledge necessary to attempt such a brazen theft? Artie and Claudia use the Urine-Vision Spectral Artifact to learn the truth. It was … That Guy!
Yes, we’ve known for some time that Valda was going to make his move, and he does not disappoint. He has carted Claire away, and what’s worse, he’s outfitted her with one of those Borg implant thingies to control her telekinesis. Claudia and Artie start figuring out what his plan might be, while Myka asks Pete to help her search for clues in Valda’s vault room.
Pete balks at being close to Myka, remembering Kelly‘s words last week about being obviously in love with his partner.
It’s the penultimate episode. Can they wrap up some dangling threads?
Claire is gone! And so is the record player that was keeping her in a coma. But who could have the knowledge necessary to attempt such a brazen theft? Artie and Claudia use the Urine-Vision Spectral Artifact to learn the truth. It was … That Guy!
Yes, we’ve known for some time that Valda was going to make his move, and he does not disappoint. He has carted Claire away, and what’s worse, he’s outfitted her with one of those Borg implant thingies to control her telekinesis. Claudia and Artie start figuring out what his plan might be, while Myka asks Pete to help her search for clues in Valda’s vault room.
Pete balks at being close to Myka, remembering Kelly‘s words last week about being obviously in love with his partner.
- 5/13/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
This year’s student-run Milwaukee Underground Film Festival will screen on May 1-4 at various locations on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus and off-campus at the Microlights Cinema. Once again, the festival will feature eclectic and amazing avant-garde and experimental short films in video, 16mm and 8mm formats.
The fest opens on May 1 with a screening of films made by this year’s three-member jury — David Witzling, Diane Kitchen and Scott Stark — followed by a special presentation of works from NYC’s Lgbt screening series, “Dirty Looks,” including Michael Robinson‘s hilarious The Dark, Krystle, Luther Price‘s recently restored Home and Michael Lucid‘s online video sensation Dirty Girls.
Other films to look out for are a pair of award-winning pieces: The May 2 at 2:00 p.m. shorts block will conclude with Jennifer Reeder‘s absolutely amazing A Million Miles Away, which took home the Best Short Film at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
The fest opens on May 1 with a screening of films made by this year’s three-member jury — David Witzling, Diane Kitchen and Scott Stark — followed by a special presentation of works from NYC’s Lgbt screening series, “Dirty Looks,” including Michael Robinson‘s hilarious The Dark, Krystle, Luther Price‘s recently restored Home and Michael Lucid‘s online video sensation Dirty Girls.
Other films to look out for are a pair of award-winning pieces: The May 2 at 2:00 p.m. shorts block will conclude with Jennifer Reeder‘s absolutely amazing A Million Miles Away, which took home the Best Short Film at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
- 5/1/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
South by Southwest Interactive, once the nerdy kid brother of the SXSW music festival, has grown up to be Charles Atlas-strong. Since 2007 — the year Twitter broke — attendance at the Austin interactive fest has grown nearly fivefold to more than 30,000. Old-timers will grouse that SXSWi has morphed from a place for tech startups to share knowledge and innovations to an overly commercial clusterfuck. But the 2014 edition, which wrapped up earlier this week, was still capable of eliciting surprise and delight — in addition to the occasional feeling of deep embarrassment.
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- 3/14/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Big changes are in store for the 5th annual Migrating Forms experimental media festival, which is set to run December 11-17.
Well, that’s the first change: Moving from its traditional spot in March to December. More importantly, though, the fest is moving physical locations. Instead of it’s usual home of the Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan, this year’s Migrating Forms will be screening at the BAMcinématek in Brooklyn.
The festivities will begin on Dec. 11 with the U.S. premiere of four new short films by media artist Ryan Trecartin. Each film involves a unique cast of characters, including Trecartin’s actual high school classmates and a group of reality TV show hopefuls, navigating their complex social strata.
The rest of the fest will screen challenging feature-length material, such as Drew Tobia’s outrageous See You Next Tuesday; the family drama The Unity of Things by Daniel Schmidt...
