Richard Ford is truly a man about town!
He spends all of Big Sky Season 2 Episode 16 traipsing around trying to figure out everything he can about the Bhullars. And along the way, he's menacing and weird, and he even manages to shoot someone.
But this is Big Sky, so naturally, it will take more than a few hours to apprehend a dangerous man.
Richard is a grieving father who is not in his right mind. Consumed by guilt and rage, Richard wants to exact revenge not only for his son but also for someone else's son, daughter, or friend who may be next to die horrifically due to the rampant drugs filtering through his small town.
Everything Richard is doing is wrong and dangerous, but man, if you can't sympathize with him a little.
What haven't the Bhullars gotten away with at this point? They kill and do whatever they please with seemingly no consequences,...
He spends all of Big Sky Season 2 Episode 16 traipsing around trying to figure out everything he can about the Bhullars. And along the way, he's menacing and weird, and he even manages to shoot someone.
But this is Big Sky, so naturally, it will take more than a few hours to apprehend a dangerous man.
Richard is a grieving father who is not in his right mind. Consumed by guilt and rage, Richard wants to exact revenge not only for his son but also for someone else's son, daughter, or friend who may be next to die horrifically due to the rampant drugs filtering through his small town.
Everything Richard is doing is wrong and dangerous, but man, if you can't sympathize with him a little.
What haven't the Bhullars gotten away with at this point? They kill and do whatever they please with seemingly no consequences,...
- 5/6/2022
- by Whitney Evans
- TVfanatic
Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould and Jake Gyllenhaal in Wildlife Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival
Wildlife, 11.40pm, BBC2, Monday, April 11, then on iPlayer
Anne-Katrin Titze writes: An avid observer, Joe Brinson (Ed Oxenbould), the 14-year-old protagonist of Wildlife is our eyes and ears. We behold the world through him and with him - which is not the same. It is 1960. His family recently moved to a small town in Montana, where his father Jerry (Jake Gyllenhaal) works at a golf course. His mother Jeanette (Carey Mulligan), a former substitute teacher is, by the father's decision mostly it seems, a housewife and mother now. Joe has been given such a bland first name by his parents so that he could go anywhere and be anybody. Feeling trapped, going places, struggling for survival and retaining dignity are the marrow of Paul Dano's impressive, devastatingly piercing directorial début, which he adapted together...
Wildlife, 11.40pm, BBC2, Monday, April 11, then on iPlayer
Anne-Katrin Titze writes: An avid observer, Joe Brinson (Ed Oxenbould), the 14-year-old protagonist of Wildlife is our eyes and ears. We behold the world through him and with him - which is not the same. It is 1960. His family recently moved to a small town in Montana, where his father Jerry (Jake Gyllenhaal) works at a golf course. His mother Jeanette (Carey Mulligan), a former substitute teacher is, by the father's decision mostly it seems, a housewife and mother now. Joe has been given such a bland first name by his parents so that he could go anywhere and be anybody. Feeling trapped, going places, struggling for survival and retaining dignity are the marrow of Paul Dano's impressive, devastatingly piercing directorial début, which he adapted together...
- 4/11/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ten months after the Sundance Film Festival debut of Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” — which terrified and delighted festgoers at a secret screening last January, en route to a $250- million worldwide box office and growing award season haul — festival director John Cooper and head programmer Trevor Groth talked to IndieWire about their process for finding films for Sundance’s 39th installment (January 18-28) with similar breakout potential, even if the 2018 Sundance slate is less sprawling than its predecessor (104 films vs. 113, culled from 29 countries).
Read More:Sundance 2018 Competition Lineup Boasts New Films from Paul Dano, Reed Morano, Idris Elba, Ethan Hawke, and More
Here’s our breakdown of this year’s thematic trends and hot buys.
African-American stories
“We saw a real increase in [stories told from] the unique perspective and experience of African-American males in American society right now,” said Cooper, citing four of the 16 films in 2018’s U.S. Dramatic Competition alone: “Monster,...
Read More:Sundance 2018 Competition Lineup Boasts New Films from Paul Dano, Reed Morano, Idris Elba, Ethan Hawke, and More
Here’s our breakdown of this year’s thematic trends and hot buys.
African-American stories
“We saw a real increase in [stories told from] the unique perspective and experience of African-American males in American society right now,” said Cooper, citing four of the 16 films in 2018’s U.S. Dramatic Competition alone: “Monster,...
- 11/29/2017
- by Anne Thompson and Jenna Marotta
- Thompson on Hollywood
Following this summer’s Swiss Army Man and after currently taking a part in Bong Joon-ho’s upcoming Okja, Paul Dano is gearing up for his directorial debut Wildlife, Variety reports. The script, penned by Zoe Kazan and Dano himself, is adapted from the 1990 coming-of-age novel by Richard Ford, following a boy who watches his parents marriage unravel after a move. The couple have previously worked together in an acting capacity on Ruby Sparks, but it seems unlikely either will act in Wildlife. It is being produced, along with Dano, by Alex Saks, Oren Moverman, Ann Ruark. There is no word yet on when it will begin production.
Staying in the indie world, Cedar Rapids and Youth in Revolt director Miguel Arteta‘s next film is Beatriz at Dinner and he has added three new cast members. Deadline reports Chloe Sevigny, Salma Hayek, and Jay Duplass have joined John Lithgow,...
Staying in the indie world, Cedar Rapids and Youth in Revolt director Miguel Arteta‘s next film is Beatriz at Dinner and he has added three new cast members. Deadline reports Chloe Sevigny, Salma Hayek, and Jay Duplass have joined John Lithgow,...
- 8/1/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
For an actor, stepping behind the camera can be a vulnerable enterprise, and that weight of expectation to deliver only increases if they’re taking on a literary work to adapt. John Krasinski gave it a whirl with David Foster Wallace, James Franco continues to chase the works of big authors to bring to the arthouse, […]
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- 8/1/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Emboldened, perhaps, by the life-affirming message of “Swiss Army Man,” Paul Dano is set to go behind the camera for the first time. The actor will make his directorial debut with “Wildlife,” an adaptation of Richard Ford’s 1990 novel that Dano has co-written along with Zoe Kazan.
Read More: Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘Okja’ Starring Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal And Paul Dano Has Started Filming
Neither actor is expected to appear onscreen in the film, reports Variety. “Wildlife” tells of a teenager named Joe Brinson whose parents’ marriage slowly dissolves after the family moves to Montana in 1960. Dano and Kazan have been in a relationship since 2007 and co-starred in “Ruby Sparks” (which Kazan wrote solo) together four years ago. Kazan’s recent credits include “Our Brand Is Crisis” and the South by Southwest premiere “My Blind Brother,” while Dano has been seen in “12 Years a Slave,” “Prisoners” and “Love & Mercy.”
