“It Happened One Night,” which premiered at Radio City Music Hall on Feb. 22, 1934, helped usher in the screwball romantic comedy, changed the careers of stars Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, director Frank Capra and screenwriter Robert Riskin and transformed the Poverty Row Columbia Pictures into a major player. And let’s not forget, “It Happened One Night” also made Oscar history winning five major Oscars: picture, director, adapted screenplay and both actor and actress. It would be 41 years before “One Flew of the Cuckoo’s Nest” would accomplish the same feat at the Academy Awards.
Based on the short story “Night Bus,” the smart, endearing road movie focuses on spoiled rotten Ellie Andrews (Colbert) who has gone against her wealthy father’s (Walter Connelly) wishes by marrying the gold-digging King Westley (Jameson Thomas). Before their wedding night, her father whisked her away to his yacht in Florida. She manages to...
Based on the short story “Night Bus,” the smart, endearing road movie focuses on spoiled rotten Ellie Andrews (Colbert) who has gone against her wealthy father’s (Walter Connelly) wishes by marrying the gold-digging King Westley (Jameson Thomas). Before their wedding night, her father whisked her away to his yacht in Florida. She manages to...
- 2/20/2024
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Matt Smith has signed on to executive produce and star in an adaptation of Nick Cave’s novel The Death Of Bunny Munro.
The former Doctor Who star is swapping dragons and incest for… sex addiction. Smith is starring as the titular character, as well as executive producing, a TV adaptation of Nick Cave’s novel The Death Of Bunny Munro.
Smith’s Bunny, a self-professed lothario and a sex-addicted door-to-door salesman, will find himself a little out of his depth after his wife Libby dies and he is left with a 9-year-old son, Bunny Jr., to take care of. The two Bunnies embark on an epic road trip across southern England in this tale of grief.
The Death Of Bunny Munro is Cave’s second novel and was published in 2009. Cave has published several collections of essays, lyrics and poetry as well as the two novels, but The Death...
The former Doctor Who star is swapping dragons and incest for… sex addiction. Smith is starring as the titular character, as well as executive producing, a TV adaptation of Nick Cave’s novel The Death Of Bunny Munro.
Smith’s Bunny, a self-professed lothario and a sex-addicted door-to-door salesman, will find himself a little out of his depth after his wife Libby dies and he is left with a 9-year-old son, Bunny Jr., to take care of. The two Bunnies embark on an epic road trip across southern England in this tale of grief.
The Death Of Bunny Munro is Cave’s second novel and was published in 2009. Cave has published several collections of essays, lyrics and poetry as well as the two novels, but The Death...
- 11/28/2023
- by Maria Lattila
- Film Stories
Nothing looms larger in The Who’s artistic mythology than Pete Townshend’s unfinished “Lifehouse” project, a science fiction rock opera motion picture guaranteed to rock the world. Granted, we wouldn’t have Who’s Next (1971) if he completed it, but we can only imagine what the final product might have been on the big screen. Fortunately, there will soon be a way to see for ourselves in a new format.
Image Comics will publish Life House as a graphic novel on Dec. 6, and a vinyl-shaped hardcover will be part of its musical accompaniment: the Who’s Next/Life House box sets, dropping on Sept. 15. The cumulative story is not just for Who fans. The sci-fi community may have a future classic on their hands.
The graphic novel Life House by James Harvey, David Hine, Mick Gray, and Max Prentis is an adaptation of the original scripts Townshend wrote for...
Image Comics will publish Life House as a graphic novel on Dec. 6, and a vinyl-shaped hardcover will be part of its musical accompaniment: the Who’s Next/Life House box sets, dropping on Sept. 15. The cumulative story is not just for Who fans. The sci-fi community may have a future classic on their hands.
The graphic novel Life House by James Harvey, David Hine, Mick Gray, and Max Prentis is an adaptation of the original scripts Townshend wrote for...
- 8/17/2023
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
The Who have announced a new, 155-track compilation boxset, titled Who’s Next/Life House, complete with a full graphic novel based on the band’s long-shelved science-fiction concept album, Life House. The massive offering is due September 15th.