Well, that’s the first change: Moving from its traditional spot in March to December. More importantly, though, the fest is moving physical locations. Instead of it’s usual home of the Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan, this year’s Migrating Forms will be screening at the BAMcinématek in Brooklyn.
The festivities will begin on Dec. 11 with the U.S. premiere of four new short films by media artist Ryan Trecartin. Each film involves a unique cast of characters, including Trecartin’s actual high school classmates and a group of reality TV show hopefuls, navigating their complex social strata.
The rest of the fest will screen challenging feature-length material, such as Drew Tobia’s outrageous See You Next Tuesday; the family drama The Unity of Things by Daniel Schmidt...
- 12/9/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Escape Plan is the first time Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone have headlined a movie together. Asterisk 1: Schwarzenegger was one of Stallone’s weekend-cameo all-stars in the first two Expendables films. Asterisk 2: The two men already headlined a movie together. That movie was America, and the running time was the 1980s. The longtime rivals-turned-business partners-turned-surgery buddies rode astride the action genre’s glory days. They were the defining Hollywood duo, more popular — and more easily reduced to cliché — than contemporaries like Bruce Willis or Kurt Russell or Mel Gibson.
And yet, the question of who was the better...
And yet, the question of who was the better...
- 10/18/2013
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
It’s been a banner year for Charles Atlas. In 2012, the filmmaker and video artist was included in the Whitney Biennial, opened his first New York solo show, “The Illusion of Democracy” (the inaugural show of Lurhring Augustine’s brand new Bushwick gallery, no less), had seminal, rarely-screened works revived care of keen programming at local NYC film series’ Dirty Looks and Light Industry, and is now unveiling his long-awaited collaboration with enigmatic singer/musician Antony Hegarty (of Antony and the Johnsons), which opens today at IFC Center.
Turning, which had its New York premiere this past weekend at Doc NYC, is a feature-length documentary, and its Atlas’s first film to receive a traditional theatrical release. Part performance film and part backstage portrait, the film is a unique blend of the filmmaker’s entrancing visuals, Antony’s exquisite music and intimate interviews with the thirteen “models,” a diverse collection...
Turning, which had its New York premiere this past weekend at Doc NYC, is a feature-length documentary, and its Atlas’s first film to receive a traditional theatrical release. Part performance film and part backstage portrait, the film is a unique blend of the filmmaker’s entrancing visuals, Antony’s exquisite music and intimate interviews with the thirteen “models,” a diverse collection...
- 11/16/2012
- by Paul Dallas
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
It’s been a banner year for Charles Atlas. In 2012, the filmmaker and video artist was included in the Whitney Biennial, opened his first New York solo show, “The Illusion of Democracy” (the inaugural show of Lurhring Augustine’s brand new Bushwick gallery, no less), had seminal, rarely-screened works revived care of keen programming at local NYC film series’ Dirty Looks and Light Industry, and is now unveiling his long-awaited collaboration with enigmatic singer/musician Antony Hegarty (of Antony and the Johnsons), which opens today at IFC Center. Turning, which had its New York premiere this past weekend at Doc NYC, is …...
- 11/16/2012
- by Paul Dallas
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Once you've heard the voice of Antony Hegarty, you're unlikely to forget it. Leading the group Antony and the Johnsons, he is a Mercury Prize-winning artist who has found a legion of fans and critical praise. His unique, otherworldly voice has placed Antony in a category all of his own, with works that also dip into the visual arts and compositional realm. Multifaceted and always fascinating, it's no surprise that someone has decided to turn the camera on him. Director Charles Atlas ("The Legend Of Leigh Bowery," "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible") is behind "Turning," which brings a unique angle to its subject. Using Antony's song and live performance as a backdrop, the documentary explores thirteen strong and individual women, whose sexual, gender or racial identities are expressed through Antony's music. And as you'll see in this exclusive clip, it's a true marrige of concert footage, direct documenatry.
