Mickey Gilbert, the fearless stunt performer who jumped off a cliff for Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and doubled for Gene Wilder in films including Blazing Saddles, Silver Streak and The Frisco Kid, has died. He was 87.
Gilbert died Monday of natural causes at his home in Camarillo, California, his oldest son, Tim Gilbert, also a stunt performer, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Early in his career, Gilbert was a horse wrangler in William Wyler’s Ben-Hur (1959) and a bank robber in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969). Years later, he took the lumps for Lee Majors’ Colt Seavers on the 1981-86 ABC action show The Fall Guy.
Though they weren’t friends at the time, Gilbert and Redford were in the same class at Van Nuys High School, graduating in 1954. They got together on George Roy Hill’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) when Redford...
Gilbert died Monday of natural causes at his home in Camarillo, California, his oldest son, Tim Gilbert, also a stunt performer, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Early in his career, Gilbert was a horse wrangler in William Wyler’s Ben-Hur (1959) and a bank robber in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969). Years later, he took the lumps for Lee Majors’ Colt Seavers on the 1981-86 ABC action show The Fall Guy.
Though they weren’t friends at the time, Gilbert and Redford were in the same class at Van Nuys High School, graduating in 1954. They got together on George Roy Hill’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) when Redford...
- 2/6/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Western movie star John Wayne frequently rode a horse to complete his cowboy image. However, he grew an affinity for one animal in particular. Wayne went out of his way to ensure that he could ride the same horse named Dollar across seven of his movies.
‘True Grit’ (1969) L-r: John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn and Glen Campbell as La Boeuf | Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images
The first time that Wayne worked with Dollar the horse on the silver screen was in 1969’s True Grit, directed by Henry Hathaway.
A 14-year-old named Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) seeks out U.S. Marshal “Rooster” Cogburn (Wayne), a man of “true grit.” He’ll need every ounce of it on a mission to track down a hired hand named Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) after he killed Mattie’s father.
Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Glen Campbell) joins them on the hunt, looking to bring Tom...
‘True Grit’ (1969) L-r: John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn and Glen Campbell as La Boeuf | Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images
The first time that Wayne worked with Dollar the horse on the silver screen was in 1969’s True Grit, directed by Henry Hathaway.
A 14-year-old named Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) seeks out U.S. Marshal “Rooster” Cogburn (Wayne), a man of “true grit.” He’ll need every ounce of it on a mission to track down a hired hand named Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) after he killed Mattie’s father.
Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Glen Campbell) joins them on the hunt, looking to bring Tom...
- 3/23/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The year was 1976, and John Wayne was cheesed but good at King Kong.
The gargantuan ape with a fatal penchant for blonde starlets was all the rage at Paramount, and for good reason. The studio had sunk 24 million (equivalent to 124 million in 2022) into the John Guillermin-directed remake, and desperately needed it to hit the box-office jackpot when it opened in December. Though studios have huge marketing departments that, when professionally run, know how to manage multiple releases at once, Wayne felt the film that was to be his big-screen swan song, "The Shootist," was getting ignored by Paramount's advertising team. And it was all because of that big, stupid monkey.
The Duke Vs. King Kong
According to Scott Eyman's "John Wayne: The Life and the Legend," Wayne groused to his former secretary and then present companion Pat Stacy, "Those people are putting all their damn time into King Kong.
The gargantuan ape with a fatal penchant for blonde starlets was all the rage at Paramount, and for good reason. The studio had sunk 24 million (equivalent to 124 million in 2022) into the John Guillermin-directed remake, and desperately needed it to hit the box-office jackpot when it opened in December. Though studios have huge marketing departments that, when professionally run, know how to manage multiple releases at once, Wayne felt the film that was to be his big-screen swan song, "The Shootist," was getting ignored by Paramount's advertising team. And it was all because of that big, stupid monkey.
The Duke Vs. King Kong
According to Scott Eyman's "John Wayne: The Life and the Legend," Wayne groused to his former secretary and then present companion Pat Stacy, "Those people are putting all their damn time into King Kong.
- 8/22/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Cinematographer Jack N. Green is proof that nice guys sometimes finish first — even in Hollywood.
Born in 1939, the San Francisco native traveled a long-rising arc in his career, which includes distinguished stints shooting aerial sequences for documentaries and some of the most iconic films of the 1960s, eventually becoming director of photography on a run of Clint Eastwood movies and more recent comedies such as “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Hot Tub Time Machine” and two “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” movies.
Green’s parents, Trudy and John Sr., had a shared fascination for photography and rigged up a home darkroom that made a strong artistic impact on their son.
Graduating from high school and barber college at 17, Green planned to make that job his career. But all that changed when he was befriended by shop regular Joe Dieves, a former World War II combat cameraman. Enamored of Dieves’ stories, Green soon joined him,...
Born in 1939, the San Francisco native traveled a long-rising arc in his career, which includes distinguished stints shooting aerial sequences for documentaries and some of the most iconic films of the 1960s, eventually becoming director of photography on a run of Clint Eastwood movies and more recent comedies such as “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Hot Tub Time Machine” and two “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” movies.
Green’s parents, Trudy and John Sr., had a shared fascination for photography and rigged up a home darkroom that made a strong artistic impact on their son.
Graduating from high school and barber college at 17, Green planned to make that job his career. But all that changed when he was befriended by shop regular Joe Dieves, a former World War II combat cameraman. Enamored of Dieves’ stories, Green soon joined him,...
- 8/2/2019
- by James C. Udel
- Variety Film + TV
Paul Koslo, a character actor who played the heavy in such films as The Omega Man, Rooster Cogburn and The Stone Killer, has died. He was 74.
Koslo died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Lake Hughes, Calif., his wife, actress Allaire Paterson Koslo, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Koslo also portrayed a Nevada patrolman in Vanishing Point (1971), a bounty hunter in Joe Kidd (1972) and a gang member in Cleopatra Jones (1973) and the True Grit sequel Rooster Cogburn (1975). He appeared in other notable films like Voyage of the Damned (1976) and Heaven's Gate (1980) as ...
Koslo died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Lake Hughes, Calif., his wife, actress Allaire Paterson Koslo, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Koslo also portrayed a Nevada patrolman in Vanishing Point (1971), a bounty hunter in Joe Kidd (1972) and a gang member in Cleopatra Jones (1973) and the True Grit sequel Rooster Cogburn (1975). He appeared in other notable films like Voyage of the Damned (1976) and Heaven's Gate (1980) as ...
