The year 1990 was the beginning of a new decade that just had survived the neon excesses of the ’80s. This fresh start was seen in the world at large with the reunification of Germany, the unification of Yemen, the release of Nelson Mandela and the resignation of Margaret Thatcher as the U.K.’s prime minister.
It was also the fledgling days of the internet, when the first web server was created, providing a foundation for the World Wide Web as we know it.
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Over on television, “Saturday Night Live” welcomed the new talents of Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider and Julia Sweeney.
The year also marked the end of an era for shows like “Alf,” “227,” “Newhart,” primetime soap “Falcon Crest,” Nickelodeon’s slime purveyor “You Can’t Do That on Television,...
It was also the fledgling days of the internet, when the first web server was created, providing a foundation for the World Wide Web as we know it.
Read More: ‘Animaniacs’ Reboot Being Developed by Steven Spielberg, Amblin TV and Warner Bros. — Exclusive
Over on television, “Saturday Night Live” welcomed the new talents of Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider and Julia Sweeney.
The year also marked the end of an era for shows like “Alf,” “227,” “Newhart,” primetime soap “Falcon Crest,” Nickelodeon’s slime purveyor “You Can’t Do That on Television,...
- 6/14/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
We can't wait for Netflix's November 20th debut of "Marvel's Jessica Jones" starring Krysten Ritter as a superhero who becomes a private detective. The noirish series, which received a great reception at New York Comic Con, costars Carrie-Anne Moss and former Dr. Who David Tennant.
Other Netflix originals premiering in November: "River," starring Stellan Skarsgård as a detective haunted by visions of his murdered colleague; the Aziz Ansari comedy series "Master of None;" and "W/Bob and David," which re-teams Bob Odenkirk and David Cross.
As for movies, you might have missed Keira Knightley in "Anna Karenina" (2012), which first paired "Ex Machina's" Alicia Vikander and Domhnall Gleeson. Also new, Nicolas Cage's "The Runner" and documentaries "Idris Elba: Mandela, My Dad and Me," "Call Me Lucky" and "Do I Sound Gay?"
Here's the entire list of what's new on Netflix in November.
Available November 1
"Beethoven's Christmas Adventure" (2011)
"Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce...
Other Netflix originals premiering in November: "River," starring Stellan Skarsgård as a detective haunted by visions of his murdered colleague; the Aziz Ansari comedy series "Master of None;" and "W/Bob and David," which re-teams Bob Odenkirk and David Cross.
As for movies, you might have missed Keira Knightley in "Anna Karenina" (2012), which first paired "Ex Machina's" Alicia Vikander and Domhnall Gleeson. Also new, Nicolas Cage's "The Runner" and documentaries "Idris Elba: Mandela, My Dad and Me," "Call Me Lucky" and "Do I Sound Gay?"
Here's the entire list of what's new on Netflix in November.
Available November 1
"Beethoven's Christmas Adventure" (2011)
"Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce...
- 10/21/2015
- by Sharon Knolle
- Moviefone
Nymphomaniac and the infinite loneliness of Lars von Trier by David Ehrlich
“Early in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, Young Joe (Stacy Martin) coos these words to one of the countless men she has sex with during the two part, 241-minute opus of depravity. While what she’s saying carries a clear erotic charge, her bluntly literal instructions aren’t a come-on so much as a desperate plea for fulfillment. As Joe relates her life story to the overeager stranger Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), who found her lying in an alley near his home, what was first intended as a simple request for comprehensive penetration evolves into a tragic refrain, with the unsubtle subtext that might be expected from a filmmaker who has the word “fuck” tattooed across his right-hand knuckles. Joe is suffering from an incurable sense of incompletion. Loneliness, she tells Seligman, has been her constant companion. That simple...
“Early in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, Young Joe (Stacy Martin) coos these words to one of the countless men she has sex with during the two part, 241-minute opus of depravity. While what she’s saying carries a clear erotic charge, her bluntly literal instructions aren’t a come-on so much as a desperate plea for fulfillment. As Joe relates her life story to the overeager stranger Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), who found her lying in an alley near his home, what was first intended as a simple request for comprehensive penetration evolves into a tragic refrain, with the unsubtle subtext that might be expected from a filmmaker who has the word “fuck” tattooed across his right-hand knuckles. Joe is suffering from an incurable sense of incompletion. Loneliness, she tells Seligman, has been her constant companion. That simple...
- 5/6/2014
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
• Meryl Streep is reportedly attached to star in Ricky and the Flash about a woman trying to repair her broken relationships with the family she abandoned to be a rock star decades earlier. Diablo Cody (Juno) penned the script and Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) is attached to direct. All are Oscar winners. According to the report, Universal and Fox 200 are interested in the movie. [The Wrap]
• Corey Stoll (House of Cards) is reportedly in early talks to join Marvel’s Ant-Man. The Edgar Wright-directed pic stars Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas and is set for a July 31, 2015, release. No...