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Read More: Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘Okja’ Starring Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal And Paul Dano Has Started Filming
Neither actor is expected to appear onscreen in the film, reports Variety. “Wildlife” tells of a teenager named Joe Brinson whose parents’ marriage slowly dissolves after the family moves to Montana in 1960. Dano and Kazan have been in a relationship since 2007 and co-starred in “Ruby Sparks” (which Kazan wrote solo) together four years ago. Kazan’s recent credits include “Our Brand Is Crisis” and the South by Southwest premiere “My Blind Brother,” while Dano has been seen in “12 Years a Slave,” “Prisoners” and “Love & Mercy.”
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- 7/30/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Paul Dano is set to make his feature directorial debut on the coming-of-age drama "Wildlife" at June Pictures.
Based on the 1990 Richard Ford novel, the story follows a teenage boy in 1960 who watches his parents' marriage start to come apart after the family moves to Montana.
The actor will direct from a script he's written with Zoe Kazan, while Alex Saks will produce. Dano is currently shooting Bong Joon-Ho's "Okja".
Source: Variety...
Based on the 1990 Richard Ford novel, the story follows a teenage boy in 1960 who watches his parents' marriage start to come apart after the family moves to Montana.
The actor will direct from a script he's written with Zoe Kazan, while Alex Saks will produce. Dano is currently shooting Bong Joon-Ho's "Okja".
Source: Variety...
- 7/30/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Simon Brew Jul 4, 2016
Paul Feig chats to us about his new Ghostbusters film, the internet backlash, the Sony attack, and the last two years of his life…
“I felt the pressure”, Paul Feig admitted, as we sat down to talk about his new film, Ghostbusters. Feig, a geek of some vintage (his two books are sublime, Freak & Geeks remains a superb piece of television, nearly two decades on), has over the past half decade established himself as one of Hollywood’s most successful contemporary comedy directors, off the back of Bridesmaids, The Heat and Spy.
And then he took on Ghostbusters, a project that has seen him in the crosshairs of some legitimate and some utterly vile comments.
It seems almost surreal, after the storm of the past year or two, to finally be at the point where we get to see the film itself. But here we are, and here – in full context,...
Paul Feig chats to us about his new Ghostbusters film, the internet backlash, the Sony attack, and the last two years of his life…
“I felt the pressure”, Paul Feig admitted, as we sat down to talk about his new film, Ghostbusters. Feig, a geek of some vintage (his two books are sublime, Freak & Geeks remains a superb piece of television, nearly two decades on), has over the past half decade established himself as one of Hollywood’s most successful contemporary comedy directors, off the back of Bridesmaids, The Heat and Spy.
And then he took on Ghostbusters, a project that has seen him in the crosshairs of some legitimate and some utterly vile comments.
It seems almost surreal, after the storm of the past year or two, to finally be at the point where we get to see the film itself. But here we are, and here – in full context,...
- 7/3/2016
- Den of Geek
Ahead of filmmaker Paul Feig's "Ghostbusters" reboot hitting cinemas next month, it seems that the director is considering a sequel to his critically acclaimed 2015 Melissa McCarthy comedy "Spy" which grossed over $200 million worldwide.
Feig reveals to Empire Online that he already has a story in mind for it, one that brings back not just McCarthy but the first film's scene stealer Jason Statham whose Rick Ford character was a parody of the kind of characters he normally plays:
"That's another world that I don't want to walk away from. It's the first thing I did that I set up to be a possible franchise and Melissa is dying to do it. I have a story for it, and a funny idea that will kick it off that involves Statham. ... Susan Cooper is one of my favorite characters I've ever come up with, but Rick Ford is possibly the one...
Feig reveals to Empire Online that he already has a story in mind for it, one that brings back not just McCarthy but the first film's scene stealer Jason Statham whose Rick Ford character was a parody of the kind of characters he normally plays:
"That's another world that I don't want to walk away from. It's the first thing I did that I set up to be a possible franchise and Melissa is dying to do it. I have a story for it, and a funny idea that will kick it off that involves Statham. ... Susan Cooper is one of my favorite characters I've ever come up with, but Rick Ford is possibly the one...
- 6/22/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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Paul Feig would love to do Spy 2, and would have Jason Statham involved. But it's not happening just yet...
Ah, The Statham. We're rather fond of the man, as regular readers may have realised by now. And his turn in Paul Feig's Spy as Rick Ford is firmly established already as one of our favourite all-time Statham roles. If you've not had the pleasure, then be assured that Spy is Statham comedy gold, a film he pretty much walks away with, every time he's allowed near the screen.
There had been talk about a sequel to Spy last year, and writer/director Paul Feig, in a new interview with Empire, has admitted that "that’s another world that I don’t want to walk away from. It’s the first thing I did that I set up to be a possible franchise and Melissa [McCarthy] is dying to do it.
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Paul Feig would love to do Spy 2, and would have Jason Statham involved. But it's not happening just yet...
Ah, The Statham. We're rather fond of the man, as regular readers may have realised by now. And his turn in Paul Feig's Spy as Rick Ford is firmly established already as one of our favourite all-time Statham roles. If you've not had the pleasure, then be assured that Spy is Statham comedy gold, a film he pretty much walks away with, every time he's allowed near the screen.
There had been talk about a sequel to Spy last year, and writer/director Paul Feig, in a new interview with Empire, has admitted that "that’s another world that I don’t want to walk away from. It’s the first thing I did that I set up to be a possible franchise and Melissa [McCarthy] is dying to do it.
- 6/22/2016
- Den of Geek
Before Spy was released into theaters, writer-director Paul Feig already knew he wanted to make a sequel, and what it would be about. The director had hoped to turn The Heat into a franchise–something Sandra Bullock wasn’t onboard with–but it looks like he may get his wish with a Spy 2. The director of this summer’s Ghostbusters reboot is adamant about making the sequel, which would involve […]
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- 6/21/2016
- by Jack Giroux
- Slash Film
I'm convinced not enough people gave Paul Feig's Spy a chance last year because the trailers made it look terrible. You may have skipped it, but in my review, I called it one of the best action comedies ever made, so it's pretty clear that I loved it and think more people should seek it out. It's one of the extraordinarily few movies that actually utilizes Melissa McCarthy correctly, and Jason Statham's hilariously overconfident secret agent Rick Ford was one of the aspects that really took the film to another level.
Good news for those of us who loved the film: co-writer/director Paul Feig says he has plans for a sequel, and both McCarthy and Statham would be involved. He told Empire:
“That’s another world that I don’t want to walk away from. It's the first thing I did that I set up to be...
Good news for those of us who loved the film: co-writer/director Paul Feig says he has plans for a sequel, and both McCarthy and Statham would be involved. He told Empire:
“That’s another world that I don’t want to walk away from. It's the first thing I did that I set up to be...
