James Hunt Nov 21, 2017
The Punisher shakes it up in the latest episode, bringing us some great interactions between Frank and Micro. Spoilers ahead...
The standalone Marvel-Netflix Punisher show has finally dropped, and once again we’re doing daily write ups of every episode, highlighting the influences, in-jokes, reference points and Easter eggs we spotted, as well as a few thoughts on the show itself.
See related Neill Blomkamp interview: sci-fi shorts and Oats Studios Neill Blomkamp's Oats Studios releases second teaser trailer
As usual feel free to discuss whether you’re watching along or you’ve seen it all, but please don’t spoil future episodes for anyone in the comments.
This review contains spoilers.
Another quite good episode! This one takes Frank out of his standard environment and gives us a break from the relatively monotonous tone of the series so far, so that was a plus. It...
The Punisher shakes it up in the latest episode, bringing us some great interactions between Frank and Micro. Spoilers ahead...
The standalone Marvel-Netflix Punisher show has finally dropped, and once again we’re doing daily write ups of every episode, highlighting the influences, in-jokes, reference points and Easter eggs we spotted, as well as a few thoughts on the show itself.
See related Neill Blomkamp interview: sci-fi shorts and Oats Studios Neill Blomkamp's Oats Studios releases second teaser trailer
As usual feel free to discuss whether you’re watching along or you’ve seen it all, but please don’t spoil future episodes for anyone in the comments.
This review contains spoilers.
Another quite good episode! This one takes Frank out of his standard environment and gives us a break from the relatively monotonous tone of the series so far, so that was a plus. It...
- 11/21/2017
- Den of Geek
The twisted world of Dark/Web is slowly approaching. If you’ve ever needed a reason to fear the world the internet, this upcoming series is sure to give you one. With its healthy combination of both serialized and anthological storytelling, Dark/Web seems poised to scratch an itch that a lot of consumers are having.
If you’re unfamiliar with the digital series, here’s the official synopsis:
"When Ethan (Elerding), Sam (McKissack) and James (Nardelli) find themselves the target of cryptic emails from someone posing as their childhood friend Molly (Gonzales), they assume she’s been the victim of an all-too-common hack. After they reach out to alert her, however, they discover that Molly’s been missing for months and no one has any idea what happened to her.As the emails keep coming, each containing a tale written by Molly, her friends realize that this may be...
If you’re unfamiliar with the digital series, here’s the official synopsis:
"When Ethan (Elerding), Sam (McKissack) and James (Nardelli) find themselves the target of cryptic emails from someone posing as their childhood friend Molly (Gonzales), they assume she’s been the victim of an all-too-common hack. After they reach out to alert her, however, they discover that Molly’s been missing for months and no one has any idea what happened to her.As the emails keep coming, each containing a tale written by Molly, her friends realize that this may be...
- 8/1/2017
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
The twisted world of Dark/Web is slowly approaching. If you’ve ever needed a reason to fear the world the internet, this upcoming series is sure to give you one. With its healthy combination of both serialized and anthological storytelling, Dark/Web seems poised to scratch an itch that a lot of consumers are having.
If you’re unfamiliar with the digital series, here’s the official synopsis:
"When Ethan (Elerding), Sam (McKissack) and James (Nardelli) find themselves the target of cryptic emails from someone posing as their childhood friend Molly (Gonzales), they assume she’s been the victim of an all-too-common hack. After they reach out to alert her, however, they discover that Molly’s been missing for months and no one has any idea what happened to her.As the emails keep coming, each containing a tale written by Molly, her friends realize that this may be...
If you’re unfamiliar with the digital series, here’s the official synopsis:
"When Ethan (Elerding), Sam (McKissack) and James (Nardelli) find themselves the target of cryptic emails from someone posing as their childhood friend Molly (Gonzales), they assume she’s been the victim of an all-too-common hack. After they reach out to alert her, however, they discover that Molly’s been missing for months and no one has any idea what happened to her.As the emails keep coming, each containing a tale written by Molly, her friends realize that this may be...
- 7/18/2017
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
The twisted world of Dark/Web is slowly approaching. If you’ve ever needed a reason to fear the world the internet, this upcoming series is sure to give you one. With its healthy combination of both serialized and anthological storytelling, Dark/Web seems poised to scratch an itch that a lot of consumers are having.
