Hot of the heels of its World Premiere at Telluride, and gearing up for its North American bow at Tiff, Scott Cooper‘s “Hostiles” is the biggest acquisition title on the festival slate. And with buzz already swirling around Christian Bale‘s performance, a pretty damn terrific new trailer is here to stoke anticipation.
The crew assembled here is pretty incredible with Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Adam Beach, Ben Foster, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane, and Q’orianka Kilcher rounding out the ensemble cast, with cinematography by Masanobu Takayanagi (“Spotlight,” “Out Of The Furnace”) and a score by Max Richter (“The Leftovers,” “Waltz With Bashir“).
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The crew assembled here is pretty incredible with Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Adam Beach, Ben Foster, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane, and Q’orianka Kilcher rounding out the ensemble cast, with cinematography by Masanobu Takayanagi (“Spotlight,” “Out Of The Furnace”) and a score by Max Richter (“The Leftovers,” “Waltz With Bashir“).
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- 9/5/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
“Hostiles,” a sturdy and characteristically brutal new Western from “Black Mass” director Scott Cooper, begins with somebody shooting a baby — that’s not a spoiler, just a warning. The year is 1892, and a settler named Rosalee Quaid (Rosamund Pike) is teaching her young daughters about the magical power of adverbs. Suddenly, their New Mexico homestead is raided by a band of Comanche renegades. They murder her husband, they shoot her two girls, and they fire a bullet directly into her infant son; Rosalee carries the lifeless bundle in her arms for days, because it’s that kind of movie — the only kind that Cooper knows how to make.
A few clicks south, Cavalry Captain Joseph Blocker (Christian Bale, broiling with his usual rage) is treating his Cheyenne prisoners with a similar degree of savagery. The point couldn’t be clearer, even though “Hostiles” spends the next 130 minutes underlining it with...
A few clicks south, Cavalry Captain Joseph Blocker (Christian Bale, broiling with his usual rage) is treating his Cheyenne prisoners with a similar degree of savagery. The point couldn’t be clearer, even though “Hostiles” spends the next 130 minutes underlining it with...
- 9/3/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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The CW has released the first images from next week’s episode of Legends of Tomorrow, and in them we get to see the return of season 1 standout Jonah Hex. The star of his own critically panned feature film a few years back, the series gave him another chance and delivered a version which made comic book fans much happier.
The Wild West setting is always fun, and Legends of Tomorrow will hopefully take full advantage of that. Based on the synopsis below, we can expect plenty of unique pairings as the team splits up and does their own thing. That’s something it handles well on a consistent basis, and for more details on what to expect, here’s what’s on the way in “Outlaw Country.”
The Legends are still reeling from the news that their time travel-nemesis is a speedster when they are...
The CW has released the first images from next week’s episode of Legends of Tomorrow, and in them we get to see the return of season 1 standout Jonah Hex. The star of his own critically panned feature film a few years back, the series gave him another chance and delivered a version which made comic book fans much happier.
The Wild West setting is always fun, and Legends of Tomorrow will hopefully take full advantage of that. Based on the synopsis below, we can expect plenty of unique pairings as the team splits up and does their own thing. That’s something it handles well on a consistent basis, and for more details on what to expect, here’s what’s on the way in “Outlaw Country.”
The Legends are still reeling from the news that their time travel-nemesis is a speedster when they are...
- 11/10/2016
- by Josh Wilding
- We Got This Covered
The remote town of Pariah – "city of outcasts, delinquents, thieves, whores, and murderers" – located below the border, where die-hard Southern "Confederados" wage war against Mexican revolutionaries. The buried memories of the past, where the dead inventor called Arnold continues to command his android army. The Maze, the late co-founder's mysterious magnum opus, and the secret at its center. It seems like every character in this week's episode of Westworld – "Contrapasso" – is trying to get as far as possible from where they started. But the show's biggest problems remain way closer to home.
- 10/31/2016
- Rollingstone.com
In Feed the Beast Season 1 Episode 6, Thirio opens its doors for a successful soft opening – but between an unexpected hookup, a visit from child protective services and a gang shooting, it wasn't exactly a peaceful one.
This episode is titled "The Wild West," a reference to Dion's repeated insistence that opening a high-end restaurant in the Bronx is the equivalent of braving the Oregon Trail.
This comes up not once, but twice in this episode, and each time it made me cringe.
Watch Feed the Beast Season 1 Episode 6 Online
The scene that was simultaneously the best and worst thing about "The Wild West" was Pilar's passionate hookup with Dion prior to the restaurant's soft opening. Unlike everything that happens in the gangster scenes, it was something that I actually didn't see coming.
It was awesome to finally see Pilar grow a backbone and stand up to Dion, who has demeaned...
This episode is titled "The Wild West," a reference to Dion's repeated insistence that opening a high-end restaurant in the Bronx is the equivalent of braving the Oregon Trail.
This comes up not once, but twice in this episode, and each time it made me cringe.
Watch Feed the Beast Season 1 Episode 6 Online
The scene that was simultaneously the best and worst thing about "The Wild West" was Pilar's passionate hookup with Dion prior to the restaurant's soft opening. Unlike everything that happens in the gangster scenes, it was something that I actually didn't see coming.
It was awesome to finally see Pilar grow a backbone and stand up to Dion, who has demeaned...
- 7/6/2016
- by Lee Jutton
- TVfanatic
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Penny Dreadful delivers more sexy, Gothic melodrama in its latest episode, No Beast So Fierce...
This review contains spoilers.
3.6 No Beast So Fierce
Now that they have the first recruit to their cause, Dorian and Lily begin gathering more fallen women to battle against the men who abused them at Dorian’s home. He’s starting to feel a little outnumbered, however, and Justine is vying for his place in Lily’s affections as well as becoming a little too bloodthirsty where he is concerned. John Clare manages to visit his son, but in doing so, scares the poor child into hysterics as he watches what was once his father flee into the night.
Ethan continues to battle against his father as Hecate’s power over him grows. Sir Malcolm’s concern deepens in tandem as he battles to save his wayward sort-of adopted son from his actual father,...
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Penny Dreadful delivers more sexy, Gothic melodrama in its latest episode, No Beast So Fierce...
This review contains spoilers.
3.6 No Beast So Fierce
Now that they have the first recruit to their cause, Dorian and Lily begin gathering more fallen women to battle against the men who abused them at Dorian’s home. He’s starting to feel a little outnumbered, however, and Justine is vying for his place in Lily’s affections as well as becoming a little too bloodthirsty where he is concerned. John Clare manages to visit his son, but in doing so, scares the poor child into hysterics as he watches what was once his father flee into the night.
Ethan continues to battle against his father as Hecate’s power over him grows. Sir Malcolm’s concern deepens in tandem as he battles to save his wayward sort-of adopted son from his actual father,...
- 6/8/2016
- Den of Geek
Stardate, 2016. We start off for… hold up. I have a confession. I am not a Trekkie. I owe no allegiance to the myriad TV iterations, although I am fond of the original mid-’60s series and their subsequent big screen adventures (except for The Final Frontier—I am reasonably lucid). However, this particular voyage is co-captained by my wife, Michelle, who has a deep fondness for the original gang and their follow-up crew of The Next Generation (which I don’t like, and yet she still married me). She can identify scenes by hearing orchestral movements from the series and the films. In short, she is a Trekkie (and yes, I asked her permission to call her that—I’m not insane).
Okay, let’s try this again. My wife and I leave the big city of Calgary, Alberta behind for a day trip to visit the Trekcetera Museum, located...
Okay, let’s try this again. My wife and I leave the big city of Calgary, Alberta behind for a day trip to visit the Trekcetera Museum, located...
- 4/19/2016
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
Stars: Melanie Scrofano, Tim Rozon, Shamier Anderson, Dominique Provost-Chalkley | Created by Emily Andras
The Wild West has been a long-held fascination in American culture, with hundreds of movies, books and TV shows produced around the subject. There has even been crossover with science-fiction before, with the beloved (yet short-lived) Joss Whedon show Firefly. Well now comes another Wild West fantasy series in the shape of Wynnona Earp – which is based on Beau Smith’s Idw comic of the same name.