- 6/21/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
More than once, the female heroines in Paul Feig’s comedies are accused of getting too emotional. A heinous example comes in 2013’s The Heat, when good cop/bad cop partners Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) and Mullins (Melissa McCarthy) are verbally accosted by a male colleague after a botched sting operation: “We don’t need the two of you coming in with your estrogen and flying at full speed, sticking out in the middle of broad daylight, fucking things up for us!” The threat of being upstaged is always palpable in Feig’s films. Take, for instance, the dueling engagement party speeches by new frenemies in 2011’s Bridesmaids, or the dismissive antics of Jason Statham’s overly aggressive and insecure secret agent in 2015’s Spy. Women betray each other out of fear and self-doubt, while men demean women once their power is threatened. Sarcasm and snarky jokes ensue, usually revolving around physical appearance and gender roles.
- 1/19/2016
- by Glenn Heath Jr.
- MUBI
Superstar Actor, Producer & Director Ajay Devgn’s first international production ‘Parched’ is all set to have its exciting world Premiere at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015! Ajay Devgn will also be visiting Toronto to attend the World Premiere screening of ‘Parched’.
Produced by Devgn under his USA based venture Shivalaya Entertainment, in association with Blue Waters Motion Picture, Airan Consultants, “Parched’ is written by Leena Yadav & Supratik Sen & directed by Leena Yadav with talented ensemble cast of Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Surveen Chawla, Adil Hussain, Lehar Khan, Riddhi Sen, Mahesh Balraj & Chandan Anand.
Parched essays the story of four ordinary women, in a rural Indian village, who begin to throw off the traditions that hold them in servitude in an inspirational drama.
Ajay Devgn, Producer says “Parched’ is about the small battles that women must fight to win the big war. Films like ‘Parched’ need to be made,...
Produced by Devgn under his USA based venture Shivalaya Entertainment, in association with Blue Waters Motion Picture, Airan Consultants, “Parched’ is written by Leena Yadav & Supratik Sen & directed by Leena Yadav with talented ensemble cast of Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Surveen Chawla, Adil Hussain, Lehar Khan, Riddhi Sen, Mahesh Balraj & Chandan Anand.
Parched essays the story of four ordinary women, in a rural Indian village, who begin to throw off the traditions that hold them in servitude in an inspirational drama.
Ajay Devgn, Producer says “Parched’ is about the small battles that women must fight to win the big war. Films like ‘Parched’ need to be made,...
- 8/26/2015
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Melissa McCarthy and Jason Stathan's action/comedy flick, Spy, is coming to blu-ray in September and today, 20th Century Fox has released the official details on the upcoming home release; including special features and more. Come inside to see when you can pick it up!
If you missed it in theaters or want to watch it again, the comedy movie Spy is coming to blu-ray on September 29th. Check out the full press release below to see what all is included on the disc.
Queen of Comedy Melissa McCarthy “in her funniest movie yet” (Leonard Maltin, LeonardMaltin.com) embarks on the mission of a lifetime as secret agent Susan Cooper in Spy. The September 29th Blu-ray release will include two versions of the film - Theatrical and never-before-seen Unrated Cut. The DVD will feature the Theatrical version. Both the Theatrical version and Unrated Cut of Spy will also be available on Digital HD September 4th.
If you missed it in theaters or want to watch it again, the comedy movie Spy is coming to blu-ray on September 29th. Check out the full press release below to see what all is included on the disc.
Queen of Comedy Melissa McCarthy “in her funniest movie yet” (Leonard Maltin, LeonardMaltin.com) embarks on the mission of a lifetime as secret agent Susan Cooper in Spy. The September 29th Blu-ray release will include two versions of the film - Theatrical and never-before-seen Unrated Cut. The DVD will feature the Theatrical version. Both the Theatrical version and Unrated Cut of Spy will also be available on Digital HD September 4th.
- 8/4/2015
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Jordan Maison)
- Cinelinx
James Salter, the highly acclaimed but never commercially popular writer, has died at 90, the New York Times reports. Salter chronicled the ennui of postwar America and the often toxic nature of masculinity, from his debut novel The Hunters (1956) to his controversial classic A Sport and a Pastime (1967), a sensuous sylph of a novel that Salter’s publishers viewed as being akin to “a pair of dirty socks,” to the Salter-scripted Robert Redford film Downhill Racer (1969) and the Pen/Faulkner-winning collection Dusk and Other Stories.As Pulitzer-winning writer Richard Ford once said, "It is an article of faith among readers of fiction that James Salter writes American sentences better than anyone writing today." Those beautiful, fluid sentences were usually unburdened by ornate flourishes, yet somehow Salter always seemed to dig at truths deep and dark — his writing sharp enough to pierce something unfathomably heavy. His most recent novel, the critically heralded...
- 6/20/2015
- by Greg Cwik
- Vulture
Chicago – It can be argued that Melissa McCarthy, with a film a year and a TV sitcom still running, is topping out on exposure. But as long as she teams with writer/director Paul Feig, as she did on “Bridesmaids” and “The Heat,” she will continue to be an original comic force. Their latest is “Spy.”
Rating: 4.0/5.0
This is the type of movie that is given a green light at a movie executive meeting…”Melissa McCarthy is James Bond.” The instinctively funny Ms. McCarthy is surrounded in this comic spy movie by Jason Statham, Jude Law and Rose Byrne, all sending up their various images, and the story is done with a straight face – except for the inevitable audience laughter. This film has the same rat-a-tat joke count as “The Heat,” with the same silly bonding elements as “Bridesmaids.” Paul Feig knows how to generate laughs, and does it mostly...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
This is the type of movie that is given a green light at a movie executive meeting…”Melissa McCarthy is James Bond.” The instinctively funny Ms. McCarthy is surrounded in this comic spy movie by Jason Statham, Jude Law and Rose Byrne, all sending up their various images, and the story is done with a straight face – except for the inevitable audience laughter. This film has the same rat-a-tat joke count as “The Heat,” with the same silly bonding elements as “Bridesmaids.” Paul Feig knows how to generate laughs, and does it mostly...
- 6/5/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
A big, deliciously mainstream spy comedy from Paul Feig. More than ever, it's a film worth seeking out for Jason Statham too...
Jason Statham bided his time. I'd bet hard cash that, since he established his action credentials, he's been offered umpteen playing against type comedy roles, in the style of Tooth Fairy, The Pacifier and Junior. But The Statham? He said no. Instead, when he took the plunge, he went for a comedy that didn't rely on such a central gimmick.
The Statham chose wisely.
