Shakespeare’s portrait of the brooding, potentially psychotic Danish prince Hamlet is arguably the Bard’s most notable play, as well as a veritable support beam within the literary canon. We’ve seen countless cinematic adaptations, contemporized for modern audiences, anachronized for the kitschy crowd, and usually abridged for the medium. But out of this was born an inventive farce which has taken on an iconicity of its own from the perspective of two minor supporting characters with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Playwright Tom Stoppard penned the intelligent comedy in 1966 and made his solo directorial cinematic outing with the famous 1990 film version which took home the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (where Gore Vidal was president, no less). Although fans of Shakespeare’s source text will most likely continue to be entertained by Stoppard’s impressive meta-textual accomplishment, this reputable adaptation of his own material often feels a bit flat.
- 1/19/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Russell Edgington is back!
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- 5/29/2012
- by Megan Masters
- TVLine.com
Russell Edgington is back!
In anticipation of True Blood‘s fifth season (premiering June 10), HBO has hit us with another scoop-filled promo — and this one comes with tons of new footage of the deposed King of Mississippi. Press Play below to watch the smokin’ hot trailer.
Ready for more of today’s TV dish? Well…
• Showtime has just released its first teaser trailer for Dexter‘s seventh season, and it’s as vague as it is creepy. “Maybe everything is exactly as it should be,” muses the serial killer via voiceover. What does he mean?! Guess we’ll find out Sept.
In anticipation of True Blood‘s fifth season (premiering June 10), HBO has hit us with another scoop-filled promo — and this one comes with tons of new footage of the deposed King of Mississippi. Press Play below to watch the smokin’ hot trailer.
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• Showtime has just released its first teaser trailer for Dexter‘s seventh season, and it’s as vague as it is creepy. “Maybe everything is exactly as it should be,” muses the serial killer via voiceover. What does he mean?! Guess we’ll find out Sept.
- 5/29/2012
- by Megan Masters
- TVLine.com
Tom Selleck is hanging up his New York City Police Commissioner uniform on "Blue Bloods" to don a different look as super sleuth Jesse Stone in the eighth installment of the detective TV movie series, "Jesse Stone."
CBS will premiere "Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt" on Sun., May 20 at 9 p.m. Est.
Selleck, who co-penned the screenplay with Michael Brandman, stars as the title character, Jesse Stone, who will find himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meanings as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob-related double homicide.
Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Stephen McHattie, William Devane, William Sadler, Gloria Reuben and Saul Rubinek will reprise their roles, while Robert Carradine and Jeff Geddis join the cast for the eighth film in the murder-mystery series.
CBS will premiere "Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt" on Sun., May 20 at 9 p.m. Est.
Selleck, who co-penned the screenplay with Michael Brandman, stars as the title character, Jesse Stone, who will find himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meanings as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob-related double homicide.
Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Stephen McHattie, William Devane, William Sadler, Gloria Reuben and Saul Rubinek will reprise their roles, while Robert Carradine and Jeff Geddis join the cast for the eighth film in the murder-mystery series.
- 1/26/2012
- by Crystal Bell
- Huffington Post
Tom Selleck is hanging up his New York City Police Commissioner uniform on "Blue Bloods" to don a different look as super sleuth Jesse Stone in the eighth installment of the detective TV movie series, "Jesse Stone."
CBS will premiere "Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt" on Sun., May 20 at 9 p.m. Est.
Selleck, who co-penned the screenplay with Michael Brandman, stars as the title character, Jesse Stone, who will find himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meanings as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob-related double homicide.
Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Stephen McHattie, William Devane, William Sadler, Gloria Reuben and Saul Rubinek will reprise their roles, while Robert Carradine and Jeff Geddis join the cast for the eighth film in the murder-mystery series.
CBS will premiere "Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt" on Sun., May 20 at 9 p.m. Est.
Selleck, who co-penned the screenplay with Michael Brandman, stars as the title character, Jesse Stone, who will find himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meanings as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob-related double homicide.
Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Stephen McHattie, William Devane, William Sadler, Gloria Reuben and Saul Rubinek will reprise their roles, while Robert Carradine and Jeff Geddis join the cast for the eighth film in the murder-mystery series.