The first two episodes of Wynnona Earp set up the story quiet succinctly: After a troubled adolescence spent in and out of juvie, following the death of her father and the disappearance of her older sister Willa, Wynonna Earp reluctantly returns to her hometown of Purgatory for the funeral of her uncle, which sets in motion a series of events that sees Wynonna claim her birthright – inheriting Wyatt Earp’s...
The Wild West has been a long-held fascination in American culture, with hundreds of movies, books and TV shows produced around the subject. There has even been crossover with science-fiction before, with the beloved (yet short-lived) Joss Whedon show Firefly. Well now comes another Wild West fantasy series in the shape of Wynnona Earp – which is based on Beau Smith’s Idw comic of the same name.
The first two episodes of Wynnona Earp set up the story quiet succinctly: After a troubled adolescence spent in and out of juvie, following the death of her father and the disappearance of her older sister Willa, Wynonna Earp reluctantly returns to her hometown of Purgatory for the funeral of her uncle, which sets in motion a series of events that sees Wynonna claim her birthright – inheriting Wyatt Earp’s...
- 4/2/2016
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
From a pop culture perspective, private detectives stand for all that’s memorable about film noir. The indifference, the wittiness, and the moral ambiguity that define each urban knight has since become the stuff of parodied legend. We’re talking about the mediators between the crooks and the cops, the embodiment of back alley grayness that’s so tough to pin down. P.I.’s could cooperate with the law if needed, but they could just as soon do business with the bad guys for the right price. To a certain extent, that is – shamus work has always attracted the ignored and the ethical. The Wild West has mythical men with no name, The Asphalt Jungle has names with investigating licenses attached to them. Instead of a poncho and a ten gallon hat, they’re provided a fedora and trench coat.
The archetype has undergone many faces throughout Hollywood’s history,...
The archetype has undergone many faces throughout Hollywood’s history,...
- 2/16/2016
- by Danilo Castro
- CinemaNerdz
[Lemmy passed away yesterday. Rip, you badass!] As we watch what may soon be the end of Motörhead, with a fine new album just out but iconic leader Lemmy's failing health forcing him from the stage on multiple nights, let's also look back at a milestone in the group's long career.
Bassist/singer Lemmy Kilmister started Motörhead in 1975 after getting kicked out of prog-rockers Hawkwind for being jailed on a drug charge in Canada during a tour. The band's early days were not marked by success. After being signed by United Artists, Motörhead's first shot at recording an album was rejected, and the label then blocked the group's attempted release of a single on Stiff. In '77 -- the lineup having completely turned over aside from its frontman -- they were ready to throw in the towel and even scheduled a farewell concert, but then Chiswick Records gave them money to record a single and...
Bassist/singer Lemmy Kilmister started Motörhead in 1975 after getting kicked out of prog-rockers Hawkwind for being jailed on a drug charge in Canada during a tour. The band's early days were not marked by success. After being signed by United Artists, Motörhead's first shot at recording an album was rejected, and the label then blocked the group's attempted release of a single on Stiff. In '77 -- the lineup having completely turned over aside from its frontman -- they were ready to throw in the towel and even scheduled a farewell concert, but then Chiswick Records gave them money to record a single and...
- 12/30/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Drifter: A Brief Disruption of Tranquility on a Wednesday Afternoon in the West
Written by Tres Dean
Art: Jamie Jones
Lettering/Design: Kate Durré
Self-Published
The Wild West, filled with dusty, one horse towns, the typical saloon, and now mech-suits. Drifter, written by one of IGN’s comic reviewers, Tres Dean, captures the appeal of the old west with a sci-fi twist. The comic’s eponymous drifter is our protagonist, and we enter on a scene inside a town’s saloon. Almost in an expected fashion, a bandit walks in and demands the contents of the safe from the woman at the bar, and the drifter steps in, the bandit commenting that this man should be dead. In a post-western story, this sequence of events is easy to follow to the point of almost becoming trite. It is not until the two step outside onto the single street does the...
Written by Tres Dean
Art: Jamie Jones
Lettering/Design: Kate Durré
Self-Published
The Wild West, filled with dusty, one horse towns, the typical saloon, and now mech-suits. Drifter, written by one of IGN’s comic reviewers, Tres Dean, captures the appeal of the old west with a sci-fi twist. The comic’s eponymous drifter is our protagonist, and we enter on a scene inside a town’s saloon. Almost in an expected fashion, a bandit walks in and demands the contents of the safe from the woman at the bar, and the drifter steps in, the bandit commenting that this man should be dead. In a post-western story, this sequence of events is easy to follow to the point of almost becoming trite. It is not until the two step outside onto the single street does the...
- 10/22/2014
- by Robert Mcguigan
- SoundOnSight
The BBC has announced three new Sir David Attenborough series, including Waking Giants for BBC One.
Attenborough's Paradise Birds and Attenborough's Big Birds have also been commissioned to air on BBC Two.
Waking Giants will follow the recent discovery of dinosaur bones beneath the South American desert, while Paradise Birds will see Attenborough following the avians through the jungles of New Guinea and Indonesia.
"For me birds of paradise are the most romantic and glamorous birds in the world. And this is a film I have wanted to make for 40 years," Attenborough said.
Big Birds will follow Attenborough as he meets some of the world's strangest birds.
The broadcaster has also announced details of two new landmark series: Shark and Dynasty. The former will feature the BBC's Natural History Unit as they use the latest 4K and high-speed camera technology to observe the behaviour of sharks.
Dynasty - which...
Attenborough's Paradise Birds and Attenborough's Big Birds have also been commissioned to air on BBC Two.
Waking Giants will follow the recent discovery of dinosaur bones beneath the South American desert, while Paradise Birds will see Attenborough following the avians through the jungles of New Guinea and Indonesia.
"For me birds of paradise are the most romantic and glamorous birds in the world. And this is a film I have wanted to make for 40 years," Attenborough said.
Big Birds will follow Attenborough as he meets some of the world's strangest birds.
The broadcaster has also announced details of two new landmark series: Shark and Dynasty. The former will feature the BBC's Natural History Unit as they use the latest 4K and high-speed camera technology to observe the behaviour of sharks.
Dynasty - which...
- 10/16/2014
- Digital Spy
The international flavour of this year’s FILM4 FrightFest is underpinned by an historic moment, as the fifteenth installment of the festival features the first Venezuelan film to screen at the festival – Alejandro Hidalgo’s The House at the End of Time.
But no sooner will FrightFesters be lost in a house with a difference, than FrightFest’s gaze turns north and follows the Blood Moon towards Jeremy Wooding’s genre mash up of comedy, horror and the western.
Both The House at the End of Time and Blood Moon possess a distinct sense of feeling, and serve as a testament to the importance of the creative voice even within the shadow of genre. But these are two films that paint a picture of horror in the Americas.
Following on from part one where Alejandro Hidalgo took us on a guided tour of a house he discovered at the end of time,...
But no sooner will FrightFesters be lost in a house with a difference, than FrightFest’s gaze turns north and follows the Blood Moon towards Jeremy Wooding’s genre mash up of comedy, horror and the western.
Both The House at the End of Time and Blood Moon possess a distinct sense of feeling, and serve as a testament to the importance of the creative voice even within the shadow of genre. But these are two films that paint a picture of horror in the Americas.
Following on from part one where Alejandro Hidalgo took us on a guided tour of a house he discovered at the end of time,...
- 8/26/2014
- by Paul Risker
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Any time the living dead are involved, one thing is certain: Things are gonna get outta hand. The Wild West is about to get even wilder and more violent as the dead rise and take the Revelation Trail this August. Read on for details.
Look for Revelation Trail in stores and online from Entertainment One on August 26th. You'll find a full list of the disc's special features below.