• Corey Stoll (House of Cards) is reportedly in early talks to join Marvel’s Ant-Man. The Edgar Wright-directed pic stars Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas and is set for a July 31, 2015, release. No...
- 3/25/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Dok Leipzig’s Golden Dove for Best International Documentary went to the Us, while Norway scored a hat-trick at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck.
The top award in Leipzig’s International Documentary Competition went to Italian-born, Us-based film-maker Roberto Minervini’s Stop The Pounding Heart whose portrayal of a strict religious family was described by the jury as ¨refreshing and unsettling at the same time.¨
The Us-Belgian-Italian co-production is handled internationally by Doc & Film.
The Golden Dove in the German Documentary Competition was awarded to Carlo Zoratti for his feature-length debut The Special Need, while the newly-created Golden Dove for the animation-documentary hybrid form was presented to French director Daniela De Felice’s Casa.
A total of 18 prizes with cash awards totalling almost €70,000 ($95,000) included the Fipresci Prize for Gang Zhao’s A Folk Troupe; the Mdr Film Prize for Vitaly Mansky’s Pipeline; and the Youth Jury Prize to Joanna by Aneta Kopacz, a graduate...
The top award in Leipzig’s International Documentary Competition went to Italian-born, Us-based film-maker Roberto Minervini’s Stop The Pounding Heart whose portrayal of a strict religious family was described by the jury as ¨refreshing and unsettling at the same time.¨
The Us-Belgian-Italian co-production is handled internationally by Doc & Film.
The Golden Dove in the German Documentary Competition was awarded to Carlo Zoratti for his feature-length debut The Special Need, while the newly-created Golden Dove for the animation-documentary hybrid form was presented to French director Daniela De Felice’s Casa.
A total of 18 prizes with cash awards totalling almost €70,000 ($95,000) included the Fipresci Prize for Gang Zhao’s A Folk Troupe; the Mdr Film Prize for Vitaly Mansky’s Pipeline; and the Youth Jury Prize to Joanna by Aneta Kopacz, a graduate...
- 11/4/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
by Alex Zalben
It was kind of the worst kept secret on TV, but in case you didn't hear the news: Samuel Jackson's Nick Fury showed up in the quasi-post-credit sequence of last night's "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." By all accounts, that's a few months earlier than anyone was expecting, as we all intuited that one of the movie's stars would wait to show up during Sweeps Week. But with Cobie Smulders' Maria Hill in episode one, and Fury in episode two, as Agent Coulson would say, "It's a brave new world."
With that in mind, and the possibility that every episode of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." will have a post-credits sequence, here's speculation as to what could be coming up next:
The Avengers
Yeah, this is the obvious one, but we're going to see Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, and maybe even Scarlett Johansson show up sooner or later,...
It was kind of the worst kept secret on TV, but in case you didn't hear the news: Samuel Jackson's Nick Fury showed up in the quasi-post-credit sequence of last night's "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." By all accounts, that's a few months earlier than anyone was expecting, as we all intuited that one of the movie's stars would wait to show up during Sweeps Week. But with Cobie Smulders' Maria Hill in episode one, and Fury in episode two, as Agent Coulson would say, "It's a brave new world."
With that in mind, and the possibility that every episode of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." will have a post-credits sequence, here's speculation as to what could be coming up next:
The Avengers
Yeah, this is the obvious one, but we're going to see Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, and maybe even Scarlett Johansson show up sooner or later,...
- 10/2/2013
- by Splash Page Team
- MTV Splash Page
From the press release:
Are you ready for a spine-chilling global avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, vengeance-crazed Vikings, Swedish mesmerists, Irish telekinesis, Argentine undead, Aussie bone-crushers, murderous Mormons and Chilean assassins?
Film4 FrightFest 2013, returning for its 4teenth year, has unveiled its biggest line-up in history. From Thurs 22 August to Monday 26 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 51 films on three screens. Empire 1 will house the main event while the Discovery strands will play in Empires 2 & 4. The new FrightFest Xtra strand, also in Screen 2, will allow fans to catch up with sold-out performances of the most popular attractions.
This year there are eleven countries representing five continents with a record-breaking thirty-three UK or European premieres and ten world premieres.
The world premieres include our opening night attraction The Dead 2: India from the Ford Brothers,...
Are you ready for a spine-chilling global avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, vengeance-crazed Vikings, Swedish mesmerists, Irish telekinesis, Argentine undead, Aussie bone-crushers, murderous Mormons and Chilean assassins?
Film4 FrightFest 2013, returning for its 4teenth year, has unveiled its biggest line-up in history. From Thurs 22 August to Monday 26 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 51 films on three screens. Empire 1 will house the main event while the Discovery strands will play in Empires 2 & 4. The new FrightFest Xtra strand, also in Screen 2, will allow fans to catch up with sold-out performances of the most popular attractions.
This year there are eleven countries representing five continents with a record-breaking thirty-three UK or European premieres and ten world premieres.
