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A review of the drama My Week with Marilyn starring Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe. Eddie Redmayne, Julia Ormond, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Watson, Judi Dench, and Dominic Cooper co-star. The film is directed by Simon Curtis.A review of the drama My Week with Marilyn starring Michelle Williams as Marilyn... more
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Kenneth Branagh directs this screen adaption of Marvel's The Mighty Thor comic book.
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The first teaser trailer for Marvel's new movie, Thor!
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The 49-year-old actor/director reveals he took on the job of directing the forthcoming superhero movie because it reminded him of the English playwright's works.
Read more : http://www.celebrity-mania.com/news/view/00016157.htmlThe 49-year-old actor/director reveals he took on the job of directing the forthcoming... more
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Richard Curtis had a death in the family. I’d flown in to London to do the interviews for my PIRATE RADIO coverage, and the director was at the top of my list. Some things, though, take precedence over spending fifteen minutes with a dumpy New York journalist, and for Curtis, this had to be one of ‘em. I had no argument there. I did my sessions with actors Tom Sturridge, Talulah Riley, and Nick Frost instead (you can hear them in Part 1 of this series) and silently wished Curtis well.
Three weeks later, he and I finally had our sit-down. Frankly, I’m not sure I could’ve scraped it all together in so short a time under such conditions, but I was grateful he did. That conversation wraps up this installment, along with my exclusive one-on-one with Bill Nighy — who plays the paternal, impeccably dressed, and seemingly gay (he’s one of the few characters who doesn’t get it on in the course of the film) proprietor of the pirate broadcaster Radio Rock — and the roundtable interview with “The Count” himself, Philip Seymour Hoffman. You’ll learn a little about Nighy’s inner wild man, Hoffman’s experiences as the sole American in a cast of Brits, and Curtis’ decision to trim PIRATE RADIO (nee THE BOAT THAT ROCKED) by some fifteen minutes (or more — reports vary) for its U.S. debut.
Click on the link to hear the show.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-persons/mighty-movie-podcast-empi_b_357596.htmlRichard Curtis had a death in the family. I’d flown in to London to do the... more
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For a film centered around the freewheeling early years of British rock and roll, Pirate Radio is remarkably short on rhythm.
The movie never seems to get its chord progressions straight, despite a formidable cast and soundtrack stacked with classic Kinks, Who and Rolling Stones tunes. Humorous bits occasionally surface, but the heavy-handedness of the us vs. them, rally-around-the-mike aspects of the tale dominate.
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So here’s what I did on my class trip to London: shoot a video featuring people on the street discussing whether they preferred PIRATE RADIO or THE BOAT THAT ROCKED as the title of the latest Richard Curtis film; interview some of the stars of the film itself; and eat British airport pizza. Two of those things were a helluva lot of fun, and one of them was an ungodly plummet into the depths of Hell. I’ll leave it to you to figure out which is which (hint: glad I brought some Pepto tablets with me).
The three actors featured in this first installment of our special, two-part PIRATE RADIO coverage form something of a romantic triangle in the film. Tom Sturridge plays Carl, the teenager who is sent by his mother (Emma Thompson) to spend some time on Radio Rock, the notorious pirate radio ship that in 1966 was beaming rock and roll from international waters into a United Kingdom whose own BBC couldn’t be bothered with the form. Talulah Riley is Marianne, the young woman that Carl’s godfather and Pirate Radio owner and captain Quentin (Bill Nighy) brings on-board to alleviate some of the boy’s sense of isolation. And Nick Frost is Doctor Dave, the sexually unquenchable Radio Rock personality whose interference in the kids’ first meeting proves to be something of a distraction for Marianne — because true love may be forever, but getting nailed by a DJ nets you serious street cred.
The conversations in this ep ranged far beyond the topic of PIRATE RADIO itself, covering as they did the legendary 007 water tank, the Cirque du Soleil, Steven Spielberg’s on-set attitude, and Rupert Everett in drag (but, then, don’t all conversations eventually wind up there?). Click the link to hear the show:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-persons/mighty-movie-podcast-empi_b_354827.htmlSo here’s what I did on my class trip to London: shoot a video featuring people... more
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Pirate Radio hits the airwaves and it’s a hysterical ride. This is based on a true story. These DJs were at sea and the British officials were after them. According to Richard Curtis (who spoke after the October 21, San Francisco pre-screening), the pirate radio station this film is based on, actually had about 20 million listeners. That kind of influence was likely a very big problem for the British government.
Sounds a lot like current.com/current TV today, huh?Pirate Radio hits the airwaves and it’s a hysterical ride. This is based on a... more
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Actor/director Kenneth Branagh is talking to Marvel Studios about directing Thor, according to Variety. Director of movies such as Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing, the Shakespearian director has also played memorable roles like Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Branagh might be just that extra thing that Thor needs to differ from all the other superhero movies coming next few years.Actor/director Kenneth Branagh is talking to Marvel Studios about directing Thor,... more
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