Synopsis
In the late nineteenth century, a holy man known only as The Preacher (Daniel Van Thomas) confronts unspeakable evil as a gruesome power consumes the frontier. Standing between ruin and salvation, he joins forces with the town Marshal (Daniel Britt), a man with his own set of demons, in a savage fight against the undead.
Special Features
Commentary with Daniel Van Thomas, Daniel Britt, and Director John Gibson Life on the Trail: The Story of the Film Four Behind-the-Scenes and...
Look for Revelation Trail in stores and online from Entertainment One on August 26th. You'll find a full list of the disc's special features below.
Synopsis
In the late nineteenth century, a holy man known only as The Preacher (Daniel Van Thomas) confronts unspeakable evil as a gruesome power consumes the frontier. Standing between ruin and salvation, he joins forces with the town Marshal (Daniel Britt), a man with his own set of demons, in a savage fight against the undead.
Special Features
Commentary with Daniel Van Thomas, Daniel Britt, and Director John Gibson Life on the Trail: The Story of the Film Four Behind-the-Scenes and...
- 7/30/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Only in a world where Legos can be the subject of a hit movie and Transformers toys the centerpiece of a hit franchise, can we imagine a movie based on sugary marshmallow candies. But for better or worse, that is the film culture we live in now and writer/director Adam Rifkin is prepared to take advantage of it, announcing Tuesday night that he has optioned the rights to Just Born’s Peeps, that colorful sugary goodness that annually generates $2 billion in revenue, primarily around Easter time. (Psst: We’ve got a few plot ideas for him.)
Rifkin, whose varied...
Rifkin, whose varied...
- 4/23/2014
- by Nicole Sperling
- EW - Inside Movies
Is anyone in Washington strong enough to bring Francis Underwood down? We won’t find out for sure until Friday, when new episodes of House of Cards debut on Netflix — but one new character might just be the woman for the job.
The Emmy-winning drama’s second season introduces another political player with serious potential: Jacqueline Sharp, a young congresswoman poised to rise in the ranks after Frank ascends to the White House. She’s played by Deadwood alum Molly Parker — a savvy operator well-versed in both prestige TV and keeping a show’s surprises under wraps. (Parker is so...
The Emmy-winning drama’s second season introduces another political player with serious potential: Jacqueline Sharp, a young congresswoman poised to rise in the ranks after Frank ascends to the White House. She’s played by Deadwood alum Molly Parker — a savvy operator well-versed in both prestige TV and keeping a show’s surprises under wraps. (Parker is so...
- 2/12/2014
- by Hillary Busis
- EW - Inside TV
Ron Moore is returning to TV in a big way this year. The Battlestar Galactica alum is exec producing Syfy's latest scripted hit Helix, which has broken DVR records for the network, and has Starz's high-profile adaptation of Diana Gabaldon's best-sellers Outlander due in the summer. Both series mark Moore's TV comeback after Syfy's BSG prequel spinoff Caprica ended its run in 2010. In the years since, Moore developed futuristic procedural 17th Precinct for NBC, a remake of The Wild West for CBS and Coast Guard drama The McCulloch for NBC, all of which were passed over.
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- 2/12/2014
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
[For anther perspective on this historic collection, read Blu Gilliand's review of Turn Down the Lights here.] In October of 2013 – mere months ago – editor Richard Chizmar spontaneously decided he wanted to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Cemetery Dance magazine with an anthology, and that he wanted to bring his friends in horror along with him. The fact that, in mere weeks, Chizmar was able to assemble a collection that included new work from writers like Stephen King, Jack Ketchum, Peter Straub, and Clive Barker, merely cements the ongoing importance and vitality of Cemetery Dance. Turn Down the Lights functions as both a celebration and a summation; aptly, quite a few of these stories are about endings, quiet and loud. Stephen King’s “Summer Thunder” kicks things off with a bleak slice of post-apocalypse. While King has been exploring the end of the world for six decades now – from 1969’s Stand prologue “Night Surf” to, most recently, 2008’s “Graduation Afternoon” – he continues to find new angles of interest.
- 12/6/2013
- by Kevin Quigley
- FEARnet
Currently most of the gaming world’s focus is on the massively popular and successful GTA V, and while I personally have not yet bought or played the game, I know what brilliance Rockstar are capable of thanks to 2010′s Red Dead Redemption.
The Wild West game took a huge step forward in the storytelling of video games, crafting characters who were expertly written and who add significantly to the story. The brilliant writing ensured important characters in Rdr were never entirely perfect or dull, meaning that the characters feel more human and relatable.
Ultimately of course, it is the protagonist John Marston who is Rdr’s strongest character. By travelling with him, understanding his difficult position and empathising with his frustration at the government, the player grows to adore him.
But as much as John is the reason for the player’s connection to the game, it is important...
The Wild West game took a huge step forward in the storytelling of video games, crafting characters who were expertly written and who add significantly to the story. The brilliant writing ensured important characters in Rdr were never entirely perfect or dull, meaning that the characters feel more human and relatable.
Ultimately of course, it is the protagonist John Marston who is Rdr’s strongest character. By travelling with him, understanding his difficult position and empathising with his frustration at the government, the player grows to adore him.
But as much as John is the reason for the player’s connection to the game, it is important...
- 11/16/2013
- by David Michael Hughes
- Obsessed with Film
The first annual Women and Fashion Film Fest, was founded by Jeanine Jeo-Hi Kim, and brings together the fashion and film industries in order to educate, inspire and examine pressing issues. The mission statement, as per Ms. Kim, “Our Film Fest will spotlight talent, create a forum of women’s issues, as well as, support the creative development of women and students. We will distinguish ourselves through content, compelling panels, and the participation of industry leaders.”
Day 1 was incredible.
In the documentary, Girl Model, the viewer follows Nadya Vall, a young, country girl living in Novokuznetsk, Siberia as she pursues a modeling contract with a Japanese agency that will allow her to travel to Tokyo and earn $8,000 Usd. When she and her colleague arrive unchaperoned, they face language barriers, uncertainty of paid work, weight issues and homesickness.
As many turn to what appears to be the fun, glamorous, financially lucrative, “living the dream,” creative world of fashion, in order to escape from tough economic conditions, the harsh reality still remains that careers in the industry are difficult to break into, are usually begun when girls are just that, ‘girls’ and are still emotionally and physically immature. Also, it usually takes a major investment of your own money to get comp cards and a portfolio together, and can ultimately lead to many dangerous outcomes, such as, eating disorders, drug addiction, kidnappings, sexual harassment, and prostitution.
Luckily, documentaries and discussions can shed light on these human rights issues.
Some of the opinions and statements from the first day of screenings and panel discussions from fashion veterans:
“The Industry remains “The Wild West” and needs laws on the books to help sort through these disconcerting issues. Through legislation and collective conversation, change can occur.”
“Change starts at home through education, preparation and parenting.”
“The industry needs regulation.”
“It is society’s fault. Why do these models have to start at such a young age?”
“The industry needs to be unionized.”
“It is a human rights issue.”
“We are all accountable for our behavior.”
“The careers should be started at 18 years old, the legal working age.”
“Don’t take a job, unless you know how much you are going to make.”
This was a fast response to the problem at hand. As per an article on June 12, 2013,
In the short film, “Blank Canvas,” a woman who has lost all of her hair due to an advanced stage of cancer, demonstrates how she handles the social stigma attached to being bald by having creative Henna designs drawn on to her scalp.
Meanwhile, the short film, “34′′ x 25′′ x 36′′,” philosophized, ”Do we worship the perfect woman?” “Do people have to believe in something?” “What is our salvation as a society?” “Is ‘Barney’s’ the church for today? (insinuating that more people flock to the stores, than to church).
HBO documentary, About Face: Supermodels, Then and Now by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, starts off with the “Velvet Underground” and “Nico” song, “Mirror; I’ll be your mirror, reflect what you are.”
and gets up close and personal with the Supermodels from back in the day; Carmen Dell’Orefice, Isabella Rossellini, Christie Brinkley, Christy Turlington, Jerry Hall, Carol Alt, Paulina Porizkova, Pat Cleveland, Beverly Johnson, Eileen Ford, and Brooke Shields.
