A new national poll suggests that Bernie Sanders' continued presence in the Democratic primary has damaged front-runner Hillary Clinton by helping close the gap between the former secretary of state and presumptive Gop nominee Donald Trump. The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday shows that Clinton's lead over the billionaire businessman has shrunk to just three points, with the former first lady "weighed down by resistance from [a] significant chunk of Sanders supporters," as CNBC chief Washington correspondent John Harwood tweeted. Pollsters, too, have attributed Clinton's shrinking lead in part to resistance from Sanders supporters. While 88 percent of Clinton...
- 5/23/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
A new national poll suggests that Bernie Sanders' continued presence in the Democratic primary has damaged front-runner Hillary Clinton by helping close the gap between the former secretary of state and presumptive Gop nominee Donald Trump. The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday shows that Clinton's lead over the billionaire businessman has shrunk to just three points, with the former first lady "weighed down by resistance from [a] significant chunk of Sanders supporters," as CNBC chief Washington correspondent John Harwood tweeted. Pollsters, too, have attributed Clinton's shrinking lead in part to resistance from Sanders supporters. While 88 percent of Clinton...
- 5/23/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
So close is the release of Peter Jackson's Hobbit sequel that we can almost smell Smaug's fiery dragon breath.
Much like its predecessor, The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug has divided film critics, although most agree that it's an improvement on An Unexpected Journey, which was criticised for its lumbering pace. Digital Spy rounds up a selection of the reviews below...
Emma Dibdin - Digital Spy
"Where last year's An Unexpected Journey steered too structurally close to Fellowship and suffered by comparison, The Desolation of Smaug feels Ringsier in tone while forging entirely its own narrative path, marrying breathless action with shrewd character building."
Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian
"Jackson has shown that he is an expert in big-league popular movie-making to rival Lucas and Spielberg. His Smaug, with its fight scenes, chase spectaculars, creepy creatures and secret stone doors opening with a grinding noise, is something to set alongside the Indiana Jones films.
Much like its predecessor, The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug has divided film critics, although most agree that it's an improvement on An Unexpected Journey, which was criticised for its lumbering pace. Digital Spy rounds up a selection of the reviews below...
Emma Dibdin - Digital Spy
"Where last year's An Unexpected Journey steered too structurally close to Fellowship and suffered by comparison, The Desolation of Smaug feels Ringsier in tone while forging entirely its own narrative path, marrying breathless action with shrewd character building."
Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian
"Jackson has shown that he is an expert in big-league popular movie-making to rival Lucas and Spielberg. His Smaug, with its fight scenes, chase spectaculars, creepy creatures and secret stone doors opening with a grinding noise, is something to set alongside the Indiana Jones films.
- 12/7/2013
- Digital Spy
Recently the film A Hijacking (Kapringen in Danish) was released on DVD in the UK. It is the latest in a string of high quality films from the country that brought us Hans Christian Andersen and Danish pastries.
It is now well known that the Danes can produce fantastic television drama – The Killing (Forbrydelsen), Borgen, The Bridge (Broen) – but what may be less obvious is that they have a thriving film industry. For the last twenty years, Danish film has mostly been associated with the Dogme 95 movement conceived by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. And these two directors have made some brilliant films in their time, mostly as they’ve begun to stray from the original manifesto. However, were it not for the early films such as Festen and The Idiots (Idioterne), Danish film may have remained largely off the map. Dogme 95 even launched the career of Oscar winning...
It is now well known that the Danes can produce fantastic television drama – The Killing (Forbrydelsen), Borgen, The Bridge (Broen) – but what may be less obvious is that they have a thriving film industry. For the last twenty years, Danish film has mostly been associated with the Dogme 95 movement conceived by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. And these two directors have made some brilliant films in their time, mostly as they’ve begun to stray from the original manifesto. However, were it not for the early films such as Festen and The Idiots (Idioterne), Danish film may have remained largely off the map. Dogme 95 even launched the career of Oscar winning...
- 10/16/2013
- Shadowlocked
★★★☆☆ When gracing the cover of The Guardian's weekend magazine recently, Nicolas Cage told the interviewer, Emma Brockes, that he would rather be considered a performer than an actor. Given some of the outlandish performances which have contributed to his reputation, it may be a slight disappointment that Cage's star turn in Simon West's Stolen (2012) is not one of 'those' turns, even if he is offered any number of opportunities to cut loose and produce the eye-popping goods. It's a shame, because Stolen is exactly the kind of preposterous action thriller that would clearly benefit most from Cage turning it up to eleven.
Cage plays Will Montgomery, a bank robber who we see get pinched by FBI Agent Tim Harlend (Danny Huston) in the opening 20 minutes. After eight years in jail, Will gets parole and goes looking for his now-teenage daughter, Alison (Sami Gayle). Before the two can reconcile,...
Cage plays Will Montgomery, a bank robber who we see get pinched by FBI Agent Tim Harlend (Danny Huston) in the opening 20 minutes. After eight years in jail, Will gets parole and goes looking for his now-teenage daughter, Alison (Sami Gayle). Before the two can reconcile,...
- 8/5/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The movie is produced and directed by a Spanish crew, and it is also based on Spanish characters, so why didn't the Oscar nominated film “The Impossible” cast Hispanics for its lead roles?
Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, "The Impossible" describes the tragedy lived by a Spanish family of five during their 2004 Holiday vacation to Thailand, the day an Indian Ocean tsunami swept in and killed at least 227,898 people and devastated more than 14 countries.
However, despite the fact that the Alvarez-Belon family, composed by Quique and Maria Alvararez, and their sons Lucas, Tomas and Simon, were clearly of Spanish descent, the movie's main characters, Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor, speak in a very strong British accent, do not look alike and never reveal their nationality. It is not until the film ends and the audience gets a glimpse of who the real survivors were, that they finally discover the family’s strong cultural background.
Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, "The Impossible" describes the tragedy lived by a Spanish family of five during their 2004 Holiday vacation to Thailand, the day an Indian Ocean tsunami swept in and killed at least 227,898 people and devastated more than 14 countries.
However, despite the fact that the Alvarez-Belon family, composed by Quique and Maria Alvararez, and their sons Lucas, Tomas and Simon, were clearly of Spanish descent, the movie's main characters, Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor, speak in a very strong British accent, do not look alike and never reveal their nationality. It is not until the film ends and the audience gets a glimpse of who the real survivors were, that they finally discover the family’s strong cultural background.
- 1/14/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers looks to have completed his third signing of the transfer window with the capture of Real Madrid midfielder Nuri Sahin on a season-long loan deal.
Football Agent 49 confirmed the move on Twitter within the past hour, claiming the formalities of the deal will be tied up by the weekend. They wrote;
Breaking- Sahin has agreed to move to Liverpool on loan and the deal will be tied up by the weekend.
— Football Agent (@FootballAgent49) August 15, 2012
The Guardian first reported Sahin’s move to Liverpool as a rumour yesterday and it now firmly looks like the Reds have snatched the Turkish midfielder from under the noses of Arsenal, who until the last few days looked certain to capture the Madrid player.
Sahin, who turns 24-years-old next month is a former Borussia Dortmund midfielder who has struggled to become a first team regular in La Liga, making only...
Football Agent 49 confirmed the move on Twitter within the past hour, claiming the formalities of the deal will be tied up by the weekend. They wrote;
Breaking- Sahin has agreed to move to Liverpool on loan and the deal will be tied up by the weekend.
— Football Agent (@FootballAgent49) August 15, 2012
The Guardian first reported Sahin’s move to Liverpool as a rumour yesterday and it now firmly looks like the Reds have snatched the Turkish midfielder from under the noses of Arsenal, who until the last few days looked certain to capture the Madrid player.
Sahin, who turns 24-years-old next month is a former Borussia Dortmund midfielder who has struggled to become a first team regular in La Liga, making only...
- 8/15/2012
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Two milestones hit for Francis Ford Coppola this weekend. The legendary filmmaker celebrated his 73rd birthday on Saturday, April 7th (happy belated, Francis) and, on the same day, observed the 38th anniversary of the opening of one of his most artistic efforts, 1974’s “The Conversation.”
Released into theaters just a few months before Richard Nixon resigned as President, the film was commonly interpreted to be a commentary on Watergate. But in actuality, Coppola had written the outline way back in 1966 but couldn’t get financing together until after “The Godfather” became a massive commercial and critical success. After battling Paramount throughout the production of the crime family classic, the studio wound up backing “The Conversation,” which Coppola worked on at the same time as “The Godfather Part II.”
Featuring one of the finest performances of Gene Hackman’s career (one that the actor reportedly considers his favorite) and embodying the...
Released into theaters just a few months before Richard Nixon resigned as President, the film was commonly interpreted to be a commentary on Watergate. But in actuality, Coppola had written the outline way back in 1966 but couldn’t get financing together until after “The Godfather” became a massive commercial and critical success. After battling Paramount throughout the production of the crime family classic, the studio wound up backing “The Conversation,” which Coppola worked on at the same time as “The Godfather Part II.”
Featuring one of the finest performances of Gene Hackman’s career (one that the actor reportedly considers his favorite) and embodying the...
- 4/9/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Langford's Picks And Pans
Days of Our Lives
Thank God it’s over. That’s what I thought at the end of last Friday’s episode when the show finally brought the horrible website storyline to a close. And aside from the fact that it’s finished, there’s nothing positive to say about this plot, which was terrible from first scene to last. There were so many things wrong with this storyline, and they were exemplified by this week's episodes. Plot holes and poor characterization abounded. And the acting was painful to watch, with the bit players and the show’s regular performers equally bad. But most of all, there were two things about these episodes that were particularly disturbing.
Sonny and Austin got to play hero in this bad storyline…
One, how all the women stood around and looked helpless and waited for the men to rescue them.
Days of Our Lives
Thank God it’s over. That’s what I thought at the end of last Friday’s episode when the show finally brought the horrible website storyline to a close. And aside from the fact that it’s finished, there’s nothing positive to say about this plot, which was terrible from first scene to last. There were so many things wrong with this storyline, and they were exemplified by this week's episodes. Plot holes and poor characterization abounded. And the acting was painful to watch, with the bit players and the show’s regular performers equally bad. But most of all, there were two things about these episodes that were particularly disturbing.
Sonny and Austin got to play hero in this bad storyline…
One, how all the women stood around and looked helpless and waited for the men to rescue them.
- 12/14/2011
- by Anthony D. Langford
- The Backlot
(clockwise from top left) Ben Kingsley in Prince of Persia, Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes, Max Payne poster, Che poster, Tdtess poster, Hulk, Frost/Nixon poster, Bedtime Stories poster Posters!!!! A new German poster for The Day the Earth Stood Still is online. As well as one and two new posters for Che, a French one for Max Payne, an international one for Frost/Nixon and finally another for The Hurt Locker. Did I forget the one for Bedtime Stories? Ooops! The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw wrote a review of The Incredible Hulk in what I will call "Hulk Speak". Not bad... Set Pics!!!! Defamer has a pic of Ben Kingsley on the set of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time while Just Jared has our first look at Robert Downey Jr. in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes. Guillermo del Toro talked to MTV about how The Hobbit...
- 10/11/2008
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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