100 The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, 2006) Meryl Streep begins her own populist career reinvention (soon to be followed by Mamma Mia!) by playing a tyrannical and thinly disguised version of Vogue editor Anna Wintour in this satirical yet soft-centered account of life among the fashionistas. 68. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000) Formally intricate and expertly executed, Memento is a devious brainteaser...
By Simon Abrams SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT Regardless of how you feel about the film itself, the sticking point for The Box —mad scientist Richard Kelly’s latest oddity—is how well it succeeds as Kelly’s version of a mainstream, commercially viable bit of speculative fiction. Southland Tales , Kelly’s unjustly maligned sophomore experiment, was both viciously maligned by...
"Wacker Drive looks pretty nice from up here." Photo via Wired. The Tribune is calling today's story about "Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan's incarcerated brother and his planned prison escape "Batman-like," which is good bait to get you into the story. But when you read deeper, it turns out that the tale being told isn't terribly Batty at all - it's only barely...
Inside the spartan federal prison cell where a brother of "The Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan was being held, officials allegedly found tools for a Batman-like escape: 31 feet of rope made from bedsheets, a harness, a razor and a metal clip that could unlock handcuffs.
Matthew Nolan, the jailed brother of The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan, incarcerated in Chicago, apparently attempted a dastardly deed that none has achieved before him: an escape from the high rise federal Metropolitan Correctional Center. '> http://bit.ly/24eqjI
" The mystery surrounding Christopher Nolan's upcoming thriller Inception has been extremely hard to penetrate. Along with the earlier trailer revelation that it contains airborne hallway battles, there's the photographic "reveal" this weekend that the movie will feature a sharply dressed Leonardo DiCaprio sitting dangerously on a window sill. In addition, Nolan favorite Michael Caine...
Inside the spartan federal prison cell where a brother of "The Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan was being held, officials allegedly found tools for a Batman-like escape: 31 feet of rope made from bedsheets, a harness, a razor and a metal clip that could unlock handcuffs. chicagotribune.com
After two decades of loving him on screen and most recently, wondering how on Earth his pecs managed to grow so big, it was lovely to finally meet Salman Khan in the flesh! He stars with last week's podcast star, Ajay Devgan in London Dreams (Studio 18) which is out now.
Here’s the blunt truth of it: Even a major prude could probably derive enjoyment from Blue Movies, a well-produced little comedy series about the behind-the-scenes world of pornography, and as I’ve mentioned in the past, I’m no puritan. Blue Movies, which is well-produced, tightly written, and occasionally (though not always) hilarious, depicts the world of Pornamount [...]
Taxi Driver director Martin Scorsese has been speaking about the virtues of Blu-ray this week, saying the hi-def format "will extend the life of movies". Speaking via video-link at Blu-con 2.0 , a US symposium celebrating all things home entertainment, the director was positively glowing about the format explaining: "It's like experiencing the film for the first time again" and...
In the first game of the young season that I missed watching or "monitoring from a boxscore", Manu becomes one of my favorite comic book characters of all-time. The FSM must hate me. To compensate for that missed ethereal experience, I thought of just hack 'chopping Manu's head in a decent Batman image. Two images, actually. Here is the first: It's cold and lonely at the top. Wow, I don't...
Last week the online world threw a big fuss over DirecTV's newest television advertisement, which features David Spade pimping the satellite service in an altered scene from Tommy Boy, which of course includes his dead friend, comedian Chris Farley. And you may remember, this isn't the first time DirecTV has been accused of profiting off of the dead, as they came under fire last year for the same thing,...
French VFX and Animation: Pierre Buffin's vfx house attracts Hollywood studios -- In an ever-competitive vfx market, Buf is one of the rare companies in France to be regularly tapped by Hollywood studios to create high-end work for tentpoles, such as "The Matrix" trilogy, "Spider-Man" franchise and "The Dark Night."
Megan Fox is to play Catwoman in the next Batman film. The 23-year-old star has reportedly signed on to appear in the sequel to "The Dark Knight" alongside Christian Bale and Sir Michael Caine. The movie will be directed by Christopher Nolan and is due for release in 2011.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Batman-1966 I always loved the 1960s TV show and this film, but the Joel Schumacher sequels totally ruined what Tim Burton created. Then again, it paved the way for Christopher Nolan's enthralling and realistic take on the caped crusader.