If you’re unfamiliar with the digital series, here’s the official synopsis:
"When Ethan (Elerding), Sam (McKissack) and James (Nardelli) find themselves the target of cryptic emails from someone posing as their childhood friend Molly (Gonzales), they assume she’s been the victim of an all-too-common hack. After they reach out to alert her, however, they discover that Molly’s been missing for months and no one has any idea what happened to her.As the emails keep coming, each containing a tale written by Molly, her friends realize that this may be...
If you’re unfamiliar with the digital series, here’s the official synopsis:
"When Ethan (Elerding), Sam (McKissack) and James (Nardelli) find themselves the target of cryptic emails from someone posing as their childhood friend Molly (Gonzales), they assume she’s been the victim of an all-too-common hack. After they reach out to alert her, however, they discover that Molly’s been missing for months and no one has any idea what happened to her.As the emails keep coming, each containing a tale written by Molly, her friends realize that this may be...
- 7/11/2017
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
If you’re looking for an excuse to spend more time at home and out of the summer heat this month, then July’s VOD and Digital HD releases have you more than covered, as we have 17 different titles coming our way in the next few weeks.
July kicks off with a pair of digital debuts on July 4th—Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire and the indie thriller Blood Hunters—and just a few days later, both Bad Frank and the new Ghost in the Shell movie make their digital bows as well. July 11th is a busy day, too, with four different releases—The Answer, The Blessed Ones, White Raven, and Gremlin—and then just a week later, we get several more titles to choose from, including Lake Alice, Phoenix Forgotten, and Bonejangles.
July’s VOD releases are capped off by the digital debuts of Killing Ground on July...
July kicks off with a pair of digital debuts on July 4th—Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire and the indie thriller Blood Hunters—and just a few days later, both Bad Frank and the new Ghost in the Shell movie make their digital bows as well. July 11th is a busy day, too, with four different releases—The Answer, The Blessed Ones, White Raven, and Gremlin—and then just a week later, we get several more titles to choose from, including Lake Alice, Phoenix Forgotten, and Bonejangles.
July’s VOD releases are capped off by the digital debuts of Killing Ground on July...
- 7/3/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
It’s been a long time coming. Last year, we launched a contest that would see the short script of readers like you produced into an anthology short that would be a part of something much bigger. That project is called Dark/Web. It's not just an anthology, though. It's a serialized show with anthological aspects woven throughout.
The synopsis of the digital series is as follows:
"When Ethan (Elerding), Sam (McKissack) and James (Nardelli) find themselves the target of cryptic emails from someone posing as their childhood friend Molly (Gonzales), they assume she’s been the victim of an all-too-common hack. After they reach out to alert her, however, they discover that Molly’s been missing for months and no one has any idea what happened to her. As the emails keep coming, each containing a tale written by Molly, her friends realize that this may be more than just a sick joke.
The synopsis of the digital series is as follows:
"When Ethan (Elerding), Sam (McKissack) and James (Nardelli) find themselves the target of cryptic emails from someone posing as their childhood friend Molly (Gonzales), they assume she’s been the victim of an all-too-common hack. After they reach out to alert her, however, they discover that Molly’s been missing for months and no one has any idea what happened to her. As the emails keep coming, each containing a tale written by Molly, her friends realize that this may be more than just a sick joke.
- 6/16/2017
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
Things just got more real with Dark/Web. The Lrm Exclusive digital series just locked down Ghost Rider himself, Gabriel Luna, to partake in “Zero." Luna definitely made his presence felt on the most reason season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and was also the star of El Rey's Matador. His Dark/Web episode, "Zero," is one of the anthology portions of the show.
For those confused by what we mean by “anthology portion,” it’s probably best to recap the unique format that Dark/Web utilizes.
Dark/Web's structure combines the classic, standalone stories traditionally found in an anthology series with an overarching, season-long mystery. Each episode consists of two parts:
A portion of the serialized tale that continues week after week. A stand-alone horror/sci-fi short, presented in the form of stories that Molly left behind; each written and directed by a different filmmaker.
As mentioned above, Luna will star in “Zero,...
For those confused by what we mean by “anthology portion,” it’s probably best to recap the unique format that Dark/Web utilizes.
Dark/Web's structure combines the classic, standalone stories traditionally found in an anthology series with an overarching, season-long mystery. Each episode consists of two parts:
A portion of the serialized tale that continues week after week. A stand-alone horror/sci-fi short, presented in the form of stories that Molly left behind; each written and directed by a different filmmaker.
As mentioned above, Luna will star in “Zero,...
- 1/9/2017
- by Mario-Francisco Robles
- LRMonline.com
Chad Michael Murray is feeling (and making!) the music in a new trailer for Cmt’s Sun Records.