For writer/director Paul Feig simply gets Statham to play things straight here in his new film, Spy. He plays Rick Ford, a spy who thinks he's the business, and has the anecdotes to prove it. He's a disaster area in practice, but doesn't believe for a second he is. Feig has an enormous amount of fun with this too, writing sweary, punchy dialogue...
Jason Statham bided his time. I'd bet hard cash that, since he established his action credentials, he's been offered umpteen playing against type comedy roles, in the style of Tooth Fairy, The Pacifier and Junior. But The Statham? He said no. Instead, when he took the plunge, he went for a comedy that didn't rely on such a central gimmick.
The Statham chose wisely.
For writer/director Paul Feig simply gets Statham to play things straight here in his new film, Spy. He plays Rick Ford, a spy who thinks he's the business, and has the anecdotes to prove it. He's a disaster area in practice, but doesn't believe for a second he is. Feig has an enormous amount of fun with this too, writing sweary, punchy dialogue...
- 6/5/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
There's a special something about Melissa McCarthy as an actor and comedian. Even when she stars in the likes of Tammy and Identity Thief audiences show up in droves as critics scowl in disgust, hoping to see more from an actor many agree is more talented than merely playing an overweight character that falls down and spouts vulgarity for laughs. This, however, has been the evolutionary "want" for McCarthy, who made us howl with laughter in Bridesmaids all the way to an Oscar nomination, but hasn't really evolved since, outside of her solid, but brief appearance in the under-appreciated St. Vincent. Now, back with writer/director Paul Feig, who directed both Bridesmaids and The Heat, comes the action-comedy Spy, which shows the cinematic evolution of McCarthy is finally becoming a reality. Spy is not without its flaws, but in terms of character, McCarthy's Susan Cooper, a desk-bound CIA analyst-turned-field-agent, doesn't...
- 6/3/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Spy Hard: Feig’s Generally Entertaining Espionage Parody
Director Paul Feig does a James Bond send-up for his latest Melissa McCarthy headlined romp, Spy. But for as many laughs as this talented duo is able to generate, its ability to linger in your mind remains questionable. Running a bit long in the tooth, clocking in at two hours and with a handful of scenes and tangents that flat line, a love for the talented and likeable McCarthy will determine audience response to a scenario that’s not exactly fresh. Once again, she’s saddled with playing the buffoon who comes to learn a thing or two about a thing or two, and it would be nice to escape the creepy feeling wherein it sometimes seems we’re supposed to laugh at McCarthy in these illogical scenarios rather than with her.
Susan Cooper (McCarthy) is a deskbound CIA analyst, guiding...
Director Paul Feig does a James Bond send-up for his latest Melissa McCarthy headlined romp, Spy. But for as many laughs as this talented duo is able to generate, its ability to linger in your mind remains questionable. Running a bit long in the tooth, clocking in at two hours and with a handful of scenes and tangents that flat line, a love for the talented and likeable McCarthy will determine audience response to a scenario that’s not exactly fresh. Once again, she’s saddled with playing the buffoon who comes to learn a thing or two about a thing or two, and it would be nice to escape the creepy feeling wherein it sometimes seems we’re supposed to laugh at McCarthy in these illogical scenarios rather than with her.
Susan Cooper (McCarthy) is a deskbound CIA analyst, guiding...
- 6/3/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The last time Melissa McCarthy headlined a big-screen comedy it was "Tammy", and... *rocks back and forth under the shower*
Thankfully, "Spy" marks a return to form for the actor, who reunites with her "Bridesmaids" director Paul Feig to deliver a very funny, very inventive spoof on the spy genre.
McCarthy stars as Susan Cooper who, despite being scary-capable as a CIA field operative, spends her time parked at a desk, calling the plays for super agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law). He gets all the glory and she gets all the, well, not that. But when Fine is seemingly murdered in cold blood by the big-haired villainess Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne), Cooper -- armed with increasingly bad (and hilarious) false identities -- is sent out into the field to stop Boyanov and save the world.
Still on the fence? Here are 5 reasons why you need to see "Spy" at least twice this weekend.
Thankfully, "Spy" marks a return to form for the actor, who reunites with her "Bridesmaids" director Paul Feig to deliver a very funny, very inventive spoof on the spy genre.
McCarthy stars as Susan Cooper who, despite being scary-capable as a CIA field operative, spends her time parked at a desk, calling the plays for super agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law). He gets all the glory and she gets all the, well, not that. But when Fine is seemingly murdered in cold blood by the big-haired villainess Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne), Cooper -- armed with increasingly bad (and hilarious) false identities -- is sent out into the field to stop Boyanov and save the world.
Still on the fence? Here are 5 reasons why you need to see "Spy" at least twice this weekend.
- 6/3/2015
- by Phil Pirrello
- Moviefone
Director: Paul Feig; Screenwriter: Paul Feig; Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, Morena Baccarin, Jude Law, Miranda Hart, Allison Janney; Running time: 120 mins; Certificate: 15
After scene-stealing supporting turns in Paul Feig's last two comedies The Heat and Bridesmaids, Melissa McCarthy steps up to top billing in their latest team-up Spy.
Here she plays Susan Cooper, a CIA analyst kept as far away from the field as humanly possible (well, at first). She's behind a computer screen acting as the eyes and ears for Jude Law's suave, Bond-like Bradley Fine. He's directed through various death-defying missions by Susan, and their playful back-and-forth hints at a long and sturdy friendship that she wants to blossom into something more.
When one of their operations goes bad, the CIA is thrown into crisis forcing Susan to go undercover in a bid to prevent a worldwide catastrophe. The Brit trio of Miranda Hart,...
After scene-stealing supporting turns in Paul Feig's last two comedies The Heat and Bridesmaids, Melissa McCarthy steps up to top billing in their latest team-up Spy.
Here she plays Susan Cooper, a CIA analyst kept as far away from the field as humanly possible (well, at first). She's behind a computer screen acting as the eyes and ears for Jude Law's suave, Bond-like Bradley Fine. He's directed through various death-defying missions by Susan, and their playful back-and-forth hints at a long and sturdy friendship that she wants to blossom into something more.
When one of their operations goes bad, the CIA is thrown into crisis forcing Susan to go undercover in a bid to prevent a worldwide catastrophe. The Brit trio of Miranda Hart,...
- 6/1/2015
- Digital Spy
Melissa McCarthy is definitely shaken, and also a bit stirred, in a new teaser for the upcoming Paul Feig comedy Spy.
The espionage comedy casts McCarthy as CIA analyst Susan Cooper, who has to go into the field for the very first time when her suave partner Bradley Fine (Jude Law) goes missing.
The CIA don't have much faith in Susan, especially since top agent Rick Ford (Jason Statham) thinks she looks more like "Santa Claus's f**king wife" than a field operative.
Nonetheless, Susan is the agency's only hope in bringing down the dangerous arms dealer Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne).