- 1/15/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paul Koslo, a character actor who played the heavy in such films as The Omega Man, Rooster Cogburn and The Stone Killer, has died. He was 74.
Koslo died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Lake Hughes, Calif., his wife, actress Allaire Paterson Koslo, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Koslo also portrayed a Nevada patrolman in Vanishing Point (1971), a bounty hunter in Joe Kidd (1972) and a gang member in Cleopatra Jones (1973) and the True Grit sequel Rooster Cogburn (1975). He appeared in other notable films like Voyage of the Damned (1976) and Heaven's Gate (1980) as ...
Koslo died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Lake Hughes, Calif., his wife, actress Allaire Paterson Koslo, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Koslo also portrayed a Nevada patrolman in Vanishing Point (1971), a bounty hunter in Joe Kidd (1972) and a gang member in Cleopatra Jones (1973) and the True Grit sequel Rooster Cogburn (1975). He appeared in other notable films like Voyage of the Damned (1976) and Heaven's Gate (1980) as ...
- 1/15/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
It may not spark an industry revolution like Frances McDormand’s Oscar-night call for inclusion riders, but Jeff Bridges managed to introduce Hollywood to a new term — “trim tab” — while accepting the Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award.
The term, which became a main theme of the latter part of the speech, sent viewers at home scurrying to their nautical dictionaries and Hollywood luminaries in the Beverly Hilton alternately smiling or raising eyebrows at the vintage Bridges fillip. As the DeMille honoree explained, a trim tab is a small mechanism that helps stabilize a large ship or aircraft. Bridges credited philosopher, architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller with evoking the obscure piece of equipment, using it as a metaphor for an individual’s ability effect societal change.
“I like to think of myself as a trim tab,” Bridges said. “All of us are trim tabs. We seem like we’re not up to the task,...
The term, which became a main theme of the latter part of the speech, sent viewers at home scurrying to their nautical dictionaries and Hollywood luminaries in the Beverly Hilton alternately smiling or raising eyebrows at the vintage Bridges fillip. As the DeMille honoree explained, a trim tab is a small mechanism that helps stabilize a large ship or aircraft. Bridges credited philosopher, architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller with evoking the obscure piece of equipment, using it as a metaphor for an individual’s ability effect societal change.
“I like to think of myself as a trim tab,” Bridges said. “All of us are trim tabs. We seem like we’re not up to the task,...
- 1/7/2019
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Golden Globe and Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges is set to receive the Cecil B. deMille Award at the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards. The ceremony, which will be hosted by Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg, will air live on NBC at 5 pm Pt on January 6, 2019.
“The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is delighted to bestow the 2019 Cecil B. deMille Award on Jeff Bridges. Bridges’ brilliant body of work across diverse genres has captured the hearts and minds of audiences worldwide for more than six decades,” said HFPA President Meher Tatna. “We look forward to celebrating “the Dude” and his remarkable career and philanthropic achievements at the upcoming Golden Globe Awards.”
Bridges has appeared in many Hollywood’s most memorable films as characters who have reached iconic status including the aforementioned robe-clad, White Russian-guzzling “The Dude” in The Big Lebowski and “Rooster Cogburn” in the 2010 remake if True Grit. He also...
“The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is delighted to bestow the 2019 Cecil B. deMille Award on Jeff Bridges. Bridges’ brilliant body of work across diverse genres has captured the hearts and minds of audiences worldwide for more than six decades,” said HFPA President Meher Tatna. “We look forward to celebrating “the Dude” and his remarkable career and philanthropic achievements at the upcoming Golden Globe Awards.”
Bridges has appeared in many Hollywood’s most memorable films as characters who have reached iconic status including the aforementioned robe-clad, White Russian-guzzling “The Dude” in The Big Lebowski and “Rooster Cogburn” in the 2010 remake if True Grit. He also...
- 12/17/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Jason from Mnpp here wishing the actor Jeff Bridges a happy 68th birthday today with this week's "Beauty vs Beast" poll. What's your favorite performance from Bridges? Mine is far and away his performance in Peter Weir's wildly underrated 1993 plane-crash survivor drama Fearless, but that movie doesn't lend itself well to this series. So instead we'll go with something more recent, namely his turn as "Rooster Cogburn" in the Coens' 2010 update of True Grit. Don't you wish he'd won his Oscar for this rather than Crazy Heart? And we'll pit him against his fine co-star and co-nominee Hailee Steinfeld. Good luck with this one!
Previously Last week twas everybody's current favorite momma drama Lady Bird's turn in the hot seat, and daughter came out victorious - Saorsie Ronan went all Baller / Anarchist and took 55% of your vote. Said chasm301, giving me a good chuckle:
"Lady Bird is basically the...
Previously Last week twas everybody's current favorite momma drama Lady Bird's turn in the hot seat, and daughter came out victorious - Saorsie Ronan went all Baller / Anarchist and took 55% of your vote. Said chasm301, giving me a good chuckle:
"Lady Bird is basically the...
- 12/4/2017
- by JA
- FilmExperience
Harry Stradling Jr., the two-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer who shot such films as Little Big Man, The Way We Were, 1776 and Rooster Cogburn, has died. He was 92.
Stradling Jr. died Oct. 17 at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills, his son, John, told The Hollywood Reporter.
He was the son of another acclaimed director of photography, Harry Stradling Sr., who won Academy Awards for The Picture of Dorian Gray and My Fair Lady and was nominated a dozen other times (for A Streetcar Named Desire, Guys and Dolls, Funny Girl, etc.).
Stradling Jr., though, certainly carved out a...
Stradling Jr. died Oct. 17 at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills, his son, John, told The Hollywood Reporter.
He was the son of another acclaimed director of photography, Harry Stradling Sr., who won Academy Awards for The Picture of Dorian Gray and My Fair Lady and was nominated a dozen other times (for A Streetcar Named Desire, Guys and Dolls, Funny Girl, etc.).
Stradling Jr., though, certainly carved out a...
- 10/27/2017
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The word hero seems to be mentioned a great deal in this age of the 24-hour news cycle, but the members of the Granite Mountain “Hotshots” genuinely deserve to be known as such. They were the best at what they did. This bunch of regular, but courageous firefighters were more than just co-workers: they were a brotherhood that continuously risked their lives trying to contain fast-spreading wildfires. As part of the Prescott Fire Fepartment, which consisted of 92 career personnel, split among five fire stations, this municipal team of “hotshots” — which, in firefighting terms, means the cream of the crop — were the elites of their profession.