Main points from the film: “It is a woman’s business.” “It’s about character and beauty.” ”Modelling allowed me to not have to rely on my father or husband for money.” “It offered me a way to express myself in a way that can not be expressed in words.” “It was an attitude.” “It was living in a bubble.” “I was told to act like I was the most beautiful thing.” “I watched a lot of friends get lost in the wave and pass away from drugs or disease.” “We were clothes hangers.” “Misogyny.” “Confidence.” “Innocent.” “Naivety.” “Discrimination. Color barriers.” “Glad I didn’t die in the process.” “Why shouldn’t we be allowed to age?” Woman are everything; mothers, wives, and business women.” “When I looked like that, I should have walked around naked all the time.” “Modeling: demonstrates insecurity. I’m more beautiful now that I am not a model.” “We all have to go sometime, I want to go with my high heels on.”
Topics discussed in the panel: “Diversity,” “Retouching Photos,” “Strong sense of self” “Strides in diversity,” “Beauty the way you are.” “The more women writers that enter the industry, the better.” “Media should promote healthy eating and living.” “Be true to yourself.” “Aging. Celebrate women as they advance.” “Be Humble.” “Be honest with yourself.” “Spontaneous.” “Fearlessness,” and a “Sense of Humor.”
And wrapping up Day 1: Ralph Rucci: A Designer and his House, by David Boatman displays the hard work involved in creating and displaying a collection.
Article by Sharon Abella
SydneysBuzz is happy to introduce a new blogger, Sharon Abella of One World Cinema, an internationally minded website about film, music and travel. Although the editor-in-chief, Sharon Abella, holds multiple degrees in the sciences, she understands that this site would not be possible without the help of God, family, friends, and life partner, Jon Kilik.
Day 1 was incredible.
In the documentary, Girl Model, the viewer follows Nadya Vall, a young, country girl living in Novokuznetsk, Siberia as she pursues a modeling contract with a Japanese agency that will allow her to travel to Tokyo and earn $8,000 Usd. When she and her colleague arrive unchaperoned, they face language barriers, uncertainty of paid work, weight issues and homesickness.
As many turn to what appears to be the fun, glamorous, financially lucrative, “living the dream,” creative world of fashion, in order to escape from tough economic conditions, the harsh reality still remains that careers in the industry are difficult to break into, are usually begun when girls are just that, ‘girls’ and are still emotionally and physically immature. Also, it usually takes a major investment of your own money to get comp cards and a portfolio together, and can ultimately lead to many dangerous outcomes, such as, eating disorders, drug addiction, kidnappings, sexual harassment, and prostitution.
Luckily, documentaries and discussions can shed light on these human rights issues.
Some of the opinions and statements from the first day of screenings and panel discussions from fashion veterans:
“The Industry remains “The Wild West” and needs laws on the books to help sort through these disconcerting issues. Through legislation and collective conversation, change can occur.”
“Change starts at home through education, preparation and parenting.”
“The industry needs regulation.”
“It is society’s fault. Why do these models have to start at such a young age?”
“The industry needs to be unionized.”
“It is a human rights issue.”
“We are all accountable for our behavior.”
“The careers should be started at 18 years old, the legal working age.”
“Don’t take a job, unless you know how much you are going to make.”
This was a fast response to the problem at hand. As per an article on June 12, 2013,
In the short film, “Blank Canvas,” a woman who has lost all of her hair due to an advanced stage of cancer, demonstrates how she handles the social stigma attached to being bald by having creative Henna designs drawn on to her scalp.
Meanwhile, the short film, “34′′ x 25′′ x 36′′,” philosophized, ”Do we worship the perfect woman?” “Do people have to believe in something?” “What is our salvation as a society?” “Is ‘Barney’s’ the church for today? (insinuating that more people flock to the stores, than to church).
HBO documentary, About Face: Supermodels, Then and Now by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, starts off with the “Velvet Underground” and “Nico” song, “Mirror; I’ll be your mirror, reflect what you are.”
and gets up close and personal with the Supermodels from back in the day; Carmen Dell’Orefice, Isabella Rossellini, Christie Brinkley, Christy Turlington, Jerry Hall, Carol Alt, Paulina Porizkova, Pat Cleveland, Beverly Johnson, Eileen Ford, and Brooke Shields.
Main points from the film: “It is a woman’s business.” “It’s about character and beauty.” ”Modelling allowed me to not have to rely on my father or husband for money.” “It offered me a way to express myself in a way that can not be expressed in words.” “It was an attitude.” “It was living in a bubble.” “I was told to act like I was the most beautiful thing.” “I watched a lot of friends get lost in the wave and pass away from drugs or disease.” “We were clothes hangers.” “Misogyny.” “Confidence.” “Innocent.” “Naivety.” “Discrimination. Color barriers.” “Glad I didn’t die in the process.” “Why shouldn’t we be allowed to age?” Woman are everything; mothers, wives, and business women.” “When I looked like that, I should have walked around naked all the time.” “Modeling: demonstrates insecurity. I’m more beautiful now that I am not a model.” “We all have to go sometime, I want to go with my high heels on.”
Topics discussed in the panel: “Diversity,” “Retouching Photos,” “Strong sense of self” “Strides in diversity,” “Beauty the way you are.” “The more women writers that enter the industry, the better.” “Media should promote healthy eating and living.” “Be true to yourself.” “Aging. Celebrate women as they advance.” “Be Humble.” “Be honest with yourself.” “Spontaneous.” “Fearlessness,” and a “Sense of Humor.”
And wrapping up Day 1: Ralph Rucci: A Designer and his House, by David Boatman displays the hard work involved in creating and displaying a collection.
Article by Sharon Abella
SydneysBuzz is happy to introduce a new blogger, Sharon Abella of One World Cinema, an internationally minded website about film, music and travel. Although the editor-in-chief, Sharon Abella, holds multiple degrees in the sciences, she understands that this site would not be possible without the help of God, family, friends, and life partner, Jon Kilik.
- 7/28/2013
- by Sharon Abella
- Sydney's Buzz
After 18 years, Fox’s legendary reality chief is stepping down.
Mike Darnell, a colorful provocateur who pioneered the genre, will leave the network at the end of June.
For nearly two decades, Darnell’s shows have generated ratings, headlines and occasional outrage. In the late 1990s, he helped kick-start contemporary reality TV through a series of attention-grabbing specials, such as World’s Scariest Police Chases, When Stunts Go Bad, Close Calls: Cheating Death and, of course, When Animals Attack! (and don’t forget the exclamation point). As the reality genre began to take shape in the wake of CBS’ Survivor,...
Mike Darnell, a colorful provocateur who pioneered the genre, will leave the network at the end of June.
For nearly two decades, Darnell’s shows have generated ratings, headlines and occasional outrage. In the late 1990s, he helped kick-start contemporary reality TV through a series of attention-grabbing specials, such as World’s Scariest Police Chases, When Stunts Go Bad, Close Calls: Cheating Death and, of course, When Animals Attack! (and don’t forget the exclamation point). As the reality genre began to take shape in the wake of CBS’ Survivor,...
- 5/24/2013
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Quentin Tarantino seems to be working his way back through the ages. We’ve had the modern day crime thrillers, the World War II scalp fests and now Tarantino arrives in The Wild West with Django Unchained. A tale of a dentist bounty hunter, Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), who frees a slave Django (Jamie Foxx) and gets him involved in his business, and it ain't dentistry. They both embark on a quest of bounty hunting as well as attempting to resuce Django’s wife, (Kerry Washington) who is “owned” by Calvin Candie (Leondardo Di Caprio). Django Unchained is a movie of two quite distinct halves. Firstly, Schultz has to claim a number of bounties and when he has enough bodies racked up it’s then he’ll help Django free his wife, and thats where the second half kicks in. But its all very well connected with our bounty...
- 1/17/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
Ryan Lambie Nov 20, 2016
On this day in 1996, Sly Stallone's John Spartan was frozen in the action flick, Demolition Man. We take a timely look back...
