Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" best handled the topic of choice.
Dark Matter Season 1 Episode 1 and Dark Matter Season 1 Episode 2 are the latest on this topic.
Duplicate characters existing in separate dimensions is hardly a novel concept on television (or almost any creative medium).
The first such episode featuring a parallel universe was, no shock, on the 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone, "The Parallel." An astronaut returns from a lengthy journey to find his world not quite the same as he remembers it.
Another early example came in 1970 on the soap opera Dark Shadows. Vampire Barnabas Collins found a room in his mansion, Collinwood, a portal he used to escape to parallel time.
This concept was most vital in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror." It was set in a dimension where evil twins of the Star Trek characters lived.
This mirror universe was revisited on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine...
Dark Matter Season 1 Episode 1 and Dark Matter Season 1 Episode 2 are the latest on this topic.
Duplicate characters existing in separate dimensions is hardly a novel concept on television (or almost any creative medium).
The first such episode featuring a parallel universe was, no shock, on the 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone, "The Parallel." An astronaut returns from a lengthy journey to find his world not quite the same as he remembers it.
Another early example came in 1970 on the soap opera Dark Shadows. Vampire Barnabas Collins found a room in his mansion, Collinwood, a portal he used to escape to parallel time.
This concept was most vital in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror." It was set in a dimension where evil twins of the Star Trek characters lived.
This mirror universe was revisited on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine...
- 5/8/2024
- by Dale McGarrigle
- TVfanatic
Quite alarmingly, the fifth entry in the Ghostbusters series — following straight on from the unexpectedly charming Afterlife — starts by quoting all 51 words of Robert Frost’s 1923 poem Fire and Ice, which posits two very different apocalyptic scenarios for the end of the world. Has the franchise suddenly fallen prey to the glum Christopher Nolanization of what we used to think of as bubblegum entertainment? Is Paul Feig’s controversial 2016 all-female iteration about to be frozen out of the canon? Will it be worthy and … boring?
Well, if you liked Afterlife, and not everybody did, the answer is no. It is confusing at times, and not everything works, but Frozen Empire does a very good job of keeping the flame alive, 40 years after the fact. As opposed to The Dial of Destiny, which leaned way too hard into the modern-day appeal of an action hero who’s now 80, the new-era Ghostbusters...
Well, if you liked Afterlife, and not everybody did, the answer is no. It is confusing at times, and not everything works, but Frozen Empire does a very good job of keeping the flame alive, 40 years after the fact. As opposed to The Dial of Destiny, which leaned way too hard into the modern-day appeal of an action hero who’s now 80, the new-era Ghostbusters...
- 3/20/2024
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Teresa Sutherland’s beautifully shot debut has you rooting for a park ranger investigating a disappearance, even if the ambiguity around malevolent forces grows tiring
Robert Frost fans will recognise the title of this psychological horror. Taken from the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, the relevant lines run thusly: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. /But I have promises to keep, /And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles before I go to sleep.” This is a neat, if oblique, way of describing writer-director Teresa Sutherland’s debut film, which sees a newly minted park ranger head into the wilderness, after the disappearance of a young woman, to confront shadowy forces interested in stealing more than just your picnic basket.
The national park in question has a long history of various vanishings (but what desolate rural region of the US does not?), and the plucky...
Robert Frost fans will recognise the title of this psychological horror. Taken from the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, the relevant lines run thusly: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. /But I have promises to keep, /And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles before I go to sleep.” This is a neat, if oblique, way of describing writer-director Teresa Sutherland’s debut film, which sees a newly minted park ranger head into the wilderness, after the disappearance of a young woman, to confront shadowy forces interested in stealing more than just your picnic basket.
The national park in question has a long history of various vanishings (but what desolate rural region of the US does not?), and the plucky...
- 3/18/2024
- by Catherine Bray
- The Guardian - Film News
If there's one thing horror movies have taught us, it's that the woods are a scary place. "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown," H.P. Lovecraft once wrote, and what's more unknowable than the deep, dark woods? I'm not talking about tiny patches of trees close to highways or Walmart parking lots. I mean the unexplored, uncharted wilderness, so thick with greenery that sunlight only breaks through in tiny open spots. Who knows what could be lurking out there? Wild animals, sure. But maybe, just maybe, something else, too.
"Lovely, Dark, and Deep" — the title comes from Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" — is the latest horror movie to warn us about the woods. Here, cosmic horrors lurk within all those trees. Strange, unexplained happenings are just around the bend.
"Lovely, Dark, and Deep" — the title comes from Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" — is the latest horror movie to warn us about the woods. Here, cosmic horrors lurk within all those trees. Strange, unexplained happenings are just around the bend.
- 2/21/2024
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
We might be in the depths of winter, so I'm sure many of us are dreaming about nice, long walks in the woods when we can find peace and quiet, once the snow melts. But as any horror film fan will tell you, danger lurks in the deep and dark. Taking its title from the Robert Frost poem (admitedly set in winter), the feature debut Lovely, Dark and Deep from Teresa Sutherland, it follows one woman's terryfing journey into that deep which is definitely dark, but perhaps not so lovely. The trailer evokes all that is haunting about the woods, especially in places when you know there is no help for miles and miles, and your sense are both overloaded and...
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- 1/30/2024
- Screen Anarchy
It may sound silly to say, but a retail store can have a profound effect on you, one that you may not realize until much later. I've had several such stores act as impactful hubs throughout my life, destinations where I could access the material that enlightened and enriched me as I grew up — everything from comic book stores to regular old bookstores to record shops.