The project reunites McCarthy with her Bridesmaids and The Heat director Paul Feig, with the pair next teaming up for Ghostbusters.
Spy opens on June 5 in the Us and the UK. Watch a full-length trailer below:...
The espionage comedy casts McCarthy as CIA analyst Susan Cooper, who has to go into the field for the very first time when her suave partner Bradley Fine (Jude Law) goes missing.
The CIA don't have much faith in Susan, especially since top agent Rick Ford (Jason Statham) thinks she looks more like "Santa Claus's f**king wife" than a field operative.
Nonetheless, Susan is the agency's only hope in bringing down the dangerous arms dealer Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne).
The project reunites McCarthy with her Bridesmaids and The Heat director Paul Feig, with the pair next teaming up for Ghostbusters.
Spy opens on June 5 in the Us and the UK. Watch a full-length trailer below:...
- 5/26/2015
- Digital Spy
Jason Statham is one angry international intelligence agent in an outrageous scene from Melissa McCarthy's new comedy Spy.
Bridesmaids and The Heat director Paul Feig's newest movie casts McCarthy as a CIA officer working on her first-ever field mission.
Statham is the experienced but comprised fellow CIA agent Rick Ford, who makes his objections to Susan Cooper's (McCarthy) field mission very clear in a new clip.
"We have to stop the sale of a nuclear weapon – they send in someone who looks like Santa Claus's f**king wife," Rick angrily complains.
In fact, Rick thinks Susan's mission could be an even bigger disaster than the time he had to join Cirque du Soleil for a CIA plot.
Spy follows Susan Cooper as she carries out a daring plot to foil arms dealer Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne) from closing an illegal deal.
Susan Cooper must also get...
Bridesmaids and The Heat director Paul Feig's newest movie casts McCarthy as a CIA officer working on her first-ever field mission.
Statham is the experienced but comprised fellow CIA agent Rick Ford, who makes his objections to Susan Cooper's (McCarthy) field mission very clear in a new clip.
"We have to stop the sale of a nuclear weapon – they send in someone who looks like Santa Claus's f**king wife," Rick angrily complains.
In fact, Rick thinks Susan's mission could be an even bigger disaster than the time he had to join Cirque du Soleil for a CIA plot.
Spy follows Susan Cooper as she carries out a daring plot to foil arms dealer Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne) from closing an illegal deal.
Susan Cooper must also get...
- 5/1/2015
- Digital Spy
Las Vegas - Jason Statham may play a tough guy in the movies, but he's putty in the hands of Melissa McCarthy. "It's really difficult [not to break when you're acting in a scene with her], because she's so good at what she does," Statham told us of his "Spy" co-star at CinemaCon. "...It's really hard if you're not skilled at that. So I'll be bursting out laughing, and then she'd get the giggles. And, you know, it's just one of those infectious sort of cycles. It creates a bit of a problem. And then Paul's laughing, and then we have to have a two minute break...out of 50 takes, let's say you do 50 takes in a day, 48 are corrupted." The upcoming action-comedy sees Statham playing inept CIA agent Rick Ford, a character that allowed him to "take the piss out of" the action-star persona he's honed in films from Guy Ritchie's "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" to "Fast...
- 4/29/2015
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Jason Statham has destroyed more villainous goons than we’ve had hot (and cold) dinners - and we're greedy buggers. He’s back repeating the trick in Paul Feig/Melissa McCarthy espionage action-comedy, Spy. This time, however, he’s playing things for laughs. A new clip from the film showcases his rather insecure agent and comes off like Alan Partridge channelling Daniel Craig's 007. Job done.brightcove.createExperiences();“This arm has been ripped off completely and reattached with this fucking arm,” he barks, desperately asserting his badass credentials in a way that would raise at least one Chev Chelios eyebrow.Statham, who plays a temper-fuelled spy called Rick Ford, has been on Feig’s wishlist since Lock, Stock and more specifically, those two Crank movies. “When people read the Statham role they assumed I’d go for someone like Will Ferrell, but I felt that it had to be the real guy,...
- 4/24/2015
- EmpireOnline
Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See can add another sticker to its cover: The World War II novel won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction on Monday. Doerr beat out Richard Ford's Let Me Be Frank With You, Laila Lalami's The Moor's Account, and Joyce Carol Oates's Lovely, Dark, Deep. The winners in the other "Letters and Drama" category are as follows:Drama: Between Riverside and Crazy, by Stephen Adly GuirgisHistory: Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People, by Elizabeth A. FennBiography: The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe, by David I. KertzerPoetry: Digest, by Gregory PardloGeneral Nonfiction: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth KolbertMusic: Anthracite Fields, by Julia Wolfe...
- 4/20/2015
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
I’m not going to lie – I had a pretty good time at South by Southwest this year. Between seeing some of tomorrow’s hottest films (The Final Girls/Turbo Kid) and interviewing names that have been on my journalistic hit-list for years (Ryan Gosling), Austin really hit the spot, but the festival’s biggest surprise came in the form of Paul Feig’s new espionage comedy, Spy.
Starring Melissa McCarthy, I wasn’t completely sold on how her bumbling secret agent would stack up against previous films cut from the same spandex cloth, but my expectations were immediately trounced by Feig’s witty screenplay and McCarthy’s ability to play off her supporting cast. As a fan of the actress, this made me very, very happy.
As alluded to above, Spy does not succeed because of McCarthy alone – quite the opposite actually. Without people like Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale,...
Starring Melissa McCarthy, I wasn’t completely sold on how her bumbling secret agent would stack up against previous films cut from the same spandex cloth, but my expectations were immediately trounced by Feig’s witty screenplay and McCarthy’s ability to play off her supporting cast. As a fan of the actress, this made me very, very happy.
As alluded to above, Spy does not succeed because of McCarthy alone – quite the opposite actually. Without people like Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale,...
- 4/8/2015
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Matthew Weiner has always been more comfortable talking about the past of “Mad Men” rather than letting anyone know anything about the future — even when that future is only seven episodes long, starting Sunday, April 5 at 10 p.m. Having spent enough time over the years asking Weiner questions that he responded to with a very guarded, “Well, you’ve got to watch,” I knew enough to focus as much on the past as possible when we recently sat down for an hour-long interview to discuss the end of his Emmy-winning baby. We talked about the last days of production, looked back all the way to the show’s origins when Weiner was a staff writer on “Becker” looking for a different kind of career in television, the show’s long acting Emmy drought, and more. And I made it almost to the end without a single “You’ve got to watch.
- 3/27/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Following its worldwide premiere at SXSW this weekend, a quartet of UK posters for Spy have debuted online. Each one sheet dedicates its space to one of the three main characters heading up Paul Feig’s next comedy; Melissa McCarthy as the unassuming Susan Cooper, Jude Law as her partner Bradley Fine, and Jason Statham as fellow agent Rick Ford.