- 1/26/2012
- by Crystal Bell
- Aol TV.
Late author Robert B. Parker's estate has announced that his signature Spenser and Jesse Stone mystery novel series will continue. Parker died at his home in Cambridge, Mass on January 18, 2010 at age 77. Michael Brandman, who has co-written and produced the CBS TV movies that feature Tom Selleck as the tortured alcoholic detective Stone, will write the first Stone novel. Titled Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues, it will be published September 13, 2011. Brandman goes way back with Parker, and aside from the Stone telepics, he also produced three Spenser novel adaptations for A&E. Parker's earlier Spenser novels formed the basis for the Spenser For Hire series that starred Robert Urich, and his Western series was turned into the Ed Harris-Viggo Mortensen pic Appaloosa. The new Spenser novels will be written by Ace Atkins, who has written such novels as White Shadow, Infamous and Wicked City. His...
- 4/27/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Robert B. Parker may be known for his series of Spenser novels, but his second creation, Jesse Stone, is gaining popularity through a series of CBS telefilms starring Tom Selleck. A sixth chapter has been announced as now being in production. No Remorse has started shooting in Halifax, Nova Scotia for eventually airing. A fifth telefilm is completed with no airdate.
Jesse Stone is a small town Sheriff in Massachusetts who fights his alcoholism and unhealthy addiction to his ex-wife, now living in the area as a local television news reporter.
The new film will be an original story, not based on one of the seven novels in the series which launched in 1997. Night and Day will be published in the first half of 2009. Stone inhabits the same universe as Spenser and Parker’s other creation, Sunny Randall. In fact, Stone and Randall was an item in several novels but...
Jesse Stone is a small town Sheriff in Massachusetts who fights his alcoholism and unhealthy addiction to his ex-wife, now living in the area as a local television news reporter.
The new film will be an original story, not based on one of the seven novels in the series which launched in 1997. Night and Day will be published in the first half of 2009. Stone inhabits the same universe as Spenser and Parker’s other creation, Sunny Randall. In fact, Stone and Randall was an item in several novels but...
- 11/6/2008
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
CBS has greenlighted a sixth installment in its "Jesse Stone" movie franchise, starring Tom Selleck as a small-town police chief.
The movie has gone into production in Halifax, Nova Scotia, ahead of the premiere of the fifth movie in the franchise from Sony Pictures TV. Airdates for both are yet to be determined.
"Jesse Stone: No Remorse" will find Jesse (Selleck), having been suspended by the local town council, moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy (Stephen McHattie), by investigating a series of murders in Boston.
Also reprising their roles will be Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, William Devane, William Sadler and Saul Rubinek. Krista Allen is a new addition to the cast.
Selleck and Michael Brandman wrote the script and are executive producing. Steven Brandman is producing, and Robert Harmon is directing. "No Remorse" is a production of TWS Productions II and Brandman Prods. in association with Spt.
The movie has gone into production in Halifax, Nova Scotia, ahead of the premiere of the fifth movie in the franchise from Sony Pictures TV. Airdates for both are yet to be determined.
"Jesse Stone: No Remorse" will find Jesse (Selleck), having been suspended by the local town council, moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy (Stephen McHattie), by investigating a series of murders in Boston.
Also reprising their roles will be Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, William Devane, William Sadler and Saul Rubinek. Krista Allen is a new addition to the cast.
Selleck and Michael Brandman wrote the script and are executive producing. Steven Brandman is producing, and Robert Harmon is directing. "No Remorse" is a production of TWS Productions II and Brandman Prods. in association with Spt.
- 11/5/2008
- by By Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This review was written for the theatrical release of "Sex and Breakfast".Movies about sexual experimentation have sometimes been played satirically, like "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," Paul Mazursky's landmark comedy from 1969. Others have traded in banal blather, like the well-meaning but leaden "Bliss" from 1997, which featured Terence Stamp as a sex therapist. Now a low-budget indie, "Sex and Breakfast", written and directed by Miles Brandman, takes the sober approach to the subject and ends up seeming turgid and pointless.