Of course, stores that sold physical media for cinema — which comprises DVDs, Blu-rays, and now 4K Uhd discs — were and are my most prized places. One of these stores was the Best Buy branch on Lohr Road in my old hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was perfectly located less than a mile away from my high school, the mall, and one of my first jobs (a clerk at a Hollywood Video across the street). As the franchise's namesake suggests, Best Buy became a...
Of course, stores that sold physical media for cinema — which comprises DVDs, Blu-rays, and now 4K Uhd discs — were and are my most prized places. One of these stores was the Best Buy branch on Lohr Road in my old hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was perfectly located less than a mile away from my high school, the mall, and one of my first jobs (a clerk at a Hollywood Video across the street). As the franchise's namesake suggests, Best Buy became a...
- 10/13/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is remembered for many things: transcending genre, witty dialogue, creating one of TV's greatest female icons, and complex plot lines built on monstrous metaphors, to name a few. These days, creator Joss Whedon may be best known for his abusive behavior on set, but there was a time when his feminist credentials seemed unimpeachable. Despite the revelations about Whedon's actions, his magnum opus remains my favorite series of all time. Although my relationship with the show may be a bit more complicated now, I will never love it any less.
Whedon plotted out "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" seasons well in advance and there are allusions to upcoming storylines scattered throughout the series. One particularly fascinating trail of breadcrumbs leads directly to the death of our hero, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar). The character was killed off in one of the show's best episodes, the season 5 finale "The Gift,...
Whedon plotted out "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" seasons well in advance and there are allusions to upcoming storylines scattered throughout the series. One particularly fascinating trail of breadcrumbs leads directly to the death of our hero, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar). The character was killed off in one of the show's best episodes, the season 5 finale "The Gift,...
- 1/26/2023
- by Jamie Gerber
- Slash Film
Director Richard Lester, prior to his work on "Superman II" (1980) and "Superman III" (1983), was better known as a director of musical films. His first feature, 1962's "It's Trad, Dad!" was a youthsploitation picture about hip British teens getting into the underground Dixieland jazz scene and featured 27 songs. He followed that with a sequel to the Peter Sellers comedy "The Mouse That Roared" (about the world's smallest nation unwittingly conquering the United States in war), a space race farce called "The Mouse on the Moon." This led directly to two film collaborations with The Beatles, including "A Hard Day's Night," one of the best films ever made, and "Help!," which is quite silly but rather enjoyable. Lester also directed the utterly hilarious film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" with Zero Mostel, before moving into a series of frothy swashbuckling blockbusters like...
- 10/20/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep. But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep."
Robert Frost was ahead of his time because that masterful line is the Perfect title for Big Sky Season 3 Episode 2, which is a little all over the place but still a good time.
It appears that like attracts like when it comes to Sunny Barnes' business because she's hiding many secrets, as are some of the campers hiding out in her overly fancy tents.
Picking up where we left off after Big Sky Season 3 Episode 1, Sunny is hanging out with her wildly creepy son in the woods and basically telling him that he needs to stay away from there.
She will make sure he gets his sugar rush and maybe a little tune underneath the moonlight, but outside of that, he has to uphold whatever arrangement they've made in the past.
Robert Frost was ahead of his time because that masterful line is the Perfect title for Big Sky Season 3 Episode 2, which is a little all over the place but still a good time.
It appears that like attracts like when it comes to Sunny Barnes' business because she's hiding many secrets, as are some of the campers hiding out in her overly fancy tents.
Picking up where we left off after Big Sky Season 3 Episode 1, Sunny is hanging out with her wildly creepy son in the woods and basically telling him that he needs to stay away from there.
She will make sure he gets his sugar rush and maybe a little tune underneath the moonlight, but outside of that, he has to uphold whatever arrangement they've made in the past.
- 9/29/2022
- by Whitney Evans
- TVfanatic
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Terence Macartney-Filgate, a pioneering documentary maker and cinematographer who helped develop an unscripted, observational style of filmmaking common in reality TV today, has died. He was 97.
Macartney-Filgate died Monday in Toronto. No cause of death was available.
Over a 60-year career, he was a longtime collaborator with the National Film Board of Canada and directed his first film for the public filmmaker, Emergency Rescue — T33 Jet Aircraft, in 1956. With documentaries like The Days Before Christmas (1958), Blood and Fire (1958), Police (1958) and the ground-breaking The Back-breaking Leaf (1959), he developed the free-form, fly-on-the-wall documentary tradition that became part of the wider cinema verite tradition in the U.S.
“With the passing of Terence Macartney-Filgate, the Nfb has lost a dear friend and passionate champion of documentary cinema. A key figure in the Nfb’s legendary Unit B and its Candid Eye series, he helped to revolutionize non-fiction storytelling,...
Terence Macartney-Filgate, a pioneering documentary maker and cinematographer who helped develop an unscripted, observational style of filmmaking common in reality TV today, has died. He was 97.
Macartney-Filgate died Monday in Toronto. No cause of death was available.
Over a 60-year career, he was a longtime collaborator with the National Film Board of Canada and directed his first film for the public filmmaker, Emergency Rescue — T33 Jet Aircraft, in 1956. With documentaries like The Days Before Christmas (1958), Blood and Fire (1958), Police (1958) and the ground-breaking The Back-breaking Leaf (1959), he developed the free-form, fly-on-the-wall documentary tradition that became part of the wider cinema verite tradition in the U.S.