Spy marks the reunion of Bridesmaids‘ and The Heat‘s director-star combo, with Feig and McCarthy making jabs at the espionage genre for their third collaboration. The leading lady plays Cooper, a skilled-yet-shy office worker for the CIA, who is called up to serve her country when a field mission is flubbed. With the agency requiring an unknown face and persona, Cooper is thrust into the limelight as their only hope in an international arms blunder.
Early word on the movie has thus far been incredibly positive. Amping up audiences...
Spy marks the reunion of Bridesmaids‘ and The Heat‘s director-star combo, with Feig and McCarthy making jabs at the espionage genre for their third collaboration. The leading lady plays Cooper, a skilled-yet-shy office worker for the CIA, who is called up to serve her country when a field mission is flubbed. With the agency requiring an unknown face and persona, Cooper is thrust into the limelight as their only hope in an international arms blunder.
Early word on the movie has thus far been incredibly positive. Amping up audiences...
- 3/17/2015
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Each month, Boris Kachka will offer nonfiction and fiction book recommendations, and you should read as many of them as possible.33 Artists in 3 Acts, by Sarah Thornton (Ww Norton, Nov. 3) The author of the pop ethnography Seven Days in the Art World takes a more pointillist approach here, profiling nearly three-dozen makers ranging from Jeff Koons (in a harsh light) to Ai Weiwei, Damien Hirst, and, yes, briefly, the Dunham family, but also many others more obscure. Her interviews, interwoven to show conjunctions and contrasts, cohere into a strong three-part whole — first politics, then kinship, and finally, a readable interrogation of what's so often overlooked: craft. Let Me Be Frank With You, by Richard Ford (Ecco, Nov. 4) Looking past the throwaway title, there's nearly as much savor in this four-novella postscript to Ford's Frank Bascombe novels as in the trilogy itself. Now a boomer retiree, Bascombe...
- 11/4/2014
- by Boris Kachka
- Vulture
Philip Seymour Hoffman was not an easy interview. He could be brusque or uninterested. He was not the kind of star who tries to bond with journalists. But a few years ago I caught a glimpse of who Hoffman was not as an actor but as a man, and a bit of advice he gave me changed my life.
At the Sundance Film Festival in 2007, my wife, Jill, and I were invited to a dinner for Tamara Jenkins’ drama The Savages, starring Hoffman and Laura Linney. We were seated across from Hoffman, and had been warned that he was not...
At the Sundance Film Festival in 2007, my wife, Jill, and I were invited to a dinner for Tamara Jenkins’ drama The Savages, starring Hoffman and Laura Linney. We were seated across from Hoffman, and had been warned that he was not...
- 2/6/2014
- by Anthony Breznican
- EW - Inside Movies
Composer Mark Orton recalls some good advice he received from Alexander Payne while scoring the director's Nebraska. "He just said, 'Listen -- just be brilliant,'" Orton tells The Hollywood Reporter. The Portland-based composer was brought on to score Payne's best picture nominee after what Orton calls "a serious case of temp love." As in, music editor Richard Ford asked to use Orton's existing material as a temporary score for the film's Cannes premiere. Ford and Payne were so pleased that they tapped Orton to compose the final score (though they had planned to hire Payne's frequent collaborator Rolfe
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- 1/31/2014
- by Austin Siegemund-Broka
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Malcolm Gladwell, Eleanor Catton and many more recommend the books that impressed them this year
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) is a brilliant, sprawling, layered and unsentimental portrayal of contemporary China. It made me think and laugh. I also love Dave Eggers' The Circle (Hamish Hamilton), which is a sharp-eyed and funny satire about the obsession with "sharing" our lives through technology. It's convincing and a little creepy.
William Boyd
By strange coincidence two of the most intriguing art books I read this year had the word "Breakfast" in their titles. They were Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig (Jonathan Cape) and Breakfast at Sotheby's by Philip Hook (Particular). Greig's fascinating, intimate biography of Lucian Freud was a revelation. Every question I had about Freud – from the aesthetic to the intrusively gossipy – was...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) is a brilliant, sprawling, layered and unsentimental portrayal of contemporary China. It made me think and laugh. I also love Dave Eggers' The Circle (Hamish Hamilton), which is a sharp-eyed and funny satire about the obsession with "sharing" our lives through technology. It's convincing and a little creepy.
William Boyd
By strange coincidence two of the most intriguing art books I read this year had the word "Breakfast" in their titles. They were Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig (Jonathan Cape) and Breakfast at Sotheby's by Philip Hook (Particular). Greig's fascinating, intimate biography of Lucian Freud was a revelation. Every question I had about Freud – from the aesthetic to the intrusively gossipy – was...
- 11/23/2013
- by Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Tom Stoppard, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, William Boyd, Bill Bryson, Shami Chakrabarti, Sarah Churchwell, Antonia Fraser, Mark Haddon, Robert Harris, Max Hastings, Philip Hensher, Simon Hoggart, AM Homes, John Lanchester, Mark Lawson, Robert Macfarlane, Andrew Motion, Ian Rankin, Lionel Shriver, Helen Simpson, Colm Tóibín, Richard Ford, John Gray, David Kynaston, Penelope Lively, Pankaj Mishra, Blake Morrison, Susie Orbach
- The Guardian - Film News
Ahna O'Reilly really knows a thing or two about working with James Franco. Not only has she known him for years (they even dated), but she also worked with him on his feature-length debut, As I Lay Dying, which comes out on video on demand today and will be available on DVD on Nov. 5. We got a chance to talk to Ahna about working on the film adaptation of the classic of the same name by William Faulkner and learned about her new literature-related project with James. Popsugar: How did you get involved with As I Lay Dying? Ahna O'Reilly: I’ve known James Franco and [producer] Vince Jolivette for years, and I knew that they wanted to make this. At one point they mentioned to me that they wanted me to be Dewey Dell, but this was two years before it actually got made. I just didn’t want...
- 11/1/2013
- by Maria Mercedes Lara
- Popsugar.com
Deauville Fest Taps ‘Les Garcons Et Guillaume’ For D’Ornano Prize The Deauville Festival of American Film has announced Les Garçons Et Guillaume A Table! as the winner of this year’s Michel d’Ornano prize, which will be awarded during the festival on September 7. The d’Ornano prize is given to a debut French film and comes with a purse of €3,000 for the director – in this case Guillaume Gallienne — €3,000 for the producer and €10,000 for the distributor to use in promoting the film. (Full disclosure, I am a member of the jury that selects the winner.) Les Garçons debuted in Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, where it scooped the Art Cinema award and the Sacd prize. Gallienne also wrote the film, a transfer of his autobiographical stage show about a young man who isn’t exactly what his family perceives him to be. Deauville, which runs from August 30-September 8, also announced...