American filmmakers often have a problem confronting sexual topics with relaxed candor, and American audiences have never responded with much enthusiasm to a frank exploration of sexuality onscreen. They might buy teen comedies about sexual frustration but rarely embrace adult dramas about sexual fulfillment. That doesn't bode well for "Breakfast's" boxoffice prospects. The few viewers who sneak into the theater in search of titillation will be disappointed because the film doesn't show much skin. It's mainly an oh-so-earnest study of young people aching to expand their horizons.
Two couples -- James Macaulay Culkin) and Heather (Alexis Dziena) and Ellis (Kuno Becker) and Renee (Eliza Dushku) -- seek the services of sex therapist Dr. Wellbridge (Joanna Miles), who promotes the therapeutic value of wife-swapping and orgies. Heather is having a problem reaching orgasm, though we can't help but wonder if group sex is the best solution. As for Ellis and Renee, it's not quite clear what their problem is, except a mild sense of boredom and Renee's confession of fleeting lesbian fantasies. Their partner-swapping strengthens one relationship and destroys the other.
The movie's main virtue is its highly photogenic cast. Dushku and Dziena are luscious camera subjects, and Becker also will steam up a few spectacles. All four actors, including Culkin, do well within the limits of very one-dimensional roles. Jaime Ray Newman has a nifty cameo as a waitress who flirts with Renee. But it's hard to have a lot of sympathy for such attractive, well-heeled yuppies. (One mystery is why young people in Los Angeles, of all places, spend so much time riding around in cabs or limos rather than with their own wheels.)
The film takes a long time getting to the "money" scene of the group sex. This sequence starts off effectively, in complete silence, without any background music. But it never hits any erotic sparks, and the aftermath is distinctly anticlimactic. "Breakfast" is handsomely shot; the settings are minimalist but well chosen. An old, rather questionable maxim says that sex sells. Not in this wan rendition.
SEX AND BREAKFAST
First Look International
Brandman Prods., CinemaLab
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Miles Brandman
Producers: Michael Brandman, Chip Diggins, Andrew Adelson
Executive producers: Steven Molasky, Steven Brandman
Director of photography: Mark Schwartzbard
Production designer: David Chapman
Music supervisor: Danny Exum
Co-producer: Joanna Miles
Costume designer: Elaine Montalvo
Editor: Dana Shockley
Cast:
James: Macaulay Culkin
Ellis: Kuno Becker
Renee: Eliza Dushku
Heather: Alexis Dziena
Dr. Wellbridge: Joanna Miles
Charlie: Eric Lively
Betty: Jaime Ray Newman
MPAA rating R, running time 81 minutes.
American filmmakers often have a problem confronting sexual topics with relaxed candor, and American audiences have never responded with much enthusiasm to a frank exploration of sexuality onscreen. They might buy teen comedies about sexual frustration but rarely embrace adult dramas about sexual fulfillment. That doesn't bode well for "Breakfast's" boxoffice prospects. The few viewers who sneak into the theater in search of titillation will be disappointed because the film doesn't show much skin. It's mainly an oh-so-earnest study of young people aching to expand their horizons.
Two couples -- James Macaulay Culkin) and Heather (Alexis Dziena) and Ellis (Kuno Becker) and Renee (Eliza Dushku) -- seek the services of sex therapist Dr. Wellbridge (Joanna Miles), who promotes the therapeutic value of wife-swapping and orgies. Heather is having a problem reaching orgasm, though we can't help but wonder if group sex is the best solution. As for Ellis and Renee, it's not quite clear what their problem is, except a mild sense of boredom and Renee's confession of fleeting lesbian fantasies. Their partner-swapping strengthens one relationship and destroys the other.
The movie's main virtue is its highly photogenic cast. Dushku and Dziena are luscious camera subjects, and Becker also will steam up a few spectacles. All four actors, including Culkin, do well within the limits of very one-dimensional roles. Jaime Ray Newman has a nifty cameo as a waitress who flirts with Renee. But it's hard to have a lot of sympathy for such attractive, well-heeled yuppies. (One mystery is why young people in Los Angeles, of all places, spend so much time riding around in cabs or limos rather than with their own wheels.)
The film takes a long time getting to the "money" scene of the group sex. This sequence starts off effectively, in complete silence, without any background music. But it never hits any erotic sparks, and the aftermath is distinctly anticlimactic. "Breakfast" is handsomely shot; the settings are minimalist but well chosen. An old, rather questionable maxim says that sex sells. Not in this wan rendition.