“With the passing of Terence Macartney-Filgate, the Nfb has lost a dear friend and passionate champion of documentary cinema. A key figure in the Nfb’s legendary Unit B and its Candid Eye series, he helped to revolutionize non-fiction storytelling,...
- 7/12/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There are times in nonfiction film when daring — and magic — arrives in a surprisingly simple and quiet way. “Hello, Bookstore” is a documentary about a venerable and beloved independent bookstore in Lenox, Mass. The place is called The Bookstore, and it first opened its doors in 1973. Ever since 1976, it has been owned and operated by Matthew Tannenbaum, a tall, solicitous, eccentric, engagingly garrulous lover of stories and words and literature who ritually answers the phone with a jaunty nerdish “Hello, bookstore!” Handsome in an eagle-ish way, with an easy smile and a full mop of gray curls, Tannenbaum, in his mid-70s, has the look and attitude of a debonair English professor, but he’s a more modest mensch than that — a boomer bibliophile without a glint of pretension, one who happily spends his days stocking shelves, poring over invoices he should have digitized years ago, and chatting away with his customers,...
- 5/9/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Val Kilmer is back in the public conversation. It’s easy to see why after the premiere of the documentary Val, a new release from Amazon Studios and A24. Melancholic and wistful, the film documents Kilmer’s eclectic career as a rising movie star in the 1980s and ‘90s, and his more recent battle (and victory over) cancer. Hence the film must must talk about his time as Bruce Wayne in 1995’s Batman Forever.
Yet as good as the doc is, its impressionistic view of the actor’s life tends to leave some of his sardonic musings and general conviviality off the screen. Relying mostly on the vast reams of camcorder footage he saved over the course of his life, the movie observes as much as it enters Kilmer’s mind. Luckily, the prodigious artist also recently released a memoir about his various exploits, Val Kilmer: I’m Your Huckleberry.
Yet as good as the doc is, its impressionistic view of the actor’s life tends to leave some of his sardonic musings and general conviviality off the screen. Relying mostly on the vast reams of camcorder footage he saved over the course of his life, the movie observes as much as it enters Kilmer’s mind. Luckily, the prodigious artist also recently released a memoir about his various exploits, Val Kilmer: I’m Your Huckleberry.
- 8/30/2021
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
“Good fences make good neighbors,” a long-dead, if still wise, American poet, Robert Frost, once said in probably his best-known, most popular poem, "Mending Walls." It’s a lesson only a few denizens of the fictional town of Beaverfield, Vermont in second-time director Josh Ruben (Scare Me) and first-time screenwriter Mishna Wolff’s consistently sharp-toothed adaptation of Ubisoft's 2016 VR videogame, Werewolves Within, have taken to heart. With the possible exception of a heavily bearded, fur-wearing survivalist who lives alone on the outskirts of town, fences mean next to nothing to the residents of Beaverfield. Good neighborliness ends where their bank accounts begin, especially where a new, potentially lucrative, gas pipeline is concerned, but that pipeline needs the small town’s unanimous approval and without that unanimous approval,...
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- 6/21/2021
- Screen Anarchy
This The Walking Dead review contains spoilers.
The Walking Dead Season 10 Episode 21
Robert Frost wrote in his poem “The Road Not Taken” about two roads diverging in a yellow wood. while the wood Carol and Daryl are walking through in “Diverged” are green, not yellow, the principle is the same. Two long-time friends slowly growing apart, faced with a literal diverging path in the woods. Daryl heads one way; Carol goes another with Dog at her side. As a metaphor, it’s smack-dab on the nose, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing when both characters are intensely aware of just what’s taking place between them. They’ve walked side-by-side through hell together, but at a certain point, every journey together ends on The Walking Dead.
That’s the heaviness hanging over a pretty neatly bisected episode following Carol (Melissa McBride) down one path and Daryl (Norman Reedus) down the other.
The Walking Dead Season 10 Episode 21
Robert Frost wrote in his poem “The Road Not Taken” about two roads diverging in a yellow wood. while the wood Carol and Daryl are walking through in “Diverged” are green, not yellow, the principle is the same. Two long-time friends slowly growing apart, faced with a literal diverging path in the woods. Daryl heads one way; Carol goes another with Dog at her side. As a metaphor, it’s smack-dab on the nose, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing when both characters are intensely aware of just what’s taking place between them. They’ve walked side-by-side through hell together, but at a certain point, every journey together ends on The Walking Dead.
That’s the heaviness hanging over a pretty neatly bisected episode following Carol (Melissa McBride) down one path and Daryl (Norman Reedus) down the other.
- 3/29/2021
- by Ron Hogan
- Den of Geek
With apologies to Reverend Silvester Beaman, there was simply no following Amanda Gorman. The doctor from Delaware’s benediction was rousing and passionate, evoking plenty of other moving moments during Wednesday’s (thankfully) peaceful inauguration ceremony. But Gorman’s beautifully crafted words were a showstopper. That they didn’t, in fact, end the ceremony is a fact likely to be lost to time. Gorman’s poem, “The Hill We Climb,” grabbed hold of viewers from the jump and has yet to let go.
That’s very much by design. Inaugural poets are not a requisite of the ceremony. Including Gorman, only six such wordsmiths have read during U.S. Presidential Inaugurations, and only four presidents have heard them.