Containment is what these brave men and women have as a goal whenever a fire spreads. As a character in the film would say, they are “fighting fire with fire.” This happens with the creation of a fireline, which is accomplished by doing a controlled...
Containment is what these brave men and women have as a goal whenever a fire spreads. As a character in the film would say, they are “fighting fire with fire.” This happens with the creation of a fireline, which is accomplished by doing a controlled...
- 10/19/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Glen Campbell, the honey-voiced singer-songwriter-guitarist who had a slew of country and pop hits in the 1960s and ’70s and earned an Oscar nom for Best Song from the 2014 docu Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, died today in Nashville. He was 81. He had struggled with Alzheimer’s since 2011. Campbell starred in the classic 1969 Western True Grit opposite John Wayne, who landed his only Oscar for the lead role of Rooster Cogburn. Campbell had a country top 10 and minor pop hit…...
- 8/8/2017
- Deadline
Chris Pine kept fixating on a single image. "I had this picture in my head," the 35-year-old actor recalls, his voice echoing over a speakerphone from Austin, Texas. "It was two guys on a porch, real rustic. One of them is sitting, the other is standing, kind of leaning on one of the porch's columns. Both are sort of staring out in the distance while the sun's going down." He stops for a second, then continues. "I just kind of got into my brain after I read the script. It...
- 8/22/2016
- Rollingstone.com
A rare bright light in a largely disappointing summer movie season, Hell or High Water is a sizzling modern noir western with a nifty script and a trio of superb performances.
Writer Taylor Sheridan fuels the screenplay with a sense of moral complexity similar to what he did with the cartel thriller Sicario, and director David Mackenzie (Starred Up) excels at balancing scenes of jaw-clenching tension and a laid back Southern vibe in the rest of the film. Set in a sleepy, debt-ridden Texas town where even lawyers aren't fans of the way banks have screwed people over, the film follows straight arrow Toby Howard (Chris Pine), who enlists his criminal brother Tanner (Ben Foster) to help him rob banks in order to pay off the reverse mortgage on their mother's ranch. They're smart about the robberies — only taking loose cash in the drawers, avoiding large bills, never going after the vaults,...
Writer Taylor Sheridan fuels the screenplay with a sense of moral complexity similar to what he did with the cartel thriller Sicario, and director David Mackenzie (Starred Up) excels at balancing scenes of jaw-clenching tension and a laid back Southern vibe in the rest of the film. Set in a sleepy, debt-ridden Texas town where even lawyers aren't fans of the way banks have screwed people over, the film follows straight arrow Toby Howard (Chris Pine), who enlists his criminal brother Tanner (Ben Foster) to help him rob banks in order to pay off the reverse mortgage on their mother's ranch. They're smart about the robberies — only taking loose cash in the drawers, avoiding large bills, never going after the vaults,...
- 8/12/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
It’s been all go on the casting front for Kingsman: The Golden Circle in the last few weeks, with Channing Tatum, Halle Berry, Julianne Moore, and, would you believe it, Elton John joining Matthew Vaughn’s highly anticipated spy sequel alongside the returning Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, and Colin Firth. Now, another casting announcement has come our way, and congratulations Mr. Vaughn, you have won at casting with the news that Jeff Bridges is coming onboard, no doubt playing a member of The Kingsman’s American counterpart, The Statesman. The Golden Circle casting so far has been accompanied by specialised posters, and Bridges’ comes with the most perfect Jeff Bridges infused poster ever, complete with glass of scotch and the word ‘vexing’. No word on who will be playing at this stage, but with a character named Jack described as a ‘swaggering, sharp shooting cowboy’ you would think that...
- 5/29/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
'True Grit' 2010: Hailee Steinfeld and Jeff Bridges. 'True Grit' 2010 review: 'Far Superior' to 1969 John Wayne Western I've gotten to the point with the Coen brothers where I just expect something wonderful every time they make a movie. For me, that was the case even with an effort like True Grit. For others, however, it was different. When the Coens announced their plans to adapt Charles Portis' novel, heads turned and were scratched by many. After all, not only were the brothers going to adapt a book, something they had done only once before (twice if you count The Odyssey), but they were going to remake a movie made famous by John Wayne in 1969. To many, especially lovers of Westerns, touching True Grit was sacrilege. But the Coens weren't deterred, and thankfully so. Their adaptation of True Grit is not only far superior to Henry Hathaway's 1969 version, it...
- 12/26/2015
- by Nathan Donarum
- Alt Film Guide
Will Maggie Smith follow in the footsteps of Katharine Hepburn and win an Oscar decades after her last victories? In her new film "The Lady in the Van," Smith plays the real-life Mary Shepherd, a homeless woman who moved her van into the driveway of writer Alan Bennett (Alex Jennings) and stayed there for 15 years. -Break- Subscribe to Gold Derby Breaking News Alerts & Experts’ Latest Oscar Predictions Hepburn claimed her record fourth Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Ethel Thayer in the heartwarming "On Golden Pond" in 1981. She had won her first in 1933 for "Morning Glory" and then back-to-back in the late 1960s ("Guess Who Coming to Dinner," 1967; "The Lion in Winter," 1968); However, in the 1970s, she had only headlined two films ("A Delicate Balance," 1973) and "Rooster Cogburn" (1975). The latter of those paired her with one screen legend, John Wayne, for the fir...
- 12/7/2015
- Gold Derby
This weekend sees four new wide releases hitting theaters, plus the nationwide expansion of Steve Jobs, all on the heels of last weekend's four new releases, making for an October box office bottleneck. Goosebumps looks like a solid holdover, hoping to repeat at #1. In its way is The Last Witch Hunter, which should top the weekend, taking advantage of the timeframe and Vin Diesel's Furious fame. Additional new releases include the latest installment in the Paranormal Activity franchise, which finds Paramount taking a shot at a new release strategy while Rock the Kasbah and Jem and the Holograms feast on the scraps. Starting with last weekend's #1, Goosebumps opened with $23.6 million, but more importantly carried an "A" CinemaScore. With Halloween just around the corner and a CinemaScore that suggests positive word of mouth, expect this children's horror to holdover well with a 34% drop and a $15.5 million second weekend. Should The Last Witch Hunter...
- 10/22/2015
- by Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
Steven Spielberg believes Batman, Superman, Iron Man et al will soon be sharing a shallow grave with Liberty Valance, Rooster Cogburn and Shane. But do the two genres really compare?