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Premiering Thursday, Feb. 23 at 10/9c, the drama stars Murray (One Tree Hill, Agent Carter) as real-life music producer Sam Phillips, the man responsible for setting rockers like Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash on their respective paths to superstardom.
Set in Memphis during the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, Sun Records “tells the untold story of nothing less than the birth of rock ‘n’ roll.” Additional faces you can...
RelatedNashville Premiere Recap: Love Means Always Having to Say You’re Sorry
Premiering Thursday, Feb. 23 at 10/9c, the drama stars Murray (One Tree Hill, Agent Carter) as real-life music producer Sam Phillips, the man responsible for setting rockers like Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash on their respective paths to superstardom.
Set in Memphis during the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, Sun Records “tells the untold story of nothing less than the birth of rock ‘n’ roll.” Additional faces you can...
- 1/6/2017
- TVLine.com
A touch of magic is coming to Fargo.
Harry Potter actor David Thewlis has joined the Season 3 cast of the FX drama in a series-regular role.
According to EW.com, Thewlis — who plays Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter franchise — will portray V.M. Vargas, “a mysterious loner and true capitalist who delivers Emmit (Ewan McGregor), the Parking Lot King of Minnesota, the bad news that he has just become partners with his employers, whose business interests lay outside the law.”
The new season also stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead (BrainDead) and Carrie Coon (The Leftovers...
Harry Potter actor David Thewlis has joined the Season 3 cast of the FX drama in a series-regular role.
According to EW.com, Thewlis — who plays Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter franchise — will portray V.M. Vargas, “a mysterious loner and true capitalist who delivers Emmit (Ewan McGregor), the Parking Lot King of Minnesota, the bad news that he has just become partners with his employers, whose business interests lay outside the law.”
The new season also stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead (BrainDead) and Carrie Coon (The Leftovers...
- 12/19/2016
- TVLine.com
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In a very special episode of Los Fanboys, Jammer sits down with Mario Miscione, Michael Nardelli, and Tim Nardelli, the creators of the sci-fi film Circle, as well as the upcoming Lrm-exclusive digital series Dark/Web. For those unfamiliar, the show is a serial/anthology hybrid that explores the dangers of technology in today's modern world.
The synopsis for Dark/Web is as follows:
Dark/Web follows a group of young adults navigating a near future where everything’s online and everyone’s connected, whether they like it or not. When Ethan, Sam, and James find themselves the target of cryptic emails from someone posing as their childhood friend Molly, they assume she’s been the victim of an all-too-common hack. After they reach out to alert her, however, they discover that Molly’s been missing for months and no one has...
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In a very special episode of Los Fanboys, Jammer sits down with Mario Miscione, Michael Nardelli, and Tim Nardelli, the creators of the sci-fi film Circle, as well as the upcoming Lrm-exclusive digital series Dark/Web. For those unfamiliar, the show is a serial/anthology hybrid that explores the dangers of technology in today's modern world.
The synopsis for Dark/Web is as follows:
Dark/Web follows a group of young adults navigating a near future where everything’s online and everyone’s connected, whether they like it or not. When Ethan, Sam, and James find themselves the target of cryptic emails from someone posing as their childhood friend Molly, they assume she’s been the victim of an all-too-common hack. After they reach out to alert her, however, they discover that Molly’s been missing for months and no one has...
- 12/15/2016
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
If you’ve been following us here at Lrm Online for some time, you know that we’ve partnered with the producers of the science fiction film Circle to bring an exclusive digital series to the site entitled Dark/Web. Like any geeks who cover the business of film, we love the medium itself (otherwise why bother, right?), and as such we were thrilled to help make Dark/Web a reality, which is set to hit the site in 2017!
So what’s the series about?
Dark/Web follows a group of young adults navigating a near future where everything’s online and everyone’s connected, whether they like it or not. When Ethan, Sam, and James find themselves the target of cryptic emails from someone posing as their childhood friend Molly, they assume she’s been the victim of an all-too-common hack. After they reach out to alert her, however,...
So what’s the series about?
Dark/Web follows a group of young adults navigating a near future where everything’s online and everyone’s connected, whether they like it or not. When Ethan, Sam, and James find themselves the target of cryptic emails from someone posing as their childhood friend Molly, they assume she’s been the victim of an all-too-common hack. After they reach out to alert her, however,...
