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Filth (18)
(Jon S Baird, 2013, UK) James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Eddie Marsan, Imogen Poots. 97 mins
Drugs, sleaze, sex, Scots, Irvine Welsh – is it 1996 again? This is just as energetic as Trainspotting, but less hip and more theatrically grim, wallowing in the debauchery and mania of a copper bent way out of shape. The only subtlety to be found is on the face of McAvoy, whose committed performance holds it all together.
Sunshine On Leith (PG)
(Dexter Fletcher, 2013, UK) George MacKay, Kevin Guthrie. 100 mins
It worked for Abba, so why not the Proclaimers? Basing an Edinburgh love story around their music turns out to be a fine idea.
The Pervert's Guide To Ideology (15)
(Sophie Fiennes, 2013, UK) 133 mins
Slavoj Žižek gives an absorbing, annotated...
Filth (18)
(Jon S Baird, 2013, UK) James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Eddie Marsan, Imogen Poots. 97 mins
Drugs, sleaze, sex, Scots, Irvine Welsh – is it 1996 again? This is just as energetic as Trainspotting, but less hip and more theatrically grim, wallowing in the debauchery and mania of a copper bent way out of shape. The only subtlety to be found is on the face of McAvoy, whose committed performance holds it all together.
Sunshine On Leith (PG)
(Dexter Fletcher, 2013, UK) George MacKay, Kevin Guthrie. 100 mins
It worked for Abba, so why not the Proclaimers? Basing an Edinburgh love story around their music turns out to be a fine idea.
The Pervert's Guide To Ideology (15)
(Sophie Fiennes, 2013, UK) 133 mins
Slavoj Žižek gives an absorbing, annotated...
- 10/5/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Okay, this isn't too surprising given that the memory of Uncle Ben is a key emotional hook for Peter Parker in both the comics and movies, but it looks like the dead will rise (kind of) for "The Amazing Spider-Man 2." Hitting Ireland's "The Late Late Show" last week to talk about his human rights project “Voices From The Front Line,” Martin Sheen revealed that he's taken the call to come off the bench for the Spidey sequel. "Well they called me back, I don't know what the part's going to be but I'm going to be Uncle Ben once again in 'Spider-Man' next year. We shoot in February," he told host Ryan Tubridy. Of course, since he died in the last movie, it's pretty safe to say he'll be relegated to flashbacks. Sheen joins the growing cast that includes newcomers Dane DeHaan, Jamie Foxx and Shailene Woodley with the returning Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone.
- 12/10/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
TNT's pilot "Bird Dog" has found a replacement for Eliza Dushku in the lead role -- and also cast the main character's dad.
Ashley Williams, who had a recurring part on TNT's "Saving Grace," has been cast in the role of a police officer in the Pacific Northwest who gets a new partner in the form of her estranged dad. Gerald McRaney, who's coming off NBC's "Undercovers," is playing her father, Deadline reports.
The casting of Williams comes a few days after Dushku dropped out of "Bird Dog" only a week after being cast. Her departure was apparently an amicable one, at least according to the "Dollhouse" star's Twitter feed.
Williams starred in a pair of Lifetime movies -- "At Risk" and "The Front" -- based on Patricia Cornwell novels earlier this year. Her credits also include a recurring part on "How I Met Your Mother's" first season, "Good Morning,...
Ashley Williams, who had a recurring part on TNT's "Saving Grace," has been cast in the role of a police officer in the Pacific Northwest who gets a new partner in the form of her estranged dad. Gerald McRaney, who's coming off NBC's "Undercovers," is playing her father, Deadline reports.
The casting of Williams comes a few days after Dushku dropped out of "Bird Dog" only a week after being cast. Her departure was apparently an amicable one, at least according to the "Dollhouse" star's Twitter feed.
Williams starred in a pair of Lifetime movies -- "At Risk" and "The Front" -- based on Patricia Cornwell novels earlier this year. Her credits also include a recurring part on "How I Met Your Mother's" first season, "Good Morning,...
- 12/10/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Executive producer Stanley M. Brooks of Once Upon a Time Films did not attend an AFTRA arbitration hearing Tuesday concerning more than $1 million owed from a 2008 Logo TV series but was represented by an attorney who acknowledged that there were unpaid residual payments, according to Del Shores, who was creator and director of the show in question, "Sordid Lives: The Series."
"I went to the AFTRA arbitration today to be a witness for AFTRA," Shores said in a statement to THR after the hearing. "I was not called upon to testify. My understanding is that Stan Brooks and Once Upon a Time Films agreed that they owed the actors of 'Sordid Lives: The Series' somewhere around $1.1 million in unpaid residuals and requested to meet with all three guilds involved -- WGA, DGA and AFTRA -- to try to come to a settlement for the artists owed, including myself.
"I went to the AFTRA arbitration today to be a witness for AFTRA," Shores said in a statement to THR after the hearing. "I was not called upon to testify. My understanding is that Stan Brooks and Once Upon a Time Films agreed that they owed the actors of 'Sordid Lives: The Series' somewhere around $1.1 million in unpaid residuals and requested to meet with all three guilds involved -- WGA, DGA and AFTRA -- to try to come to a settlement for the artists owed, including myself.
- 8/18/2010
- by By Alex Ben Block
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
We had the promo up for Lifetime's first film "At Risk" last time. That film introduced high-powered and glamorous District Attorney Monique Lamont. Now, Andie MacDowell returns in the adaptation of the second book of Patricia Cornwell’s best-selling Win Garano series. "The Front" brings back high-powered and sexy Boston District Attorney Monique Lamont and her favorite ace detective, Win Garano, in a fast-paced mystery. Determined to generate much-needed publicity as her career in politics begins to lose its shine, Monique orders Win to re-open an investigation into an unsolved homicide that took place in one of Boston’s small outlying communities served by “The Front,” a coalition of small, local police departments that have banded together to fight crime.