Steven Spielberg believes comic-book films are doomed, at least until they rise once again from the ashes. “Right now the superhero movie is alive and thriving,” he told the Associated Press this week. “We were around when the western died and there will be a time when the superhero movie goes the way of the western. It doesn’t mean there won’t be another occasion where the western comes back and the superhero movie some day returns. I’m only saying that these cycles have a finite time in popular culture. There will come a day when the mythological stories are supplanted by some other genre that possibly some young film-maker is just thinking about discovering for all of us.
Steven Spielberg believes comic-book films are doomed, at least until they rise once again from the ashes. “Right now the superhero movie is alive and thriving,” he told the Associated Press this week. “We were around when the western died and there will be a time when the superhero movie goes the way of the western. It doesn’t mean there won’t be another occasion where the western comes back and the superhero movie some day returns. I’m only saying that these cycles have a finite time in popular culture. There will come a day when the mythological stories are supplanted by some other genre that possibly some young film-maker is just thinking about discovering for all of us.
- 9/4/2015
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
It's fitting that Clint Eastwood and John Wayne both have the same birthday week. (Wayne, who died in 1979, was born May 26, 1907, while Eastwood turns 85 on May 31). After all, these two all-American actors' careers span the history of that most American of movie genres, the western.
Both iconic actors were top box office draws for decades, both seldom stretched from their familiar personas, and both played macho, conservative cowboy heroes who let their firearms do most of the talking. Each represented one of two very different strains of western, the traditional and the revisionist.
As a birthday present to Hollywood's biggest heroes of the Wild West, here are the top 57 westerns you need to see.
57. 'Meek's Cutoff' (2010)
Indie filmmaker Kelly Reichardt and her frequent leading lady, Michelle Williams, are the talents behind this sparse, docudrama about an 1845 wagon train whose Oregon Trail journey goes horribly awry. It's an intense...
Both iconic actors were top box office draws for decades, both seldom stretched from their familiar personas, and both played macho, conservative cowboy heroes who let their firearms do most of the talking. Each represented one of two very different strains of western, the traditional and the revisionist.
As a birthday present to Hollywood's biggest heroes of the Wild West, here are the top 57 westerns you need to see.
57. 'Meek's Cutoff' (2010)
Indie filmmaker Kelly Reichardt and her frequent leading lady, Michelle Williams, are the talents behind this sparse, docudrama about an 1845 wagon train whose Oregon Trail journey goes horribly awry. It's an intense...
- 5/26/2015
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Christian Bale and wife Sibi Blazic Bale at the Oscars Christian Bale and wife Sibi Blazic on the Academy Awards' Red Carpet Eventual Best Supporting Actor winner Christian Bale and wife Sibi Blazic Bale are seen above on the Red Carpet of the 83rd Academy Awards, held on Feb. 27 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The Welsh-born Bale took home the Oscar statuette for his performance as a boxer turned coach and junkie in David O. Russell's boxing drama and sleeper hit The Fighter. His co-stars were Mark Wahlberg (who also co-produced the film), Best Supporting Actress winner Melissa Leo, and Best Supporting Actress nominee Amy Adams. Christian Bale movies The Fighter was Christian Bale's first Academy Award nomination. Among his other movie credits are: The Dark Knight (2008). Director: Christopher Nolan. Cast: Christian Bale. Heath Ledger. Maggie Gyllenhaal. Aaron Eckhart. The Prestige (2006). Director: Christopher Nolan. Cast: Hugh Jackman.
- 5/10/2015
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
“Chainsaw” Tommy May, who worked on such films as The Greatest Story Ever Told, Rooster Cogburn and Postcards From the Edge as one of the top key grips in Hollywood, has died. He was 81. May died Feb. 23 in his longtime home in Granada Hills, his wife of 57 years, Jody, told The Hollywood Reporter. He had overcome throat cancer in 2004, she said. A strapping former high school and college football player, May earned his nickname for his skill in using a chainsaw to build a camera platform or quickly remove a piece of wall that was in the
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- 3/18/2015
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It wasn’t that long ago that Jeff Bridges and Nicolas Cage were known as Academy Award-winning actors with talent to burn, but time and poor judgement (and in Cage’s case, tax bills) have turned the two into shallow, mumbling shadows of their former selves. Cage has been saying yes to every single offer he receives for a decade or more (seriously, the guy is averaging 2-3 movies per year, and most aren’t even hitting theaters), and Bridges has found himself in an odd rut of variations on True Grit‘s Rooster Cogburn. Seventh Son has had something of a troubled road to theaters — it was originally scheduled to release in February of 2013 — and now that it’s finally here you’d be hard-pressed to believe the delays added much to the final project. The hero is bland, the story plays out exactly as you’d expect and the action sequences are rarely all that...
- 2/7/2015
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Seventh Son is the Chicken McNugget of movies. You know there are better options out there when it comes to your chicken-eating selections, but something about the greasy simplicity and drive thru nature of the McNugget calls to you. Before you take a bite you know what you're going to get and to hide the actual taste of the nugget you drench it in a dipping sauce. As your teeth crack the crisp (if it just came out of the frier) outer shell and squish through the processed meat inside, your mouth is covered with a viscous layer of... something, preventing the taste from leaving your mouth long after you've swallowed. In an effort to fix this you take another bite, this time dipped in even more sauce, but the result is the same. The McNugget is a mirage. It isn't chicken and no amount of sauce is going to...
- 2/5/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Don't cry just yet, Kate the Great fans. While it's true that there is only one wrap-up episode left Tomorrow in Anne Marie's mammoth undertaking "A Year with Kate"* in which she reviewed every performance in Katharine Hepburn's fascinating career, we have exciting news. We're making it into a book! Details are not yet concrete but if you would like to be included in updates about pre-order and other 'Don't Miss It' news, please fill out this form at our Facebook page!
Anne Marie's last episodes airs tomorrow Wednesday December 31st. But until then... take a peak at any you missed. Some chapters will be substantially rewritten for the book.
1930s: A Bill of Divorcement, Christopher Strong, Morning Glory, Little Women, Spitfire, The Little Minister, Break of Hearts, Alice Adams, Sylvia Scarlett, Mary of Scotland, A Woman Rebels, Quality Street, Stage Door, Bringing Up Baby, Holiday,
1940s: Philadelphia Story,...
Anne Marie's last episodes airs tomorrow Wednesday December 31st. But until then... take a peak at any you missed. Some chapters will be substantially rewritten for the book.
1930s: A Bill of Divorcement, Christopher Strong, Morning Glory, Little Women, Spitfire, The Little Minister, Break of Hearts, Alice Adams, Sylvia Scarlett, Mary of Scotland, A Woman Rebels, Quality Street, Stage Door, Bringing Up Baby, Holiday,
1940s: Philadelphia Story,...