Among the various packages offered, Who’s Next/Life House arrives as a 3xLP, 4xLP, or 2xCD set including a newly remastered version of the band’s seminal 1971 fifth album and remixed acetates of Pete Townshend’s Life House demos. A 10xCD Super Deluxe edition boasts 89 unreleased tracks, studio session demos and singles taken from 1970 to 1972, and two 1971 concert recordings from London’s Young Vic Theatre and San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium as well as various tour paraphenalia, a band T-shirt, and posters from performances in Sunderland, England on May 7th, 1970 and Denver Coliseum in Denver on December 10th, 1971.
The boxset also provides hefty reading material with a 100-page hardbound book...
Among the various packages offered, Who’s Next/Life House arrives as a 3xLP, 4xLP, or 2xCD set including a newly remastered version of the band’s seminal 1971 fifth album and remixed acetates of Pete Townshend’s Life House demos. A 10xCD Super Deluxe edition boasts 89 unreleased tracks, studio session demos and singles taken from 1970 to 1972, and two 1971 concert recordings from London’s Young Vic Theatre and San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium as well as various tour paraphenalia, a band T-shirt, and posters from performances in Sunderland, England on May 7th, 1970 and Denver Coliseum in Denver on December 10th, 1971.
The boxset also provides hefty reading material with a 100-page hardbound book...
- 7/19/2023
- by Bryan Kress
- Consequence - Music
Batgirl #49
Story By
Cameron Stewart, Brenden Fletcher
Art By
Horacio Domingues, Babs Tarr, Roger Robinson, Ming Doyle , James Harvey
Colors By
Serge Lapointe, James Harvey
Letters By
Steve Wands
Cover By
Babs Tarr
Publisher
DC Comics
Cover Price:
$2.99
Release Date
Mar 2nd, 2016
Synopsis:
To unravel the secret of Batgirl’s bizarre new nemesis, her friends must travel to strange and uncharted territory: the inside of Barbara Gordon’s spectacular mind!
Review:
Cameron Stewart and Brenden Fletcher take us on a really wild and trippy adventure as we explore warped moments of Barbara Gordon’s memories. The villain of the arc, Fugue, has managed to get inside Barbara’s head and is stealing her secrets with plans to sell them to her enemies. While there is some fun here with great art by the various contributors (each getting a moment based on the memory), I just wasn’t pulled into this story.
Story By
Cameron Stewart, Brenden Fletcher
Art By
Horacio Domingues, Babs Tarr, Roger Robinson, Ming Doyle , James Harvey
Colors By
Serge Lapointe, James Harvey
Letters By
Steve Wands
Cover By
Babs Tarr
Publisher
DC Comics
Cover Price:
$2.99
Release Date
Mar 2nd, 2016
Synopsis:
To unravel the secret of Batgirl’s bizarre new nemesis, her friends must travel to strange and uncharted territory: the inside of Barbara Gordon’s spectacular mind!
Review:
Cameron Stewart and Brenden Fletcher take us on a really wild and trippy adventure as we explore warped moments of Barbara Gordon’s memories. The villain of the arc, Fugue, has managed to get inside Barbara’s head and is stealing her secrets with plans to sell them to her enemies. While there is some fun here with great art by the various contributors (each getting a moment based on the memory), I just wasn’t pulled into this story.
- 3/4/2016
- by Jeremy Scully
- LRMonline.com
It was back in March that we first caught wind of Bartkira, the animated fusion of Akira and The Simpsons based on a fan-generated 'zine project by Ryan Humphrey and James Harvey. After having contributed art to the printed version of Bartkira, artist / illustrator / animator Kate Sullivan approached the duo about producing an animated trailer based on the work and while the animation was always intended to be a simple trailer to see if it could be done, the artwork that spread back in the spring created such a stir that you couldn't help but wonder if they've given any thought to expanding the scope of their creation. And hopes for that will only rise further now that the full trailer has arrived...