SEX AND BREAKFAST
First Look International
Brandman Prods., CinemaLab
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Miles Brandman
Producers: Michael Brandman, Chip Diggins, Andrew Adelson
Executive producers: Steven Molasky, Steven Brandman
Director of photography: Mark Schwartzbard
Production designer: David Chapman
Music supervisor: Danny Exum
Co-producer: Joanna Miles
Costume designer: Elaine Montalvo
Editor: Dana Shockley
Cast:
James: Macaulay Culkin
Ellis: Kuno Becker
Renee: Eliza Dushku
Heather: Alexis Dziena
Dr. Wellbridge: Joanna Miles
Charlie: Eric Lively
Betty: Jaime Ray Newman
MPAA rating R, running time 81 minutes.
- 11/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LOS ANGELES -- Movies about sexual experimentation have sometimes been played satirically, like "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," Paul Mazursky's landmark comedy from 1969. Others have traded in banal blather, like the well-meaning but leaden "Bliss" from 1997, which featured Terence Stamp as a sex therapist. Now a low-budget indie, "Sex and Breakfast", written and directed by Miles Brandman, takes the sober approach to the subject and ends up seeming turgid and pointless.
American filmmakers often have a problem confronting sexual topics with relaxed candor, and American audiences have never responded with much enthusiasm to a frank exploration of sexuality onscreen. They might buy teen comedies about sexual frustration but rarely embrace adult dramas about sexual fulfillment. That doesn't bode well for "Breakfast's" boxoffice prospects. The few viewers who sneak into the theater in search of titillation will be disappointed because the film doesn't show much skin. It's mainly an oh-so-earnest study of young people aching to expand their horizons.
Two couples -- James Macaulay Culkin) and Heather (Alexis Dziena) and Ellis (Kuno Becker) and Renee (Eliza Dushku) -- seek the services of sex therapist Dr. Wellbridge (Joanna Miles), who promotes the therapeutic value of wife-swapping and orgies. Heather is having a problem reaching orgasm, though we can't help but wonder if group sex is the best solution. As for Ellis and Renee, it's not quite clear what their problem is, except a mild sense of boredom and Renee's confession of fleeting lesbian fantasies. Their partner-swapping strengthens one relationship and destroys the other.
The movie's main virtue is its highly photogenic cast. Dushku and Dziena are luscious camera subjects, and Becker also will steam up a few spectacles. All four actors, including Culkin, do well within the limits of very one-dimensional roles. Jaime Ray Newman has a nifty cameo as a waitress who flirts with Renee. But it's hard to have a lot of sympathy for such attractive, well-heeled yuppies. (One mystery is why young people in Los Angeles, of all places, spend so much time riding around in cabs or limos rather than with their own wheels.)
The film takes a long time getting to the "money" scene of the group sex. This sequence starts off effectively, in complete silence, without any background music. But it never hits any erotic sparks, and the aftermath is distinctly anticlimactic. "Breakfast" is handsomely shot; the settings are minimalist but well chosen. An old, rather questionable maxim says that sex sells. Not in this wan rendition.
SEX AND BREAKFAST
First Look International
Brandman Prods., CinemaLab
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Miles Brandman
Producers: Michael Brandman, Chip Diggins, Andrew Adelson
Executive producers: Steven Molasky, Steven Brandman
Director of photography: Mark Schwartzbard
Production designer: David Chapman
Music supervisor: Danny Exum
Co-producer: Joanna Miles
Costume designer: Elaine Montalvo
Editor: Dana Shockley
Cast:
James: Macaulay Culkin
Ellis: Kuno Becker
Renee: Eliza Dushku
Heather: Alexis Dziena
Dr. Wellbridge: Joanna Miles
Charlie: Eric Lively
Betty: Jaime Ray Newman
MPAA rating R, running time 81 minutes.
American filmmakers often have a problem confronting sexual topics with relaxed candor, and American audiences have never responded with much enthusiasm to a frank exploration of sexuality onscreen. They might buy teen comedies about sexual frustration but rarely embrace adult dramas about sexual fulfillment. That doesn't bode well for "Breakfast's" boxoffice prospects. The few viewers who sneak into the theater in search of titillation will be disappointed because the film doesn't show much skin. It's mainly an oh-so-earnest study of young people aching to expand their horizons.