- 12/30/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Episode 50 of 52: In which Katharine Hepburn starred in a movie with Jason Bateman, which will make every game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon you play significantly easier.
This is it. We’ve reached the final year of Katharine Hepburn’s career. Did Kate know that the three films she made in 1994 would be her last? Did she feel herself slowing down and decide that sixty two years in the spotlight were enough? Since she made no official announcement, it’s impossible to know Kate’s reasons for sure. Still, considering this was Kate’s last starring role, This Can’t Be Love feels like a retirement announcement.
Kate’s first final film was This Can’t Be Love, another TV movie starring Katharine Hepburn as Katharine Hepburn. Actually, she plays Marion Bennett, a world-renowned, Academy Award-winning actress who eschews public life and spends a lot of time...
This is it. We’ve reached the final year of Katharine Hepburn’s career. Did Kate know that the three films she made in 1994 would be her last? Did she feel herself slowing down and decide that sixty two years in the spotlight were enough? Since she made no official announcement, it’s impossible to know Kate’s reasons for sure. Still, considering this was Kate’s last starring role, This Can’t Be Love feels like a retirement announcement.
Kate’s first final film was This Can’t Be Love, another TV movie starring Katharine Hepburn as Katharine Hepburn. Actually, she plays Marion Bennett, a world-renowned, Academy Award-winning actress who eschews public life and spends a lot of time...
- 12/10/2014
- by Anne Marie
- FilmExperience
Episode 42 of 52: In which Katharine Hepburn and John Wayne star in The African Queen 2: This Time it's a Western!
Growing old in Hollywood sucks. To borrow a line from Goldie Hawn, “There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.” And while Hollywood’s ageism is well-documented and well-criticized, for some aging actors, an equally tricky problem can arise: the trouble with becoming a Legend in your own time. What happens when the legend eclipses the actor?
In 1975, Hepburn was arguably more popular than she’d ever been. This was due in no small part to her friend Garson Kanin’s unauthorized, best-selling 1972 “tell all” entitled Tracy And Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir. Though shocked by the invasion of her privacy, Kate used the public interest that the book generated to fuel her career, appearing on talk shows and even the 1974 Academy Awards (in pants,...
Growing old in Hollywood sucks. To borrow a line from Goldie Hawn, “There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.” And while Hollywood’s ageism is well-documented and well-criticized, for some aging actors, an equally tricky problem can arise: the trouble with becoming a Legend in your own time. What happens when the legend eclipses the actor?
In 1975, Hepburn was arguably more popular than she’d ever been. This was due in no small part to her friend Garson Kanin’s unauthorized, best-selling 1972 “tell all” entitled Tracy And Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir. Though shocked by the invasion of her privacy, Kate used the public interest that the book generated to fuel her career, appearing on talk shows and even the 1974 Academy Awards (in pants,...
- 10/15/2014
- by Anne Marie
- FilmExperience
Becoming a man of "true grit" earned John Wayne his only Oscar back in 1970. Could the same broken heroism push Tommy Lee Jones into the Oscar conversation? Adapted from Glendon Swarthout's novel and directed by the actor-turned-filmmaker, "The Homesman" pairs Jones with two-time Oscar-winner Hilary Swank for a dangerous western mission with a layer of gender politics. Shacked up with three mentally unstable women, Mary Bee Cuddy (Swank) employs George Briggs (Jones), a claim jumper she finds dangling from a tree in a noose, to escort the band of lone ladies from the Nebraska Territories to a new home in Iowa. In 1854, it's a mission only a fool would take. Our first official look at "The Homesman" has the makings of a solid western, gruff dialogue and deadly circumstances turned mesmerizing by "Argo" and "Babel" cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto's lush vistas. Jones and Swank have that Rooster Cogburn/Mattie Ross appeal,...
- 9/15/2014
- by Matt Patches
- Hitfix
For how many years has Hollywood endured the Ya novel onslaught? Five? Ten? When was Twilight? It’s strange to think of The Giver as merely the latest in a string of adapted young adult fiction given that its source material, Lois Lowry’s 1993 bestseller, precedes the publication dates of Divergent, City of Bones, and the Twilight saga. Like most of its cinematic contemporaries, The Giver squeezes its story into an angsty, dull, and poorly acted template, sapping any chance of inspiration out of its low-key science fiction concept.
Having not read Lowry’s novel, I can only presume she uses her social structure — a utopian future in which emotions are outlawed — to latch “forbidden” teen angst and romance onto the awkward feelings puberty brings with it. On the verge of graduation, three teenagers join the adult ranks of The Community, envisioned here as a Levittown straight out of Starship Troopers,...
Having not read Lowry’s novel, I can only presume she uses her social structure — a utopian future in which emotions are outlawed — to latch “forbidden” teen angst and romance onto the awkward feelings puberty brings with it. On the verge of graduation, three teenagers join the adult ranks of The Community, envisioned here as a Levittown straight out of Starship Troopers,...
- 8/24/2014
- by David Klein
- SoundOnSight
The knock on the Academy Awards throughout the years always seem to be how certain actors, directors and films are snubbed in favor of other chosen nominations. Sometimes the justification for these overlooked selections in performances and motion pictures are warranted. Many will agree that a lot of injustices have been committed based on how some Oscar-worthy selections were slighted.
Has anyone ever considered the equal possibilities of omission when one Oscar nominee wins the golden statuette over another nominee that one thought was more deserving for the victory? There have been numerous instances when observers who have witnessed an Oscar win thought that their competitor should have received it instead. It is only human nature to have an opinion as to feel who should have claimed Oscar gold as opposed to the fellow nominee that actually accomplished the goal.
Let us look at the top ten instances where it...
Has anyone ever considered the equal possibilities of omission when one Oscar nominee wins the golden statuette over another nominee that one thought was more deserving for the victory? There have been numerous instances when observers who have witnessed an Oscar win thought that their competitor should have received it instead. It is only human nature to have an opinion as to feel who should have claimed Oscar gold as opposed to the fellow nominee that actually accomplished the goal.
Let us look at the top ten instances where it...
- 7/20/2014
- by Frank Ochieng
- SoundOnSight
The Duke. There was only one man like him. The craggy face and squinted baby-blue eyes, with that drawling, patient voice that commanded authority with every “Pilgrim.” Those who knew him on set said that he was a true “presence,” and not that many stars were or are. He was a cinematic titan; still holding the record for the most leads roles (142) and a timeless icon of a certain man in a certain era. With a career of mostly dramas, Wayne discovered a funny bone with 1960’s North to Alaska, directed by Henry Hathaway, who would later get the actor his first and only Oscar for the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. With two ensemble epics just under his belt, The Longest Day and How The West Was Won, Wayne moved handedly back into the spotlight with McLintock!, a western slapstick riff with good values and men being men.