President Joe Biden’s ceremony mirrored Obama’s in many ways when it came to incorporating the poet laureate. In 2009, Poet Elizabeth Alexander read “Praise Song for the Day” right after Obama’s inaugural address,...
That’s very much by design. Inaugural poets are not a requisite of the ceremony. Including Gorman, only six such wordsmiths have read during U.S. Presidential Inaugurations, and only four presidents have heard them.
President Joe Biden’s ceremony mirrored Obama’s in many ways when it came to incorporating the poet laureate. In 2009, Poet Elizabeth Alexander read “Praise Song for the Day” right after Obama’s inaugural address,...
- 1/20/2021
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Joining the ranks of Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Miller Williams, Elizabeth Alexander and Richard Blanco, 22-year-old native Angeleno and activist Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet to help mark the transition of presidential power in U.S. history. She will perform a piece titled “The Hill We Climb” during the inauguration, in which Joseph Biden and Kamala Harris will be sworn in as President and Vice President of the United States.
The star-studded swearing-in ceremony also features performances from Lady Gaga, who will sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” and a musical act from “Hustlers” star Jennifer Lopez. Other participants include Father Leo J. O’Donovan delivering the invocation, Andrea Hall leading the “Pledge of Allegiance,” and Reverend Dr. Silvester Beaman giving the benediction.
In an interview with NPR, Gorman shared an excerpt of the six-minute poem that she will recite on inauguration day:
“We’ve seen a force that would shatter...
The star-studded swearing-in ceremony also features performances from Lady Gaga, who will sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” and a musical act from “Hustlers” star Jennifer Lopez. Other participants include Father Leo J. O’Donovan delivering the invocation, Andrea Hall leading the “Pledge of Allegiance,” and Reverend Dr. Silvester Beaman giving the benediction.
In an interview with NPR, Gorman shared an excerpt of the six-minute poem that she will recite on inauguration day:
“We’ve seen a force that would shatter...
- 1/20/2021
- by Mónica Marie Zorrilla
- Variety Film + TV
Amanda Gorman is accustomed to making history. In 2017, she became the first National Youth Poet Laureate, she was the first youth poet to open the Library of Congress that same year, and flash forward to 2021, Amanda is set to break molds once again as the inaugural poet for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. She's the youngest inaugural poet in memory at 22, following in the footsteps of seasoned writers like Maya Angelou and Robert Frost.
And yet, the history tied to Amanda's inaugural poem goes deeper than her age. She'll be addressing the nation amid a deadly pandemic and an ongoing racial-justice reckoning and a mere two weeks after pro-Trump supporters violently stormed the US Capitol. The inauguration's theme is "America United," but Amanda is all too aware that reality couldn't feel further. She refuses to turn a blind eye to the tumultuous nature of our country, but rather,...
And yet, the history tied to Amanda's inaugural poem goes deeper than her age. She'll be addressing the nation amid a deadly pandemic and an ongoing racial-justice reckoning and a mere two weeks after pro-Trump supporters violently stormed the US Capitol. The inauguration's theme is "America United," but Amanda is all too aware that reality couldn't feel further. She refuses to turn a blind eye to the tumultuous nature of our country, but rather,...
- 1/19/2021
- by Karenna Meredith
- Popsugar.com
Walt Disney, Frank Capra, Whitney Houston, Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash and Alex Trebek are among the entertainment industry figures who have been added as proposed honorees in the National Garden of American Heroes monument project unveiled by President Donald Trump in July.
As he began his final 48 hours as President, Trump issued an amended executive order Monday that added dozens of names slated to be honored in the the planned statuary park. The location for the park has yet to be determined. Trump first announced the plan on July 3 during his speech at Mt. Rushmore.
Among the entertainment-related names making the cut are Louis Armstrong, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Irving Berlin, Humphrey Bogart, Kobe Bryant, Frank Capra, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin, Woody Guthrie, Charlton Heston, Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Hope, Elvis Presley and Jimmy Stewart. The monument will honor those deemed to be “historically...
As he began his final 48 hours as President, Trump issued an amended executive order Monday that added dozens of names slated to be honored in the the planned statuary park. The location for the park has yet to be determined. Trump first announced the plan on July 3 during his speech at Mt. Rushmore.
Among the entertainment-related names making the cut are Louis Armstrong, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Irving Berlin, Humphrey Bogart, Kobe Bryant, Frank Capra, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin, Woody Guthrie, Charlton Heston, Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Hope, Elvis Presley and Jimmy Stewart. The monument will honor those deemed to be “historically...
- 1/18/2021
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Taylor Swift’s “‘Tis the Damn Season’ tells the tale of someone returning to their hometown and embarking on a fleeting but intimate relationship with someone from their past. It’s an emotional gut-punch, full of charming gusto that helps Evermore match so much of the fraught nostalgia from its sister record Folklore.
“Season” is full of those Swiftian lyrical flourishes: an invitation to call her “babe” for just the weekend, muddy truck tires, untrustworthy friends back in L.A., and even a Robert Frost reference. The song wears like...
“Season” is full of those Swiftian lyrical flourishes: an invitation to call her “babe” for just the weekend, muddy truck tires, untrustworthy friends back in L.A., and even a Robert Frost reference. The song wears like...
- 12/11/2020
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
Marin Hinkle earned her second consecutive Emmy nomination this year for her role as Rose Weissman on Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” She is nominated for Best Comedy Supporting Actress alongside co-star Alex Borstein, who has won the category two years in a row.