- 12/8/2016
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
Photo Credit: Eric Salberg
Welcome to "Dark/Web" Wednesdays, a (mostly) weekly column where we bring you the latest news, photos, set videos, and details from the upcoming digital series, "Dark/Web," which is set to hit the site in 2017! In case you’re new to the column:
"Dark/Web" follows a group of young adults navigating a near future where everything’s online and everyone’s connected, whether they like it or not.
When Ethan (Elerding), Sam (McKissack) and James (Nardelli) find themselves the target of cryptic emails from someone posing as their childhood friend Molly (Gonzales), they assume she’s been the victim of an all-too-common hack. After they reach out to alert her, however, they discover that Molly’s been missing for months and no one has any idea what happened to her. As the emails keep coming, each containing a tale written by Molly, her friends...
Welcome to "Dark/Web" Wednesdays, a (mostly) weekly column where we bring you the latest news, photos, set videos, and details from the upcoming digital series, "Dark/Web," which is set to hit the site in 2017! In case you’re new to the column:
"Dark/Web" follows a group of young adults navigating a near future where everything’s online and everyone’s connected, whether they like it or not.
When Ethan (Elerding), Sam (McKissack) and James (Nardelli) find themselves the target of cryptic emails from someone posing as their childhood friend Molly (Gonzales), they assume she’s been the victim of an all-too-common hack. After they reach out to alert her, however, they discover that Molly’s been missing for months and no one has any idea what happened to her. As the emails keep coming, each containing a tale written by Molly, her friends...
- 10/26/2016
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
Welcome to "Dark/Web" Wednesdays, a (mostly) weekly column where we bring you the latest news, photos, set videos, and details from the upcoming digital series, "Dark/Web," which is set to hit the site in 2017! In case you’re new to the column:
"Dark/Web" follows a group of young adults navigating a near future where everything’s online and everyone’s connected, whether they like it or not.
When Ethan (Elerding), Sam (McKissack) and James (Nardelli) find themselves the target of cryptic emails from someone posing as their childhood friend Molly (Gonzales), they assume she’s been the victim of an all-too-common hack. After they reach out to alert her, however, they discover that Molly’s been missing for months and no one has any idea what happened to her. As the emails keep coming, each containing a tale written by Molly, her friends realize that this may...
"Dark/Web" follows a group of young adults navigating a near future where everything’s online and everyone’s connected, whether they like it or not.
When Ethan (Elerding), Sam (McKissack) and James (Nardelli) find themselves the target of cryptic emails from someone posing as their childhood friend Molly (Gonzales), they assume she’s been the victim of an all-too-common hack. After they reach out to alert her, however, they discover that Molly’s been missing for months and no one has any idea what happened to her. As the emails keep coming, each containing a tale written by Molly, her friends realize that this may...
- 10/19/2016
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
The initial lineup for the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, taking place from September 10 to 20 this fall, has been revealed, with Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Vallee’s dramatic romance Demolition, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts, having been selected to open the prestigious fest.
The first selections lineup reads like a who’s who list of Oscar contenders. Ridley Scott’s The Martian, Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall and Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong biopic The Program all have world premieres, and other huge titles screening include Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of Nation, Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight, Scott Cooper’s Black Mass, Peter Sollett’s Freeheld, Brian Helgeland’s Legend and Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth.
Check out the full lineup below, and let us know what you’re most excited for in the comments section.
Opening Night Film.
Demolition Jean-Marc Vallée, USA World Premiere
In Demolition,...
The first selections lineup reads like a who’s who list of Oscar contenders. Ridley Scott’s The Martian, Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall and Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong biopic The Program all have world premieres, and other huge titles screening include Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of Nation, Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight, Scott Cooper’s Black Mass, Peter Sollett’s Freeheld, Brian Helgeland’s Legend and Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth.
Check out the full lineup below, and let us know what you’re most excited for in the comments section.
Opening Night Film.
Demolition Jean-Marc Vallée, USA World Premiere
In Demolition,...
- 7/28/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
It’s come to my attention as of late that I tend to write mostly negative reviews. Despite the general consensus, I don’t find much in writing bad things about comics. I’d prefer to read good books over bad ones any day. It’s just that I read more things from DC Comics than other publishing companies and that’s come back to bit me. Usually there’s at least one book in the New 52 that I think keeps the entire line not deserving of complete condemnation, but now that Earth 2 has been turned into drek, that’s changed. Pretty much nothing from DC interests me anymore, save for Jeff Parker’s run on Aquaman for being one of the few books that has a sense of fun to it. But right now, I want to take a break from bad mouthing comics. I honestly want to like titles.
