Special Mention: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Directed by Jim Sharman
Screenplay by Richard O’Brien and Jim Sharman
1975, USA
For the unfamiliar, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the film adaptation of a popular musical stage production composed and written by Richard O’Brien, a struggling actor at the time who was best known for his performances in such musicals as Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar. For O’Brien, The Rocky Horror Picture Show was an homage to drive-in double features and science fiction B-movies of the fifties, and ironically, the film itself went on to become the ultimate midnight movie. To this day, screenings held in and around its anniversary as well as on Halloween sell out. It has never been pulled by 20th Century Fox from its original 1975 release, and it continues to play in cinemas four decades after its premiere, making it the longest-running theatrical release in film history.
Directed by Jim Sharman
Screenplay by Richard O’Brien and Jim Sharman
1975, USA
For the unfamiliar, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the film adaptation of a popular musical stage production composed and written by Richard O’Brien, a struggling actor at the time who was best known for his performances in such musicals as Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar. For O’Brien, The Rocky Horror Picture Show was an homage to drive-in double features and science fiction B-movies of the fifties, and ironically, the film itself went on to become the ultimate midnight movie. To this day, screenings held in and around its anniversary as well as on Halloween sell out. It has never been pulled by 20th Century Fox from its original 1975 release, and it continues to play in cinemas four decades after its premiere, making it the longest-running theatrical release in film history.
- 10/4/2015
- by Ricky Fernandes
- SoundOnSight
The Heat
Directed by: Paul Feig
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Sandra Bullock
Running Time: 1 hr 57 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Plot: A straight-edge FBI agent (Bullock) is paired up with a Boston police officer (McCarthy) in order to locate an elusive neighborhood drug lord.
Who’S It For? In case you were thinking so, The Heat is indeed not a chick flick, but that doesn’t automatically make it some form of dude movie either. If you like thoroughly entertaining wild comedies, The Heat will be worth it. Certainly, if you thought Bridesmaids was great, you shouldn’t miss this followup from the same director.
Expectations: Paul Feig is one of the most compelling directors in comedy today. Would he be able to make a second strong film with Bridesmaids star Melissa McCarthy, or would this be another Identity Thief?
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Melissa McCarthy as Mullins: After the pandering...
Directed by: Paul Feig
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Sandra Bullock
Running Time: 1 hr 57 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Plot: A straight-edge FBI agent (Bullock) is paired up with a Boston police officer (McCarthy) in order to locate an elusive neighborhood drug lord.
Who’S It For? In case you were thinking so, The Heat is indeed not a chick flick, but that doesn’t automatically make it some form of dude movie either. If you like thoroughly entertaining wild comedies, The Heat will be worth it. Certainly, if you thought Bridesmaids was great, you shouldn’t miss this followup from the same director.
Expectations: Paul Feig is one of the most compelling directors in comedy today. Would he be able to make a second strong film with Bridesmaids star Melissa McCarthy, or would this be another Identity Thief?
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Melissa McCarthy as Mullins: After the pandering...
- 6/28/2013
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
June 10: Singer Shirley Alston Reeves of The Shirelles is 71. Actor Andrew Stevens is 57. Bassist Kim Deal of The Pixies and The Breeders is 51. Singer Maxi Priest is 51. Actress Gina Gershon is 50. Actress Jeanne Tripplehorn is 49. Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin (Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan) is 48. Actress Kate Flannery ("The Office") is 48. Model-actress Elizabeth Hurley is 47. Guitarist Joey Santiago of The Pixies is 47. Guitarist Emma Anderson (Lush) is 45. Country guitarist Brian Hofeldt of The Derailers is 45. Singer Mike Doughty (Soul Coughing) is 42. Singer JoJo of K-Ci and JoJo is 41. Singer Faith Evans is 39. Singer Lemisha Grinstead of 702 is 34. Actor DJ Qualls ("Hustle & Flow") is 34. Actor Shane West ("ER," "Now and Again") is 34. Singer Hoku is 31. Actress Leelee Sobieski is 30.
June 11: Actor Gene Wilder is 79. Actor Chad Everett is 75. Comedian Johnny Brown ("Laugh-In") is 75. Singer Joey Dee is 72. Actress Adrienne Barbeau ("Maude") is 67. Drummer Frank Beard of Zz Top is 63. Singer Donnie Van...
June 11: Actor Gene Wilder is 79. Actor Chad Everett is 75. Comedian Johnny Brown ("Laugh-In") is 75. Singer Joey Dee is 72. Actress Adrienne Barbeau ("Maude") is 67. Drummer Frank Beard of Zz Top is 63. Singer Donnie Van...
