Winona Ryder, Jon Bernthal and Alfred Molina have joined HBO and David Simon's six-hour mini-series "Show Me a Hero" based on Lisa Belkin's non-fiction book.
Set in Yonkers, New York in 1985, the story follows a young mayor (Oscar Isaac) faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low-income housing units into the more affluent, mostly white neighborhoods of his town.
His attempt to do so tears the city apart, paralyzing the entire municipal government and destroying his political future.
Ryder will portray Vinni Restiano, a Yonkers councilwoman who lost her seat due to her vote, but staged a comeback four years later and won as City Council president.
Bernthal will play Michael H. Sussman, a Harvard-trained lawyer who represented the NAACP when it joined the government’s anti-segregation case against Yonkers.
Molina plays councilman Henry J. 'Hank' Spallone, a former Bronx...
Set in Yonkers, New York in 1985, the story follows a young mayor (Oscar Isaac) faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low-income housing units into the more affluent, mostly white neighborhoods of his town.
His attempt to do so tears the city apart, paralyzing the entire municipal government and destroying his political future.
Ryder will portray Vinni Restiano, a Yonkers councilwoman who lost her seat due to her vote, but staged a comeback four years later and won as City Council president.
Bernthal will play Michael H. Sussman, a Harvard-trained lawyer who represented the NAACP when it joined the government’s anti-segregation case against Yonkers.
Molina plays councilman Henry J. 'Hank' Spallone, a former Bronx...
- 8/20/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
This week marks the 25th anniversary of Ghostbusters II. It may not be everyone's favorite movie, but when I was a kid I loved it just as much as the first one. It's really not that bad of a movie, sure it had some really cheesy parts, and I wasn't a big fan of what they did with Janine, but it was still entertaining. One of my favorite parts of the film when I was a kid is when they hooked the Nes Advantage joystick up to the Statue of Liberty and walked it into New York City to save the day. I thought is was so freakin' cool.
Since it is the 25th anniversary of the film, I thought it would be fun to share few interesting bits of trivia about the movie that you might not know. So here are ten of them that I picked out from Imdb:
Originally,...
Since it is the 25th anniversary of the film, I thought it would be fun to share few interesting bits of trivia about the movie that you might not know. So here are ten of them that I picked out from Imdb:
Originally,...
- 6/20/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Monsters, Inc.
Directed by Pete Docter
Written by Andrew Stanton and Daniel Gerson
Starring Billy Crystal, John Goodman, James Coburn, Steve Buscemi
Here’s a question that has nagged at me for the last few years: what, really, is the difference between a film made by Pixar Animation Studios and a film made by DreamWorks Animation? (You could expand the question to include Blue Sky Studios, the company that works with 20th Century Fox and has made the Ice Age films, but I’m sticking with the Pixar-DreamWorks battle.) People continually divide the films of these studios, proclaiming that those movies of the former are automatically better than those of the latter. I may be wont to agree, but why? What separates these giants?
Both companies continue to leap forward in the technology of animating worlds and characters via computer, the images they create having progressed enormously in the last 15 or so years.
Directed by Pete Docter
Written by Andrew Stanton and Daniel Gerson
Starring Billy Crystal, John Goodman, James Coburn, Steve Buscemi
Here’s a question that has nagged at me for the last few years: what, really, is the difference between a film made by Pixar Animation Studios and a film made by DreamWorks Animation? (You could expand the question to include Blue Sky Studios, the company that works with 20th Century Fox and has made the Ice Age films, but I’m sticking with the Pixar-DreamWorks battle.) People continually divide the films of these studios, proclaiming that those movies of the former are automatically better than those of the latter. I may be wont to agree, but why? What separates these giants?
Both companies continue to leap forward in the technology of animating worlds and characters via computer, the images they create having progressed enormously in the last 15 or so years.
- 1/5/2013
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
When a film is converted into 3D and set for a cinematic re-release, there are inevitably going to be questions raised over the necessity of the entire project; one that appears to be a mere cash cow for Disney and Pixar. However, if this is what it takes to bring a film of the brilliance and magnitude of Monsters, Inc. back to the big screen, then so be it.
Set in Monstropolis; a city that is generated solely by the power of a child’s scream, we follow monsters Sulley (John Goodman) and Mike (Billy Crystal), a professional scarer and his trainer, respectively. The triumphant pair work at Monsters Incorporated, run by the aging yet demanding Henry J. Waternoose (James Coburn), whereby they go into random children’s bedrooms and scare them, collecting their screams for electricity.
However, Sulley accidentally allows a young child, affectionately named Boo, into Monstropolis, a...
Set in Monstropolis; a city that is generated solely by the power of a child’s scream, we follow monsters Sulley (John Goodman) and Mike (Billy Crystal), a professional scarer and his trainer, respectively. The triumphant pair work at Monsters Incorporated, run by the aging yet demanding Henry J. Waternoose (James Coburn), whereby they go into random children’s bedrooms and scare them, collecting their screams for electricity.
However, Sulley accidentally allows a young child, affectionately named Boo, into Monstropolis, a...
- 12/23/2012
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
We'd hoped that last year's "Cars 2" was something of a blip on the Pixar track record. A disappointing film, to be sure, made to keep the merchandising behemoth alive (and it doesn't hurt that John Lasseter is an auto-nut), but we figured the studio's near-impeccable run of greatness would swiftly return. But the word on "Brave," which opens this week, has not been encouraging. Most of the reviews, including our own, have suggested that, while it's not as cynical as last year's Pixar entry, it's failed to meet the high standards we've come to expect from the animation giants.