Outside the crowd-pleasing safety of the Rocky and Rambo franchises, Sylvester Stallone’s career has seen mixed fortunes. Some of his movies were entertaining, but didn’t make huge amounts of money (such as 1981’s Nighthawks), while others were either critical or financial calamities – Stallone’s ill-advised forays into comedy, Oscar and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot spring to mind.
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In fact, Stallone’s entire career is studded with alternating hits and misses; 1987 arm-wrestling drama Over The Top under-performed, but Rambo III came out the following year...
On this day in 1996, Sly Stallone's John Spartan was frozen in the action flick, Demolition Man. We take a timely look back...
Outside the crowd-pleasing safety of the Rocky and Rambo franchises, Sylvester Stallone’s career has seen mixed fortunes. Some of his movies were entertaining, but didn’t make huge amounts of money (such as 1981’s Nighthawks), while others were either critical or financial calamities – Stallone’s ill-advised forays into comedy, Oscar and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot spring to mind.
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In fact, Stallone’s entire career is studded with alternating hits and misses; 1987 arm-wrestling drama Over The Top under-performed, but Rambo III came out the following year...
- 9/10/2012
- Den of Geek
TLC is back with the beauty nightmare aka Toddlers & Tiaras. Watch 5-year-old Bridgett aspires to become an exterminator when she grows up. As she hunts her Elkville, Illinois backyard for insects to exterminate, she slips up and admits she would also like to kill Justin Bieber. TLC is premiering an all-new episode of the hit series this Wednesday, April 25 at 10/9c. The Wild West comes to Indiana for a rhinestone-studded showdown where the Supreme Face winner will take home a puppy. Yes, a real life puppy. Bridgett.s mom, Amanda, would rather take home a cash prize, as all of her winnings go straight into a college fund in hopes that she becomes a doctor to save...
- 4/25/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
The wild West is full of close contests. Vote now to make sure your band makes it to round two!
By James Montgomery
Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl
Photo: Getty Images
MTV's Musical March Madness tipped off Monday, and already things are heating up. We've got potential upsets brewing (James Durbin over the Foo Fighters), ungodly massacres unfolding (Tokio Hotel up 133,000 votes on Arcade Fire) and a whole bunch of contests that are just too close to call (the Radiohead/Bruce Springsteen and Metallica/Guns N' Roses battles are most definitely going to come down to the wire).
Vote for your favorite band, discuss and share on Facebook and Twitter in the MTV Musical March Madness interactive bracket!
With first-round voting open until Sunday at midnight Et, there's still plenty of time for things to change — and it's up to you to determine who advances to round two. We realize...
By James Montgomery
Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl
Photo: Getty Images
MTV's Musical March Madness tipped off Monday, and already things are heating up. We've got potential upsets brewing (James Durbin over the Foo Fighters), ungodly massacres unfolding (Tokio Hotel up 133,000 votes on Arcade Fire) and a whole bunch of contests that are just too close to call (the Radiohead/Bruce Springsteen and Metallica/Guns N' Roses battles are most definitely going to come down to the wire).
Vote for your favorite band, discuss and share on Facebook and Twitter in the MTV Musical March Madness interactive bracket!
With first-round voting open until Sunday at midnight Et, there's still plenty of time for things to change — and it's up to you to determine who advances to round two. We realize...
- 3/14/2012
- MTV Music News
Matt Maxwell has announced the third volume in his Strangeways series. The writer unveiled The Land Will Know on his blog. The Wild West horror series follows the adventures of former soldier Seth Collins. "The Land Will Know will be the third Strangeways book, and it's going to be something different," said Maxwell. "Before I'd gone and told the main story, with Collins versus a werewolf or Collins versus vampires or what have you. Then there was a backup feature that turned everything on its head and told things from the monster's point of view. "But I wanted (more)...
- 8/30/2011
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
The Wild West is making a comeback on TV, with another Western project in the works. TNT has given a cast-contingent pilot order to Gateway, from HBO’s Band of Brothers and The Pacific writer Bruce C. McKenna and Nikita and CSI producer-director Danny Cannon.
Gateway is about an action/adventure set in a town of the same name in Colorado in the 1880s. The story chronicles three brothers who step up to save their town when their sheriff father is murdered, pitting them against a corrupt cattle baron determined to make the town his own.
After HBO revived the...
Gateway is about an action/adventure set in a town of the same name in Colorado in the 1880s. The story chronicles three brothers who step up to save their town when their sheriff father is murdered, pitting them against a corrupt cattle baron determined to make the town his own.
After HBO revived the...
- 8/18/2011
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
The wild West days of the world’s film festivals are not over. Despite festivals getting bigger and bigger with each passing season, with programming spots going to top-billed film with star-packed casts, there is still plenty of room for up-and-coming filmmakers to get their stuff submitted, accepted, and seen at festivals. Case in point – the No Budget Film Festival, the second annual festival of its kind from cARTel: Collaborative Arts La. Sick of festivals that only seem to show huge budget films from established directors that would get buzz anyway? Well then, how about a film festival where every film was made for zero dollars. You read that right. No scrilla. Not a red cent. Sans dinero. Filmmakers were given only two rules for making their “no budget” flicks – they could not spend any money and all films had to clock in under eight minutes. Really, no money? That’s right – sets, costumes...
- 8/16/2011
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
When it comes to summer movies, the cavalry has finally arrived.
True, so far I've loved a few summer flicks like Harry Potter, X-Men: First Class, and Super 8, and I thought Captain America was fine. But there have also been way too many stinkers.
Fortunately, Cowboys & Aliens, a great popcorn movie based on a clever premise, makes up for some of the dreck. Basically, it delivers everything you want in a summer movie (and frankly, I was thrilled that there's finally a movie that isn't in 3D, because those plastic glasses are really starting to give me a headache!).
Aliens are invading earth, but it's not happening in the present. It's happening 150 years ago, in the time of cowboys in the wild west. A man (Daniel Craig) wakes up in the desert with no memory of his past or identity, just a futuristic bracelet around his wrist. Soon it...
True, so far I've loved a few summer flicks like Harry Potter, X-Men: First Class, and Super 8, and I thought Captain America was fine. But there have also been way too many stinkers.
Fortunately, Cowboys & Aliens, a great popcorn movie based on a clever premise, makes up for some of the dreck. Basically, it delivers everything you want in a summer movie (and frankly, I was thrilled that there's finally a movie that isn't in 3D, because those plastic glasses are really starting to give me a headache!).
Aliens are invading earth, but it's not happening in the present. It's happening 150 years ago, in the time of cowboys in the wild west. A man (Daniel Craig) wakes up in the desert with no memory of his past or identity, just a futuristic bracelet around his wrist. Soon it...
- 7/28/2011
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
Only a month after publication, Elton John‘s production company Rocket Pictures is set to develop an adaptation of the children’s book Will Gallows and the Snake Bellied Troll. This is the same studio that made the CGI film Gnomeo & Juliet. This new film project will be developed as a live-action/CGI hybrid film.
The wild west-meets-fantasy children’s novel will be produced by Rocket Pictures’ partners Steve Hamilton Shaw and David Furnish. “We are delighted to have secured this imaginative, fun and thrilling book and look forward to bringing it to the screen. We’re sure the combination of a cowboy story in a fantastical world is a winning one.” said Furnish.
Derek Keilty wrote the book series that the film will be based on, and it tells the story of a young cowboy who seeks justice in a world that mashes together fantasy and the Wild West.
The wild west-meets-fantasy children’s novel will be produced by Rocket Pictures’ partners Steve Hamilton Shaw and David Furnish. “We are delighted to have secured this imaginative, fun and thrilling book and look forward to bringing it to the screen. We’re sure the combination of a cowboy story in a fantastical world is a winning one.” said Furnish.
Derek Keilty wrote the book series that the film will be based on, and it tells the story of a young cowboy who seeks justice in a world that mashes together fantasy and the Wild West.