- 1/30/2015
- by Grant Raycroft
- SoundOnSight
After winning two Emmys last week, Allison Janney said something that should be considered a truism but isn't. Explaining her successful return to TV after a sojourn in movies, the 54-year-old told Variety, "Television is a woman's medium."
Since "The West Wing" went off the air eight years ago, Janney has landed a number of supporting character roles in movies, mostly mom parts. Back on TV, however, she won Emmys this year (her fifth and sixth) for stretching to play two very different parts: a woman trying to salvage a difficult marriage in the premium-cable drama "Masters of Sex," and a recovering alcoholic whose daughter and granddaughter have followed in her reckless footsteps on the network sitcom "Mom."
Janney certainly seems to be an example of how television is friendlier to 54-year-old actresses than film is. But is television really "a woman's medium"?
Actually, you could argue that television has...
Since "The West Wing" went off the air eight years ago, Janney has landed a number of supporting character roles in movies, mostly mom parts. Back on TV, however, she won Emmys this year (her fifth and sixth) for stretching to play two very different parts: a woman trying to salvage a difficult marriage in the premium-cable drama "Masters of Sex," and a recovering alcoholic whose daughter and granddaughter have followed in her reckless footsteps on the network sitcom "Mom."
Janney certainly seems to be an example of how television is friendlier to 54-year-old actresses than film is. But is television really "a woman's medium"?
Actually, you could argue that television has...
- 9/5/2014
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
At the SXSW Festival 2012, HBO rolled out the red carpet, screened three episodes of Lena Dunham's Girls, and viewers wandered into a bona fide hit. Whose time, incidentally, had come.
What writer/actress/director, Lena Dunham has written is good and true. At least in my opinion as a single person perpetually amazed by cutting-edge social and romantic horrors.
Mostly, Girls makes me glad.
I'm a student of sitcom (and, all right, sometimes a teacher of its evolution). World War II, coming conveniently near the beginning of popularly available television programming, allowed room for a Gertrude Berg (in 1949 the writer, star & producer of television's first sitcom, The Goldbergs); an Ethel Waters (The Beulah Show, 1950); and a Lucille Ball (who in 1951 set sitcom standards still in use by many: shoot film, 3 cameras, live audiences).
Meanwhile the guys were back from war (not that there's anything wrong with that), but the...
What writer/actress/director, Lena Dunham has written is good and true. At least in my opinion as a single person perpetually amazed by cutting-edge social and romantic horrors.
Mostly, Girls makes me glad.
I'm a student of sitcom (and, all right, sometimes a teacher of its evolution). World War II, coming conveniently near the beginning of popularly available television programming, allowed room for a Gertrude Berg (in 1949 the writer, star & producer of television's first sitcom, The Goldbergs); an Ethel Waters (The Beulah Show, 1950); and a Lucille Ball (who in 1951 set sitcom standards still in use by many: shoot film, 3 cameras, live audiences).
Meanwhile the guys were back from war (not that there's anything wrong with that), but the...
- 4/16/2012
- by Suzanne O'Malley
- Aol TV.
On TV this Monday: Bones enters the world of working motherhood, the Glee cast goes Inside the Actors Studio, Hart of Dixie‘s Zoe deals with daddy issues, Being Human and Lost Girl wrap up their seasons and more. As a supplement to TVLine’s original features (linked within), here are nine programs to keep on your radar.
How I Met Your Mother Boss on Time-Jumping Episode and Barney/Robin/Ted Love Triangle
8 pm Bones (Fox) | Special Agent Shaw (returning guest star Tina Majorino) helps the team ID the remains of an “extreme couponer” who was dragged along a road...
How I Met Your Mother Boss on Time-Jumping Episode and Barney/Robin/Ted Love Triangle
8 pm Bones (Fox) | Special Agent Shaw (returning guest star Tina Majorino) helps the team ID the remains of an “extreme couponer” who was dragged along a road...
- 4/9/2012
- by Alyse Whitney
- TVLine.com
Betty White cannot believe her recent run of luck, winning a fifth primetime Emmy last year for hosting "SNL" and being a strong contender this year for her supporting roles on the sitcom "Hot in Cleveland" and the telefilm The Lost Valentine." Chatting by phone with senior editors Rob Licuria and Chris Beachum she admitted, "I'm going to be 90 next January, and I'm blessed with good health for which I'm deeply grateful. To have all this good stuff happen, and I'm still having the same kind of fun I've had for the last 63 years in the business. You've got to taste that and appreciate it." White earned the first of her 16 Emmy bids back in 1951 for the laffer "Life with Elizabeth." She lost to Gertrude Berg who was reprising her radio role as Molly Golberg on "The Goldbergs." White went on to win back-to-back Comedy Supporting Actress for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (1975, 1976). White wa.
