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tMF INITIATIVE: Updates on the Little Ashes
Promotional blitz!

post from The Movie Fanatic Feeds on 27 August 2008 05:55:10 PM. © The Movie Fanatic Feeds

Coming directly from Regent Releasing, the one in-charge of the Little Ashes release in America has[...]

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First 'Burn After Reading' Reviews Suggest It's
Either Brilliant Or Crap [Perception]

post from Defamer on 27 August 2008 05:50:00 PM. © Defamer

With the exciting news that Brad Pitt has won his second best actor chalice today at the Venice Film Festival—for what the judging committee deemed his "indomitable spirit both on and off the screen, his effortless embodiment of the American masculine ideal, and the way sucking up to him will facilitate future access to his impossibly fertile and glamorous life partner, Angelina Jolie"—we thought it time to finally time to take a look at the movie which ushered him to victory. We speak, of course, of the Coen brothers' Burn After Reading, which had its world premiere tonight at the festival. If Pitt, as Javier Bardem did before him, could win top accolades with a hairstyle this ridiculous looking, then this truly must have been another masterwork from the sibling geniuses. Let's see what the critics are saying. (And yes, spoilers ensue.)

· The Guardian uses the word "triumph" and gives it four stars out of five, calling it "a tightly wound, slickly plotted spy comedy that couldn't be in bigger contrast" to No Country for Old Men, but that the Coens film it most closely resembles is "the divorce-lawyer comedy Intolerable Cruelty." Everyone gets a chance to shine comically, but "Pitt, in fact, gets the best of the funny stuff, [though] has by some way the least screen time of all the principal cast." [The Guardian]

· Counterpoint! Variety hated it. Calling it a "dark goofball comedy about assorted doofuses in Washington, D.C.," Burn "tries to mate sex farce with a satire of a paranoid political thriller," with "with arch and ungainly results." Further, a "seriously talented cast" has been "asked to act like cartoon characters," with everything turned up to a "grotesquely exaggerated extent." [Variety]
· Yeesh. That last one didn't go so well. Let's go back to loving it again! The Times Online also gives it four stars. Noting it's the first Coen-penned screenplay since 2001's The Man Who Wasn?t There, they compare it to Raising Arizona and Fargo (yay!) in its "savagely comic taste for creative violence and a slightly mocking eye for detail." Carter Burwell?s score is a "brilliant...paranoid piece of film music," though if the movie lacks for anything, it's "warmth." [Times Online]

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Proyas' Dracula Year Zero gets real

post from Filmstalker on 27 August 2008 05:25:24 PM. © Filmstalker

Alex Proyas has been talking about his next film Dracula Year Zero, a film that takes the real life story of Prince Vlad of Transyvania, the stories of his acts of impaling that led to the Bram Stoker story of Dracula. He utters the phrase that is fast becoming a Hollywood benchmark since The Dark Knight (Filmstalker review) proved it's worth so well, and tells us how it's going to be more realistic and we should think of that very Batman reinvention....Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds to protect content.

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Robert Orci talks Transformers 2

post from Filmstalker on 27 August 2008 05:21:19 PM. © Filmstalker

Transformers screenwriter Robert Orci has been talking about the sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. He is answering questions on a fan forum, and has covered topics such as Shia LaBeouf's injury and the difference between the two films. I never used to watch Transformers when I was younger, but I did enjoy the first film. From what Robert Orci says it was only the beginning....Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds to protect content.

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Live From Beijing: Two weeks ago, when soliciting
... [Michael Phelps]

post from Defamer on 27 August 2008 05:20:00 PM. © Defamer

Live From Beijing: Two weeks ago, when soliciting your help in casting Olympian Michael Phelps (thereby sparing him a terrible Hollywood future), we predicted of the athlete, "There's bound to be an awkward SNL-hosting stint yet to come." Today, TV Guide announced, "The Summer Olympics' outstandingly golden boy, swimmer Michael Phelps, will dive into not-ready-for-primetime television as the guest host of Saturday Night Live's 33rd season premiere." Were we simply prescient, or is Lorne Michaels now culling ideas from the digital pages of Defamer? If Phelps appears in a Saved By The Bell skit, perhaps we'll have our answer. [TV Guide]

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Diesel to play supervillain

post from Filmstalker on 27 August 2008 05:08:14 PM. © Filmstalker

Vin Diesel is cool, and he has talent. I'm not scared to say that as I've seen Strays (Filmstalker review) and it's pretty surprising that he wrote, directed and co-produced the film. Well he's been talking about what's next, and apart from the two possible outings for Riddick he reveals that he may be holding out for a superhero role. Scratch that, a supervillain. In fact there's one in particular that he's after, he just won't tell us, we're going to have to guess....Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds to protect content.

