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‘Porn’, to quote journalism professor and anti-pornography activist Robert Jensen, ‘is what the end of the world looks like’. I must admit that, until I read this statement (from this book), I rather thought that the apocalypse would be more of the meteor-striking, sun-exploding, fiery-death kind. Instead, Jensen seems to think armageddon will come in an avalanche of breast enhancements, fake grunting, and peroxide. He meant was that porn is the end of the world because it epitomises uncaring, unfeeling interactions between men and women, and will eventually erase loving relationships from our society. .... http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43001-porn-is-what-the-end-of-the-world-looks-like‘Porn’, to quote journalism professor and anti-pornography activist Robert... more
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I actually went into Love and Other Drugs with an open mind. Er, more of an open mind than I normally would with this sort of movie. After viewing the trailer, I didn’t think much of it, or even care about seeing it. But then I guess it was purely Andrew O’Hehir’s review on Salon – teased as “Gyllenhaal and Hathaway’s surprisingly good comedy” – that got me curious. Point being: I was open to it being good.
http://culturalvoiceover.com/2010/11/29/love-and-other-drugs-feels-like-a-cheap-sell/I actually went into Love and Other Drugs with an open mind. Er, more of an open mind... more
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Avec Elle par D-PO-T, T-JUNIOR de 4STARS et BLADDHA de FAMILY SENCI...Follow FAMILY SENCI on PING, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.Avec Elle par D-PO-T, T-JUNIOR de 4STARS et BLADDHA de FAMILY SENCI...Follow FAMILY... more
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Tuesday's edition of my twice a week LIVE talk show.Watch
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In today's show :
I always get in such a state.
Am I missing out on a buisness ?
Blue screen of death.
I've bought second hand T-shirts from ebay.
A stack of paper.
Cashback.
People have lost their pride in work.
Time to think.
Would you buy water from me ?
Coats and boots for points.
Watching television in bits.
Take your time.
The awful "Big Brother".
How much does I.T.cost businesses ?
What was he talking about ?
Much more stable.
How long does a laptop last ?
Mikey Holt on the Skype.
Time.
Would you really want to mix with that lot ?
Combining the two shows.
They can't afford me for two hours.
A package has arrived.
Bits of music.
What do you collect ?
Where are the variety shows ?
Please be careful of scissors.
Remember your old computer ?
How much is a P.O. box per year ?
Sega megadive.
Some presenters sound like they just don't bother.
Does spending more always mean better ?
Lots of biscuits.
Plastic ones that do not cut.
Don't be spending money on sending me things.
The insides of toilet rolls.
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There are a few things that film nerds can retain the right to be happy about during the year: Film Festivals, Top 10 Season (happening in a short two months) and when Variety decides to dust off the old dictionary, look up what "indie" means and demand its' freelancers turn in a gigantic missive about what it all means.
The Global Independents 2009 is such an all-encompassing treatsie. It goes through every "indie" studio and ranks their hits, misses and what everything is riding on for the rest of '09.
Just like anything Variety publishes, there is a ton of conflicting viewpoints: Indie Films are a silver lining for Hollywood distribution and making money, but Major Studios think Indie Off-Shoots Are BAD. Need an example? Think back to Paramount Vantage, which released There Will Be Blood along with more forgettable recent fare like The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard. and The Marc Pease Experience.
They're also dead now.
So what's the selling point of "indie?" It's the Internet.
No, really--VOD,DVD and all sorts of technological feats as a means of distribution beat out theaters, since Art House Theaters are shutting down and Theater Chains are combining together to form horrendous cinematic chimeras. So let's take a rundown of these "indie studios" that aren't Fox, Universal, Paramount, Disney or Warner Brothers. You'll probably be a bit surprised by what falls under the term. Now then, TL;DR!
Summit
What It Released: Knowing, Bandslam and...something called Twilight.
