Here's a terrific musical short for your holiday enjoyment. This is Duke Ellington and his band from the 1933 music short film Bundle of Blues.
Read More »Steven Spielberg is the product of The Greatest Generation -- a Baby Boomer raised on idealized images of the nuclear family, progress, and American might. He is also a child of divorce -- a dreamer from a broken home. Spielberg’s attempt to reconcile these two biographical facts—the mythic ideal of...
Read More »Check out the new trailer for the unofficial Ridley Scott prequel "Prometheus"( June 8, 2012). The tagline: "They went looking for our beginning. What they found could be our end."
Read More »I'm sure this film doesn't need much of an intro, so I won't bother with one. Here are 2 of its co-stars, Tristan Wilds and Michael B. Jordan giving us a pair of behind-the-scenes video looks at Red Tails, producer George Lucas' Tuskegee Airmen WWII action/drama, directed by Ant...
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Read More »Edward Burns’ latest film, Newlyweds, is a delightfully witty, sharply observed romance that comes with its own amazing origin story. Although you wouldn’t guess it from the film’s clear, bright look, it was shot for a pittance -- around $9,000, yes that’s thousand...
Read More »Fox Searchlight has released two new video featurettes for Steve McQueen's NC-17 rated drama Shame; which, by the way, I finally got the chance to see last week and highly recommend :-).
Read More »More footage from Pariah press day in New York City was a few weeks ago, and, in the rush of it all, I was able to chat with some of its starring cast (Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans and Pernell Walker), its director (Dee Rees), and producer (Nekisa Cooper).
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