If Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on earth, the most awkward place on earth seems to be about 30 miles northwest -- at the Oscars red carpet. This year's red carpet coverage on ABC featured plenty of silly cutaways, awkward pauses, and reticent interviewees, but no one on the other end of the microphone seemed more charmingly perplexed than Hugh Grant.
Grant is attending the Oscars tonight as a presenter, but he also had a cameo role in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery," which is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. Grant appeared in a brief scene that nonetheless took the internet by storm, as he was revealed to be detective Benoit Blanc's (Daniel Craig) husband. When asked about his turn in "Glass Onion," Grant seemed less-than-enthused, but then again, he came to the interview -- which seemed to be going on while a disorientingly loud crowd...
Grant is attending the Oscars tonight as a presenter, but he also had a cameo role in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery," which is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. Grant appeared in a brief scene that nonetheless took the internet by storm, as he was revealed to be detective Benoit Blanc's (Daniel Craig) husband. When asked about his turn in "Glass Onion," Grant seemed less-than-enthused, but then again, he came to the interview -- which seemed to be going on while a disorientingly loud crowd...
- 3/13/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Liam Neeson has appeared in many movies over the years. But the actor — known for hits like Taken — is about to mark a new milestone with his 100th film. The project has long been in the works and sees the star take on an iconic character for the first time. Here’s what he has coming up and when fans can see Neeson’s 100th movie.
Liam Neeson made his feature film debut in 1978
Neeson made his film debut in 1978’s Pilgrim’s Progress, based on John Bunyan’s Christian allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World, to That Which Is to Come. He plays the Evangelist and also appears briefly as the crucified Jesus Christ. But in the ensuing decades, Neeson demonstrated his versatility in just about every genre imaginable.
He appeared in movies such as Excalibur, Darkman, Schindler’s List (for which he received his first and only Academy...
Liam Neeson made his feature film debut in 1978
Neeson made his film debut in 1978’s Pilgrim’s Progress, based on John Bunyan’s Christian allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World, to That Which Is to Come. He plays the Evangelist and also appears briefly as the crucified Jesus Christ. But in the ensuing decades, Neeson demonstrated his versatility in just about every genre imaginable.
He appeared in movies such as Excalibur, Darkman, Schindler’s List (for which he received his first and only Academy...
- 2/12/2023
- by Robert Yaniz Jr.
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life is Mubi Go's Film of the Week of January 17, 2020.In 1979, as a response to the confusion of friends and foes alike, Stanley Cavell published an enlarged edition to his cinematic ontology book The World Viewed with an addendum aptly and sardonically called More of the World Viewed. And in the preface to this new volume appeared a prescient reading of Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978). Knowing full well that Malick had translated Martin Heiddeger’s The Essence of Reason years earlier, Cavell claimed that Days of Heaven evokes a particular passage from Heidegger’s What Is Called Thinking?, which Malick “had done only… by having discovered… a fundamental fact about film’s photographic basis: that objects participate in the photographic presence of themselves; they participate in the recreation of themselves on film; they are essential in the making of their appearances.”In the...
- 1/17/2020
- MUBI
This animated adaptation of Bunyan’s 17th-century religious allegory features some scary demons but the rest is pretty tame
Pity the poor year-nine students who henceforth will be plonked in front of this plodding, sanctimonious animation of John Bunyan’s 1678 religious allegory as “a treat” in Re class. The film’s animation is reminiscent of an aircraft safety video, with characters moving stiffly while delivering the dialogue in awkward, am-dram style.
It begins promisingly in the City of Destruction, a vividly animated inferno where citizens toil at backbreaking work. After one of them goes missing, leaving behind a house full of visionary sketches and a book about the Celestial City, Christian Pilgrim (voiced by Ben Price) follows him into the unknown, abandoning his family. First stop on his journey is the Swamp of Despair. At Vanity Fair he must resist the temptations of the flesh – painted ladies, cakes galore – while...
Pity the poor year-nine students who henceforth will be plonked in front of this plodding, sanctimonious animation of John Bunyan’s 1678 religious allegory as “a treat” in Re class. The film’s animation is reminiscent of an aircraft safety video, with characters moving stiffly while delivering the dialogue in awkward, am-dram style.
It begins promisingly in the City of Destruction, a vividly animated inferno where citizens toil at backbreaking work. After one of them goes missing, leaving behind a house full of visionary sketches and a book about the Celestial City, Christian Pilgrim (voiced by Ben Price) follows him into the unknown, abandoning his family. First stop on his journey is the Swamp of Despair. At Vanity Fair he must resist the temptations of the flesh – painted ladies, cakes galore – while...