Hinkle spoke with Gold Derby contributing writer Sam Eckmann before this year’s nominations about working with producers Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino, the theatrical qualities of “Maisel” and what it meant to receive her first Emmy nomination last year.
SEEMarin Hinkle (‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’): Emmys 2020 episode submission revealed
Gold Derby: Last season we saw Rose got this huge storyline where she gets to run away to Paris and goes through all of these enormous personal changes and I’m kind of wondering, what was the thing that prepares her for this next chapter? She’s kind of in financial straits for a...
Hinkle spoke with Gold Derby contributing writer Sam Eckmann before this year’s nominations about working with producers Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino, the theatrical qualities of “Maisel” and what it meant to receive her first Emmy nomination last year.
SEEMarin Hinkle (‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’): Emmys 2020 episode submission revealed
Gold Derby: Last season we saw Rose got this huge storyline where she gets to run away to Paris and goes through all of these enormous personal changes and I’m kind of wondering, what was the thing that prepares her for this next chapter? She’s kind of in financial straits for a...
- 8/15/2020
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
This story appears in the June 2020 print edition of Rolling Stone.
In late April Marko Kolanovic, a financial analyst for JPMorgan Chase, wrote to clients with good news. Pandemic aside, investors should expect stock prices in S&P 500 companies to return to record numbers some time early next year!
“The S&P 500 should attain previous all-time highs,” Kolanovic wrote, “if the monetary measures are sustained.”
The key part of this phrase was the last bit, “if the monetary measures are sustained.” In countries that did not have a Federal Reserve...
In late April Marko Kolanovic, a financial analyst for JPMorgan Chase, wrote to clients with good news. Pandemic aside, investors should expect stock prices in S&P 500 companies to return to record numbers some time early next year!
“The S&P 500 should attain previous all-time highs,” Kolanovic wrote, “if the monetary measures are sustained.”
The key part of this phrase was the last bit, “if the monetary measures are sustained.” In countries that did not have a Federal Reserve...
- 5/13/2020
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
(Welcome to 21st Century Spielberg, an ongoing column and podcast that examines the challenging, sometimes misunderstood 21st century filmography of one of our greatest living filmmakers, Steven Spielberg. In this edition: Catch Me If You Can and The Terminal.) “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in,” wrote Robert Frost. After […]
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- 5/12/2020
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” writes Robert Frost in his famous poem. “And sorry I could not travel both.” Frost’s beloved poem ponders the ideas of choice and self-determination with a devastatingly simple metaphor. The upcoming feature film starring Javier Bardem and Elle Fanning grapples with those same concepts, in a slightly more complicated way. […]
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- 2/6/2020
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
Three years after debuting her eighth feature film at the Berlin Film Festival (the star-studded and bruising black comedy “The Party”), British auteur Sally Potter is gearing up for another big festival debut. This time around, Potter is moving her action and attention to New York City in the form of “The Roads Not Taken,” a new drama starring Javier Bardem and Elle Fanning as a father-daughter duo embarking on an emotional visit over the course of one day in the city. The film will premiere in competition at Berlin, where it will go up against new films from Eliza Hittman, Kelly Reichardt, Abel Ferrara, Christian Petzold, and Hong Sangsoo.
Per the film’s official synopsis, it “follows a day in the life of Leo (Javier Bardem) and his daughter, Molly (Elle Fanning) as she grapples with the challenges of her father’s chaotic mind. As they weave their way through New York City,...
Per the film’s official synopsis, it “follows a day in the life of Leo (Javier Bardem) and his daughter, Molly (Elle Fanning) as she grapples with the challenges of her father’s chaotic mind. As they weave their way through New York City,...
- 2/4/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
I really liked how Avengers: Endgame handled Zoe Saldana's Gamora when the creative team brought her back. It was very clever and it’s going to be interesting to see how the character is handled moving forward. The Gamora that Peter Quill formed a relationship with is dead, that relationship is gone. This Gamora from the past, who was thrust into the future has no idea who Quill is. It’s a fascinating yet tragic way to handle the story arc for these characters.
Endgame writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely made sure to bring Gamora back for James Gunn and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and they talked about this act of service in a recent interview with Cb. McFeely said:
"It's us and [directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo] and [Marvel Studios president] Kevin [Feige], but it's not like Kevin said, 'You know what, we had a meeting...
Endgame writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely made sure to bring Gamora back for James Gunn and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and they talked about this act of service in a recent interview with Cb. McFeely said:
"It's us and [directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo] and [Marvel Studios president] Kevin [Feige], but it's not like Kevin said, 'You know what, we had a meeting...
- 10/28/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Mr. Robot drops the strangest Christmas episode ever, as the Alderson siblings find themselves on parallel holiday journeys.
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This Mr. Robot review contains spoilers.
Mr. Robot Season 4 Episode 4
Happy holidays from Mr. Robot, which seems as unconcerned as ever with actually wrapping up any aspect of its final season’s story. In place of the answers—or at the very least, minimal forward plot progression—we likely expected here, “Not Found” instead offers us a bizarre holiday tale, in which Elliot, Darlene, Dom and Tyrell face down some demons of both the literal and figurative variety on Christmas Eve.
First, some facts. Even though Elliot stole Olivia Cortez’s Cyprus login information, she doesn’t have high enough security clearance to achieve the Alderson siblings’ goal of wiping out Whiterose’s financial holdings. It’s Christmas Eve, and the mysterious Deus Group is set to meet the next day,...