- 7/2/2014
- by Kyle North
- JustPressPlay.net
Today marks the 45th anniversary of True Grit. But just because the original is the one regarded most fondly doesn’t mean there aren’t other True Grits out there. The franchise is actually bigger than you’d think — with a novel and four films, True Grit has as much franchise moxie as Jaws does (sadly, what True Grit lacks is a theme park ride where an animatronic John Wayne heaves himself against your boat, causing a Universal Studios tour guide to blast him with a grenade launcher). Yes, once you include the sequel Rooster Cogburn, the Coen Brothers‘ remake, and the forgotten-by-society TV movie True Grit: A Further Adventure, we’ve got four True Grit movies on our hands. And with so many, we’ve also got numerous Rooster Cogburns: John Wayne in the original ’69 True Grit and its ’75 follow-up Warren Oates in A Further Adventure Jeff Bridges in the only 21st Century True Grit. But...
- 6/11/2014
- by Adam Bellotto
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Cannes - Charged with devising a character name that immediately conveys staunch feminine pluck and perseverance, I'm not sure any writer could do much better than Mary Bee Cuddy -- the disarming heroine of Tommy Lee Jones' handsome, elegiac neo-western "The Homesman," until she rather unsettlingly isn't. Just listen to the way those pithy syllables roll (or march, rather) off the tongue: a Mary Bee Cuddy can only be as square and grounded and business-meaning as a pair of sensible shoes. As played by the eternally purposeful Hilary Swank, moreover, she's an anchor of sincerity in a film in a film that needs one, shifting as it often does from loutish comedy to sticky sentimentality in the turn of a wagon-wheel. Only superficially, then, is "The Homesman" the directorial follow-up you'd expect to Jones's debut feature "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada," a similarly handsome, burnished and serious-minded western...
- 5/18/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
The 1969 film version of True Grit will be shown on the big screen this Friday and Saturday, January 31 and February 1, at the historic Redford Theatre in Detroit. John Wayne won the Best Actor Oscar for his immortal performance as Marshall Rooster Cogburn. The film co-stars Glen Campbell, Kim Darby and Robert Duvall. A 30 minute old time organ concerts precedes the screening. For more click here ...
- 1/30/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
In his 30-year career as a composer, Carter Burwell’s film scores have run the veritable cinematic gamut. From composing for Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation., Where the Wild Things Are) to his work being the best parts of the Twilight saga, Burwell’s résumé is sporadic and unconventional, even for a man who makes film music for a living — it’s fitting, given his less-than-conventional roots as a cartoonist for The Harvard Lampoon and later as a vagrant New York punk rocker. Undoubtedly, Burwell’s become best known for the his collaborations with Joel and Ethan Coen. Last week, Sound on Sight ranked the films of the Coen Brothers, so what better way to take over The Big Score than with a similarly themed meditation on their work with Burwell? As much as the Coens’ filmography is defined by their trademark cynicism and wit, Burwell’s compositions are...
- 1/30/2014
- by David Klein
- SoundOnSight
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Mary-Louise Parker, Kevin Bacon, Stephanie Szostak, James Hong, Marisa Miller, Robert Knepper, Mike O’Malley, Devin Ratray | Written by Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi | Directed by Robert Schwentke
Essentially a mashing together of Men In Black, Ghostbusters and Hellboy, R.I.P.D doesn’t do itself any favours in just how derivative and indistinct the premise is. Dead police officers recruited to protect the world of the living from the dead, the film sounds like a comic book and indeed is based on one and on this kind of a level, the film for the most part works.
A vibe of “fun” is introduced early on and maintains itself for much of the runtime as Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges team up in the 80′s buddy cop-comedy kind of way and go through the film running, jumping and making things explode with giant revolvers. This...
Essentially a mashing together of Men In Black, Ghostbusters and Hellboy, R.I.P.D doesn’t do itself any favours in just how derivative and indistinct the premise is. Dead police officers recruited to protect the world of the living from the dead, the film sounds like a comic book and indeed is based on one and on this kind of a level, the film for the most part works.
A vibe of “fun” is introduced early on and maintains itself for much of the runtime as Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges team up in the 80′s buddy cop-comedy kind of way and go through the film running, jumping and making things explode with giant revolvers. This...
- 1/19/2014
- by Ian Loring
- Nerdly
As we bid farewell to a year of unbelievable cinema, Hollywood truly gave the masses such diverse choices from which to plunk down their hard earned dollars for. Assuredly it was a record-breaking year at the global box office as well. According to the La Times, 2013 ticket sales reportedly are projected to reach $10.9 billion. We still love going to the movies… especially the popular ones.
However, there’s always a few that we can’t quite avoid as well as a number of films that just disappoint. Our list for this year’s “worst films” seems to be chock-full of extremely disappointing titles.
Dishonorable Mention: Gangster Squad
Even Ryan Gosling in some vintage suits and Emma Stone in a sexy red dress couldn’t help this by the books gangster flick. All style and no substance is the name of this tune that we’ve heard and seen perform much better before.
However, there’s always a few that we can’t quite avoid as well as a number of films that just disappoint. Our list for this year’s “worst films” seems to be chock-full of extremely disappointing titles.
Dishonorable Mention: Gangster Squad
Even Ryan Gosling in some vintage suits and Emma Stone in a sexy red dress couldn’t help this by the books gangster flick. All style and no substance is the name of this tune that we’ve heard and seen perform much better before.
- 12/31/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The recent release of Ender’s Game gives us two really great young actors, both of whom are following up highly acclaimed previous work. Hailee Steinfeld showed astonishing screen presence and self-assuredness as Mattie Ross in True Grit, with Asa Butterfield having followed up noteworthy work in Son of Rambow and the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas with a similarly striking performance as the eponymous hero of Scorsese’s tender fable Hugo.
They join a long and rightly lauded parade of actors who, rather than go with affected cuteness or over-acted eloquence beyond their years, have instead inhabited child roles and delivered sincere and affecting performances.
Here are half a dozen of the best:-
6. Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit
Steinfeld’s performance in True Grit is nothing short of astonishing and she will do well to match it at any point in what will undoubtedly be a considerable and richly-lauded career.
