The trailer for the new Jeff Buckley film, Dan Algrant's "Greetings from Tim Buckley," has finally arrived on YouTube, showing a flannel-clad Penn Badgley belting it out on stage.
The movie, which lands at Tribeca Film Festival this month, centers on the younger Buckley's breakout 1991 performance -- a tribute show to his father and American avant-garde musician, Tim Buckley. The concert is widely viewed as the start of the younger Buckley's stint in show business, a career tragically cut short by his death at the age of 30.
So what do we think of Badgley, the former "Gossip Girl" actor, as the leading man? Well, he has received surprisingly positive reviews since clips of him singing signature Buckley tunes surfaced online last year. Spin went so far as to call the impersonator "decent" while Fuse noted, "Badgley's voice does Jeff Buckley justice, and that's no small feat." He did seem to nail "Once I was,...
The movie, which lands at Tribeca Film Festival this month, centers on the younger Buckley's breakout 1991 performance -- a tribute show to his father and American avant-garde musician, Tim Buckley. The concert is widely viewed as the start of the younger Buckley's stint in show business, a career tragically cut short by his death at the age of 30.
So what do we think of Badgley, the former "Gossip Girl" actor, as the leading man? Well, he has received surprisingly positive reviews since clips of him singing signature Buckley tunes surfaced online last year. Spin went so far as to call the impersonator "decent" while Fuse noted, "Badgley's voice does Jeff Buckley justice, and that's no small feat." He did seem to nail "Once I was,...
- 4/2/2013
- by Katherine Brooks
- Huffington Post
Spoiler Alert - We'll be discussing the Downton Abbey Season Three Christmas Special, which aired in England last night, but has yet to begin airing in America, so if you want to stay spoiler free, click here!
Rumors of a major cast member exiting Downton Abbey during its third season have been swirling for months; although much of the early speculation was aimed at Dame Maggie Smith. Last night, the world learned that The Grimm Reaper was in fact coming to Downton and which fan favorite it was taking too soon.
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Sadly, Matthew Crawley (played by Dan Stevens) died behind the wheel of his car in the closing moments of last night's Downton Abbey Christmas Special, capping off a particularly tumultuous season for the honorable chap.
Speaking with The Telegraph's Sarah Crompton, Stevens called the entire situation "very odd," but it turns out Stevens was the one who asked Downton creator...
Rumors of a major cast member exiting Downton Abbey during its third season have been swirling for months; although much of the early speculation was aimed at Dame Maggie Smith. Last night, the world learned that The Grimm Reaper was in fact coming to Downton and which fan favorite it was taking too soon.
Related - 12 Best TV Shows of 2012
Sadly, Matthew Crawley (played by Dan Stevens) died behind the wheel of his car in the closing moments of last night's Downton Abbey Christmas Special, capping off a particularly tumultuous season for the honorable chap.
Speaking with The Telegraph's Sarah Crompton, Stevens called the entire situation "very odd," but it turns out Stevens was the one who asked Downton creator...
- 12/26/2012
- Entertainment Tonight
Mail and Telegraph critics curiously divided over film version of columnist Allison Pearson's book starring Sarah Jessica Parker
Award four stars to I Don't Know How She Does It, because Daily Telegraph film critic Sarah Crompton finds Sarah Jessica Parker's latest performance an "understated joy" in a bestseller-based movie that shows how "women can adore their job and their family".
Or award it one shrinking star in the Daily Mail, because Chris Tookey deems its "having it all" plot not of its time. Has a "book ever dated more quickly?", he wonders.
Who wrote this creaky, derided tome? "Former Mail columnist Allison Pearson", Tookey helpfully reminds us, before she went back to the Telegraph. I don't know how they do it, either. But there's a slip showing somewhere.
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Award four stars to I Don't Know How She Does It, because Daily Telegraph film critic Sarah Crompton finds Sarah Jessica Parker's latest performance an "understated joy" in a bestseller-based movie that shows how "women can adore their job and their family".
Or award it one shrinking star in the Daily Mail, because Chris Tookey deems its "having it all" plot not of its time. Has a "book ever dated more quickly?", he wonders.
Who wrote this creaky, derided tome? "Former Mail columnist Allison Pearson", Tookey helpfully reminds us, before she went back to the Telegraph. I don't know how they do it, either. But there's a slip showing somewhere.
Newspapers & magazinesNewspapersNational newspapersSarah Jessica ParkerPeter Preston
guardian.co.uk © 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.
- 9/19/2011
- by Peter Preston
- The Guardian - Film News
"Apples and oranges" was my off-the-cuff reply to a critic I admire as we rose from our seats following a screening of Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams. He'd just muttered something to the effect of "sure beats Pina" and, while comparisons will be nearly impossible to resist — two giants of the New German Cinema have each made their first films in 3D, both of them documentaries, and, on that day in February, the Berlinale had just screened them back to back — I'm sticking with my initial verdict: apples and oranges.
Now Wim Wenders's Pina is playing in the UK and a few European countries, while Places, strange and quiet, an exhibition of nearly 40 large-scale photographs taken between 1983 and the present, is on view at Haunch of Venison in London through May 14 — the cover of the current issue of Sight & Sound, by the way, reads "The Third Coming...
Now Wim Wenders's Pina is playing in the UK and a few European countries, while Places, strange and quiet, an exhibition of nearly 40 large-scale photographs taken between 1983 and the present, is on view at Haunch of Venison in London through May 14 — the cover of the current issue of Sight & Sound, by the way, reads "The Third Coming...
- 4/29/2011
- MUBI
The previous five Potter pics have gotten generally good reviews — yes, even the Chris Columbus-directed first two — and the sixth chapter of the wizard saga looks to be no different ... and maybe even a little better. Could this movie win an Oscar?
"A jerky start of exposition and backstory gives way to vigorous storytelling in the latest chapter of Harry Potter."
— Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
"Dazzlingly well made and perhaps deliberately less fanciful than the previous entries, this one is played in a mode closer to palpable life-or-death drama than any of the others and is quite effective as such."
— Todd McCarthy, Variety
"...for fans both of the films and the books, this is an elegant addition to the canon — even if it is only there to set the scene for the final conflict in the next two movies."
— Sarah Crompton, Daily Telegraph
"Is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood...
"A jerky start of exposition and backstory gives way to vigorous storytelling in the latest chapter of Harry Potter."
— Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
"Dazzlingly well made and perhaps deliberately less fanciful than the previous entries, this one is played in a mode closer to palpable life-or-death drama than any of the others and is quite effective as such."
— Todd McCarthy, Variety
"...for fans both of the films and the books, this is an elegant addition to the canon — even if it is only there to set the scene for the final conflict in the next two movies."
— Sarah Crompton, Daily Telegraph
"Is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood...
- 7/8/2009
- by reelz reelz
- Reelzchannel.com
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