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Mr. Robot Season 4 Episode 4
Happy holidays from Mr. Robot, which seems as unconcerned as ever with actually wrapping up any aspect of its final season’s story. In place of the answers—or at the very least, minimal forward plot progression—we likely expected here, “Not Found” instead offers us a bizarre holiday tale, in which Elliot, Darlene, Dom and Tyrell face down some demons of both the literal and figurative variety on Christmas Eve.
First, some facts. Even though Elliot stole Olivia Cortez’s Cyprus login information, she doesn’t have high enough security clearance to achieve the Alderson siblings’ goal of wiping out Whiterose’s financial holdings. It’s Christmas Eve, and the mysterious Deus Group is set to meet the next day,...
- 10/26/2019
- Den of Geek
No one throws a dinner party quite like Succession. While one corporate meeting this season has already featured a descent into madness, this week’s episode, “Tern Haven,” sees the Roys completely buckle under pressure (including questions about what books they’ve read recently). The family has decamped for a meeting at the Pierces’ — stewards of the prestigious Pgm news organization, which Logan has made it his mission to purchase, despite cooler heads consistently urging him in other directions.
Kendall is still his right-hand man, and Roman is progressing in...
Kendall is still his right-hand man, and Roman is progressing in...
- 9/9/2019
- by Brendan Klinkenberg
- Rollingstone.com
This is it. The final hours of voting for the 2019 Emmy race are upon us, meaning that soon it’ll be full speed ahead to the September ceremonies and the announcement of this year’s winners. Alas, that means that “Screen Talk: Emmy Edition” is coming to an end for the season and to borrow liberally from Robert Frost, nothing, not even Emmy gold, can stay.
On the upside, the comedy acting categories are the exact opposite of the drama categories as discussed last week, full of worthy contenders and talent whose breadth represents the past, present, and future of quality television.
But as interesting as the categories are, it’s unclear just how close the races for lead actor and actress are in reality. With the TV Academy’s open appreciation for HBO’s “Barry,” what with its 17 overall nominations, last year’s winner for Outstanding Lead Actor Bill Hader...
On the upside, the comedy acting categories are the exact opposite of the drama categories as discussed last week, full of worthy contenders and talent whose breadth represents the past, present, and future of quality television.
But as interesting as the categories are, it’s unclear just how close the races for lead actor and actress are in reality. With the TV Academy’s open appreciation for HBO’s “Barry,” what with its 17 overall nominations, last year’s winner for Outstanding Lead Actor Bill Hader...
- 8/28/2019
- by Libby Hill
- Indiewire
Need to catch up? Check out the previous This Is Us recap here.
The bright spot in this week’s otherwise pretty sad This Is Us? Even though the episode chronicles The Big Three’s high school graduations, it makes us sit through exactly zero minutes of the hackneyed speeches that usually accompany the rite of passage. There’s no quoting of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” or Langston Hughes’ “Dreams.” There’s no montage of tassels being moved from one side of the mortarboard to the other. There are no diplomas held high in triumph. And as...
The bright spot in this week’s otherwise pretty sad This Is Us? Even though the episode chronicles The Big Three’s high school graduations, it makes us sit through exactly zero minutes of the hackneyed speeches that usually accompany the rite of passage. There’s no quoting of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” or Langston Hughes’ “Dreams.” There’s no montage of tassels being moved from one side of the mortarboard to the other. There are no diplomas held high in triumph. And as...
- 3/6/2019
- TVLine.com
Early Tuesday morning, Empire actor Jussie Smollett alleged he was attacked by two men while walking to an apartment in Chicago. Smollett, who is black, said that one of the attackers put a noose around his neck and poured an unidentified substance on him. According to the police, the two attackers were also “yelling out racial and homophobic slurs,” at Smollett, who is gay. Smollett also told the police that the attackers yelled, “Maga country.”
“Let me start by saying that I’m Ok,” Smollett said in a statement released by his publicist on Friday.
“Let me start by saying that I’m Ok,” Smollett said in a statement released by his publicist on Friday.
- 2/2/2019
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Time kills us all in the end—whether we mark its passage with the changing of the seasons, the lines growing slowly on a loved one’s face, or, as for most of us, by the stately transition from Jersey Shore into Jersey Shore: Family Vacation. Nothing gold can stay, as Robert Frost once wrote, presumably referring to…...
- 1/25/2019
- by William Hughes on News, shared by William Hughes to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
One of the key moments in “Flint Town,” the newest Netflix documentary series, is not something that happens in Michigan but in Texas. Through archival news footage, we see a clip from President Obama’s address at the memorial service for the five officers killed in the July 2016 ambush in downtown Dallas. The president’s remarks included this idea: “We wonder if an African-American community that feels unfairly targeted by police and police departments that feel unfairly maligned for doing their jobs, can ever understand each other’s experience…We see all this, and it’s hard not to think sometimes that the center won’t hold and that things might get worse.”
It’s a sentiment that drives much of what “Flint Town” — directed by Jessica Dimmock, Drea Cooper, and Zackary Canepari — is trying to convey as well. If the push to hear both sides of an argument has...
It’s a sentiment that drives much of what “Flint Town” — directed by Jessica Dimmock, Drea Cooper, and Zackary Canepari — is trying to convey as well. If the push to hear both sides of an argument has...