- 11/15/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
With their Stranger than Fiction series at New York City’s IFC Center, Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen have been curating, programming and advocating for documentary film going on eight years now. Their Tuesday-night events are typically packed, drawing audiences with not only great films but human interaction — Q&A’s with directors, collaborators, and even the film’s subjects. Three years ago, Powers and Neihausen wondered why there wasn’t a major, all-doc festival in New York and decided to embrace the challenge of creating one. The resulting Doc NYC is now in its third year (November 8 – 15), with a new, second theater and its largest program yet (115 events, 61 films and 22 panels and classes). Opening night November 8 features Bartholomew Cubbins’ Artifact, about Jared Leto’s band 30 Seconds to Mars and its legal battle with label Emi (Leto will be in attendance) and Venus and Serena, Michelle Major and Maiken Baird...
- 11/8/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
This week marks the start of Manhattan's third annual documentary festival, Doc NYC, at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village and Chelsea's Sva Theatre. The eight-day presentation boasts big names like Ken Burns, Barbara Kopple and Jonathan Demme as well as a significant roster from the indie underworld: Rufus Wainwright, Antony Hegarty, and Sophie Fiennes, to name but a few.
To help you sift through the massive schedule of documentaries, we've created our own guide to the must-see films of this year. Our list is as much a grab bag as the 115-item Doc NYC list, but we've picked the ones that we know you just can't miss:
1. How to Survive a Plague (directed by David France)
A powerful overview of Act Up and its science-savvy subgroup, Tag (Treatment Action Group); its members worked tirelessly to bring awareness to the plight of AIDS victims in the mid-1980s and early 1990s.
To help you sift through the massive schedule of documentaries, we've created our own guide to the must-see films of this year. Our list is as much a grab bag as the 115-item Doc NYC list, but we've picked the ones that we know you just can't miss:
1. How to Survive a Plague (directed by David France)
A powerful overview of Act Up and its science-savvy subgroup, Tag (Treatment Action Group); its members worked tirelessly to bring awareness to the plight of AIDS victims in the mid-1980s and early 1990s.
- 11/6/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
The less time Peter Parker spends in costume the better. A superhero without an alter ego is just a megalomaniac in a cape
Here are some of the things that Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, gets up to in the course of his new movie, The Amazing Spider-Man: he shuffles along the hallway of his school, mumbles, gets bullied, rides his skateboard, skips class, fails to finish his sentences, broods like James Dean over his parents, catches a cab, catches a subway, smashes an alarm clock, and has Branzino for dinner with his high-school crush Gwen Stacy.
"This Spidey reboot refreshes an old story through the on-trend notion of making a Marvel superhero less super-heroic" noted Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly.
Not that he doesn't get up to his usual tricks — swinging through the canyons of New York, saving kids from burning cars, and fighting off giant green lizards — but...
Here are some of the things that Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, gets up to in the course of his new movie, The Amazing Spider-Man: he shuffles along the hallway of his school, mumbles, gets bullied, rides his skateboard, skips class, fails to finish his sentences, broods like James Dean over his parents, catches a cab, catches a subway, smashes an alarm clock, and has Branzino for dinner with his high-school crush Gwen Stacy.
"This Spidey reboot refreshes an old story through the on-trend notion of making a Marvel superhero less super-heroic" noted Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly.
Not that he doesn't get up to his usual tricks — swinging through the canyons of New York, saving kids from burning cars, and fighting off giant green lizards — but...
- 7/5/2012
- by Tom Shone
- The Guardian - Film News
Marina Abramovic has been refining her particular brand of grueling performance art for nearly 40 years now, but you’d have been hard pressed to find anyone who’d heard of her until two years ago. That’s when the Museum of Modern Art hosted their headline-making Abramovic retrospective, complete with naked people and a silent “opera” in which Abramovic sat for 700 unbroken hours as visitors took turns staring (and crying) into her eyes. A Marina Abramovic Made Me Cry Tumblr sprang up, then a homemade Abramovic retrospective video game, and online at least, she was officially an artist people had heard of.