- 10/23/2019
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
There’s a reason why John Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress” has stood the test of time: The author’s rich tale of an everyman’s extraordinary journey to find faith is a resonant reminder for believers to never stray from “the straight and narrow” — a message that’s evident from the very first moments of writer-director Robert Fernandez’s animated adaptation of the beloved novel.
Though this relatively low-budget retelling is hampered by its limited production values (it was partly funded by Kickstarter campaign), the execution is strong enough to serve as a previs run-through for a grander scale, live-action feature — the likes of which have never been offered to audiences, despite a flourishing faith-based market. Fernandez’s first feature, screening in the lead-up to Easter via Fathom Events nationwide on April 18 and 20, plays like a cinematic Cliff’s Notes for kids, even as it retains the heart...
Though this relatively low-budget retelling is hampered by its limited production values (it was partly funded by Kickstarter campaign), the execution is strong enough to serve as a previs run-through for a grander scale, live-action feature — the likes of which have never been offered to audiences, despite a flourishing faith-based market. Fernandez’s first feature, screening in the lead-up to Easter via Fathom Events nationwide on April 18 and 20, plays like a cinematic Cliff’s Notes for kids, even as it retains the heart...
- 4/17/2019
- by Courtney Howard
- Variety Film + TV
Christian filmmakers are tackling a movie based on what is generally considered the first novel written in English.
The book, The Pilgrim's Progress From This World, to That Which Is to Come, was written in 1678 by John Bunyan. He began his Christian allegory while in prison, accused of conducting religious services without permission. The book has been translated into more than 200 languages and many theologians consider it the second most-read book of faith after the Bible.
The film, dubbed Heavenquest: A Pilgrim's Progress, is the third movie from King Street Pictures, which makes faith-inspired films for a global...
The book, The Pilgrim's Progress From This World, to That Which Is to Come, was written in 1678 by John Bunyan. He began his Christian allegory while in prison, accused of conducting religious services without permission. The book has been translated into more than 200 languages and many theologians consider it the second most-read book of faith after the Bible.
The film, dubbed Heavenquest: A Pilgrim's Progress, is the third movie from King Street Pictures, which makes faith-inspired films for a global...
- 7/11/2017
- by Paul Bond
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If you ask comic book fans to list ten of the best comic book writers that ever existed, odds are good that Watchmen writer Alan Moore would fall somewhere on that list. Yes, the man has proven to be something of a recluse and embittered artist-type, but there’s no denying he knows his way around a keyboard.
Apart from Watchmen, Moore is also well known for such books as Batman: The Killing Joke, and V for Vendetta.
He’s definitely made his mark on the medium of comic books, but now, based on an interview he had with The Guardian while promoting his new novel, Jerusalem (a new 1,200+ page book set to hit shelves later this month), it sounds like he’s ready to move one from comics.
“[I have] about 250 pages of comics left in me,” he said.
He then added:
“And those will probably be very enjoyable. There are...
Apart from Watchmen, Moore is also well known for such books as Batman: The Killing Joke, and V for Vendetta.
He’s definitely made his mark on the medium of comic books, but now, based on an interview he had with The Guardian while promoting his new novel, Jerusalem (a new 1,200+ page book set to hit shelves later this month), it sounds like he’s ready to move one from comics.
“[I have] about 250 pages of comics left in me,” he said.
He then added:
“And those will probably be very enjoyable. There are...
- 9/9/2016
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
There are shades of Dickens and Orwell in this emphatic drama about a disabled man strangled by the red tape of the benefits system
With this movie — maybe his last, and maybe not — Ken Loach establishes himself yet further as the John Bunyan of contemporary British cinema. Based on research and interviews by the screenwriter Paul Laverty, this movie tells the fictional story of Daniel Blake, a middle-aged widower in the North East who can’t work or get benefits after a near-fatal heart attack, and the story is told with stark and fierce plainness: unadorned, unapologetic, even unevolved. Loach’s movie offends against the tacitly accepted rules of sophisticated good taste: subtlety, irony and indirection. The film is not objective, and perhaps Loach and Laverty have signed up to Churchill’s maxim about refusing to be neutral between the fire brigade and the fire.
Ken Loach will insist on...
With this movie — maybe his last, and maybe not — Ken Loach establishes himself yet further as the John Bunyan of contemporary British cinema. Based on research and interviews by the screenwriter Paul Laverty, this movie tells the fictional story of Daniel Blake, a middle-aged widower in the North East who can’t work or get benefits after a near-fatal heart attack, and the story is told with stark and fierce plainness: unadorned, unapologetic, even unevolved. Loach’s movie offends against the tacitly accepted rules of sophisticated good taste: subtlety, irony and indirection. The film is not objective, and perhaps Loach and Laverty have signed up to Churchill’s maxim about refusing to be neutral between the fire brigade and the fire.
Ken Loach will insist on...
