Slobokan's Site O' Schtuff (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Artie Traum, a guitarist, songwriter and producer who helped carry the spirit of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene to Woodstock, N.Y., died on Sunday. He was 65 and lived in Bearsville, N.Y., near Woodstock. … Mr. Traum, who was born and reared in the Bronx, became a regular visitor to Greenwich Village clubs in the 1960s, [...]
Ambival.net (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
“There’s no one here but the fighters.” I was pretty damn loathe to watch this without any prior knowledge of what it was about etc after Spartan completely failed to ignite me. That I’ve been terrible at keeping up the movie-watching habit lately (I’ll get better soon, I promise) made me even more apprehensive: I thought [...]
Lost in the Frame (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Sean Penn and Mark Ruffalo in All the King's Men (dir. Steven Zaillian, 2006). Kate Winslet. James Gandolfini. All the King's Men came out in 2006 at about the same time as two other midcentury period pieces, Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia and Allen Coulter's Hollywoodland . All three were flops, I think, and none were received especially well by the critics. The Black Dahlia was a big mess with...
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
WRITER-director Brian De Palma asks difficult questions about humanity and rage in Iraq in this morality tale, based on a real-life episode from the conflict.
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
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Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
There's a war going on, and Army Lt. Col. J. Todd Breasseale has a mission.
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The latest Batman movie, "The Dark Knight" is set to open July 18, but Rotten Tomatoes has collected a few early reviews --and they are not only 100% positive, but fairly effusive in their praise. "Martin Scorsese's The Departed. Michael Mann's Heat. Brian de Palma's The Untouchables. And [...]
matthewgood (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The Los Angeles Times ran an interesting article yesterday entitled The Iraq war movie: Military hopes to shape genre. Here’s a short excerpt… “With military assistance, moviemakers get access to bases, ships, planes, tanks and Humvees. Military leaders also offer script advice. And unless a filmmaker agrees to address any problems, the Pentagon generally opts out. Most movies [...]
World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Redacted a movie by Brian De Palma (http://www.redactedmovie.com/) I can't finish watching this movie. I don't know why. Maybe a beautiful flower being teared apart piece by piece, by hypocrites is too much for me.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Selected by Mark Monahan.
Pizzas and Other Stuff (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Andy Garcia, the Cuban-born American actor, probably has no idea that his last name is often on the lips of Mumbai's pizza lovers - all because it caught the fancy of the founder and former proprietor of Garcia's Famous Pizza, Ashit Patel, when he was watching Brian de Palma's The Untouchables.......(read the rest of this article from the Hindustan Times) The Pizzas and Stuff blog is raising
Webomatica (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Synopsis Federal agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) is determined to enforce prohibition in 1930s Chicago, defying notorious gangster Al Capone (Robert De Niro). Ness solicits the help of beat cop Jim Malone (Sean Connery) and others, forming "The Untouchables."
Popdose (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Reviewed by Bob Cashill Sex. You know you want it—and I know you’re not getting it from the movies. And I know you’re not because I’ve been looking myself, and coming up empty. Wanted teases with a proudly bare-bottomed shot of a tattooed Angelina Jolie (a digital effect made flesh) and she treats co-star James McAvoy [...]
The Trailing Partner Post (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
While I wait for the release of Sex and the City the movie in Japan, I can watch Sara Jessica Parker hawk Diet Coke on a popular TV commercial. And let me tell you this commercial embodies everything I dislike about Japan. It’s strange, confusing, distracting, creepy and overly stylized–in a bad way. [...]
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moviehound | 11/30/2007
Here's a review of REDACTED, a film by Brian De Palma . It's based on the Mahmudiyah killings , the gang-rape , murder, and burning of Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi, a 14-year-old Iraqi girl in March 2006 by U.S. soldiers who also killed her parents and younger sister.
