by Kevin Blackistone Filed under: Golf As it turns out, Tiger Woods is not The Brother From Another Planet, to borrow liberally from the John Sayles' movie title, or even a Calabanasian, as Woods once famously labeled himself, from some other world. In the wake of police reports that he crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and tree in the wee hours of Friday on the edge of his manse's...
BARRE, Vt. — A federal government report ranking Vermont the sixth hungriest state in the country may come as a surprise to many, but officials say they have seen signs the problem is growing in Vermont. In the new report, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said 12 percent of Vermont households struggled to get enough food on the table in 2008, and one in 20 Vermonters was "severely hungry,"...
What a complete non-surprise! Now that New Moon is raking in the cash, and doing what very little it can for the werewolves of the world, the vamps are gearing up for some further sharp-toothed competition. Variety reports that The Howling will return to the big screen by the hands of indie producers Joel Kastelberg and Etchie Stroh under the name The Howling: Reborn . Since it's been over three years...
I have seen bad werewolf effects in New Moon and I have seen bad werewolf effects in the trailers for The Wolfman , and I have wondered why (or how) this particular school of wizardy has gone backward in the past 30 years. Yep, the standard is still Rick Baker's work in An American Werewolf in London . But that doesn't mean Hollywood won't keep trying, no matter how often or badly it fails. And that's...
A new moon is rising on The Howling franchise. Producers Joel Kastelberg and Etchie Stroh, the latter of whom is associated with Moonstone Entertainment, are planning a re-launch of the werewolf movie franchise entitled The Howling: Reborn . According to Variety , the film is scheduled to begin shooting next February for a Halloween 2010 release. The 1981 movie The Howling, which was directed by Joe...
[Press Release] IFC ENTERTAINMENT SIGNS DEAL TO MAKE INDEPENDENT FILMS AVAILABLE TO BE WATCHED INSTANTLY AT NETFLIX IFC Entertainment Titles Available Include American Independent, Documentary and World Cinema Titles, With Films by John Sayles, Errol Morris, Susanne Bier, Christopher Nolan, Catherine Breillat, James Toback, Rebecca Miller and Hirokazu Kore-Eda NEW YORK, November 20, 2009 – In...
IFC Entertainment and online rental service Netflix announced a partnership yesterday to offer 53 IFC titles for streaming online. This is good news and bad news. The good news is it that it makes some of IFC’s great titles easier for people to see. Older stuff like John Sayles’ The Brother From Another Planet and Return [...]
If you paid ANY attention to the design annuals in the 1990s, you couldn't miss the work of Des Moines, IA-based Sayles Graphic Design. John Sayles' graphic, bold, stylistic work garnered much attention throughout that decade and well into this one. His business partner, Sheree, was a frequent source for HOW on marketing and biz-dev topics, and both of them made more than one appearance at the HOW...
Some film news. Garret will be joining Chris Cooper (American Beauty, Seabiscuit, Breach) in a new film from John Sayles (Matewan, Eight Men Out, Limbo, Sunshine State), tentatively titled Baryo. The film is set in the Philippines during the period leading up to the Spanish-American war in 1898 and will focus on the events that [...]
Matewan Sunday 15th November at 6pm 52 Clapham High Street, London SW4 (nearest tube: Clapham North) John Sayles's 1987 classic drama ". . . illustrating the events of a coal mine-workers' strike and attempt to unionize in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia." From John Sayles's book, 'Thinking in Pictures: the making of the movie Matewan (1987) Why Matewan? There's...
Eleven films in a top-10 list? That’s cheating! That’s precisely the subject of John Sayles’s magnificent film Eight Men Out (1988), a treatise on the ugly Black Sox scandal of 1919. My apologies in advance for the absence of an accessible film clip; cheating may be rampant in the world, but that doesn't mean that everything is free and freely available, even on the great looting...
The biggest empty shop in a south coast town is going to be used by the local community in the run up to Christmas. A massive shop just off Worthing's Montague Street Precinct which was formerly an Allied Carpets showroom is to be used by fifty local groups, clubs, charities and artists in a project brought together by Worthing Lions Club, supported by national organisation the Empty Shops Network...
TRADE UNIONISM may not be a cure for all social and economic ills but its value in improving the lives of working people should not be underestimated, according to acclaimed American independent film-maker, John Sayles.
Kathryn Petersen & David Strathairn Gotthold Lessing’s Nathan the Wise (in Edward Kemp’s translation) is an interesting, even curious choice for People’s Light Theater Company (PLTC) just west of us in Malvern, PA, literally down the road from the strip mall where I get my haircuts. Nathan, which completed its run on October 11, was the premier production of PLTC’s 35 th...
I didn't think movie season would begin before the ALCS! This morning I'm still cursing and sulking about the Red Sox. Seriously, you have no idea how difficult it is to write this post as anything but an incoherent string of profanities. Moving on... Last night I reactivated my Zip account. Zip still is but a pale imitation of Netflix, but it's also still the best of my options. And this is my annual...
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