Two couples -- James Macaulay Culkin) and Heather (Alexis Dziena) and Ellis (Kuno Becker) and Renee (Eliza Dushku) -- seek the services of sex therapist Dr. Wellbridge (Joanna Miles), who promotes the therapeutic value of wife-swapping and orgies. Heather is having a problem reaching orgasm, though we can't help but wonder if group sex is the best solution. As for Ellis and Renee, it's not quite clear what their problem is, except a mild sense of boredom and Renee's confession of fleeting lesbian fantasies. Their partner-swapping strengthens one relationship and destroys the other.
The movie's main virtue is its highly photogenic cast. Dushku and Dziena are luscious camera subjects, and Becker also will steam up a few spectacles. All four actors, including Culkin, do well within the limits of very one-dimensional roles. Jaime Ray Newman has a nifty cameo as a waitress who flirts with Renee. But it's hard to have a lot of sympathy for such attractive, well-heeled yuppies. (One mystery is why young people in Los Angeles, of all places, spend so much time riding around in cabs or limos rather than with their own wheels.)
The film takes a long time getting to the "money" scene of the group sex. This sequence starts off effectively, in complete silence, without any background music. But it never hits any erotic sparks, and the aftermath is distinctly anticlimactic. "Breakfast" is handsomely shot; the settings are minimalist but well chosen. An old, rather questionable maxim says that sex sells. Not in this wan rendition.
SEX AND BREAKFAST
First Look International
Brandman Prods., CinemaLab
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Miles Brandman
Producers: Michael Brandman, Chip Diggins, Andrew Adelson
Executive producers: Steven Molasky, Steven Brandman
Director of photography: Mark Schwartzbard
Production designer: David Chapman
Music supervisor: Danny Exum
Co-producer: Joanna Miles
Costume designer: Elaine Montalvo
Editor: Dana Shockley
Cast:
James: Macaulay Culkin
Ellis: Kuno Becker
Renee: Eliza Dushku
Heather: Alexis Dziena
Dr. Wellbridge: Joanna Miles
Charlie: Eric Lively
Betty: Jaime Ray Newman
MPAA rating R, running time 81 minutes.
- 11/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Camryn Manheim, Leslie Hope and Kathy Baker have joined the cast of the CBS telefilm Jesse Stone: Thin Ice, the fifth installment in the successful Tom Selleck movie franchise from Sony Pictures Television.
The franchise, based on the best-selling series of novels by Robert B. Parker, stars Selleck as a small-town police chief.
Manheim will play Elizabeth Blue, a woman in search of her child who was stolen from the maternity ward seven years ago. Hope has been cast as Sidney Greenstreet, an Internal Affairs investigator charged to find out why Jesse was involved in a shootout in Boston when he was off-duty. Baker is reprising her role as Rose Gammon from the most recent installment, Jesse Stone: Sea Change.
Selleck and Michael Brandman are executive producing Thin Ice, which begins shooting this month in Nova Scotia. The airdate has yet to be determined.
Manheim, an Emmy and Golden Globe winner for her role on ABC's The Practice, co-stars on CBS' Ghost Whisperer. She is repped by UTA, Framework Entertainment and attorney Rick Genow.
The franchise, based on the best-selling series of novels by Robert B. Parker, stars Selleck as a small-town police chief.
Manheim will play Elizabeth Blue, a woman in search of her child who was stolen from the maternity ward seven years ago. Hope has been cast as Sidney Greenstreet, an Internal Affairs investigator charged to find out why Jesse was involved in a shootout in Boston when he was off-duty. Baker is reprising her role as Rose Gammon from the most recent installment, Jesse Stone: Sea Change.
Selleck and Michael Brandman are executive producing Thin Ice, which begins shooting this month in Nova Scotia. The airdate has yet to be determined.
Manheim, an Emmy and Golden Globe winner for her role on ABC's The Practice, co-stars on CBS' Ghost Whisperer. She is repped by UTA, Framework Entertainment and attorney Rick Genow.
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