The critical consensus about Howard Hawks' themes and talents strikes me as bang on. The Cahiers critics identified him as a classic auteur, continually exploring characters and situations he had an affinity for, and in a consistent style. The surprise is it took so long for style and characters to come together to form the Hawks we know: his best early films are outliers, and only gradually did he come to explore the kind of group dynamics, sexual sparring and codes of professionalism with which he's now justly associated.Early 1930s Hawks just isn't quite all there yet, but you can see lots of Hawksian characters and themes struggling to come together and be their ideal selves.This one has Edward G. Robinson as a "Portagee" fisherman with a Chico Marx accent and an earring. For some reason, Hawks didn't really connect effectively with the urban tough guy actors until Bogart came his way,...
- 8/17/2017
- MUBI
A review of tonight's Veep coming up just as soon as I quote the late Lionel Richie... There's a famous moment at the end of the first season of Cheers that half the TV business has been chasing in the 30-plus years since it first aired. It's the moment where the line gets obliterated between Sam Malone and Diane Chambers' utter disdain for one another and their animal attraction, and one moment they're threatening physical violence, and the next they are passionately making out. If you're the kind of person who reads this blog, odds are you've seen at least the most iconic part of the scene before, but here it is, anyway: That show, and that moment, bottled the idea of Unresolved Sexual Tension, which later series would try variations on. Sometimes, the will-they-or-won't-they couple would have mutual loathing for each other like Sam and Diane (David and Maddie...
- 6/6/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
If you watched the premiere of The CW’s intense — and very bloody! — viral outbreak thriller Containment on Tuesday, then you probably aren’t getting within 4 to 6 feet of someone in the near future. But was the show’s debut contagious in a good way?
RelatedJulie Plec Previews Containment‘s Survival Rate, Budding Romance and the Scene That Was ‘Too Graphic’
Before you weigh in with your diagnosis, let’s recap the pilot:
Adapted by Vampire Diaries/The Originals producer Julie Plec from the Belgian series Cordon, Containment presents a scenario in which hand sanitizer won’t save you:...
RelatedJulie Plec Previews Containment‘s Survival Rate, Budding Romance and the Scene That Was ‘Too Graphic’
Before you weigh in with your diagnosis, let’s recap the pilot:
Adapted by Vampire Diaries/The Originals producer Julie Plec from the Belgian series Cordon, Containment presents a scenario in which hand sanitizer won’t save you:...
- 4/20/2016
- TVLine.com
Is Jj Abrams' Fringe on your must-watch list but you quite don't have time for all 100 episodes? Here's some guidance...
Is there a popular show you’d really like to watch but you just don’t have time to wade through years of it all at once? Do you just want to know why that one character keeps turning up on Tumblr? Do the fans all tell you ‘season one is a bit iffy but stick with it, it gets great!’, leaving you with absolutely zero desire ever to watch the boring/silly/just plain weird season one? Then our episode roadmap features are for you.
In these articles, we’ll outline routes through popular TV shows focusing on particular characters, story arcs or episode types. Are you really into the Klingon episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Do you want to get the overall gist of...
Is there a popular show you’d really like to watch but you just don’t have time to wade through years of it all at once? Do you just want to know why that one character keeps turning up on Tumblr? Do the fans all tell you ‘season one is a bit iffy but stick with it, it gets great!’, leaving you with absolutely zero desire ever to watch the boring/silly/just plain weird season one? Then our episode roadmap features are for you.
In these articles, we’ll outline routes through popular TV shows focusing on particular characters, story arcs or episode types. Are you really into the Klingon episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Do you want to get the overall gist of...
- 1/6/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: FilmSharks International has been active on its remake catalogue, optioning Italian remake rights on Diego Kaplan’s hit Argentinian comedy 2 + 2 to Mediaset subsidiary TaoDue.
Guido Rud is in talks for Us, German, South Korea and Mexican versions of the erotic swingers comedy (pictured) produced by Disney-owned Patagonik. Paris Filmes previously acquired Brazilian remake rights.
Patagonik’s hit comedy Just Like Me is also being turned into an Italian feature following a deal with Colorado Film, while Rud added that a Brazilian deal was imminent.
FilmSharks has licensed the Chinese version of A Boyfriend For My Wife to New Classics Media, while Paris Filmes has taken the Brazilian version and producer Inna Payan is on board for Mexican remake rights.
In another deal, Rishiraj Shukla and Abhijeet Singh Baghel from I-Shape Interactive have optioned Indian remake rights to Santiago Segura’s production Unresolved Sexual Tension. The Us version for the same property is imminent.
Rud has also...
Guido Rud is in talks for Us, German, South Korea and Mexican versions of the erotic swingers comedy (pictured) produced by Disney-owned Patagonik. Paris Filmes previously acquired Brazilian remake rights.
Patagonik’s hit comedy Just Like Me is also being turned into an Italian feature following a deal with Colorado Film, while Rud added that a Brazilian deal was imminent.
FilmSharks has licensed the Chinese version of A Boyfriend For My Wife to New Classics Media, while Paris Filmes has taken the Brazilian version and producer Inna Payan is on board for Mexican remake rights.
In another deal, Rishiraj Shukla and Abhijeet Singh Baghel from I-Shape Interactive have optioned Indian remake rights to Santiago Segura’s production Unresolved Sexual Tension. The Us version for the same property is imminent.
Rud has also...
- 11/7/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
A quick review of tonight's "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" — or, I suppose I should say, of Golden Globe winner "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" — coming up just as soon as I take a seminar on hand-shaking... The "Brooklyn" pilot suggested some Unresolved Sexual Tension between Peralta and Santiago, but the show quickly moved onto other ideas for both characters, and later occasions where they teamed up didn't so much as hint at the idea of them hooking up. As someone who hates it when sitcoms force this kind of thing because Jim/Pam (or, before them, Ross/Rachel), I was pleased, especially since Santiago turned out...
- 1/15/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Across America, parents are taking their children to the mall and office supply stores, getting ready the start of the school year. In the world of television, the fall means the start of the 2013-2014 television season, with the broadcast networks rolling out their new and returning series over the next few months. The landscape of television is changing, with more original programming over the summer, but we’re still in that transitional phase where summer means reruns, catching up on the back catalog of new favorites, and a handful of series that take advantage of the networks’ downtime to find an audience.
TV in the summer, for now at least, has a distinct feel. There’s more reality (such as staples Big Brother and So You Think You Can Dance), the sitcoms and intense dramas all but disappear (with FX and AMC the exceptions), and breezy dramedies take their place.
TV in the summer, for now at least, has a distinct feel. There’s more reality (such as staples Big Brother and So You Think You Can Dance), the sitcoms and intense dramas all but disappear (with FX and AMC the exceptions), and breezy dramedies take their place.
- 8/19/2013
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
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