The world premieres include our opening night attraction The Dead 2: India from the Ford Brothers,...
- 6/30/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The new season of ‘True Blood’ begins June 16 — and it sounds more clothing-optional than ever.
When you star on a hit HBO show about sex-crazed vampires, chances are you’re going to have to strip down from time to time — and that’s A-ok with Alexander Skarsgard. The statuesque gentleman stopped by Conan on June 5 to talk about True Blood‘s upcoming sixth season, and he revealed the surprising reason why he’s so comfortable in his own skin.
Apparently, he has his dad Stellan Skarsgard to thank!
“I think I was 14 the first time I saw my dad wearing pants,” Alexander said of his dad. “When he wasn’t at the theater, he was home cooking or chilling … with no clothes on.”
Then things got really weird.
“It’s not that big, so it’s fine,” he added, talking about the “stove” in his family’s kitchen. “It’s average,...
When you star on a hit HBO show about sex-crazed vampires, chances are you’re going to have to strip down from time to time — and that’s A-ok with Alexander Skarsgard. The statuesque gentleman stopped by Conan on June 5 to talk about True Blood‘s upcoming sixth season, and he revealed the surprising reason why he’s so comfortable in his own skin.
Apparently, he has his dad Stellan Skarsgard to thank!
“I think I was 14 the first time I saw my dad wearing pants,” Alexander said of his dad. “When he wasn’t at the theater, he was home cooking or chilling … with no clothes on.”
Then things got really weird.
“It’s not that big, so it’s fine,” he added, talking about the “stove” in his family’s kitchen. “It’s average,...
- 6/6/2013
- by Andy Swift
- HollywoodLife
A few days ago, I caught the Friends rerun where Kathleen Turner played Chandler's gay burlesque headlining father and found myself laughing as much now as I did the first time around.
I started thinking of how, over the years, some of my favorite television characters have had the roles of their relatives also cast so perfectly, such as Katherine Helmond playing Debra Barone's mom on Everybody Loves Raymond and Lena Olin as Irina Derevko on Alias. Some of my recent favorites have included Robert Wagner as Papa Dinozzo on NCIS (a role he reprised last night, in fact!) and Amy Sedaris as Virginia's rich-witch cousin on Raising Hope.
This all got me to thinking what other characters from some of my favorite shows could use a relative and whom would I cast? Here are just a few ideas I came up with:
Dan Fogler on Suits
Let's face it,...
I started thinking of how, over the years, some of my favorite television characters have had the roles of their relatives also cast so perfectly, such as Katherine Helmond playing Debra Barone's mom on Everybody Loves Raymond and Lena Olin as Irina Derevko on Alias. Some of my recent favorites have included Robert Wagner as Papa Dinozzo on NCIS (a role he reprised last night, in fact!) and Amy Sedaris as Virginia's rich-witch cousin on Raising Hope.
This all got me to thinking what other characters from some of my favorite shows could use a relative and whom would I cast? Here are just a few ideas I came up with:
Dan Fogler on Suits
Let's face it,...
- 11/23/2011
- by jeffrey@tvfanatic.com (Jeffrey Kirkpatrick)
- TVfanatic
Every actor dreams of being successful. For actors, the success they seek usually culminates in that one big role that changes an actor’s life forever. It’s the role that really puts them on the map. The role that takes them from the ‘No List’ to the A-List, the Moby Dick of acting better known as ‘The Role That Changed My Life’. It’s the role that makes an actor famous, the one role that they will forever by associated with as they go down in Hollywood history.
Such a role is not always a boon. Sometimes it can be a curse. Sometimes an actor will do their utmost to get away from the role that made them famous in the first place in order to avoid the all dreaded pigeonhole stereotyping known as typecasting. The remedy for such an affliction is usually to take on roles that are...
Such a role is not always a boon. Sometimes it can be a curse. Sometimes an actor will do their utmost to get away from the role that made them famous in the first place in order to avoid the all dreaded pigeonhole stereotyping known as typecasting. The remedy for such an affliction is usually to take on roles that are...
- 6/24/2011
- Cinelinx
When theatres change artistic leaders, actors sometimes feel the ground beneath them is a bit shaky. If the new artistic directors are from elsewhere, actors who have been fixtures on the local scene for years find they need to make themselves known. On the other hand, if an actor has been struggling fruitlessly to get a foot in the door of a particular theatre, new leadership could mean new opportunities. In the San Francisco Bay Area over the past two years, five major regional theatres, plus several small but important companies, have undergone staff changes. At San Jose Repertory Theatre, Rick Lombardo recently took over for Timothy Near, who left to pursue other projects; she'd run the 28-year-old company for two decades and essentially put it on the map. Lombardo has been the artistic director of Boston's New Repertory Theatre for the past 12 years. Similarly, longtime Marin Theatre Company artistic director Lee Sankowich — who,...
- 11/18/2008
- by Jean Schiffman
- backstage.com
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