- 6/9/2011
- Gold Derby
The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the Fred Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…
(Please support Fred by using the links below to make any impulse purchases - it helps to keep us going…)
Bundled together for easier fan purchase (and because the boys claim that there will be no more) Flight Of The Conchords: The Complete Collection (HBO, Not Rated, DVD-$49.98 Srp) brings together the pre-existing 1st and 2nd season releases, with all of their bonus features intact, and adds the previously unreleased 30-minute One Night Stand performance that launched it all.
Oh, I’m a sucker for a novelty instrument.
(Please support Fred by using the links below to make any impulse purchases - it helps to keep us going…)
Bundled together for easier fan purchase (and because the boys claim that there will be no more) Flight Of The Conchords: The Complete Collection (HBO, Not Rated, DVD-$49.98 Srp) brings together the pre-existing 1st and 2nd season releases, with all of their bonus features intact, and adds the previously unreleased 30-minute One Night Stand performance that launched it all.
Oh, I’m a sucker for a novelty instrument.
- 8/27/2010
- by UncaScroogeMcD
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"$5 a Day" (2008)
Directed by Nigel Cole
Released by Image Entertainment
A refugee of the bankrupt Capitol Films, this dramedy starring Christopher Walken as a raconteur who claims he's able to live a full life on the titular Lincoln bill is finally seeing the light of day after premiering at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival. Alessandro Nivola co-stars as his son who drives him to New Mexico when he falls ill. Sharon Stone and Amanda Peet are along for the ride.
"2:22" (2008)
Directed by Phillip Guzman
Released by Inception Media Group
A quartet of thieves scheme to rob a boutique hotel on New Year's Eve, but find out that what's waiting for them on the inside is even colder than the snow-caked streets outside. Just as he did for his 2006 crime thriller "Played," star/co-writer Rossi called upon famous pals Gabriel Byrne and Val Kilmer...
"$5 a Day" (2008)
Directed by Nigel Cole
Released by Image Entertainment
A refugee of the bankrupt Capitol Films, this dramedy starring Christopher Walken as a raconteur who claims he's able to live a full life on the titular Lincoln bill is finally seeing the light of day after premiering at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival. Alessandro Nivola co-stars as his son who drives him to New Mexico when he falls ill. Sharon Stone and Amanda Peet are along for the ride.
"2:22" (2008)
Directed by Phillip Guzman
Released by Inception Media Group
A quartet of thieves scheme to rob a boutique hotel on New Year's Eve, but find out that what's waiting for them on the inside is even colder than the snow-caked streets outside. Just as he did for his 2006 crime thriller "Played," star/co-writer Rossi called upon famous pals Gabriel Byrne and Val Kilmer...
- 8/24/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the Fred Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…
(Please support Fred by using the links below to make any impulse purchases - it helps to keep us going…)
I’ve spoken to a few of his contemporaries in the past, and all of them described the drive and determination related in Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story (Vivendi, Not Rated, DVD-$26.97 Srp), a documentary which uses the comedian’s build up to his most recent world tour to explore his life and comedy. It’s a brilliant, brilliant portrait of a brilliant comic mind. Bonus...
(Please support Fred by using the links below to make any impulse purchases - it helps to keep us going…)
I’ve spoken to a few of his contemporaries in the past, and all of them described the drive and determination related in Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story (Vivendi, Not Rated, DVD-$26.97 Srp), a documentary which uses the comedian’s build up to his most recent world tour to explore his life and comedy. It’s a brilliant, brilliant portrait of a brilliant comic mind. Bonus...
- 3/13/2010
- by UncaScroogeMcD
American film and TV actor Arnold Stang has died at the age of 91.
Stang passed away on Sunday in Newton, Massachusetts, after a battle with pneumonia.
He enjoyed a long career in radio, film and television, starring as Frank Sinatra's sidekick in 1955 drama The Man With the Golden Arm, co-starring with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the action man's first feature film, 1970's Hercules in New York, and 1963 comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Stang also became known for voicing numerous cartoon characters, including Nurtle the Turtle in the 1965 film Pinocchio in Outer Space and 1960s animated U.S. TV series Top Cat, as the series' main character, T.C.