Who They Are: Essentially, this "mini-major" studio rose to greatness once it latched onto the Twilight franchise like a hungry fangbanger. Then came Knowing and The Hurt Locker. It seems like they're slowly rising up to be a contender, but...
Where They're Going: ...everything they're focusing on now seems to be Sparkly Vampire Centric, such as how they fumbled the marketing of Bandslam as "the movie with a 30-second New Moon trailer." Their upcoming release of Astro Boy could be interesting, but given how many liberties the film has taken with the source material to go from "dark Atomic Age story" to "kid-friendly" remains to be seen. Oh yeah--and New Moon comes out in November.
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Focus Features
What It Released: Coraline, 9, Burn After Reading
Who They Are: Universal's younger, hipper brother who happens to not be as mainstream as his older brother, but this dude would also consider whatever's on MTV2 to be the hippest thing he ever heard.
Where They're Going: A Serious Man marks another Coen Brothers film. So, we're interested.
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Fox Searchlight
What It Released: Slumdog Millionaire, Juno, Napolean Dynamite. REMEMBER THOSE ONLY! PLEASE.
Who They Are: Akin to Universal's hip brother, Searchlight is just that: nit-picky, fickle and desperate to show off how cool it is. It attaches itself to anything in hopes for a hit (see: Notorious, Secret Life of Bees, Choke) and can't understand why the success of Juno and Slumdog Millionaire won't show back up.
Where They're Going: Amelia, Whip It, Gentlemen Broncos. Cough.
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Miramax
What They Released: Kill Bill, Every Tarantino and Kevin Smith Film, No Country for Old Men
Who They Are: The House That Weinstein Built and now under the reins from The House of Mouse. Miramax sort of just...is.
Where They're Going: One rumor Variety had was layoffs are coming. Otherwise, there's the limited CliveOwen drama The Boys Are Back and...something with De Niro? Eh.
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Paramount Vantage
What They Released: There Will Be Blood and other leftovers from Paramount.
Who They Are: 2008: Paramount's attempt at getting critical hits. 2009: Their toilet paper.
Where They're Going: R.I.P. It was dissolved.
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Samuel Goldwyn
What They Released: Fireproof (“2008’s Highest Grossing Indie Release”), Blood: The Last Vampire, Cold Souls
Who They Are: Meh.
Where They’re Going: Eh.
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MGM
What They Released: Valkyrie
Who They Are: The Tom Cruise Studio.
Where They’re Going: Their remake of Fame is their only Fall release right now and they’re partnered with Warner Brothers for whenever The Hobbit gets it’s ass in gear.
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Sony Classics
What They Released: Rachel Getting Married, Whatever Works, Moon
Who They Are: Specializing in “foreign films” and art-house far, SPC always has a home for the Almodovars of the world.
Where They’re Going: Coco Before Chanel, The Damned United, The White Ribbon…nothing surprising, mostly foreign and a Cannes ‘09 Palme d’Or winner. It’s fine.
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Roadside Attractions
What They Released: Battle for Terra, The Cove, The September Issue, Goodbye Solo
Who They Are: Semi-Sorta partners with Lionsgate, they specialize in eeking out small deals and getting free reign with their distribution and product. Problem is, outside of hardcore NYC/LA cinephiles, have you heard of Goodbye Solo? Probably not. (And that’s a shame!)
Where They’re Going: Chris Rock’s Good Hair doc will do something for them. Otherwise, they’ll continue to profit and you’ll see them pop up every so often.
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IFC Films
What They Released: Che, Gommorah
Who They Are: The distrib. arm of the Independent Film Channel. They pioneer on-demand video releasing, generally doing same-day as it hits theaters—or, the theater in the East Village. Perfectly awesome and they get it right.
Where They’re Going: Antichrist, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and that’s ok for me.
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Overture
What They Released: Righteous Kill, Last Chance Harvey, Sunshine Cleaners
Who They Are: Studio with a lot of passable flicks that needs a hit.
Where They’re Going: Law Abiding Citizen, Capitalism: A Love Story, Pandorum, The Men Who Stare At Goats: I mean, you throw enough rocks, you’re bound to hit something.
