Conor's Bandon Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a change from our usual programming here at Bandon HQ, I kicked off a light-hearted conversation on Twitter earlier about great looking women who just get better and better with age (we also covered men). The results of the Twitter jury in chronological (not age) order were as follows: Neve Campbell My wife Marisa Tomei Maria Bello Catherine Keener Monica [...]
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
An international poster for the upcoming “Death Race” has been revealed.”Death Race”, starring Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, Joan Allen, and Natalie Martinez, is written and directed by Paul WS Anderson (”Mortal Kombat,” “Resident Evil” and “AVP: Alien vs. Predator”). Ex-con Jensen Ames (Jason Statham) is forced by the warden of a notorious prison (Joan [...]
kellogg bloggin' (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Plans for future posts: 1. A longish post about longing. 2. A bunch of posts reflecting on the longing I've been thinking about as portrayed in a bunch of movies I've watched lately. 3. I love watching middle-aged women act: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Patricia Clarkson, Joan Allen, Catherine Keener, Marcia Gay Hayden, Sigourney Weaver, Bebe Neuwirth to name a few. I'd like to expand on this list and reflect...
Deadline Hollywood Daily (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
HOLLYWOOD, CA (July 15, 2008) – Paramount Film Group President, John Lesher and Paramount Vantage President, Nick Meyer, today announced that Guy Stodel has been appointed Executive Vice President of Production and Acquisitions for Paramount Vantage. Stodel, who will report to Meyer, replaces Amy Israel, who has served as Executive Vice President of Production and [...]
ABC News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
'Spartacus' screenwriter is subject of ''Trumbo,' starrring David Strathairn.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Durang is the author of plays that skewer religious orthodoxy, heterosexual nuptials and the afterlife. An Off Broadway revival of his darkly autobiographical play "The Marriage of Bette and Boo" directed by Walter Bobbie and starring Victoria Clark and John Glover, opens July 13 at the Roundabout Theater.
Isak (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Kicking of this week's lovefest for the great gifts of the 1980s begins with Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles --winner of the (wait for it) 1989 Pulitzer, Tony, New York Drama Critics' Circle and Drama Desk prizes for best play....
FilmStew.com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Ahead of Heath Ledger’s posthumous appearance in The Dark Knight comes one of the last interviews the Oscar winning director ever gave.
Gossip Central (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Dalton Trumbo may have made his living as a screenwriter and novelist, but as a play as well as a new must-see documentary film make clear, Dalton Trumbo mastered a dying literary art as his career was stifled during the...
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
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TV Squad (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Filed under: Industry , Casting , Reality-Free Rod Lurie is no stranger to writing strong female characters. In film, he wrote and directed The Contender , with Joan Allen as a woman who was being considered for the Vice Presidency of the United States. Then with Commander in Chief on ABC, he made Geena Davis the President and actually showed her in action -- until the show was canceled. Lurie's working...
ACLU Bog of Rights (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Trumbo, a documentary film released today, tells the story of blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo’s courage in resolutely refusing to names names before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the darkest days of the anti-Communist witch hunts of the 1940s and 50s. The film has great relevance for today’s troubled times, and serves as a powerful reminder of why principles matter and how the...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
As the poster child for the Hollywood Ten during the Anti-Communist hysteria of the late '40s/early '50s, one of the darkest
filmcritic.com Movie Reviews (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
As the poster child for the Hollywood Ten during the Anti-Communist hysteria of the late '40s/early '50s, one of the darkest and most unsavory moments in recent American history, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, , A Guy Named Joe) was a passionate, cranky, ill-tempered force of nature, the perfect foil for the mealy and mercenary denizens of the House Un-American Activities Committee....
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
You’ve seen the adrenaline-fueled trailer for “Death Race“, starring Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, Joan Allen, and Natalie Martinez. Now check out the poster! Plot: Ex-con Jensen Ames (Statham) is forced by the warden of a notorious prison (Allen) to compete in our post-industrial world’s most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must [...]