Talk that this is the beginning of the end for Pixar seems terribly hasty. We're certainly excited for Bob Peterson's "The Good Dinosaur," Pete Docter's film set inside the mind, and Lee Unkrich's Dios De Los Muertos project, but most are at least a couple of years away at this point.
Talk that this is the beginning of the end for Pixar seems terribly hasty. We're certainly excited for Bob Peterson's "The Good Dinosaur," Pete Docter's film set inside the mind, and Lee Unkrich's Dios De Los Muertos project, but most are at least a couple of years away at this point.
- 6/20/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Canada's Independent Production Fund (Ipf) has again renewed its web series funding program, committing $1.4 million for 15 scripted drama series. In 2010, the Ipf established the web series funding program "to support the exploration and potential for high quality, story driven drama for web audiences." Last year the program invested $1.2M in the production of 11 original drama series, including Toronto-based tween detective series Ruby Skye P.I. from Story2.Oh, and earmarked another $1M in funding for 2011. The Ipf Board of Directors approved funding for 9 English and 6 French drama series. An international jury and the Board evaluated projects based on content, production styles and processes, formats, business and promotion models, , and audience and revenue potential. The selection process required the evaluation of 160 applications which were short-listed to 30 web series from production companies across the country. Jury members included Mio Adilman, Web Columnist for CBC Radio's Q with Jian Ghomeshi; Sophie Dufort, vice-présidente...
- 6/27/2011
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
I don’t think there is a singular film-maker I’ve found myself having written more about than Australia’s own Dr. George Miller. And now, writing this, I’m still not quite certain of the best way to introduce him, if indeed such a thing is necessary at all. The last of cinema’s thoroughly modern myth-makers – those implicit, anthropological followers of Campbell and Jung, before George Lucas arrived and gunked up the works with his clunky concretizations – and a college lecturer on the indelible powers of those myths on our collectives psyches and their places in modern cinema, in his spare time. The single-handed spokesman for Australia’s burgeoning film industry, and their self-proclaimed answer to our own Steven Spielberg – although, that’s an arguable comparison, I think. Here is a director whose output has equaled one film in the past ten years – and, just one other film...
- 1/13/2011
- by Henry J. Baugh
- The Moving Arts Journal
In his new book, Thaddeus Russell shows how American culture was formed on the fringes of society. This excerpt is not the history you will find in textbooks, but one driven by clashes between insiders who sought to preserve social order and outsiders bent on pursuing their own desires.
Shopping: The Real American Revolution
If you were a typical American living in the early part of the nineteenth century, you had to plant, tend, harvest, slaughter, and process your own food. You had to make your own clothing, and all of it had to be strictly utilitarian: no decorations, unnecessary colors, or “style.” You worked from before dawn until late at night. Your only source of entertainment was books, and most that were available were moral parables. You spent your entire life within a fifty-mile radius of your home. You believed that leisure was bad. There was no weekend.
By...
Shopping: The Real American Revolution
If you were a typical American living in the early part of the nineteenth century, you had to plant, tend, harvest, slaughter, and process your own food. You had to make your own clothing, and all of it had to be strictly utilitarian: no decorations, unnecessary colors, or “style.” You worked from before dawn until late at night. Your only source of entertainment was books, and most that were available were moral parables. You spent your entire life within a fifty-mile radius of your home. You believed that leisure was bad. There was no weekend.
By...
- 10/22/2010
- by Thaddeus Russell
- Fast Company
From "Toy Story" to the Academy-Award winning "Up," Pixar has turned out stellar animated entertainment year after year. With "Toy Story 3" opening this weekend, we've decided to take a look back at all the great Pixar movies -- and the most excellent quotes.
Best Pixar Movie Quotes"Toy Story"
Buzz Lightyear: Right now, poised at the edge of the galaxy, Emperor Zurg has been secretly building a weapon with the destructive capacity to annihilate an entire planet!
Best Pixar Movie Quotes"Toy Story"
Buzz Lightyear: Right now, poised at the edge of the galaxy, Emperor Zurg has been secretly building a weapon with the destructive capacity to annihilate an entire planet!
- 6/19/2010
- Extra
The words were hauntingly similar to what Phoebe Prince was reported to have said before the 15-year-old committed suicide. "My daughter said things like, 'I can't go on,' and 'Nobody will help me and nobody can help me,' " recalled Carla Carey of Foxboro, Mass. For months, Carey's daughter had reported harassment by a classmate to school officials, who said they looked into her complaints but could not corroborate the incidents. Then a recent spate of calls, which Carey overheard, left her daughter in tears - and sounding like Prince. Carey called the police and got her daughter into a hospital,...
- 4/21/2010
- by Judy Rakowsky
- PEOPLE.com
Monsters Inc. scores on two fronts. It.s another excellent Blu-ray from Disney and it.s another classic film from Pixar. Pixar is obviously one of my favorite film production companies and Disney is certainly moving high on the list of best Blu-ray producers. The place is Monstropolis and it is run on fear. Most literally as the creatures that hide under children.s beds scaring those same kids produces energy that powers the city. Monsters Inc., the corporation responsible for gathering that energy, is run by Henry J. Waternoose (James Coburn) and the top scare producer in the factory is James .Sulley. Sullivan (John Goodman). He may look scary but he.s a loveable lug. His best friend is...
- 11/11/2009
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
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