He made the transition to Broadway too, appearing on the New York stage three times, most recently in the 1969 revival of The Front Page.
Other guest appearances include TV spots in Bonanza, Batman and The Cosby show, and as a regular on The Goldbergs, a long-running 1950s family series.
Stang is survived by his wife, JoAnne, son David, daughter Deborah, and two granddaughters.
Stang passed away on Sunday in Newton, Massachusetts, after a battle with pneumonia.
He enjoyed a long career in radio, film and television, starring as Frank Sinatra's sidekick in 1955 drama The Man With the Golden Arm, co-starring with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the action man's first feature film, 1970's Hercules in New York, and 1963 comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Stang also became known for voicing numerous cartoon characters, including Nurtle the Turtle in the 1965 film Pinocchio in Outer Space and 1960s animated U.S. TV series Top Cat, as the series' main character, T.C.
He made the transition to Broadway too, appearing on the New York stage three times, most recently in the 1969 revival of The Front Page.
Other guest appearances include TV spots in Bonanza, Batman and The Cosby show, and as a regular on The Goldbergs, a long-running 1950s family series.
Stang is survived by his wife, JoAnne, son David, daughter Deborah, and two granddaughters.
- 12/22/2009
- WENN
Most of us adults now have some memory of watching family-oriented television sitcoms growing up. For every era, there was a popular family show on TV that many of us gathered around the tube to watch. For me, there was Wonder Years, The Cosby Show and Family Ties. For generations before me, there was Leave It To Beaver and Father Knows Best. But, where did it all begin?
Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg is a new documentary from Aviva Kempner (The Life And Times Of Hank Greenberg) that tells the story of Gertrude Berg. The tag-line of the film is “the most famous woman in America you’ve never heard of” and this couldn’t be more true. Gertrude Berg was a radio and television pioneer. She created a character by the name of Molly Goldberg and the radio program called The Goldbergs. This radio serial would be incredibly popular in the 20’s and 30’s,...
Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg is a new documentary from Aviva Kempner (The Life And Times Of Hank Greenberg) that tells the story of Gertrude Berg. The tag-line of the film is “the most famous woman in America you’ve never heard of” and this couldn’t be more true. Gertrude Berg was a radio and television pioneer. She created a character by the name of Molly Goldberg and the radio program called The Goldbergs. This radio serial would be incredibly popular in the 20’s and 30’s,...
- 8/28/2009
- by Travis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Earlier, when I asked Program Director Nancy Fishman which program out of this year’s edition of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (Sfjff) she was most anticipating, she didn’t miss a beat in highlighting the salute to Gertrude Berg; a program consisting of four archival episodes from The Goldbergs television series, followed by Aviva Kempner‘s documentary Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009). In tandem with Sfjff’s presentation of the 2009 Freedom of Expression Award to Kempner, a Q&A session following The Goldbergs program, and a panel discussion following Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, the program was leant considerable charm by the participation of Dr. Glenn D. “Pete” Smith, Jr., author of Something On My Own: Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929-1956 (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007). Perhaps it was his Mississippian drawl, or his enthused (and contagious!) scholasticism, or the intriguing disconnect between his youthful interest in a subject...
- 8/12/2009
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
Quick — who was the first woman to appear in a network sitcom?
No, not Lucille Ball, but that would’ve been my guess.
Here’s a hint. She also won the first Emmy for Best Actress. I’ll even show you a picture.
Still no clue, I bet. Her name is Gertrude Berg. Wait, who?
Exactly. That’s why Aviva Kempner’s new documentary, Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, is so important.
Berg was sort of the Oprah of her era — and she paved the way for women in the entertainment industry. Her radio show, The Goldbergs, premiered the week after the 1929 stock market crash and every day for 17 years, Berg rose at 6 a.m., wrote that day’s script, then went to the studio to produce the show and perform her role, Molly Goldberg.
In 1949, Berg brought The Goldbergs to television, where it was the first character-driven domestic sitcom. (When the...
No, not Lucille Ball, but that would’ve been my guess.
Here’s a hint. She also won the first Emmy for Best Actress. I’ll even show you a picture.
Still no clue, I bet. Her name is Gertrude Berg. Wait, who?
Exactly. That’s why Aviva Kempner’s new documentary, Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, is so important.
Berg was sort of the Oprah of her era — and she paved the way for women in the entertainment industry. Her radio show, The Goldbergs, premiered the week after the 1929 stock market crash and every day for 17 years, Berg rose at 6 a.m., wrote that day’s script, then went to the studio to produce the show and perform her role, Molly Goldberg.