This April, the Yugoslav-born Abramovic will go one step further, with her American television debut. She joins a roster of high-profile international artists, including Ai Weiwei, whose work will be featured on PBS’ month-long showcase series “Art21.” Abramovic’s collaborative 18-minute piece -- part of the show’s second episode,...
This April, the Yugoslav-born Abramovic will go one step further, with her American television debut. She joins a roster of high-profile international artists, including Ai Weiwei, whose work will be featured on PBS’ month-long showcase series “Art21.” Abramovic’s collaborative 18-minute piece -- part of the show’s second episode,...
- 3/15/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
I was waiting in line at Modern Myths in Northampton, Ma, picking up a few books. Among them, The Strange Talent of Luther Strode, a book I first heard of at Nycc, but in name only. My friends had gotten to the counter first, so (impatient nerd that I am) I flipped through a few pages of Strode while I waited.
Three pages in, I stepped out of line. I was not going to walk out of there without issue two.
The book revolves around (surprise surprise) Luther Strode, tall and lanky high schooler wanting nothing more than to beef up for the ladies. To that end, he orders a copy of the “Hercules” system (a parody of old Charles Atlas ads) to beef up. Miracle of miracles–it works!
Oh, does it ever work.
Strode is like the the mashup of a high school teen sex comedy and a horror flick.
Three pages in, I stepped out of line. I was not going to walk out of there without issue two.
The book revolves around (surprise surprise) Luther Strode, tall and lanky high schooler wanting nothing more than to beef up for the ladies. To that end, he orders a copy of the “Hercules” system (a parody of old Charles Atlas ads) to beef up. Miracle of miracles–it works!
Oh, does it ever work.
Strode is like the the mashup of a high school teen sex comedy and a horror flick.
- 12/3/2011
- by Alex Jarvis
- Comicmix.com
While the excellent Doc NYC is nearing its midpoint, I have decamped to Copenhagen, returning to the equally excellent Cph:dox, which is devoted to adventurous and radical forays into non-fiction filmmaking. The selection here is huge and ambitious, mixing new work with several retrospectives, guest curations and special events. I’m just settling in today, but here are some things I’m looking forward to and hope to write about as the week goes on: The Prophet, Gary Tarn’s world premiering follow-up to Black Sun, for my money one of the most important docs of recent years; Michael Madsen’s 3D The Average of the Average about the “entirely mediocre place” of Middlefart; a retrospective and new work (The Turning, a collaboration with Antony and the Johnsons) from New York filmmaker and video artist Charles Atlas; guest curated series by Nan Goldin and Ben Rivers & Ben Russell; and “Free Radicals,...
- 11/7/2011
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Captain America: The First Avenger (12)
(Joe Johnston, 2011, Us) Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving, Sebastian Stan. 124 mins
Unsurprisingly, this is the most patriotic of the summer's superhero movies, but there are few surprises all round. The story is largely what you'd imagine from the trailer: wimpy 1940s do-gooder undergoes a fast-track Charles Atlas course, then socks it to the evil über-Nazis. It's like Inglourious Basterds meets Indiana Jones, although the wholesome tone and white-bread heroism diminish the effects-driven spectacle, and the real second world war is reduced to mere set dressing.
Our Day Will Come (18)
(Romain Gavras, 2010, Fra) Vincent Cassel, Olivier Barthelemy, Justine Lerooy. 83 mins
Edgy provocateur alert! Expanding on the redhead persecution theme he developed in his Mia video, Gavras's debut follows ginger alienation to its conclusion, as Cassel and Barthelemy head out on the highway to oblivion, without a map or a ferry timetable.
Arrietty (U)
(Hiromasa Yonebayashi,...
