Sonny signs. Anthony schemes. Everyone broods. These dark days in Port Charles have only a few highlights.
I am very happy to announce that Making the Rounds at General Hospital is back on Blogcritics. After being in Connie Phillips’ very insightful hands since its inception, this popular BC feature will now be penned by me. I’ve been a GH watcher on and off for the last 20 years or so, which is why I’m happy to step in to…
Archive for May, 2008
Making the Rounds at General Hospital: Mobsters, Mobsters Everywhere
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Here’s a film that will test survival skills. Not Indy’s, yours.
As my friends in the back row will attest, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a movie best viewed high. Here's a film that will test survival skills. Not Indy's, yours. The movie takes place in 1957 with Ford returning as The Man in the Hat. The old Nazi villains have given way to Cold War Russians, led by Cate…
No strike for AFTRA, SAG next
Thursday, May 29th, 2008So the 77,000 members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists -- mostly TV performers from non-prime time shows -- signed up for a three-year deal with the studios, averting a strike. Where does that leave the Screen Actors Guild, whose 122,000 members work in film and prime-time TV? Against the wall. The SAG contract runs out June 30 and pressure is on to avoid another strike like the writers put the industry through recently. But there are enough union concessions in the AFTRA contract to give a labor negotiator agita, or so says the L.A. Times. And Variety. And everyone.
The sticking point is, as ever, DVD residuals and control over film clip use. AFTRA gave in, to a degree; SAG has been sabre-rattling. Film and TV producers are already running for cover and getting their projects out of the way of a still-possible strike; presumably the exit rows are clearly marked by now.
Here's Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood Daily stirring the hornet's nest of who got hosed by who in typical demure fashion; the reader comments, many by Hollywood working stiffs, are where the gloves really come off.
Movie Review: The Strangers
Thursday, May 29th, 2008In the woods, no one can hear you scream…
The truth is, I liked more things about The Strangers than I didn't. If I were one of those people who made pro/con lists, the pro side would easily be longer. But that's the problem with a pro/con list, especially here. At a certain point, it's got to be quality over quantity, and the things I didn't like about The Strangers level…
Very impressive line-up for the upcoming PSST!3. This year’s edition will showcase no less than 17 films! Expected release, September 2008
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Movie Review: Funny Games (2007)
Thursday, May 29th, 2008This June 10 DVD release is a shot by shot remake of a 1997 German language film from the same director.
The biggest debate surrounding the 2007 release of Funny Games in the US is whether someone should bother to watch this remake if they have seen the original German language version. Originally released in 1997, the first version (from the same director, Michael Haneke) became popular in the US following the announcement of the English language…
Lindsay Lohan taking the whole lesbian thing seriously
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
After making out on P. Diddy's boat, everyone knows the next step in a same-sex relationship is to introduce your families. But make sure the making out on Diddy's boat happens first. Otherwise you're doomed from the get-go. Fortunately, Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson know how this crazy game called "Love" works. People reports:
The duo – who are "together," a source says in the new issue of PEOPLE – were spotted Wednesday afternoon lunching with Ronson's writer-mom, Ann Dexter-Jones and Lohan's sister Ali, 14, at the Italian restaurant Gino's on Manhattan's Upper East Side.I love how Ali walks around in these photos trying to cover her face with her hair, and it's not because of Lindsay. She's only 14 and has no clue what a frisb-ian is. Ali's just hoping no one recognizes her from her mom's show Living Lohan. So, who wants to tell Ali she has a better chance getting attacked by a real live leprechaun? And not just because Tom Cruise is in town. Hi-oh! I'll be here all week, folks.
Throughout the meal, the group engaged in a spirited session of girl talk, the source adds.
Photos: Splash News
Fun viral for Net 10: Proof that cell phone companies are evil
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Important Looking Pirates and Visual Art for Viasats
Thursday, May 29th, 2008THINKfilm Sued by Allied Advertising
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Filed under: Independent, Awards, Deals, Sundance, Cannes, ThinkFilm, Celebrities and Controversy, Distribution, Exhibition, Home Entertainment, Politics
It's been clear for several weeks now that the independent distribution company THINKfilm has been suffering from some money troubles. Around the time the Cannes Film Festival kicked off this month, blogger AJ Schnack assembled reports from various sources that the company owed a lot of money to many different places. Now, Nikkie Finke reports that Allied Advertising Ltd. filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court today against THINKfilm owner David Bergstein, claiming that THINKfilm failed to pay for Allied's advertising services in a timely manner, while the distributor pretended that wasn't the case. A serious problem indeed. It's a little unfair, however, for Allied to complain about THINKfilm's decision to continue doing what they do best -- buying films. The lawsuit says that the company embarked on a "lavish film licensing buying spree at various film festivals around the world," rather than exclusively focusing on paying off debt. It's worth noting that THINKfilm remained fairly withdrawn at Cannes this year, and while they did pick up theatrical rights for Marina Zenovich's Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired at Sundance, the film already had a television deal in place with HBO. Meanwhile, the company has dropped Battle in Seattle, which it originally purchased at the Toronto Film Festival. The "buying spree" sounds like needless exaggeration on Allied's part. Whatever the case, given THINKfilm's track record (they did guide Ryan Gosling to his Half Nelson Oscar nod), one hopes they'll survive this nasty legal snafu.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