- 3/2/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.” – Robert Frost There is something inherently terrifying to me about horror films set in the woods. This may seem strange to those who know me since I […]
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- 2/9/2018
- by Jonathan Barkan
- DreadCentral.com
Fireflies in the Garden boasts one of the most impressive pedigrees a film could ask for nowadays, and yet the sum of the parts will leave many scratching their heads; both because the film isn’t nearly as great as a cast of Willem Dafoe, Julia Roberts, Emily Watson, Ryan Reynolds, Carrie Anne Moss, Hayden Panettiere, and Ioan Gruffud can produce when at their best, and because the script and story structure make you wonder why such talent ever signed on in the first place. The story of Fireflies in the Garden, loosely inspired by a Robert Frost poem, sees a rich family dealing with the sudden death of a loving mother who stood as the great balancing force to an abusive, ill-tempered and overly critical father. The performances of all involved are admirable, unfortunately they’re working from a script of hand-wringing drama and a story whose timeline is...
- 2/14/2012
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
DVD Release Date: Feb. 7, 2012
Price: DVD $30.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
2008 drama movie Fireflies in the Garden has a whopping cast led by Julia Roberts (Sleeping With the Enemy), Willem Dafoe (Daybreakers) and Ryan Reynolds (The Change-Up) and yet it sat on shelves for years before being released in the U.S.
Inspired by a poem by Robert Frost, the film looks at three generations of the Taylor familyand the dysfunctional relationships between the domineering father (Dafoe) and his novelist son Michael (Reynolds), sister-in-law Jane (Emily Watson of Equilibrium and Hayden Panettiere of Scream 4) and others. Roberts plays Dafoe’s wife, who’s involved in a fatal accident on the way to a family reunion.
The cast also includes Carrie-Anne Moss (Memento) and Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four).
Rated R, Fireflies in the Garden is the first feature film written and directed by Dennis Lee.
The movie did the rounds in theaters overseas,...
Price: DVD $30.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
2008 drama movie Fireflies in the Garden has a whopping cast led by Julia Roberts (Sleeping With the Enemy), Willem Dafoe (Daybreakers) and Ryan Reynolds (The Change-Up) and yet it sat on shelves for years before being released in the U.S.
Inspired by a poem by Robert Frost, the film looks at three generations of the Taylor familyand the dysfunctional relationships between the domineering father (Dafoe) and his novelist son Michael (Reynolds), sister-in-law Jane (Emily Watson of Equilibrium and Hayden Panettiere of Scream 4) and others. Roberts plays Dafoe’s wife, who’s involved in a fatal accident on the way to a family reunion.
The cast also includes Carrie-Anne Moss (Memento) and Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four).
Rated R, Fireflies in the Garden is the first feature film written and directed by Dennis Lee.
The movie did the rounds in theaters overseas,...
- 11/29/2011
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
Everett Willem Dafoe in “Fireflies in the Garden”
It took Willem Dafoe two tries before he made it to New York City from Appleton, Wisconsin. The first was when the actor was 19, but he was called back home. The second happened when the actor was 22, and that time it stuck. The year was 1977, and Dafoe moved to Soho.
“I was always the youngest in a group of people. Soon I became the oldest in a group of people. Primarily because...
It took Willem Dafoe two tries before he made it to New York City from Appleton, Wisconsin. The first was when the actor was 19, but he was called back home. The second happened when the actor was 22, and that time it stuck. The year was 1977, and Dafoe moved to Soho.
“I was always the youngest in a group of people. Soon I became the oldest in a group of people. Primarily because...
- 10/11/2011
- by Alexandra Cheney
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
The semi-autobiographical film named after a Robert Frost poem is directed and written by Dennis Lee and scheduled for theatrical release on October 14th, 2011. To an outsider, the Taylors are the very picture of the successful American family: Charles is a tenured professor on track to become university president, son Michael is a prolific and well-known romance novelist, daughter Ryne is poised to enter a prestigious law school, and on the day we are introduced to them, matriarch Lisa will graduate from college—decades after leaving to raise her children. But when a serious accident interrupts the celebration, the far more nuanced reality of this Midwestern family’s history and relationships come to light. Fireflies in the Garden stars Ryan Reynolds, Julia Roberts, Willem Dafoe, Emily...
- 10/4/2011
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
See a new poster from Fireflies in the Garden, starring Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Julia Roberts, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Watson and Hayden Panettiere Dennis Lee makes his feature-length directorial debut, helming from a script he wrote, based on the poem by Robert Frost. This one was produced back in 2008 and has taken forever to find theaters. Senator Entertainment distributes the drama which also includes Shannon Lucio, Ioan Gruffudd and George Newbern. To an outsider, the Taylors are the very picture of the successful American family: Charles (Willem Dafoe) is a tenured professor on track to become university president, son Michael (Ryan Reynolds) is a prolific and well-known romance novelist, daughter Ryne (Shannon Lucio) is poised to enter a prestigious law school, and on the day we are introduced to them, matriarch Lisa (Julia Roberts) will graduate from college—decades after leaving to raise her children. But when a serious...
- 9/20/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See a new poster from Fireflies in the Garden, starring Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Julia Roberts, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Watson and Hayden Panettiere Dennis Lee makes his feature-length directorial debut, helming from a script he wrote, based on the poem by Robert Frost. This one was produced back in 2008 and has taken forever to find theaters. Senator Entertainment distributes the drama which also includes Shannon Lucio, Ioan Gruffudd and George Newbern. To an outsider, the Taylors are the very picture of the successful American family: Charles (Willem Dafoe) is a tenured professor on track to become university president, son Michael (Ryan Reynolds) is a prolific and well-known romance novelist, daughter Ryne (Shannon Lucio) is poised to enter a prestigious law school, and on the day we are introduced to them, matriarch Lisa (Julia Roberts) will graduate from college—decades after leaving to raise her children. But when a serious...