They join a long and rightly lauded parade of actors who, rather than go with affected cuteness or over-acted eloquence beyond their years, have instead inhabited child roles and delivered sincere and affecting performances.
Here are half a dozen of the best:-
6. Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit
Steinfeld’s performance in True Grit is nothing short of astonishing and she will do well to match it at any point in what will undoubtedly be a considerable and richly-lauded career.
- 11/5/2013
- by Dave Roper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Mary-Louise Parker, Kevin Bacon, Stephanie Szostak, James Hong, Marisa Miller, Robert Knepper, Mike O’Malley, Devin Ratray | Written by Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi | Directed by Robert Schwentke
The summer box office season may be over but one of the big casualties will be talked about for a while as along with White House Down and The Lone Ranger, R.I.P.D becomes the latest bomb to be whispered about in years to come. Just like both those films however, it’s far from the worst the Blockbuster season has had to offer.
Essentially a mashing together of Men In Black, Ghostbusters and Hellboy, R.I.P.D doesn’t do itself any favours in just how derivative and indistinct the premise is. Dead police officers recruited to protect the world of the living from the dead, the film sounds like a comic book and...
The summer box office season may be over but one of the big casualties will be talked about for a while as along with White House Down and The Lone Ranger, R.I.P.D becomes the latest bomb to be whispered about in years to come. Just like both those films however, it’s far from the worst the Blockbuster season has had to offer.
Essentially a mashing together of Men In Black, Ghostbusters and Hellboy, R.I.P.D doesn’t do itself any favours in just how derivative and indistinct the premise is. Dead police officers recruited to protect the world of the living from the dead, the film sounds like a comic book and...
- 9/23/2013
- by Ian Loring
- Nerdly
A bunch of undead cops return to Earth to atone for past misdemeanours in this messy fantasy adventure
Like its comic-strip characters, caught in the purgatory between life and death, this wildly uneven fantasy adventure inhabits a misjudged limbo between the mainstream riffs of Men in Black and the rougher edges of Maniac Cop.
Ryan Reynolds is the only slightly crooked Boston cop, whisked to a netherworld owing more to A Life Less Ordinary than A Matter of Life and Death, with the office furniture of Brazil thrown in for good measure. To escape judgment, Reynolds opts to serve undead overtime with the titular team, returning to Earth with Jeff Bridges' old west sheriff, the odd-buddy couple taking on the avatars of James Hong and Marisa Miller respectively. And if you think there's nothing funny about the pairing of a short Asian guy and a tall underwear model, then R.I.P.D. is not for you.
Like its comic-strip characters, caught in the purgatory between life and death, this wildly uneven fantasy adventure inhabits a misjudged limbo between the mainstream riffs of Men in Black and the rougher edges of Maniac Cop.
Ryan Reynolds is the only slightly crooked Boston cop, whisked to a netherworld owing more to A Life Less Ordinary than A Matter of Life and Death, with the office furniture of Brazil thrown in for good measure. To escape judgment, Reynolds opts to serve undead overtime with the titular team, returning to Earth with Jeff Bridges' old west sheriff, the odd-buddy couple taking on the avatars of James Hong and Marisa Miller respectively. And if you think there's nothing funny about the pairing of a short Asian guy and a tall underwear model, then R.I.P.D. is not for you.
- 9/21/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Two boys, river-rats on the mighty Mississippi, run smack into adulthood when they encounter and befriend a fugitive from the law. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn echoes throughout every frame of Jeff Nichol’s Mud, the festival hit that became one of the summer’s under-the-radar hits. An Arkansas native, Nichols was mesmerized by the river and all that it represents, both in literature and its geographic importance, and his modern-day tale conjures up all the the familiar rhythms, drawls, and characters that filled Twain’s pages. Matthew McConaughey stars as the mysterious rascal whose name is literally Mud,...
- 8/5/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Summer popcorn films offer the quality of enjoyable escapism, 90 minutes of getting lost in a not-too-serious film with a modicum of expectation. Though that may be the sentiment R.I.P.D. was aiming for, regrettably, besides a few laughs, the enjoyment is short-lived. The film attempts to be the haunted version of Men in Black, but ends up being a confusing mess of ideas.
Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds) is a Boston police officer who finds himself on the wrong end of a gun. Nick dies, but his journey to heaven is thwarted when he is hurled into the offices of the Rest In Peace Department and given the opportunity to seek and destroy the dead still meandering amongst the living. Nick is joined by his resistant partner Roy Pulsifer (Jeff Bridges), a 19th century lawman with a penchant for being quick on the trigger. The two quickly uncover a plan that threatens...
Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds) is a Boston police officer who finds himself on the wrong end of a gun. Nick dies, but his journey to heaven is thwarted when he is hurled into the offices of the Rest In Peace Department and given the opportunity to seek and destroy the dead still meandering amongst the living. Nick is joined by his resistant partner Roy Pulsifer (Jeff Bridges), a 19th century lawman with a penchant for being quick on the trigger. The two quickly uncover a plan that threatens...
- 7/31/2013
- by Monte Yazzie
- DailyDead
It wasn't just viewers who were scared out of their wits by "The Conjuring" this weekend; it was the big studios as well (save perhaps Warner Bros., which released "The Conjuring"). After all, this summer has seen several supposedly surefire blockbusters -- movies with big stars, big action sequences, and big fan bases from previous installments -- do big belly flops at the multiplex. (That includes Warners' own "The Hangover Part III.") And then here comes a horror flick with a modest budget (just $20 million), a restrictive R rating, no big names, no familiar title from a pre-existing property, and it opens at No. 1 with an estimated $41.5 million, setting a record for an original R-rated horror movie. And this on a weekend with three other wide-release movies opening, all of them more heavily touted.
To be sure, most pundits felt those films would be weak performers, but no one guessed...
To be sure, most pundits felt those films would be weak performers, but no one guessed...
- 7/22/2013
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Review Ron Hogan 22 Jul 2013 - 06:38
Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds star in R.I.P.D. But did it deserve more box office success than it got?
Nick (Ryan Reynolds) is a Boston cop with a bright future. He has a lovely wife, but there's not a lot of money involved in police work, so when his partner Hayes (Kevin Bacon) has a great idea to make off with some stolen gold found during an investigation, Nick doesn't listen to his conscience and takes the plate. However, pretty soon his better nature takes over, and he tells Hayes he wants to go straight. That's enough to trigger Hayes' worse nature, so he executes his partner during a big drug raid.
Fortunately, Nick has a special set of skills that makes him coveted by the Rest In Peace Department, or R.I.P.D.. They stop deados, bad souls who have refused to...
Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds star in R.I.P.D. But did it deserve more box office success than it got?
Nick (Ryan Reynolds) is a Boston cop with a bright future. He has a lovely wife, but there's not a lot of money involved in police work, so when his partner Hayes (Kevin Bacon) has a great idea to make off with some stolen gold found during an investigation, Nick doesn't listen to his conscience and takes the plate. However, pretty soon his better nature takes over, and he tells Hayes he wants to go straight. That's enough to trigger Hayes' worse nature, so he executes his partner during a big drug raid.
Fortunately, Nick has a special set of skills that makes him coveted by the Rest In Peace Department, or R.I.P.D.. They stop deados, bad souls who have refused to...
- 7/22/2013
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Time for yet another big budget action flick based on a comic book series. This is not from the big two: DC (Man Of Steel) and Marvel (Iron Man 3). It’s from Dark Horse, the company that’s the home of big screen heroes like The Mask and Barb Wire among others. Oh, and did I tell you that this is another variation on the mis-matched law enforcement team best represented recently by the box office smash The Heat. Here it’s a wiseguy younger fella’ teamed up with a crotchety old-school veteran. Plus it’s set in a fantasy world right in the middle of that film’s backdrop, Boston. Of course the normal citizenry is blithely unaware of these fantastic events. Hmm, is this sounding similar to another movie franchise? Judge for yourself if you chose to enter the world of R.I.P.D. at your local multiplex.
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- 7/19/2013
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
There's no doubt in my mind Universal gave up on R.I.P.D. as soon as they saw a first cut and were willing to only do the bare minimum to salvage what they could. The final product looks unfinished from the beginning as a giant blob of a man storms down a hallway, busts through a wall and chaos in the streets ensues. On top of this, many additional effects look unfinished and temporary, and while it's not as if effects would have saved the picture in any way, they are evidence of a production left floundering. The film underwent reshoots at the end of 2012 as I can only assume Universal decided it was best to spend a little extra money on story rather than effects and while I wouldn't say R.I.P.D. is an all-out disaster, it falls apart little-by-little before it settles on an ending we've seen countless times before.
- 7/19/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
There's no doubt in my mind Universal gave up on R.I.P.D. as soon as they saw a first cut and were willing to only do the bare minimum to salvage what they could. The final product looks unfinished from the beginning as a giant blob of a man storms down a hallway, busts through a wall and chaos in the streets ensues. On top of this, many additional effects look unfinished and temporary, and while it's not as if effects would have saved the picture in any way, they are evidence of a production left floundering. The film underwent reshoots at the end of 2012 as I can only assume Universal decided it was best to spend a little extra money on story rather than effects and while I wouldn't say R.I.P.D. is an all-out disaster, it falls apart little-by-little before it settles on an ending we've seen countless times before.
- 7/19/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
It hardly seems possible that a big-budget action movie based on a comic book, starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds, would sneak into theaters under the radar. But that's the case with director Robert Schwentke's supernatural flick "R.I.P.D."
Bridges and Reynolds play a pair of dead cops recruited by Higher Powers to track down also-deceased bad guys who've managed to stick around Earth instead of facing Judgement Day. The duo discovers a bigger, more sinister plot by several "deados" to take over the world.
Of course, a lack of marketing and early reviews usually indicate a movie is bad news. So, is "R.I.P.D." D.O.A.? Read on to find out.
1. "R.I.P.D." = "Men in Black" + "Ghostbusters" + "Cowboys vs. Aliens"
Based on a comic book by Peter M. Lenkov, "R.I.P.D." is going for that blend of action, humor, and special effects that made "Men in Black" and "Ghostbusters" hits in their days.
Bridges and Reynolds play a pair of dead cops recruited by Higher Powers to track down also-deceased bad guys who've managed to stick around Earth instead of facing Judgement Day. The duo discovers a bigger, more sinister plot by several "deados" to take over the world.
Of course, a lack of marketing and early reviews usually indicate a movie is bad news. So, is "R.I.P.D." D.O.A.? Read on to find out.
1. "R.I.P.D." = "Men in Black" + "Ghostbusters" + "Cowboys vs. Aliens"
Based on a comic book by Peter M. Lenkov, "R.I.P.D." is going for that blend of action, humor, and special effects that made "Men in Black" and "Ghostbusters" hits in their days.
- 7/19/2013
- by Kelly Woo
- Moviefone
by Brett White
If the previous "R.I.P.D." trailers have left you as cold as the undead, then give this one a shot. Not only does it include a Macklemore and Ryan Lewis song that you might not be sick of yet, but it contains a number of special effects filled action scenes that look pretty impressive. And when this trailer isn't throwing Jeff Bridges and cars around with great abandon, it's moving along at a brisk pace with back-and-forth dialogue.
"R.I.P.D." follows newly-deceased cop Ryan Reynolds as he partners up with what seems like a blustery Rooster Cogburn, played by Bridges, as part of the Rest In Peace Department. The film, based on the Dark Horse Comics limited series of the same name, opens on July 19th.
[via Comic Book Movie]
What do you think of the latest "R.I.P.D." trailer? Let us know in the comments below or hit us up on Twitter!
If the previous "R.I.P.D." trailers have left you as cold as the undead, then give this one a shot. Not only does it include a Macklemore and Ryan Lewis song that you might not be sick of yet, but it contains a number of special effects filled action scenes that look pretty impressive. And when this trailer isn't throwing Jeff Bridges and cars around with great abandon, it's moving along at a brisk pace with back-and-forth dialogue.
"R.I.P.D." follows newly-deceased cop Ryan Reynolds as he partners up with what seems like a blustery Rooster Cogburn, played by Bridges, as part of the Rest In Peace Department. The film, based on the Dark Horse Comics limited series of the same name, opens on July 19th.
[via Comic Book Movie]
What do you think of the latest "R.I.P.D." trailer? Let us know in the comments below or hit us up on Twitter!
- 7/12/2013
- by Splash Page Team
- MTV Splash Page
With Walt Disney’s big-budget western The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, opening this weekend, lets look back at the best western contemporary classics since the year 2000. Some of these movies are beloved ones that you may have forgotten. If your favorite didn’t make the cut, please mention it in the talk backs below. 1. True Grit (2010) One of the finest recent works of the critically adored Coen Brothers, this is a remake rarity in that it is vastly superior to its (John Wayne starring) original. Jeff Bridges takes the Wayne role of the eye patched Us Marshall Rooster Cogburn, hired...
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- 7/5/2013
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
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