- 5/12/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw in Cannes
- The Guardian - Film News
Ever since his debut feature in 1973, Terrence Malick has been making films about pilgrimages while simultaneously embarking on one himself. As his characters venture towards an abstract transcendence, Malick has taken every step with them, developing a language to express an inexplicable feeling, a connection beyond the material world. Few directors have an oeuvre as continuous as Malick, whose career feels like one long film with each title a different step along the same journey. As a viewer, a pilgrimage is also required; if you haven’t been following Malick’s lead, it’s very difficult to find his destination.All of his films search for immaterial satisfaction: a utopia, a love, a connection beyond empirical explanation. It can be seen in Badlands (1973) through Kit’s desire to mythologize himself into a timeless enigma, or in the “other world” that Private Witt imagines in The Thin Red Line (1999), or when...
- 3/3/2016
- by Josh Cabrita
- MUBI
Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women is ripe for a gritty, dystopian TV adaptation according to the folk over at The CW...
We're yet to be reliably convinced that this isn't a leg-pull on a global scale, but are reporting on this one so that you, dear reader, can share in our puzzlement.
Little Women, the nineteenth century Louisa M. Alcott novel about a group of sisters struggling to adapt to a change in fortunes following their father going away to war, is in development for TV. That in itself comes as no surprise, the story of Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy and their Marmee has already been adapted for the screen several times.
No, the surprising part is the direction in which Us network The CW is planning to take the March girls.
According to Deadline, the show would be a "hyper-stylized, gritty adaptation [...] in which disparate half-sisters Jo, Meg,...
We're yet to be reliably convinced that this isn't a leg-pull on a global scale, but are reporting on this one so that you, dear reader, can share in our puzzlement.
Little Women, the nineteenth century Louisa M. Alcott novel about a group of sisters struggling to adapt to a change in fortunes following their father going away to war, is in development for TV. That in itself comes as no surprise, the story of Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy and their Marmee has already been adapted for the screen several times.
No, the surprising part is the direction in which Us network The CW is planning to take the March girls.
According to Deadline, the show would be a "hyper-stylized, gritty adaptation [...] in which disparate half-sisters Jo, Meg,...
- 7/30/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Since his screen debut in the 1979 adaptation of John Bunyan's Christiana, Northern Ireland-born actor Liam Neeson has fiercely tackled a wide array of genres. Though best known for dramas like Schindler's List and Michael Collins, he's also taken on science fiction (Star Wars: Episode I . The Phantom Menace), action-thrillers (Taken), fantasy (Wrath of the Titans) and comedy (Love Actually). But notably there is a gap when it comes to musicals. For while Neeson did star in the 1998 adaptation of Les Misérables, it was sans singing. Thankfully songwriters and movie lovers Jon and Al Kaplan have given us a glimpse of what we're missing with their latest music video Liam Neeson: The Musical that boasts with a pretty solid impersonation of Neeson's growling Irish delivery. Check it out below, courtesy of Vulture's tip: Showcasing clips from The Grey, Chronicles of Narnia, Darkman, Star Wars, Chloe, and more, the...
- 10/2/2012
- cinemablend.com
What’s the best sentence in the English language? New York Times columnist Stanley Fish’s new book, How To Write a Sentence and How to Read One, does exactly what its title suggests: explores the mechanics of superior sentence construction and also steps back and appreciates some of the greats. Fish picked five of his favorite sentences over on Slate, and they’re pretty hard to argue with. His picks include:
John Bunyan (from The Pilgrim’s Progress, 1678): “Now he had not run far from his own door, but his wife and children perceiving it, began crying after him to return,...
John Bunyan (from The Pilgrim’s Progress, 1678): “Now he had not run far from his own door, but his wife and children perceiving it, began crying after him to return,...
- 1/26/2011
- by Margaret Lyons
- EW.com - PopWatch
In somewhat of an odd turn, Dead Noon director Andrew Wiest has decided to turn away from Grindhouse films about gun slingers and bring us a post-apocalyptic Christian parable in the form of a low budget family outing called The Wylds. Now, I'm like the farthest thing from a religious scholar type so I'll let those of you who are decide how faithful the film looks next to John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (which I imagine is not a lot). For everyone else, there's sword fighting, cowboys, and evil mustache twirling types wearing steam-punk goggles in the film's teaser so I thought I'd post it up for a larf.
Someplace, somewhere, in the future mankind fell. A Great War turned Earth into a wilderness and a wasteland. Cars, electricity, computers, all modern technology is long gone and forgotten about. There are pockets of civilization living in decaying and ramshackle cities,...
Someplace, somewhere, in the future mankind fell. A Great War turned Earth into a wilderness and a wasteland. Cars, electricity, computers, all modern technology is long gone and forgotten about. There are pockets of civilization living in decaying and ramshackle cities,...
- 2/25/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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