- 4/16/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Andie MacDowell refused to lock lips with actor Dane Dehaan in an upcoming U.S. TV movie, because her children would have been "disgusted" by their 28 year age gap.
The 51 year old actress seduces 23 year old DeHaan in a steamy love scene for upcoming Lifetime network movie The Front.
But MacDowell had a moral objection to sharing a passionate kiss with the actor, and insisted director Tom McLoughlin scrap the scene and change the script.
She says, "It was in the script. I was supposed to kiss him but I was terrified because he's the same age as my son, 23.
"In the script he's actually supposed to be underage but this woman does whatever she wants to do. So my character didn't care but I cared. I discussed it with the director and we came up with... a better plan. Otherwise, my children would have been mortified. They would have been disgusted."...
The 51 year old actress seduces 23 year old DeHaan in a steamy love scene for upcoming Lifetime network movie The Front.
But MacDowell had a moral objection to sharing a passionate kiss with the actor, and insisted director Tom McLoughlin scrap the scene and change the script.
She says, "It was in the script. I was supposed to kiss him but I was terrified because he's the same age as my son, 23.
"In the script he's actually supposed to be underage but this woman does whatever she wants to do. So my character didn't care but I cared. I discussed it with the director and we came up with... a better plan. Otherwise, my children would have been mortified. They would have been disgusted."...
- 4/15/2010
- WENN
A movie project about Pompeii that Roman Polanski was set to direct two years ago is being re-imagined as a miniseries by a partnership that includes Sony Pictures TV, Scott Free and German producer Tandem.
As with the aborted Polanski pic, the event mini is based on the bestseller "Pompeii" by Robert Harris and will be unveiled Monday in Cannes during the Miptv program sales market. (Polanski went on to collaborate with Harris on another pic, "The Ghost Writer," but has no involvement in this epic for the smallscreen.)
Details are still sketchy as to which party will retain which distribution rights on "Pompeii," but Tandem, the company behind another mini based on Ken Follett's "Pillars of the Earth," will likely handle key European territories while Sony retains rights elsewhere.
While the appetite for big-budget miniseries has waxed and waned in the U.S. over the decades, appeal internationally...
As with the aborted Polanski pic, the event mini is based on the bestseller "Pompeii" by Robert Harris and will be unveiled Monday in Cannes during the Miptv program sales market. (Polanski went on to collaborate with Harris on another pic, "The Ghost Writer," but has no involvement in this epic for the smallscreen.)
Details are still sketchy as to which party will retain which distribution rights on "Pompeii," but Tandem, the company behind another mini based on Ken Follett's "Pillars of the Earth," will likely handle key European territories while Sony retains rights elsewhere.
While the appetite for big-budget miniseries has waxed and waned in the U.S. over the decades, appeal internationally...
- 4/11/2010
- by By Elizabeth Guider
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fans of the Kay Scarpetta crime series and the author, Patricia Cornwell, can look forward to her other works being dramatized and brought to the smallscreen by Lifetime networks. The work of #1 New York Times bestselling author, Patricia Cornwell, will make its on-screen debut when Andie MacDowell and Daniel Sunjata star in the Lifetime Original Movies At Risk and The Front. Cornwell's At Risk airs Saturday, April 10, 2010, at 9:00 pm (Et/Pt) -- and The Front airs Saturday, April 17, 2010, also at 9:00 pm (Et/Pt). This will mark the first time that Cornwell's suspense and forensic insight have been adapted for either film or television. Andie MacDowell is cast as Monique Lamont, the brazen and ambitious...
- 3/21/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Andie MacDowell has revealed that she hates taking her clothes off to film sex scenes. The star, who has to strip off to play a sex addict in new Lifetime films The Front and At Risk, said that her shyness makes being nude in front of the camera embarrassing. MacDowell told Fox News: "I play a real bi**h, I was a narcissistic sex addict and had to sleep with young men. But it was embarrassing because I’m pretty shy and yet I had to look at myself in the mirror and take my clothes off." The 51-year-old also talked about the difficulty of (more)...
- 10/23/2009
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
Andie MacDowell was terrified of stripping off in her latest films. The 51-year-old actress stars as District Attorney Monique Lamont in new TV movies "At Risk" and "The Front" - based on the mystery books by Patricia Cornwell - and found shooting the sex scenes mortifying.
She explained: "I play a real b***h, I was a narcissistic sex addict and had to sleep with young men. But it was embarrassing because I'm pretty shy and yet I had to look at myself in the mirror and take my clothes off."
Despite finding the part challenging, Andie is pleased she decided to tackle it.
She claims it is too easy for older actresses to fade into the background, and is determined to keep working for as long as possible.
Andie added to Fox News: "We live in a society that sees getting older in a certain way, but I keep...
She explained: "I play a real b***h, I was a narcissistic sex addict and had to sleep with young men. But it was embarrassing because I'm pretty shy and yet I had to look at myself in the mirror and take my clothes off."
Despite finding the part challenging, Andie is pleased she decided to tackle it.
She claims it is too easy for older actresses to fade into the background, and is determined to keep working for as long as possible.
Andie added to Fox News: "We live in a society that sees getting older in a certain way, but I keep...
- 10/22/2009
- icelebz.com
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