- 7/16/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Mezco Announces Mez-itz DC Universe 2 inch Blind Box Assortment
New York- Mezco's ever expanding exploration into the DC Universe continues with the exciting edition of mystery Blind Box Figures. Each Pdq contains six characters from the DC Universe with 10 unique designs; each Mez-itz has a specific rarity scale with a super rare chase figure.
The first assortment includes:
Aquaman
Batman
Green Lantern
Superman
Wonder Woman
Harley Quinn
Each master carton contains three display boxes with 24 figurines in each. There is at least one full set within every case - including the hard to find super secret chase figure.
"I've been enjoying DC Ccomics since I learned to read" said Richard Ford, a member of Mezco's award winning design team, "To be able to work on this series and transform characters from the DC Universe into Mez-Itz is the next best thing to having super powers".
These figures are individually blind-boxed,...
New York- Mezco's ever expanding exploration into the DC Universe continues with the exciting edition of mystery Blind Box Figures. Each Pdq contains six characters from the DC Universe with 10 unique designs; each Mez-itz has a specific rarity scale with a super rare chase figure.
The first assortment includes:
Aquaman
Batman
Green Lantern
Superman
Wonder Woman
Harley Quinn
Each master carton contains three display boxes with 24 figurines in each. There is at least one full set within every case - including the hard to find super secret chase figure.
"I've been enjoying DC Ccomics since I learned to read" said Richard Ford, a member of Mezco's award winning design team, "To be able to work on this series and transform characters from the DC Universe into Mez-Itz is the next best thing to having super powers".
These figures are individually blind-boxed,...
- 4/23/2013
- by Matt MacNabb
- Legions of Gotham
Journalists have been glamorous social climbers and bumbling fools in fiction – sometimes they've even been feminists and righters of wrongs
Journalism is a glamorous trade in Guy de Maupassant's Bel Ami, as Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod's film adaptation (released in the Us next week and in the UK a week later) underlines by casting Robert Pattinson as Georges Duroy and Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci and Holly Grainger as women drawn to the rising Parisian reporter. As well as introducing him to them and assisting his progress as a social climber, working for La Vie Française gives him the power to manipulate or bring down ministers.
What he epitomises too, though, is a press that's sordid and shallow, advancing the personal ends of journalists and owners with no underlying ethical code. Writing talent and a lengthy building up of specialist knowledge aren't essential: Duroy owes...
Journalism is a glamorous trade in Guy de Maupassant's Bel Ami, as Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod's film adaptation (released in the Us next week and in the UK a week later) underlines by casting Robert Pattinson as Georges Duroy and Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci and Holly Grainger as women drawn to the rising Parisian reporter. As well as introducing him to them and assisting his progress as a social climber, working for La Vie Française gives him the power to manipulate or bring down ministers.
What he epitomises too, though, is a press that's sordid and shallow, advancing the personal ends of journalists and owners with no underlying ethical code. Writing talent and a lengthy building up of specialist knowledge aren't essential: Duroy owes...
- 2/23/2012
- by John Dugdale
- The Guardian - Film News
Principal photography has wrapped on “My Brother’s Reaper,” the latest episode of the cult hit TV series, “Lee Martin’s The Midnight Hour.”
The dark, supernatural-themed tale concerns hunky Mark Wayburn (Scott Sell), whose lovely bedroom paramours (Harper Hoffman, Megan Mockensturm) mysteriously begin coughing up blood laced with sharp pins shortly after he leaves them. Meanwhile, the generation gap widens as Mark finds himself at odds with his father (David Roetman), as he pressures Mark to look after his creepy, deformed brother Edwin (Rick Ford)—who is beginning to display disconcerting telekinetic abilities.
Leading man Sell steals the show, bringing to life… More...
The dark, supernatural-themed tale concerns hunky Mark Wayburn (Scott Sell), whose lovely bedroom paramours (Harper Hoffman, Megan Mockensturm) mysteriously begin coughing up blood laced with sharp pins shortly after he leaves them. Meanwhile, the generation gap widens as Mark finds himself at odds with his father (David Roetman), as he pressures Mark to look after his creepy, deformed brother Edwin (Rick Ford)—who is beginning to display disconcerting telekinetic abilities.
Leading man Sell steals the show, bringing to life… More...
- 11/15/2011
- by Robert Feldman
- Horror News
In his first film since the Oscar-winning Sideways, writer-director Alexander Payne once again proves himself a master of the kind of smart, sharp, deeply felt comedy that was once the hallmark of Billy Wilder and Jean Renoir. Based on the bestselling novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants stars George Clooney as Matt King, the heir of a prominent Hawaiian land-owning family whose life is turned upside-down when his wife is critically injured in a boating accident. Accustomed to being .the back-up parent,. King suddenly finds himself center stage in the lives of his two young daughters (excellent newcomers Shailene Woodley and Amara Miller), while at the same time being forced to decide the fate of a vast plot of unspoiled land his family has owned since the 1860s. Rooted in Clooney.s beautifully understated performance, Payne.s film is an uncommonly perceptive portrait of marriage, family and community, suffused...
- 10/18/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The internet may have made redundant the Victorian type of travel book, full of facts and figures, but it's a form of literature that can still thrive
'Hugh Grant loses his bookshop in Notting Hill" was the headline on an article that appeared last week in my local Spanish newspaper. International interest in London's Travel Bookshop (described as a tourist attraction comparable to Paris's Shakespeare and Company) is entirely due to its central role in a popular film promoting an engaging view of London and the British. In Britain, the news of the bookshop's closure has additional and more serious implications – for the future not only of similar independent establishments, but also, and no less importantly, of travel writing.
Travel writing today has an undoubtedly tarnished image. The casting of Hugh Grant in Notting Hill says much about popular preconceptions of the genre and its practitioners. It is a...
'Hugh Grant loses his bookshop in Notting Hill" was the headline on an article that appeared last week in my local Spanish newspaper. International interest in London's Travel Bookshop (described as a tourist attraction comparable to Paris's Shakespeare and Company) is entirely due to its central role in a popular film promoting an engaging view of London and the British. In Britain, the news of the bookshop's closure has additional and more serious implications – for the future not only of similar independent establishments, but also, and no less importantly, of travel writing.
Travel writing today has an undoubtedly tarnished image. The casting of Hugh Grant in Notting Hill says much about popular preconceptions of the genre and its practitioners. It is a...