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- 7/6/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Over three years ago, the cartoonist James Harvey launched the Bartkira project to combine two of the greatest cartoons: Akira and The Simpsons. Harvey has been crowdsourcing art from over 700 artists to re-create the manga epic Akira using characters from The Simpsons, casting Bart Simpson as Kaneda and Ralph Wiggum as Akira. So far, the artists have completed three volumes (out of six) of Bartkira and now even have an animated trailer complete with VHS static to complete your stoner fantasy. Maybe instead of constantly trying to do a live-action remake of Akira, Hollywood can just do this instead?...
- 7/6/2015
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
A fusion of The Simpsons with Akira? It sounds like something so odd that it must be awesome and that certainly seems to be the case based on the first images and sample animations released from Ryan Humphrey and James Harvey's fan project which aims to recreate the trailer for classic anime Akira set entirely within the universe of The Simpsons.That's Bart up above, obviously, but you can see a much broader range of art - animated Gif images included - involving Millhouse, Lisa, Itchy & Scratchy and more over here. Super cool....
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- 3/5/2015
- Screen Anarchy
I recognized the greatness of Preston Sturges when I first saw The Lady Eve (1941). Sturges realizes the absurdity of his stories and he owns those absurdities for the sake of entertainment rather than attempting to twist them into something they aren't. In the case of romantic comedies, today's attempts at the genre find filmmakers over looking their absurdity and to do so, as a filmmaker, is to make a movie that's too heavy-handed, ignoring the necessary tone of such a film. How many times have you been watching a romantic comedy and things are bouncing along -- a joke here, a sexual escapade there -- all leading up to the inevitable misunderstanding or break-up of the central characters you knew was comingc At this point our minds have pretty much been trained to expect these moments and all that comes after them. We know the characters are going to get...
- 1/19/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Perhaps Criterion has been paying attention to my Best Movies posts. Next week sees the release of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita on Blu-ray, which was the first installment in my Best Movies feature and a title I'll be reviewing later this week, and now my third installment, Kihachi Okamoto's The Sword of Doom will be arriving on January 6 with a new high-definition digital restoration. Unfortunately the Sword of Doom release won't come with any new features, though the film, Hiroshi Murai's cinematography, Masaru Sato's score and an audio commentary from Stephen Prince will do for me as that is a title that simply must be part of my collection. Also coming in January is Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant on January 13, Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg on January 20, Preston Sturges's 1942 comedy The Palm Beach Story starring Claudette Colbert...
- 10/15/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Star presence, that distillation of charisma and sometimes glamour, lies at the heart of the movies' appeal. The star presence James Harvey evokes so richly in his new book, Watching Them Be, is never simply about physical beauty. Harvey rightly points out that Ingrid Bergman's fresh unaffectedness was distinctly unglamorous, and that Charles Laughton was plagued by a belief in his own ugliness. There are plenty of good-looking performers who have never managed anything like star presence (Tom Cruise, for one). So what is it? We could start with some combination of vividness of personality, intense charisma, the ability of a performer to create his own reality and the ability to make the audience believe it is watching someone live fully in the moment. John Wayne'...
- 8/6/2014
- Village Voice
What do a pyrokinetic girl, a lonely ghost, and a group of cannibalistic children have in common? They’re all getting the Blu-ray treatment from Universal this September.
Blu-ray.com reports that Firestarter, Casper, and The People Under the Stairs are all slated for a September 2nd Blu-ray release, but only one of the films is coming with substantial bonus features:
Firestarter Release Details (via Blu-ray.com):
“Firestarter chronicles the extraordinary life of Charlene “Charlie” McGee. Eight-year-old Drew Barrymore stars as the child who has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency, “The Shop,” that wants her destroyed?
The Blu-ray edition of Firestarter is presented in 1080p with a DTS-hd Master Audio 2.0 Mono track. An UltraViolet Digital HD digital copy of the film is included, but there are no other special features.