- 6/7/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Slither
Directed by James Gunn
Written by James Gunn
2006, USA
Gross-out horror comedy is my guilty pleasure. Among the best are Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive, Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator, and James Gunn’s Slither. Essentially a pastiche of the zombie and alien-invasion genres, Slither features a 50′s sci-fi plot with gross-out gore making for an effective, even if familiar, horror film.
This tongue-in-cheek horror flick shows off first-time director Gunn’s skill for blending comedy and horror. Slither recalls Tremors, only with much more gore: its the best kind of B-movie, one whose laughs are just as effective and intentional as it imaginative gross-out-effects. More importantly, Gunn probes the genre’s cliches without ever mocking them. Slither is a labor of love made by a horror aficionado who knows his shit, and along the way, he subsumes an onslaught of cinematic references to genre conventions, from John Carpenter’s...
Directed by James Gunn
Written by James Gunn
2006, USA
Gross-out horror comedy is my guilty pleasure. Among the best are Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive, Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator, and James Gunn’s Slither. Essentially a pastiche of the zombie and alien-invasion genres, Slither features a 50′s sci-fi plot with gross-out gore making for an effective, even if familiar, horror film.
This tongue-in-cheek horror flick shows off first-time director Gunn’s skill for blending comedy and horror. Slither recalls Tremors, only with much more gore: its the best kind of B-movie, one whose laughs are just as effective and intentional as it imaginative gross-out-effects. More importantly, Gunn probes the genre’s cliches without ever mocking them. Slither is a labor of love made by a horror aficionado who knows his shit, and along the way, he subsumes an onslaught of cinematic references to genre conventions, from John Carpenter’s...
- 8/15/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Jenna Fischer stars as Owen Wilson's wife in "Hall Pass." She's the one who decides to give her husband a hall pass in hopes of changing his roving eye. The actress was very sweet and silly in person. In this interview, we talked about:
*** What attracted her to making "Hall Pass"
*** The film's interesting themes
*** How did she prepare for the film
*** Fake chow, mental photographs, and the joys of Air Supply
*** Was the journey of making a Farrelly brothers movie all worth it?
*** What can we expect in the future episodes of "The Office?
*** Who deserve a hall pass, men or women?...
*** What attracted her to making "Hall Pass"
*** The film's interesting themes
*** How did she prepare for the film
*** Fake chow, mental photographs, and the joys of Air Supply
*** Was the journey of making a Farrelly brothers movie all worth it?
*** What can we expect in the future episodes of "The Office?
*** Who deserve a hall pass, men or women?...
- 2/22/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Regardless of their cooking abilities, there are some movie characters whose dinner invitations you should definitely turn down. Here are 12 prime examples…
I don't go out much, me, what with watching as many films as I do, as well as having a complete lack of anything resembling a social life.
However, I sometimes compensate for this by imagining all sorts of dazzling social occasions I could attend with my friends from the movies. You know, my real friends, the ones who I talk to under my Clone Wars duvet at night when I'm not scribbling poems for Carrie Fisher in purple crayon.
Being a healthy lad who likes his food, I often imagine these scenarios playing out in some fancy West End restaurant. However, as I lay there one night, imagining an evening at Le Gavroche with Jason Voorhees and Mrs Bates, I thought to myself, "Hang on, I probably...
I don't go out much, me, what with watching as many films as I do, as well as having a complete lack of anything resembling a social life.
However, I sometimes compensate for this by imagining all sorts of dazzling social occasions I could attend with my friends from the movies. You know, my real friends, the ones who I talk to under my Clone Wars duvet at night when I'm not scribbling poems for Carrie Fisher in purple crayon.
Being a healthy lad who likes his food, I often imagine these scenarios playing out in some fancy West End restaurant. However, as I lay there one night, imagining an evening at Le Gavroche with Jason Voorhees and Mrs Bates, I thought to myself, "Hang on, I probably...
- 2/15/2011
- Den of Geek
Spoiler Alert: The happy couple in You Again, Lone Star’s James Wolk and The Unborn’s Odette Yustman, sang a karaoke duet of Hall & Oates’ “Kiss on My List” the first time they met. The real Hall & Oates make a cameo at movie’s end to perform it. The cast has a great time hamming it up with the duo, but honestly, all I could think about was that even with the presence of Hall & Oates, the scene in no way compared to (500) Days of Summer’s brilliant use of “You Make My Dreams.” Anyone else experience the same mental block?...
- 9/28/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
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