- 8/27/2011
- by Michael Jacobs
- The Guardian - Film News
There is murder, extortion and double dealings in Breaking Glass Picture's upcoming feature - iCrime. Sara Fletcher stars as Carrie a young woman out to defend her sister, Stefy (Kelly Noonan), who has lost an "old sex tape" (Breaking Glass). Along the way, she must uncover an internet fraud, while maintaining her heartbeat in a world of deception and brutality known as Hollywood.
Breaking Glass Pictures will release this title on DVD this September and the early poster art for the film warns viewers that cyberspace is a place where truth is sometimes lost. Well, here at 28Dla we only use little white lies in the spirit of sensationalism. So, get your partial truth on the release details for iCrime below.
The synopsis for iCrime is here:
"Carrie Kevin may seem like a typical Hollywood ingénue -- a small-town girl looking to break into acting -- but underneath her fresh-faced...
Breaking Glass Pictures will release this title on DVD this September and the early poster art for the film warns viewers that cyberspace is a place where truth is sometimes lost. Well, here at 28Dla we only use little white lies in the spirit of sensationalism. So, get your partial truth on the release details for iCrime below.
The synopsis for iCrime is here:
"Carrie Kevin may seem like a typical Hollywood ingénue -- a small-town girl looking to break into acting -- but underneath her fresh-faced...
- 7/15/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Everett
Recently, I was the surprise commencement speaker at the promotion ceremony for a Seattle alternative high school. I spoke to sixty students, who’d come from sixteen different districts, and had survived depression, attempted suicide, gang warfare, sexual and physical abuse, absentee parents, poverty, racism, and learning disabilities in order to graduate.
These students had read my young adult novel, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” and had been inspired by my autobiographical story of a poor...
Recently, I was the surprise commencement speaker at the promotion ceremony for a Seattle alternative high school. I spoke to sixty students, who’d come from sixteen different districts, and had survived depression, attempted suicide, gang warfare, sexual and physical abuse, absentee parents, poverty, racism, and learning disabilities in order to graduate.
These students had read my young adult novel, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” and had been inspired by my autobiographical story of a poor...
- 6/9/2011
- by Sherman Alexie
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Robert Yager Author Richard Ford
I’ve always had uneasy loyalties about the relevance of the term “work” to the activities I perform every day, and which occupy the hours when most other people are in fact “working.” I write novels and stories and essays for a living. And while I fairly mindlessly refer to what I do as “work” (“I’m working, I can’t help you shovel the driveway”; “I start work every day at eight and work...
I’ve always had uneasy loyalties about the relevance of the term “work” to the activities I perform every day, and which occupy the hours when most other people are in fact “working.” I write novels and stories and essays for a living. And while I fairly mindlessly refer to what I do as “work” (“I’m working, I can’t help you shovel the driveway”; “I start work every day at eight and work...
- 4/18/2011
- by Richard Ford
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Unstoppable scribe Mark Bomback has been set by Fox 2000 to do a new draft of Shadow Divers, the Robert Kurson book that follows two wreck divers who uncover the hull of a German U-boat off the New Jersey coast in 1991. Red helmer Robert Schwentke became attached to the film in late summer and Scott Free's producing. The divers became obsessed with discovering the truth behind the ship and the men who died inside it and dove to depths of 230 feet, the limits of human endurance to solve the mystery. Bomback, who also toiled for Fox on Live Free or Die Hard, has also adapted the Richard Ford novel The Sportswriter for James Mangold.
- 11/5/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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- 10/23/2010
- by Michelle Wray
- Monsters and Critics
The American author on how pain is the inspiration for all his books, getting off drugs and telling the truth
What is it about Bret Easton Ellis that sends people mad? Readers love him or hate him with a violence seldom found in the literary world; all the friends I canvassed either went dark at the mention of his name, or giddy with excitement. For 25 years Ellis has provoked wildly mixed reviews – on balance more bad than good – and has never won a major literary prize. Yet the author still inspires the kind of ferocious frenzy more typical of a rock star.
The irony is that Ellis himself is almost entirely absent from his novels. His writing deliberately contains no authorial voice as a commentary on the perspective of the narrator – so in American Psycho, it's not clear whether the murders recounted by its yuppie serial killer Patrick Bateman even take place at all,...
What is it about Bret Easton Ellis that sends people mad? Readers love him or hate him with a violence seldom found in the literary world; all the friends I canvassed either went dark at the mention of his name, or giddy with excitement. For 25 years Ellis has provoked wildly mixed reviews – on balance more bad than good – and has never won a major literary prize. Yet the author still inspires the kind of ferocious frenzy more typical of a rock star.
The irony is that Ellis himself is almost entirely absent from his novels. His writing deliberately contains no authorial voice as a commentary on the perspective of the narrator – so in American Psycho, it's not clear whether the murders recounted by its yuppie serial killer Patrick Bateman even take place at all,...
- 7/26/2010
- by Decca Aitkenhead
- The Guardian - Film News
Icm's Amanda "Binky" Urban is the first book agent to be selected to receive the Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in Fiction. The prize, created in 2005 by The Center For Fiction, is awarded to editors, publishers or agents who've championed and nurtured fiction authors. Urban has repped a long list of fiction writers that include Richard Ford, E.L. Doctorow, Anna Quindlen, Cormac McCarthy, Jay McInerney, Toni Morrison, David and Nic Sheff, E.B. White and Haruki Murakami. With her West Coast Icm counterpart Ron Bernstein, Urban has been involved in a slew of book-to-movie movie transfers that include the [...]...
- 7/9/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Photograph by Maude Schuyler Clay. When Barry Hannah died of a heart attack on Monday, he left behind a literary legacy that included eight novels—among them Geronimo Rex (1972) which was nominated for the National Book Award—and four short story collections, including the iconic Airships (1978) and High Lonesome (1996). Short fiction was his metier, and it earned him the Pen/Malamud Award in 2003, placing him in the company of John Updike, Saul Bellow, Richard Ford, and Joyce Carol Oates. In the midst of producing these works, Hannah battled cancer, gave up drink, went back to it, left it again, and lived a life that provided ample material for his congenital genius to work with. Mississippians will claim him—he was their native son; Southerners will widen the circle of proprietary grief; and ardent fans across the world will miss him. Most would agree that he remained popularly under-recognized over his career.
- 3/3/2010
- Vanity Fair
In Bookforum, novelist Richard Ford discusses his method for writing his acclaimed "Frank Bascombe" trilogy of novels, The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land. Along the way he references some useful theories about art, literature and character creation. An excerpt: To my mind, and faithful to Frost, these three Frank Bascombe novels, along with everything else I’ve ever written, have been largely born out of fortuity. First, I fortuitously decided I wanted to write a book. I then collected a lot of seemingly random and what seemed like significant things out of the world, things I wanted to make fit into my prospective book—events, memories, snippets of what someone said, places, names of places, ideas—all, again,...
- 5/29/2009
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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