Johnson Brown explains: This scene is from the 2008 TV remake of the 1961 film, A Raisin in the Sun (an adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s play). “In my mother’s house, there is still god!” In this version, they left out the best line: “All the tyranny in the world will never put a god up [...]
You can own both of these for just the low prices of $600 and $500! (via) Your Thoughts?
8: The Mormon Proposition, a new movie out in theaters next Friday and available on DVD in July, explores the way that a tax exempt organization has waged a “secretive, decades-long campaign against gay rights”: Thanks to Richard for the link. Your Thoughts?
Diana Bass complains: It just wasn’t very funny to see four smart American women parading western consumerism and sexualized identity in blatantly insensitive and anti-religious ways in a traditional world. Wait a minute, what she describes may not be funny but it’s certainly the best thing I’ve heard about the film from everything that I’ve [...]
Patrick Boivin’s super-cool and hilarious parody. The special effects are fantastic. Your Thoughts?
Neat stuff from a youtuber who specializes in montages of film moments: via The Daily Dish Your Thoughts?
Brandon Hardesty reenacts classic scenes from dozens of films. Below is a full list of links for your convenience (and here’s his YouTube link with all the reenactments and more): #1 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (reenacted by Christopher Walken and Jack Nicholson) #2 As Good As It Gets #3 Silence of the Lambs (reenacted [...]
Finally, Weird Al’s story gets the cinematic treatment it deserves: “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” from Aaron Paul Your Thoughts?
Harry Nilsson is sort of a cross between John Lennon and Bob Dylan in my mind, I fell in love with his brilliant song “Don’t Forget Me” through the brilliant Neko Case’s version—but more on her in the late autumn. I’m also, embarrassingly enough, a sucker for the film “You’ve Got Mail”, so I opted [...]
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I probably don’t need to tell you about the movie that made Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová famous (or, if not famous, at least Oscar winners), but the real must film to watch is the hilarious claymation one somebody made for my favorite Frames song, “Fake”: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_P3k0BG5WA&hl=en_US&fs=1&] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoSL_qayMCc&hl=en_US&fs=1&] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utnB-95ebi8&hl=en_US&fs=1&] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs0SXMtCy3c&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
They wrote and performed one of greatest songs ever about war, for what it’s worth. Click here to see its incorporation into the brilliant title sequence of the film Lord of War. Your Thoughts?
They had might as well be called British Pop Power since it’s the epitome of their sound: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYJKtC2cMoo&hl=en_US&fs=1&] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2n-7K0Ef6Y&hl=en_US&fs=1&][youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ucC4FG4w_Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0RAdfrQwvo&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
Trailer!! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkzB789GTes&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
The Cowboy Junkies make the list on the strength of the one album I own from them, their classic The Trinity Sessions, the brilliantly moody feel of which is epitomized in their rendition of Lou Reed’s “Sweet Jane”: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHRFZFmEq9o&hl=en_US&fs=1&] And like many others I discovered this masterpiece song from Oliver Stone’s perfect incorporation of it into [...]
While I found Lars von Trier’s “Dancer in the Dark” unbearably irritating story wise, Bjork’s songs had me rewatching their scenes over and over again. The scene below, containing the film’s most spectacular song and dance number, comes from late in the film and so is premised on a major spoiler from the film, so [...]
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And it features, well, not Muhammad: Plans for the $150million English-language biopic were announced at the close of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in Qatar on Sunday. The narrative will run from the years before the Prophet’s birth through to his death but there will be one conspicuous break from conventional biopic methods: in accordance [...]
Behind The Mask is one of my favorite horror films. I had the great fortune of watching it with the grandmother of the star of the film. Since the film takes the form of a documentary, it really added this whole other level of feeling that I was watching a documentary with that starred this [...]
This trailer alone is like a satisfying 2 minute horror film all by itself: Your Fears?
At 6 years old, this scared the life out of me in the theater: And at 7, this did: In the mid-1980s those were scary special effects. At least for 6-7 year olds. Your Fears?