Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sidney Lumet's The Verdict turns on a bullshit premise-- an attorney can't refuse a reasonable cash settlement if that's what his/her client is looking to get -- but I love it anyway, especially for (a) the Boston-Irish flavorings, (b) Jack Warden, (c) that straight-whiskey, pinball-machine opening, (d) Edward Binns, (e) James Mason's face when he realizes his case has just collapsed in the face of...
Super Punch (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Uterus pillow - - one of several vagina-themed items on sale in this Etsy shop . Via these sites . And a few more links: 1. Gizmodo needs freelance artists and infographics designers. 2. MP3s of James Mason reading Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell Tale Heart, Annabel Lee and Silence. Via . 3. Transformers poster . *Previously: Warning, your uterus may be a choking hazard . * Buy Edgar Allan Poe toys at...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
James Mason is unforgettable as a doomed fugitive IRA gunman in Carol Reed's extraordinary and eccentric 1947 film. Odd Man Out begins as a straightforward thriller, then splurges into the surreal. It's one of the masterpieces of postwar British cinema. (NR) ELLIOTT STEIN
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
We managed to sit down with Jemaine Clement to talk Gentlemen Broncos , playing a pompous asshole, and the future of Rock Band: Flight of the Conchords Edition.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
As entertainment moguls go, Harry Alan Towers was never in the same league as David O. Zelnick or Louis B. Mayer, but at least he had a proper middle name; and during a long career in radio, television and films he acquired a legendary reputation as the most prolific – and occasionally elusive – independent producer in the business.
The TV and Film Guy's Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
There is something absolutely wonderful about watching Cary Grant. Grant, no matter the role, always exudes an incredible amount of charisma and charm, and can carry an entire film on his back. It is, however, still preferable to see Grant in a great role in a great movie. Get the opportunity to see Grant in one of the roles he took on for master director Alfred Hitchcock and the experience is that...
Nintendo Deals (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Blu-ray Movie Releases for the Week of November 3, 2009 Here is the full list: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (Two-Disc Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] ~ Channing Tatum North by Northwest (50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Book) [Blu-ray] ~ Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, and Martin Landau The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 [Blu-ray] ~ Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, and Victor...
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
There was talk earlier this year that it wasn't in the studios' best interest to continue to release classic films on DVD/Blu-ray as the demand for them was dwindling and the cost of restoration was climbing. The article in question even quotes Warner Home Video senior vice president George Feltenstein saying "most of the studios [...]
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
This post arrives slightly late for Halloween, but I'll take both William S. Burroughs and Edgar Allen Poe any time of the year. After some Poe readings by James Mason, we have this gem from the 1995 videogame "The Dark...
Comics Worth Reading (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Out this week is a new, two-disc 50th Anniversary Edition of North by Northwest, the second best Alfred Hitchcock film. (In my ranking, the first is Notorious, which teams Cary Grant with Ingrid Bergman, because I think she’s the strongest Hitchcock female lead.) North by Northwest50th Anniversary EditionBuy this DVD Here, Grant is an ad executive who [...]
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The Hitchcock film keeps viewers on the edge 50 years on. The AFI Fest is having a screening, and a DVD will be released. The Hitchcock film keeps viewers on the edge 50 years on. The AFI Fest is having a screening, and a DVD will be released.
ComicMix (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Thrillers today are filled with fast cuts, pounding music, poor excuses for plotting and characterization, and seem designed to do nothing more than collect your cash and deliver the same old. You usually see every twist and turn coming and are rarely surprised. In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock, at the height of his moviemaking career, unleashed the ultimate thriller in North By Northwest . Now celebrating...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Veteran actor Jeff Bridges feared he would die while shooting an elaborate stunt for 1998 movie 'White Squall'.
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
According to Hesiod, Dreams are the children of Night, and brothers and sisters of Death and Sleep. Deceptive dreams issue from a gate of ivory, true dreams through a gate of horn. The spirits of the departed, too, so long...
High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
At last! It took about three-and-a-half years, but finally the first American Blu-ray release of an Alfred Hitchcock film has arrived. And though it may not be the title many of us expected (sorry, Norman...
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