In 1949, Berg brought The Goldbergs to television, where it was the first character-driven domestic sitcom. (When the...
- 7/20/2009
- by thelinster
- AfterEllen.com
When I first heard about Gertrude Berg a couple of years ago when I was working on a documentary, after my initial shock dissipated, I got angry. How could it be that such a towering figure in radio and TV history could just... disappear? Well, the good news is that Berg is back, hopefully for good. Aviva Kempner has put together the documentary Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg (disclaimer: I am consulting on outreach for the film) that restores Gertrude Berg to her rightful prominence as one of the leading figures of early TV. Berg was the creator of the radio series The Goldbergs which morphed into the first family sitcom on TV The Goldbergs. The show introduced the country to a Jewish family in the years right after the Holocaust. This very Jewish family was welcomed into homes all across...
- 7/10/2009
- by Melissa Silverstein
- Huffington Post
As a wee lad growing up in an Italian- American family in Boonton, NJ, I always enjoyed watching "The Goldbergs," a sitcom about a Jewish-American family in The Bronx.
For some strange reason, one particular scene (involving Uncle David pouring three glasses of milk) has stuck in my mind all these years.
I imagine I'm not the only person who remembers that moment, because it's found in "Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg," Aviva Kempner's fawning and formulaic documentary about Gertrude Berg. The now-forgotten superstar wrote, produced and appeared in the enormously popular show,...
For some strange reason, one particular scene (involving Uncle David pouring three glasses of milk) has stuck in my mind all these years.
I imagine I'm not the only person who remembers that moment, because it's found in "Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg," Aviva Kempner's fawning and formulaic documentary about Gertrude Berg. The now-forgotten superstar wrote, produced and appeared in the enormously popular show,...
- 7/10/2009
- by By V,A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
Did you know that Lucille Ball was not the first woman of sitcom television land? In fact, there was another who not only came before the famous redhead, but who should also be counted as one of the pioneers behind the screen? No? I didn't either.
Enter Gertrude Berg, who is the focus of Aviva Kempner's new documentary Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, which is hitting theaters this week in New York City before heading to DC on the 17th and La on the 24th. This isn't your heart-tugging, dramatic art doc, but rather a straight-forward account of someone we should know because, frankly, her success was impressive. (That picture to the right -- that's Berg with her scripts.)
Turns out that before I Love Lucy, there was a show radio show that hit television called The Goldbergs. It was Berg's own creation -- a brainchild she shopped around herself, wrote,...
Enter Gertrude Berg, who is the focus of Aviva Kempner's new documentary Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, which is hitting theaters this week in New York City before heading to DC on the 17th and La on the 24th. This isn't your heart-tugging, dramatic art doc, but rather a straight-forward account of someone we should know because, frankly, her success was impressive. (That picture to the right -- that's Berg with her scripts.)
Turns out that before I Love Lucy, there was a show radio show that hit television called The Goldbergs. It was Berg's own creation -- a brainchild she shopped around herself, wrote,...
- 7/9/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
From 1929 to 1956, radio and TV character Molly Goldberg—a cross between Maude, Madea, and June Cleaver—presided over her fictional immigrant family with such warmth and insight that she became one of the most popular people in America. At a time when Jews were commonly portrayed in the media as thick-accented exotics (and at a time when anti-Semitism was sweeping the globe), The Goldbergs depicted a Jewish family as ordinary Americans, set apart from the vast majority of their listening and viewing audience only by a few religious ceremonies. Goldbergs star Gertrude Berg guided her show from radio ...
- 7/9/2009
- avclub.com
Aviva Kempner's Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg is an engrossing nostalgia bath -- if you're of a certain age. If you're younger, it's a window into a bygone world that seems so much simpler and rife with possibilities: the early days of TV, when the medium minted its first superstars, including Liberace, Bishop Fulton Sheen -- and Gertrude Berg. Berg's name rarely gets mentioned as a pioneer, yet as Kempner's film shows, she can lay claim to having invented the situation-comedy with her popular show, The Goldbergs. In her time, she was a force to be reckoned with, writing, producing and starring in her own TV series at the dawn of that breakthrough medium. She won the first Emmy given for best actress. Kempner traces Berg's life as the daughter of an immigrant, writing and performing skits at her father's Catskills resort, through her...
- 7/8/2009
- by Marshall Fine
- Huffington Post
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