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'Top Chef' Star Marcel Busted For Driving Under
the Influence of Cooking Sherry [Food & Wine]

post from Defamer on 27 August 2008 05:00:00 PM. © Defamer

Though any avid Top Chef viewer knows that the quickest way to get a thumbs-up from judge Padma Lakshmi is to appeal to her love of alcohol, it seems that one former contestant can outdo even Padma when it comes to his appreciation for the hooch. Yes, Wolverine-resembling Season 2 runner-up Marcel Vigneron has been busted by the Laguna Beach PD, who found him driving erratically while tequila-infused saliva foam dribbled from the corner of his mouth. Says the OC Register:

Before making a cooking demonstration at the Festival of Arts on Sunday, Marcel Vigneron of Bravo's reality show "Top Chef" first stopped at the Laguna Beach jail on Saturday.

Vigneron was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving at 12:45 a.m. Saturday off of Pacific Coast Highway in Laguna Beach, according to Laguna Beach police records.

...Vigneron, who was initially stopped on suspicion of speeding, was taken into custody and his bail was set at $2,500.

What the Register leaves out is the sudden jailhouse appearance of Padma and Tom Colicchio (with special guest judge Andy Dick), who immediately engaged Vigneron in a Quickfire Challenge. Droned Padma, "Your ingredients for this challenge will include peppermints from the front desk, a frozen chorizo from the break room, and your own booze-soaked Van Heusen button-down. Contestants, ready!"

'Top Chef' runner-up arrested on suspicion of DUI [OC Register]

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Disaster Movie - Clips and Quotes

Rather than run from your fears, sometimes it’s best to face them head on. Disaster Movie comes out this weekend, and here’s plenty of footage to get angry about.Brilliantly, the clips on Trailer Addict don’t have the music track, but I’ve decided to use them because they make the whole thing seem even more pathetic.Clip [...]

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Babylon AD Reviews - Not Good

The Babylon AD reviews have staggered online, confused and bewildered.It’s been one of those infamously ‘difficult’ productions, running over budget and way beyond its schedule - to the point where the film had to be bailed out by its insurance company. Never a good sign.Here are some quotes:Variety - “Vin Diesel punches, shoots but ultimately [...]

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New Steven Spielberg Short Leaves Obama on
Cutting-Room Floor [Defamer Decides 2008]

The Democratic National Convention is past the halfway point in Denver, which tonight will emerge as the unlikely epicenter of Steven Spielberg's cosmic restitution for Indiana Jones 4. The director is taking only incremental steps toward recovery for now, however, joining contemporaries Ken Burns and Davis Guggenheim as the DNC's guest contributors of short films for each night. The good news: Spielberg's short celebrates American military veterans, and we guess the guy knows his American military veterans. (NB: It's narrated by Tom Hanks.) The bad news: Kind of like Cannes, Spielberg will be around just long enough to drop off the tape before heading back to lick his Clinton-supporting wounds. Insert frowny emoticon here:

Spielberg plans to attend the convention tonight, although he is not expected Thursday night when Barack Obama accepts the nomination at Invesco Field, according to a spokesman for the director. ...

Spielberg endorsed Clinton in the primaries, but he and his partners in DreamWorks, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, are expected to host a fund-raiser for Obama, perhaps in September, if the candidate's schedule can be so arranged.

And so begins the delicate process of fence-mending for the World's Most Powerful Filmmaker and the World's Most Powerful Junior Senator From Illinois, the latter of whose chief of staff reportedly deadpanned to Spielberg's secretary in a scheduling call this morning: "Yeah, whatever works. You've got that Indian buyout thing going all month, right? You need Biden's help? We could probably close that shit tomorrow. Anyway, let us know. We're pretty wide open through November. Take your time."