(Joe Johnston, 2011, Us) Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving, Sebastian Stan. 124 mins
Unsurprisingly, this is the most patriotic of the summer's superhero movies, but there are few surprises all round. The story is largely what you'd imagine from the trailer: wimpy 1940s do-gooder undergoes a fast-track Charles Atlas course, then socks it to the evil über-Nazis. It's like Inglourious Basterds meets Indiana Jones, although the wholesome tone and white-bread heroism diminish the effects-driven spectacle, and the real second world war is reduced to mere set dressing.
Our Day Will Come (18)
(Romain Gavras, 2010, Fra) Vincent Cassel, Olivier Barthelemy, Justine Lerooy. 83 mins
Edgy provocateur alert! Expanding on the redhead persecution theme he developed in his Mia video, Gavras's debut follows ginger alienation to its conclusion, as Cassel and Barthelemy head out on the highway to oblivion, without a map or a ferry timetable.
Arrietty (U)
(Hiromasa Yonebayashi,...
- 7/29/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Late last year, during his battle with the MPAA, Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance said that he is developing an HBO series [1] that would hopefully "give new meaning to the word 'character development'." Given the intensely emotional angle of Blue Valentine, that cryptic statement was taken in exactly the misdirecting manner I suspect the director intended. Now we know a little more. His HBO series is based upon the Sam Fussell memoir Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder, and will be a single-camera comedy. Deadline says that Derek Cianfrance will co-write the script with the original author, and that Mr. Cianfrance is attached to direct the first episode. Both men will produce. A review printed by Amazon [2] sums up the book: Teenage boys who a generation ago would have answered Charles Atlas ads will be attracted to this book about Fussell's own immersion program in bodybuilding. He is an Oxford...
- 1/6/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Vertigo has announced that all four issues of Flex Mentallo will be collected in a Deluxe Edition Hardcover volume later this year. Written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Frank Quitely, the title debuted in 1996 as a spinoff of the former's run on DC Comics' Doom Patrol. DC previously declined to reprint the miniseries due to a long running legal dispute with the Charles Atlas (more)...
- 1/4/2011
- by By Mark Langshaw
- Digital Spy
This year brought a new kind of hero as Kick-Ass and The Social Network proved it's the geeks who shall inherit the Earth
In the immediate wake of Tuesday's Golden Globe nominations, I had awards season filed as a straight run off between the old and the new; inherited wealth versus the dotcom billions. The King's Speech stars Colin Firth as stuttering George VI, who finds his voice on the eve of war. The Social Network casts Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who conjured up friends for everyone but himself. Both, at the time of writing, look set to be run close by David O Russell's boxing drama The Fighter. Even so, I'm betting the lion's share of Oscars get divvied up between the king and the nerd.
So far, so scripted. Except the more I think about it, the less distinct these frontrunners become. Doesn't constricted old...
In the immediate wake of Tuesday's Golden Globe nominations, I had awards season filed as a straight run off between the old and the new; inherited wealth versus the dotcom billions. The King's Speech stars Colin Firth as stuttering George VI, who finds his voice on the eve of war. The Social Network casts Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who conjured up friends for everyone but himself. Both, at the time of writing, look set to be run close by David O Russell's boxing drama The Fighter. Even so, I'm betting the lion's share of Oscars get divvied up between the king and the nerd.
So far, so scripted. Except the more I think about it, the less distinct these frontrunners become. Doesn't constricted old...
- 12/17/2010
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Filed under: TV Previews
He's big and bad and he like pretty girls in bikinis on the beach.
No, we're not talking about Charles Atlas. It's 'Sharktopus,' and the trailer for the upcoming Syfy movie has been posted on the Hollywood Reporter's Live Feed. Sharktopus is part shark, part octopus, and darn it, he has a heart.
In the beginning of the trailer he saves a girl from being eaten by a real shark. Then some one in a laboratory flips a switch and Sharktopus is off on a rampage for the rest of trailer. Blame the Navy and the requisite evil scientist (Eric Roberts, how about that) who either created Sharktopus from scratch or tamed him -- we can't tell.