- 9/20/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Here’s the first trailer for the Dennis Lee directed movie, Fireflies in the Garden which is based on the poem by Robert Frost. It stars Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss and Cayden Boyd. A great cast indeed but read on for my thoughts on what you’re about to watch. This film was actually out in the UK back in 2009 before HeyUGuys started. Personally though, I’ve never heard of it.
I started watching this trailer for the first 1 minute and 40 seconds thinking that it was going to be a dark thriller about a father and son who have struggled with their relationship for their entire lives but then at the 1 min 40 mark, the music changes and it goes into a mushy story about forgiveness and reconciliation. Don’t get me wrong, reconciliation is what life is all about but this trailer had me fooled at...
I started watching this trailer for the first 1 minute and 40 seconds thinking that it was going to be a dark thriller about a father and son who have struggled with their relationship for their entire lives but then at the 1 min 40 mark, the music changes and it goes into a mushy story about forgiveness and reconciliation. Don’t get me wrong, reconciliation is what life is all about but this trailer had me fooled at...
- 9/2/2011
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Filed under: Trailers and Clips, Movie News, Video, Coming Soon
Since green spandex and switching bodies didn't quite work as he'd hoped this Summer, Ryan Reynolds sure could use himself a win right about now. Despite having been filmed three years ago, hopefully his next leading role in 'Fireflies in the Garden' will be just the boost he needs to help us forget about the flops.
Loosely based on the life of poet laureate Robert Frost, 'Fireflies in the Garden' is about an accomplished author (Reynolds) who comes home after his mother (Julia Roberts) dies in a car crash. While coping with his grief and planning the funeral, the author tries to repair his strained relationship with his domineering father (Willem Dafoe) after a childhood filled with mental and physical abuse. Co-starring Emily Watson, Carrie-Ann Moss, and Hayden Panettiere; written and directed by Dennis Lee.
With...
Since green spandex and switching bodies didn't quite work as he'd hoped this Summer, Ryan Reynolds sure could use himself a win right about now. Despite having been filmed three years ago, hopefully his next leading role in 'Fireflies in the Garden' will be just the boost he needs to help us forget about the flops.
Loosely based on the life of poet laureate Robert Frost, 'Fireflies in the Garden' is about an accomplished author (Reynolds) who comes home after his mother (Julia Roberts) dies in a car crash. While coping with his grief and planning the funeral, the author tries to repair his strained relationship with his domineering father (Willem Dafoe) after a childhood filled with mental and physical abuse. Co-starring Emily Watson, Carrie-Ann Moss, and Hayden Panettiere; written and directed by Dennis Lee.
With...
- 8/29/2011
- by Aiden Redmond
- Moviefone
Fireflies In The Garden Trailer Released
Fireflies in the Garden, a drama based on Robert Frost's poem of the same name, is finally getting a limited theatrical release on October 14th and a new trailer has hit the internet. Starring Ryan Reynolds, this fractured narrative drama with an incredible ensemble cast was written and directed by Dennis Lee.
Thanks for reading We Got This Covered...
Fireflies in the Garden, a drama based on Robert Frost's poem of the same name, is finally getting a limited theatrical release on October 14th and a new trailer has hit the internet. Starring Ryan Reynolds, this fractured narrative drama with an incredible ensemble cast was written and directed by Dennis Lee.
Thanks for reading We Got This Covered...
- 8/27/2011
- by Amy Curtis
- We Got This Covered
This was meant to be Ryan Reynolds' summer, but sadly it didn't work out nearly as well as many hoped. In addition to Green Lantern not going over well with critics and underwhelming at the box office, the body switching comedy The Change Up opened at number four with only $13 million at the box office. But now Reynolds has gotten some good news. Fireflies in the Garden, a drama the actor made all the way back in 2008, will finally be released on October 14th and now, courtesy of Yahoo! you can watch the first trailer. Adapted/directed by Dennis Lee, the film is a semi-autobiographical story about Robert Frost and his relationship with his father. Despite growing up in an abusive household, Michael Waechter (Reynolds) has managed to become a successful author. But when a tragedy in the family brings everyone back together, tempers flare and old dynamics return.
- 8/27/2011
- cinemablend.com
Fireflies in the Garden began shooting way back in April of 2007 with a cast that includes Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Ioan Gruffud, Hayden Panettiere and Julia Roberts. The film was inspired by the title of the Robert Frost poem and written by first time feature director and student Academy Award-winner Dennis Lee. The film played the Berlin International Film Festival back in 2008 and has seen an international release to the tune of over $3.3 million. However, a stateside debut has yet to happen, but it is finally on its way.
The filmmakers finally secured rights to the film from Senator Entertainment and will now release the film independently in no fewer than four major markets on October 14, including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
Quoted in a press release that was just sent out, Lee said, "I am so pleased our film will finally get...
The filmmakers finally secured rights to the film from Senator Entertainment and will now release the film independently in no fewer than four major markets on October 14, including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
Quoted in a press release that was just sent out, Lee said, "I am so pleased our film will finally get...
- 8/26/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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