- 7/27/2011
- by Graham
- City of Films
For an indie developer, Twisted Pixel's sure having a busy few months! Just a couple weeks ago we saw the release of the critically-beloved "Ms. Splosion Man," and it seems we're just two months away from their next release: "The Gunstringer." The Wild West-inspired, Kinect-supporting, marionette-heavy romp is scheduled to drop on September 13 for $39.99. Included in that price are a few nifty extras.
I'll admit that I was a bit concerned when Twisted Pixel revealed that they were turning "The Gunstringer" into a full retail game. The game was originally planned as a downloadable, and just tossing in added content at the last minute to justify a higher price point is never a good sign. So, instead, they're tossing in a completely different game!
Copies of "The Gunstringer" will come with "Fruit Ninja Kinect," Halfbrick's mobile hit which is scheduled to drop on Xbla on August 10 as part of the Summer of Arcade initiative.
I'll admit that I was a bit concerned when Twisted Pixel revealed that they were turning "The Gunstringer" into a full retail game. The game was originally planned as a downloadable, and just tossing in added content at the last minute to justify a higher price point is never a good sign. So, instead, they're tossing in a completely different game!
Copies of "The Gunstringer" will come with "Fruit Ninja Kinect," Halfbrick's mobile hit which is scheduled to drop on Xbla on August 10 as part of the Summer of Arcade initiative.
- 7/22/2011
- by Russ Frushtick
- MTV Multiplayer
"Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood" was an awfully entertaining summer 2009 release from developer Techland. The Wild West setting looks just right and the game's Chrome Engine 4 gives your guns and the bullets they fire a real sense of heft and power. Today Ubisoft revealed the next chapter in the "Juarez" series, "Call of Juarez: The Cartel," which moves from the previous two games' Wild West setting to the streets of present-day Los Angeles.
The fun only starts in Los Angeles of course. Ubi's none-too-revealing press release does state that the action eventually moves to Juarez, Mexico. Given the way the last game ended (spoiler alert), I think it's reasonable to expect some sort of treasure-hunting adventure from "The Cartel," though that title certainly indicates that the South and Central American drug trade could also play a part.
Ubisoft director of marketing Adam Novickas writes in the press release, "'Call...
The fun only starts in Los Angeles of course. Ubi's none-too-revealing press release does state that the action eventually moves to Juarez, Mexico. Given the way the last game ended (spoiler alert), I think it's reasonable to expect some sort of treasure-hunting adventure from "The Cartel," though that title certainly indicates that the South and Central American drug trade could also play a part.
Ubisoft director of marketing Adam Novickas writes in the press release, "'Call...
- 2/7/2011
- by Adam Rosenberg
- MTV Multiplayer
We’ve been teased with a few images and a poster from Jon Favreau’s adaptation of the graphic novel by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley and now we’ve got our first look at the trailer.
The cast is pretty outstanding, with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford joined by Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell with support from Noah Ringer, Paul Dano and Clancy Brown and this is what we’ve been waiting for – the chance to see what Favreau has in store.
The Wild West setting will go some way to differentiate it from the seemingly endless torrent of alien invasion flicks and having Harrison Ford on screen is always something worth watching.
Synopsis: 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he...
The cast is pretty outstanding, with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford joined by Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell with support from Noah Ringer, Paul Dano and Clancy Brown and this is what we’ve been waiting for – the chance to see what Favreau has in store.
The Wild West setting will go some way to differentiate it from the seemingly endless torrent of alien invasion flicks and having Harrison Ford on screen is always something worth watching.
Synopsis: 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he...
- 11/17/2010
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival 2010, Animal Kingdom has been both a critical success on the festival circuit and one of the biggest grossing films in its home country of Australia.
This gripping crime-thriller leads the Australian Film Institute Awards, with 18 nominations under its hat - including Best Supporting Actor for Guy Pearce. The film hits cinemas 25 February next year, and is already shaping up to be one of our ones to watch in 2011.
Take a look at the UK poster exclusively on LOVEFiLM, right here.
Welcome to the Melbourne underworld, where tensions are building between dangerous criminals and equally dangerous police. The Wild West played out on the city's streets. Armed robber Pope Cody (Ben Mendelsohn) is in hiding, on the run from a gang of renegade detectives who want him dead. His business partner and best friend, Barry 'Baz' Brown (Joel Edgerton), wants out of the game,...
This gripping crime-thriller leads the Australian Film Institute Awards, with 18 nominations under its hat - including Best Supporting Actor for Guy Pearce. The film hits cinemas 25 February next year, and is already shaping up to be one of our ones to watch in 2011.
Take a look at the UK poster exclusively on LOVEFiLM, right here.
Welcome to the Melbourne underworld, where tensions are building between dangerous criminals and equally dangerous police. The Wild West played out on the city's streets. Armed robber Pope Cody (Ben Mendelsohn) is in hiding, on the run from a gang of renegade detectives who want him dead. His business partner and best friend, Barry 'Baz' Brown (Joel Edgerton), wants out of the game,...
- 11/9/2010
- by jennifer.trevorrow@lovefilm.com (Jennifer Trevorrow)
- LOVEFiLM
Get your chaps and spurs on. The Western genre is riding back into Tinseltown, but perhaps not as you know it.
The Wild West has been popular on the silver screen since 1903's silent film The Great Train Robbery, with John Wayne, Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood making their name in the genre.
More fantastical tales in an Old West setting have included 1977's The Shadow of Chikara (you can read all about that here), Wild Wild West (1999) and Westworld (1973).
Westworld starred James Brolin (who is, of course, married to Barbra Streisand) whose son Josh Brolin stepped into the genre for this year's Jonah Hex, based on the DC Comics title about a disfigured gunslinger.
It was a critical and commercial dud but, undeterred, Hollywood is hoping for better luck adapting Western-themed comic books with Cowboys & Aliens - released next July and starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford as cowboys...
The Wild West has been popular on the silver screen since 1903's silent film The Great Train Robbery, with John Wayne, Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood making their name in the genre.
More fantastical tales in an Old West setting have included 1977's The Shadow of Chikara (you can read all about that here), Wild Wild West (1999) and Westworld (1973).
Westworld starred James Brolin (who is, of course, married to Barbra Streisand) whose son Josh Brolin stepped into the genre for this year's Jonah Hex, based on the DC Comics title about a disfigured gunslinger.
It was a critical and commercial dud but, undeterred, Hollywood is hoping for better luck adapting Western-themed comic books with Cowboys & Aliens - released next July and starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford as cowboys...
- 11/7/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
The Dead and the Damned is a zombie film set in the wild west. Here, prospectors and pioneers come under the influence of a fallen meteor, which releases an "aggressive virus" (Afm). This film is currently at the American Film Market, with a showing today (November 6th). In preparation for the presentation, a new movie poster is available left, which shows off the main characters both good and bad. Hopefully, a wise distributor picks up the film for horror fans everywhere. Re-visit the film's trailer inside.
The film's synopsis:
"The wild west! Gold miners unearth an ancient meteor which they believe contains precious emeralds encased within. They crack it open and unwittingly release an aggressive virus which transmutes everyone in town into mindless ravenous mutants" (Afm).
Release Date: November 6th (Limited Showing).
Director/writer: Rene Perez.
Cast: David A. Lockhart, Camille Montomery, Rick Mora, and Robert Amstler.
The trailer for...
The film's synopsis:
"The wild west! Gold miners unearth an ancient meteor which they believe contains precious emeralds encased within. They crack it open and unwittingly release an aggressive virus which transmutes everyone in town into mindless ravenous mutants" (Afm).
Release Date: November 6th (Limited Showing).
Director/writer: Rene Perez.
Cast: David A. Lockhart, Camille Montomery, Rick Mora, and Robert Amstler.
The trailer for...
- 11/6/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Reviewer: James van Maanen
Rating (out of 5): ***½
The Wild West: An ancient locomotive speeds along a railroad track, as the passengers in the cars behind it chat, snooze, play cards, or nibble on food. Down the aisle comes the snack-seller hawk-ing treats, and we hear the dulcet call, "Candy! Rice cakes! Independence for Korea!" Yup: We're long past Kansas; in fact, so much farther west of California that we're east.