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Lionsgate
What They Released: All Tyler Perry’s Films, the entire Saw franchise.
Who They Are: The quintessential “mini-major” studio that sits pretty and laughs at other people. Also, the home of Tyler Perry and Saw.
Where They’re Going: The fucking BANK.
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Freestyle Releasing
What They Released: The Collector, The Haunting of Molly Hartley
Who They Are: It’s a gun for hire. Mainly if you come to them, they will distribute the film as best they can.
Where They’re Going: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. Keyword: HELL. Also, Motherhood. Huh.
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Magnolia
What They Released: Two Lovers, Let The Right One In, Food Inc.
Who They Are: The Marc Cuban Film Company with a stake in the Landmark chain of movie theaters. They nab up a lot of stuff that the Weinsteins/Miramax threw away and have been doing well for themselves ever since. They also operate Magnet, a genre release arm that also does the bees knees.
Where They’re Going: Bronson, The House of the Devil, Ong Bak 2. The genre safe route.
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The Weinstein Company
What They Released: Inglourious Basterds, The Reader, The Road
Who They Are: The Motherfucking Bob and Harvey Weinstein. They founded and ran Miramax, they left to run this, they’re BFF with Tarantino and until last month they were looking at the curb. Now with Basterds they’re back and ready to throw…something at us. They are notorious for buying and acquiring films, then letting them sit on the shelves until they’re ready to cash in. Not to mention notorious at delays—right, The Road?
Where They’re Going: No side.
-John Lichman
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The unreleased movie everyone is talking about. There's so much controversy surrounding this movie due to the Variety lawsuit, in which Variety screwed up a $400,000 ad deal/Oscars campaign by deliberately destroying the movie with a scathing review which got published in Variety DURING the campaign. I guess this kind of thing goes on in Hollywood all the time. But to deliberately destroy what looks to be a good flick about a true Holocaust story seems heartless and flat-out mean. This is why I am linking to their official YouTube channel. It deserves a chance to be seen. From what I hear, the film doesn't have distribution yet so hopefully people can see past the petty bullshit and give Roy Scheider an honor by releasing it.
http://youtube.com/ironcrossmovie
Become a fan of Iron Cross on Facebook.com/IronCrossmovie
Follow Iron Cross on Twitter.com/ironcross_movieThe unreleased movie everyone is talking about. There's so much controversy... more
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Last month, Variety panned a thriller called Iron Cross. But the review has been disappeared from Variety's web site, which probably has something to do with the $400,000 Iron Cross' producers paid to Variety for an awards campaign.
Iron Cross, which ended up being Roy Scheider's last film (he died during production), is a Holocaust revenge fantasy in which Scheider, a Holocaust survivor and NYPD cop, hunts down and kills the SS officer who killed his family. It's also, according to Variety freelancer Robert Koehler, who reviewed it for the Hollywood trade paper on January 20, "hackneyed," "preposterous," "mediocre," "choppy," and "uncertain."
Click here for the full story:
http://gawker.com/5481280/variety-will-kill-a-bad-review-of-your-mediocre-movie-for-just-400000?skyline=true&s=iLast month, Variety panned a thriller called Iron Cross. But the review has been... more
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James Rocchi was one of the lucky entertainment journalists invited to the “Avatar” premiere and press junket in London and he joins us this week to tell us all about it. Rocchi also helps us dissect all those year-end “Top 10″ critics lists, not to mention one that rates the year’s best unproduced screenplays. Who do you think will be on the red carpet at Oscar time?
