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Posts Tagged ‘James Cromwell’


TV Recap: ‘American Horror Story: Asylum’ Season 2, Episode 11 – ‘Spilt Milk’

by Eric Miller, Jan 11 2013 // 12:30 PM

AHS 2.11 Spilt Milk

This episode starts the mad dash to the season finale. It focuses mainly on Lana, Kit, and Grace finding their way out of Briarcliff, as well as a closer look at Lana’s now grown son Johnny.

We jump back and forth a few times between Briarcliff and current times. In the “now” timeline, the son of Bloody Face (Johnny) is in a hotel room smoking marijuana. He has ordered a prostitute that has just had a baby. He wants to breastfeed. Johnny tells the prostitute that his mother never loved him or his father.

A few times throughout the episode they cut back to Johnny and the prostitute as things progress. He confesses to having major mommy issues, and eventually starts choking the prostitute. We are led to believe that he has killed her.

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Posted in: News · TV · TV Recaps
Tagged: American Horror Story, American Horror Story: Asylum, Dylan McDermott, Evan Peters, FX, James Cromwell, Jessica Lang, Joseph Fiennes, Lily Rabe, Ryan Murphy, Sarah Paulson, TV, TV Recaps, Zachary Quinto
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Film Review: ‘The Artist’

by Nat Almirall, Jan 20 2012 // 1:30 PM

I didn’t know what to expect. From the endless trailer play The Artist received at the Landmark on Clark, I have to admit I didn’t have much hope. It looked too “artsy,” too cute, too self-important. That’s at least how it seemed. And then the reviews started coming in, and pretty much everyone was talking about it on all the movie podcasts. Still, I was holding out. Everyone could have been deceived by the gimmick of a contemporary silent, black and white film, right?

Of course, my preconceptions were wrong (I still think the trailer mis-markets the film): The Artist is a wonderfully fun and entertaining film, and that makes up for whatever high pretensions it may have. The story is basically the same as Singin’ in the Rain: A successful silent film star struggles to adapt to sound while the woman he loves becomes a huge star.

The year is 1929, the place is Hollywoodland, and the falling star is George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), a mix of Douglas Fairbanks, Harold Lloyd, and William Powell (and Valentino, too, I guess) with the ruggedly charismatic face of Sean Connery and the natural cheeriness of Gene Kelly. And that description is not lifted from Roger Ebert’s review—I’d be surprised to see a review that didn’t mention it.

Anyway, on his way out the door from his latest premiere, Valentin bumps into one of his fans, the slightly ditzy flapper Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo). He shrugs it off and poses for a quick photo with her.

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Posted in: Comedy · Movies · Reviews · Warner Bros
Tagged: Berenice Bejo, Beth Grant, foreign films, James Cromwell, Jean Dujardin, John Goodman, Michel Hazanavicius, Missi Pyle, Penelope Ann Miller, silent films, the artist, The Weinstein Company, Warner Bros
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First Trailer for Michel Hazanavicius’ Silent Film ‘The Artist’ Hits the Web

by Matt Raub, Aug 26 2011 // 9:00 AM

Mel Brooks may have knocked it out of the park by being tongue-in-cheek back when he made Silent Movie, but there is no way today’s audience could possibly accept a full, silent, black & white film. Right? Well, that’s exactly what director Michel Hazanavicius has done.

His film, The Artist, is done like a classic black & white film. Movie stars, dames in trouble, tons of indoor smoking, and more dancing than you could shake a stick at. Here’s the premise:

Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is a very successful silent movie star. The arrival of talking pictures will mark the end of his career. Peppy Miller, a young woman extra, becomes a major movie star.

With films about zombies and The Help making waves in the box office, why couldn’t a simple silent movie about Hollywood in the 1920s take off? They’ve already got us hooked with the trailer, which you can check out after the jump.

Catch Weinstein Company’s The Artist in theaters on November 23rd.

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Posted in: Classics · Comedy · Drama · Movies · News · Romance · Trailers · Video · Weinstein Co.
Tagged: Berenice Bejo, James Cromwell, Jean Dujardin, John Goodman, Michel Hazanavicius, Missi Pyle, Penelope Ann Miller, the artist
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Review: ‘Surrogates’

by Shannon Hood, Sep 25 2009 // 11:00 AM

bruce-willis-surrogates

Okay, I think I have the studios figured out. The recent trend toward not screening a movie, or screening it too late for reviewing press to make deadline, must be the studios’ clever attempt at using  reverse-psychology. We (reviewers) are conditioned to believe that any time a movie is not screened or screened last minute, that there must be some horrible problem plaguing the movie, hence their unwillingness to pre-screen it. Such was the case with Surrogates when I saw it last night.

Bracing myself for a stinkbomb, I emerged from the screening and proclaimed to the studio rep: “It was not terrible. I think I kind of liked it.” Hardly a ringing endorsement, to be sure, but I think that is part of their strategy. If they set the expectation bar low, when the movie is not horrible the viewer will be delighted by this welcome surprise. 

Surrogates could have been one hell of a movie had it’s intriguing premise been well executed. Despite the film’s flaws, I found it thought-provoking enough that I would definitely recommend it to fans of the sci-fi genre or Bruce Willis.  I absolutely love a movie that makes me think, and this one had my head swimming with the ethical implications of bio-medical research, the prevalence of electronic media in our lives, and our (as a society) startling retreat from one-on-one human interaction.  Any movie that makes me take pause to analyze the message is worthy of a recommendation.

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Posted in: Comics · Disney · Movies · Reviews · Sci-Fi · Touchstone Pictures
Tagged: Bruce Willis, James Cromwell, Radha Mitchell, Robert Venditti, Rosamund Pike, Surrogates
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