To be honest, we already know this, as The Good The Bad The Weird (yes, it is definitely meant to remind you of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) begins with a scene in which a sleek, handsome but slightly scary young Asian man has been given an assignment from an older, powerful and probably lethal fellow that involves the delivery of a valuable map. Then we see a scene of hawks and vultures nibbling carnage and suddenly all hell breaks loose,...
Rating (out of 5): ***½
The Wild West: An ancient locomotive speeds along a railroad track, as the passengers in the cars behind it chat, snooze, play cards, or nibble on food. Down the aisle comes the snack-seller hawk-ing treats, and we hear the dulcet call, "Candy! Rice cakes! Independence for Korea!" Yup: We're long past Kansas; in fact, so much farther west of California that we're east.
To be honest, we already know this, as The Good The Bad The Weird (yes, it is definitely meant to remind you of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) begins with a scene in which a sleek, handsome but slightly scary young Asian man has been given an assignment from an older, powerful and probably lethal fellow that involves the delivery of a valuable map. Then we see a scene of hawks and vultures nibbling carnage and suddenly all hell breaks loose,...
- 8/25/2010
- by GreenCineStaff
- GreenCine
A couple of days ago we put up the brand new trailer for Australian movie, Animal Kingdom. Collider.com have given us the first poster in a decent hi res for the movie today which stars Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, Sullivan Stapleton, James Frecheville and is directed by David Michôd.
Synopsis: Welcome to the Melbourne underworld, where tensions are building between dangerous criminals and equally dangerous police. The Wild West played out on the city’s streets. Armed robber Pope Cody (Ben Mendelsohn) is in hiding, on the run from a gang of renegade detectives who want him dead. His business partner and best friend, Barry ‘Baz’ Brown (Joel Edgerton), wants out of the game, recognizing that their days of old-school banditry are all but over. Pope’s younger brother, the speed-addicted and volatile Craig Cody (Sullivan Stapleton), is making a fortune in the...
Synopsis: Welcome to the Melbourne underworld, where tensions are building between dangerous criminals and equally dangerous police. The Wild West played out on the city’s streets. Armed robber Pope Cody (Ben Mendelsohn) is in hiding, on the run from a gang of renegade detectives who want him dead. His business partner and best friend, Barry ‘Baz’ Brown (Joel Edgerton), wants out of the game, recognizing that their days of old-school banditry are all but over. Pope’s younger brother, the speed-addicted and volatile Craig Cody (Sullivan Stapleton), is making a fortune in the...
- 7/2/2010
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Here’s the brand new trailer for Australian movie, Animal Kingdom which stars Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, Sullivan Stapleton, James Frecheville and is directed by David Michôd.
Synopsis: Welcome to the Melbourne underworld, where tensions are building between dangerous criminals and equally dangerous police. The Wild West played out on the city’s streets. Armed robber Pope Cody (Ben Mendelsohn) is in hiding, on the run from a gang of renegade detectives who want him dead. His business partner and best friend, Barry ‘Baz’ Brown (Joel Edgerton), wants out of the game, recognizing that their days of old-school banditry are all but over. Pope’s younger brother, the speed-addicted and volatile Craig Cody (Sullivan Stapleton), is making a fortune in the illicit substances trade – the true cash cow of the modern criminal fraternity – while the youngest Cody brother, Darren (Luke Ford), naively navigates his...
Synopsis: Welcome to the Melbourne underworld, where tensions are building between dangerous criminals and equally dangerous police. The Wild West played out on the city’s streets. Armed robber Pope Cody (Ben Mendelsohn) is in hiding, on the run from a gang of renegade detectives who want him dead. His business partner and best friend, Barry ‘Baz’ Brown (Joel Edgerton), wants out of the game, recognizing that their days of old-school banditry are all but over. Pope’s younger brother, the speed-addicted and volatile Craig Cody (Sullivan Stapleton), is making a fortune in the illicit substances trade – the true cash cow of the modern criminal fraternity – while the youngest Cody brother, Darren (Luke Ford), naively navigates his...
- 6/27/2010
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sony Pictures Classics has released the official trailer for the highly acclaimed Australian thriller called Animal Kingdom. This movie looks like a great film! This film is about a family of armed robbers from Melbourne's underworld, with a focus on a teenage boy and his uncles. I did have the opportunity to see this film at Sundance this year, but our writer Abe Froman did, and it was his favorite film up at Sundance. Here's a couple things he said about it in his review.
A finely tuned piece of pure heart-pounding suspense, filled with a wide array of magnetic perfomaces. Animal Kingdom gives us a thorough look into a family of drug dealers and bank robbers, who have successfully eluded police. Hiding in plain sight with no prosecutable evidence against them, renegade cops take matters into their own hands, and the family does what it takes to protect themselves.
A finely tuned piece of pure heart-pounding suspense, filled with a wide array of magnetic perfomaces. Animal Kingdom gives us a thorough look into a family of drug dealers and bank robbers, who have successfully eluded police. Hiding in plain sight with no prosecutable evidence against them, renegade cops take matters into their own hands, and the family does what it takes to protect themselves.
- 6/26/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
It's called The Dead and the Damned. It's a zombie movie 'cept nothing has changed except for the setting. The budgets are still small. The boobs still come out for cheap thrills. Zombies keep their clothes on so the makeup budget only has to account for faces and hands. The action blows [pay particular attention to the hand to hand between cowboy and indian]. Bleh.
The synopsis as written up for the Hole in the Head Festival in July, The wild west. A pair of gold miners unearth an ancient meteor which they believe contains precious emeralds encased within. They crack it open and unwittingly release an aggressive virus which transmutes everyone in town into mindless ravenous mutants.
A gun slinging bounty hunter and his Apache warrior prisoner come to town only to find it swarming with blood thirsty mutants. The bounty hunter is forced to release his prisoner and the two must join forces to survive the mutant hordes. What ensues...
The synopsis as written up for the Hole in the Head Festival in July, The wild west. A pair of gold miners unearth an ancient meteor which they believe contains precious emeralds encased within. They crack it open and unwittingly release an aggressive virus which transmutes everyone in town into mindless ravenous mutants.
A gun slinging bounty hunter and his Apache warrior prisoner come to town only to find it swarming with blood thirsty mutants. The bounty hunter is forced to release his prisoner and the two must join forces to survive the mutant hordes. What ensues...
- 6/16/2010
- Screen Anarchy
The Wild West has more than its fair share of classic iconography: cowboys, tumble weed, station wagons, Will Smith; and now thanks to Rockstar Games ‘invisible things’ can be added to the list.
Kotaku is reporting that people have been experiencing an invisibility glitch whilst playing the western-epic Red Dead Redemption. The glitch is randomly making specific body parts, items, and even whole character models vanish. One user reported that he alone had seen four different variations of the bug in action.
The glitch has been affecting owners of both the Xbox 360 and PS3 version and is most prominent when multiplayer mode is activated. Some users have isolated the problem to specific regions of the map, that when stepped into cause the player and/or his horse to disappear. Which, as you can imagine, can make for some rather infuriating death-matches.
Here’s a short video demonstrating the issue:
Since...
Kotaku is reporting that people have been experiencing an invisibility glitch whilst playing the western-epic Red Dead Redemption. The glitch is randomly making specific body parts, items, and even whole character models vanish. One user reported that he alone had seen four different variations of the bug in action.
The glitch has been affecting owners of both the Xbox 360 and PS3 version and is most prominent when multiplayer mode is activated. Some users have isolated the problem to specific regions of the map, that when stepped into cause the player and/or his horse to disappear. Which, as you can imagine, can make for some rather infuriating death-matches.