Blu-ray.com reports that Firestarter, Casper, and The People Under the Stairs are all slated for a September 2nd Blu-ray release, but only one of the films is coming with substantial bonus features:
Firestarter Release Details (via Blu-ray.com):
“Firestarter chronicles the extraordinary life of Charlene “Charlie” McGee. Eight-year-old Drew Barrymore stars as the child who has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency, “The Shop,” that wants her destroyed?
The Blu-ray edition of Firestarter is presented in 1080p with a DTS-hd Master Audio 2.0 Mono track. An UltraViolet Digital HD digital copy of the film is included, but there are no other special features.
- 6/11/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
After weeks of voting, and thousands of individual nominations, this year’s Games Media Awards have been announced by McV. Now a select panel of industry professionals will be called upon to select their winners from the shortlist of websites, podcasts, blogs, writers, and printed press.
This will culminate in an awards event on 26th October, at Vinopolis in central London, where winners will be announced in a ceremony hosted by star stand-up comedian and actor Greg Davies.
The finalists are:
Games Magazine
Edge GamesTM NGamer Official Xbox Magazine Official PlayStation Magazine Retro Gamer
Games Website
GameSpot Videogamer Gaming Union Eurogamer The Sixth Axis God is a Geek IGN Cvg
Specialist Writer Print
Matthew Castle – NGamer Chris Scullion – Official Nintendo Magazine Steve Hogarty – Official Nintendo Magazine Jon Blyth – Official Xbox Magazine Christian Donlan – Freelance
Specialist Writer Online
Jane Douglas – GameSpot UK Mark Walton – GameSpot UK Keza MacDonald – IGN Gillen McAllister...
This will culminate in an awards event on 26th October, at Vinopolis in central London, where winners will be announced in a ceremony hosted by star stand-up comedian and actor Greg Davies.
The finalists are:
Games Magazine
Edge GamesTM NGamer Official Xbox Magazine Official PlayStation Magazine Retro Gamer
Games Website
GameSpot Videogamer Gaming Union Eurogamer The Sixth Axis God is a Geek IGN Cvg
Specialist Writer Print
Matthew Castle – NGamer Chris Scullion – Official Nintendo Magazine Steve Hogarty – Official Nintendo Magazine Jon Blyth – Official Xbox Magazine Christian Donlan – Freelance
Specialist Writer Online
Jane Douglas – GameSpot UK Mark Walton – GameSpot UK Keza MacDonald – IGN Gillen McAllister...
- 8/14/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Courtesy of HBO
Plus, the 12 most jaw-dropping moments that made this finale one of the best True Blood episodes Ever!
It was a night of major revelations and bloody good twists on the Sept. 12 season finale of HBO’s True Blood, and at the risk of sounding totally cliché, nothing will Ever be the same for the residents of Bon Temps! We’ve put together the 12 moments that kept our jaws on the floor throughout the hour — let us know which moments shocked You!
Sookie (Anna Paquin) poured Franklin’s (James Frain) bloody remains down the drain, laughing meniaclly while a sun-charred Russell (Denis O’Hare) screamed in agony. Seriously, this was a totally new dark side of Sookie we’ve never seen before! Crystal Norris’ (Lindsay Pulsipher) brother Felton (James Harvey) shot their dad Calvin (Gregory Sporleder) in the face — and killed him! Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) started having visions:...
Plus, the 12 most jaw-dropping moments that made this finale one of the best True Blood episodes Ever!
It was a night of major revelations and bloody good twists on the Sept. 12 season finale of HBO’s True Blood, and at the risk of sounding totally cliché, nothing will Ever be the same for the residents of Bon Temps! We’ve put together the 12 moments that kept our jaws on the floor throughout the hour — let us know which moments shocked You!
Sookie (Anna Paquin) poured Franklin’s (James Frain) bloody remains down the drain, laughing meniaclly while a sun-charred Russell (Denis O’Hare) screamed in agony. Seriously, this was a totally new dark side of Sookie we’ve never seen before! Crystal Norris’ (Lindsay Pulsipher) brother Felton (James Harvey) shot their dad Calvin (Gregory Sporleder) in the face — and killed him! Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) started having visions:...
- 9/13/2010
- by Andy
- HollywoodLife
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