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He's big and bad and he like pretty girls in bikinis on the beach.
No, we're not talking about Charles Atlas. It's 'Sharktopus,' and the trailer for the upcoming Syfy movie has been posted on the Hollywood Reporter's Live Feed. Sharktopus is part shark, part octopus, and darn it, he has a heart.
In the beginning of the trailer he saves a girl from being eaten by a real shark. Then some one in a laboratory flips a switch and Sharktopus is off on a rampage for the rest of trailer. Blame the Navy and the requisite evil scientist (Eric Roberts, how about that) who either created Sharktopus from scratch or tamed him -- we can't tell.
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- 7/16/2010
- by Chris Jordan
- Aol TV.
'I was really excited to hear that he was staying,' Ashley Greene says of Lautner's possible replacement.
By Larry Carroll
Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed and Elizabeth Reaser
Photo: MTV News
Beverly Hills, California — As every Twilighter now knows, there was once a time when "New Moon" star Taylor Lautner didn't have his muscles. Rather than being a Charles Atlas-like beefcake, he was the proverbial 97-pound-weakling on the beach at La Push.
But even in those days, before he committed himself to an extreme workout plan that allowed him to continue playing Jacob Black, his co-stars believed that Taylor could do it.
"I've always been a huge supporter of Taylor from 'Twilight,' " said Nikki Reed, who plays Rosalie in the series and insisted that she was keeping her fingers crossed during those dark days last winter when press releases were being issued that conspicuously omitted the actor.
By Larry Carroll
Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed and Elizabeth Reaser
Photo: MTV News
Beverly Hills, California — As every Twilighter now knows, there was once a time when "New Moon" star Taylor Lautner didn't have his muscles. Rather than being a Charles Atlas-like beefcake, he was the proverbial 97-pound-weakling on the beach at La Push.
But even in those days, before he committed himself to an extreme workout plan that allowed him to continue playing Jacob Black, his co-stars believed that Taylor could do it.
"I've always been a huge supporter of Taylor from 'Twilight,' " said Nikki Reed, who plays Rosalie in the series and insisted that she was keeping her fingers crossed during those dark days last winter when press releases were being issued that conspicuously omitted the actor.
- 11/19/2009
- MTV Movie News
Review by Alex Dorn Blood, teeth and testosterone all fly as Sean Faris faces off against Cam Gigadet using Mixed Martial Arts whilst attending Mixed Martial Arts High School in Mixed Martial Arts, Florida, in this classic retelling of a Charles Atlas comic book ad. Reffered to as “chest porn” elsewhere on Ugo.com, Never Back Down delivers on every promise it makes on the poster: lots of bone crunching fights, plenty glowering and brooding, a pretty girl, Djimon Hounsou and some kind of morality tale all strung together with a thin plot and generic rock and roll soundtrack. I love this movie!
- 9/10/2008
- UGO Movies
NEW YORK -- Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures, and in-house label Arthouse Films, have acquired worldwide distribution rights to Charles Atlas' documentary The Legend of Leigh Bowery. The film follows the life of fashion designer and '80s gay club icon Bowery, who played host at legendary London boite Taboo. Palm is planning a Nov. 21 release in New York for the film, which explores Bowery's outrageous and rebellious lifestyle as an artists' muse, Taboo habitue and costume designer for the Michael Clark Dance Company, juxtaposed with his strict religious upbringing. The helmer Atlas currently can be seen in Taboo, Rosie O'Donnell's Broadway production about Bowery and Boy George. The docu Legend includes interviews with Boy George, Damien Hirst, Michael Clark, Rifat Ozbek, Bella Freud, Cerith Wyn Evans and the Royal Academy of Art Norman Rosenthal. The deal was brokered for Palm by its head of acquisitions and production David Koh, and Arthouse's general manager Jose Martinez, Jr. The film was acquired from Atlas Films and One Canvas Prods.
- 10/10/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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