Here’s a short video demonstrating the issue:
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- 5/20/2010
- by Tom Copeland
- GameRant
You've torn off the cellophane and loaded the disc into your console of choice. Watched the opening cutscene unfold with John Marston's arrival in Armadillo, ridden off to Fort Mercer and had a bullet lodged in your gut. Now you're fully recovered and wandering around the idyllic setting of MacFarlane's Ranch. You've got your trusty six-shooter, any number of horses to hop on and ride, and an massive open world waiting before you.
Sooooooo... now what?
(1) Stay Close To Home
The Wild West beyond the borders of MacFarlane's Ranch isn't overwhelmingly dangerous, certainly no worse than some of the more gang-infested areas of Liberty City, but there's more than enough to keep you occupied in the early going in the immediate vicinity of the ranch.
(2) Learn From The Master
Bonnie MacFarlane is a kind woman, but also a tough one. She and her father Drew have put together a...
Sooooooo... now what?
(1) Stay Close To Home
The Wild West beyond the borders of MacFarlane's Ranch isn't overwhelmingly dangerous, certainly no worse than some of the more gang-infested areas of Liberty City, but there's more than enough to keep you occupied in the early going in the immediate vicinity of the ranch.
(2) Learn From The Master
Bonnie MacFarlane is a kind woman, but also a tough one. She and her father Drew have put together a...
- 5/18/2010
- by Adam Rosenberg
- MTV Multiplayer
War games proliferate in the multiplayer gaming landscape, but the Western is a thinly exploited genre. Enter Lead And Gold: Gangs Of The Wild West. The class-based gunplay between teams of dusty scavengers is fast and dirty, but there’s a sense of strategy that rewards slowing things down a beat and keeping an eye on your fellow cowboys. Four classes each offer unique weapons, from pistol to long-range rifle and devastating shotgun. Each class also has a special trait: The pistol-packing gunslinger can fan out many shots at once, and the sniper can lay animal traps. Characters also radiate ...
- 4/12/2010
- avclub.com
My Chemical Romance outlast 30 Seconds to Mars, in Bigger Than the Sound's bracketology!
By James Montgomery
My Chemical Romance
Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ FilmMagic
When historians look back on MTV News' inaugural Musical March Madness tournament, they will undoubtedly focus on the Sweet 16 matchup between My Chemical Romance and 30 Seconds to Mars (well, either that or Linkin Park's rather erroneous omission from the entire field of 65). It was, to borrow a few catchphrases, a clash of the titans, a barn-burner, a good old-fashioned slobberknocker: Two of the biggest bands on the planet — with two of the most rabid fanbases, the MCRmy and the Echelon — squaring off for a spot in the Elite Eight. It was like Duke/ North Carolina, Ohio State/ Michigan, Israel University/ Palestine Tech, only bloodier, more venomous. It was a match for the ages.
Votes poured in by the bucket load. Both bands led for extended periods of time,...
By James Montgomery
My Chemical Romance
Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ FilmMagic
When historians look back on MTV News' inaugural Musical March Madness tournament, they will undoubtedly focus on the Sweet 16 matchup between My Chemical Romance and 30 Seconds to Mars (well, either that or Linkin Park's rather erroneous omission from the entire field of 65). It was, to borrow a few catchphrases, a clash of the titans, a barn-burner, a good old-fashioned slobberknocker: Two of the biggest bands on the planet — with two of the most rabid fanbases, the MCRmy and the Echelon — squaring off for a spot in the Elite Eight. It was like Duke/ North Carolina, Ohio State/ Michigan, Israel University/ Palestine Tech, only bloodier, more venomous. It was a match for the ages.
Votes poured in by the bucket load. Both bands led for extended periods of time,...
- 3/31/2010
- MTV Music News
The Wild West represents the untamed heart of darkness within every man, a place whose lawlessness was inimical to the spirit of possibility that existed in its great expanse. A place where anyone could reinvent themselves if they had the grit to do so. But the line between maintaining the law and executing justice and falling prey to the violence and depravity of the untamed wilderness wasn't an easy one to walk. To keep the criminals at bay, a lawman often had to use the villain's tools of the trade: he had to be every bit as deadly and cunning as the men he was after. In FX's sensational new drama series Justified, based on Elmore Leonard's Raylan Givens character (first seen in the novella "Fire in the Hole"), the figurative embodiment of that 19th century Western lawman is U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), a man who...
- 3/16/2010
- by Jace
- Televisionary
The Wild West is a genre that seems ripe for a great video game. Lawless towns, outlaws, bandit gangs, shootouts at high noon, gambling, the gold rush, and fierce Native Americans are just some of the elements that should make a terrific backdrop.
To date, unfortunately, no game has really done justice to this classic American theme (although Law of the West was good for some laughs). Earlier this year, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood was promoted as the greatest Western-themed video game to date. The presentation of the Wild West elements was a great step in the right direction, and the game captured the gritty nature of the period, but many complained that the game’s single-player campaign was repetitive, too linear, and short.
Enter Rockstar Games and its attempt to take the Red Dead Revolver series to the next level. Check out the trailer below showing the gameplay for Red Dead Redemption.
To date, unfortunately, no game has really done justice to this classic American theme (although Law of the West was good for some laughs). Earlier this year, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood was promoted as the greatest Western-themed video game to date. The presentation of the Wild West elements was a great step in the right direction, and the game captured the gritty nature of the period, but many complained that the game’s single-player campaign was repetitive, too linear, and short.
Enter Rockstar Games and its attempt to take the Red Dead Revolver series to the next level. Check out the trailer below showing the gameplay for Red Dead Redemption.
- 12/17/2009
- by Jason Weissman
- GameRant
The Wild West was, to paraphrase one historian, a sexual nightmare. With the disproportionate ratio of men to women, prostitutes abounded and those few women who didn't charge for their affections were hotly contested items among lonesome cowpokes. Portraying the sexual ballet onscreen has been a challenge for Western filmmakers, especially given that the genre came of age in the puritanical '40s. While none of the ribaldry here will...
- 12/12/2009
- AMC Future of Classic: Westerns
Paradox International has confirmed its forthcoming console publishing debut with a new co-operative shooter set in the Wild West. Since it was established in 1999, Paradox has built a solid reputation for publishing PC-based strategy games. However, the firm will release its first ever console game next year with Lead And Gold: Gangs Of The Wild West. Developed by Fatshark, the third-person shooter will feature gunfights and cowboy gameplay in a "beautifully rendered" version of the American frontier. Gamers will need to work as a team in the campaign and multiplayer modes, with four different playable characters each with their own strengths and weakness. "We've said all along that for the right title, we'd (more)...
- 12/8/2009
- by By Andrew Laughlin
- Digital Spy
Developer: Techland
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC
The wild west is coming to your living room
As a videogame genre the Western has led to more dead ends than happy trails, with only a few entries ever really capturing the attentions of wannabe console cowboys. Enter Ubisoft’s Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, a game that offers up a bullet-riddled, next-gen setting replete with gun-toting desperados, high-noon showdowns and scantily clad showgirls. Set during the height of the Civil War, the game follows the exploits of the McCalls, a family of Confederate soldiers turned guns-for-hire in search of both revenge and a lost Mexican treasure. As a prequel to developer Techland’s original Call of Juarez, the game does occasionally border on the clichéd, but overall it’s surprisingly well-written, with a plot and characters that manage to remain both fresh and familiar. Gameplay-wise, the first person shooter...
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC
The wild west is coming to your living room
As a videogame genre the Western has led to more dead ends than happy trails, with only a few entries ever really capturing the attentions of wannabe console cowboys. Enter Ubisoft’s Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, a game that offers up a bullet-riddled, next-gen setting replete with gun-toting desperados, high-noon showdowns and scantily clad showgirls. Set during the height of the Civil War, the game follows the exploits of the McCalls, a family of Confederate soldiers turned guns-for-hire in search of both revenge and a lost Mexican treasure. As a prequel to developer Techland’s original Call of Juarez, the game does occasionally border on the clichéd, but overall it’s surprisingly well-written, with a plot and characters that manage to remain both fresh and familiar. Gameplay-wise, the first person shooter...
- 9/4/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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