We also review all the week's top entertainment news.James Rocchi was one of the lucky entertainment journalists invited to the... more
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So. Variety's Todd McCarthy and Newsweek's David Ansen have gone ahead and ignored a studio-imposed embargo and reviewed Clint Eastwood's Invictus , which opens in less than two weeks. This breach of etiquette—perpetrated by old-media types, who were supposed to be good for such courtesies, yet!—of course has much of the film blogosphere in a huff, and Jeffrey Wells has gone and posted something like four different sort-of considerations of Invictus in the wake of said breach.
http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2009/11/text-and-subtext-in-eastwoods-invictus.htmlSo. Variety's Todd McCarthy and Newsweek's David Ansen have gone ahead and... more
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Tuesday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
In today's show :
Off to Brighton later.
How boring if everyone were the same.
I talk to people I don't know.
Not a very large budget.
Thanks to Jason Allen. www.jason-allen.co.uk
Walking in the swimming pool.
Thoughts on the X Factor.
Bickering.
One a week.
They havn't worked up the ladder.
Healing takes time.
Why I don't book a posh hotel.
Keep your finger in many pies.
Tooth troubles.
Variety is the spice of life.
Will it settle down ?
chris@unitedkingdomtalk.co.uk
WWW.UNITEDKINGDOMTALK.CO.UKTuesday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on... more
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Nou Refel Anko (we've done it again) or in French (on l'a encore fait) by C-PROJECTS also known as FAMILY SENCI produced by Play Entertainment Inc., this is a music video performed in Creole and it's Hip-Hop music, the genre is Rap Creole, it's new from Haiti and it's hot for the Hip-Hop Industry, please vote if you like it or love it.Nou Refel Anko (we've done it again) or in French (on l'a encore fait) by... more
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It’s all about "Gossip Girl" glam hair this season with headbands a la Blair, embellishments, glittering clips, Swarovski encrusted hair combs and halo's embellishes with pearls. From the catwalks of Dolce & Gabbana to the new collection of Mischa Barton’s head pieces, we take a look at this season’s trend of “Tress-Chic.”It’s all about "Gossip Girl" glam hair this season with headbands a la... more
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What motivates people to succeed? In this video, Tony Robbins discusses the "invisible forces" that motivate everyone's actions -- and high-fives Al Gore in the front row.What motivates people to succeed? In this video, Tony Robbins discusses the... more
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Dead Space, like almost every other science fiction property made in the history of existence, could be getting the trilogy treatment, according to a post on Variety.
Half-way into a story about D.J Caruso, now chosen to direct a film adaptation of the game, the Variety writer says: “EA launched the game in 2008 and is working on the second and third installments.”Dead Space, like almost every other science fiction property made in the history of... more
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Or actually this video done by me, visionarybee. It's my entry into the contest "PC Hook Up Contest". I had to do the video a number of times over to get it at 100 or below seconds. I tried but I'm afraid I'm just not a get it perfect type of person. If I could win that money would come in so handy about right now. Well I hope you folks like my video. I thought it up since I have allot of problems with being tired and low energy. I'm going to make an effort to change that by eating and drinking right. I love pop (coke is my fav) but soda with sugar in it I've found is not good for a person at all. It will put weight on you and it could even cause you to get sugar diabetes (possibly). I probably will make a long version of this video so I can give you more info on eating for energy and health plus some sample menu ideas. Thanks for watching.Or actually this video done by me, visionarybee. It's my entry into the contest... more
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Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness. This presentation unites maths, ecology, psychology and science into a fascinating cultural observation.Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of... more
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How smart R U? See Variety Show #9 Part 2 of Julian's Comedy Stop with our "Are You Smarter Than A 3 Year Old" studio remix plus more fun from julianscomedystop.tvHow smart R U? See Variety Show #9 Part 2 of Julian's Comedy Stop with our... more
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Julian's Comedys Stop Variety Show #9 part 1 features our "Mr Crabs Private Eye" sketch remix plus more fun from julianscomedystop.tv & the funny lives of the Pastrami Family.Julian's Comedys Stop Variety Show #9 part 1 features our "Mr Crabs Private... more
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Dancing in the street for money pays off for Lou. Follow the funny lives of the Pastrami family at julianscomedystop.tvDancing in the street for money pays off for Lou. Follow the funny lives of the... more
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