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Movie Review: Holy Rollers

Posted: 16 May 2010 04:13 AM PDT

The most important thing is this: relax, mind your business, and act Jewish.

When it comes to things that don't mix very well, what are the first things that come to mind? Water and oil; wool caps and Cancun; peanut butter and onion sandwiches, perhaps? How about Hasidic Jews and drug smuggling? I would think that has to be one of the crazier mixes one could think of, and in 1998, it was a mix that happened quite often, and one such story is told in First Independent Pictures' Holy Rollers.

The movie tells the true story of Sam Gold (Jesse Eisenberg), a Hasidic Jew in late '90s Brooklyn, New York who is in the midst of studying to become a Rabbi and entering into an arranged marriage to a girl who wants eight children. Sam works for his father in their fabric store, but it's very clear that he has a strong sense of business for such a young age. When his wife-to-be decides not to marry him, Sam wonders where he and his life have led him wrong. [...]

Ronnie James Dio’s Wife Responds To Rumors: ‘Ronnie has NOT passed away!’

Posted: 16 May 2010 12:33 AM PDT

Rumors began spreading across the Internet last night (Saturday, May 15) that rock singer Ronnie James Dio had died early that day.

Many sites were picking up the story and reporting the rumor as fact, and Twitter and Facebook is all a buzz about this, despite the lack of attribution or official statement.

Since the rumor appeared online -- leading to several revisions to Dio's Wikipedia entry, the singer's official site has been flooded with traffic, bringing it down (it was still down at the time of this posting).

Blabbermouth contacted Dio's wife and manager Wendy Dio to respond to the rumors. Wendy Dio, who said she was at the hospital with her husband, responded that while the singer was not doing well, he is NOT dead [...]

Paul Dano, Clancy Brown & Keith Carradine Added To ‘Cowboys & Aliens’

Posted: 15 May 2010 09:31 PM PDT

The casting for Jon Favreau's comic book adaptation of Cowboys & Aliens has been nothing short of phenomenal so far, and they just keep adding to it.

According to Deadline, three new actors in Paul Dano, Clancy Brown, and Keith Carradine have been cast in the film. Dano is best known for his work in movies like Little Miss Sunshine and There Will Be Blood, and will be one of the many cowboys that will be battle alien invaders. Clancy Brown, known for his work as a prison guard in The Shawshank Redemption or a drill instructor in Starship Troopers, will be a cowboy as well. Carradine has appeared on the hit Showtime series Dexter and is no stranger to the western genre having appeared in plenty of movies of the genre and HBO's Deadwood. He'll be playing the town sheriff.

Chase your own aliens over to the other side to read a brand new official synopsis, which is much longer and much more detailed than what we've known about the film so far! [...]

Early Draft Of ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Reveals Alternate ‘Star Wars’ Universe

Posted: 15 May 2010 08:04 PM PDT

An early draft of the screenplay for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, written by late science fiction author Leigh Brackett, has been leaked online. Brackett wrote the script based on a story outline by Star Wars creator George Lucas, and submitted the draft to Lucas just before she died of cancer in March of 1978.

Apparently, Lucas didn't like the direction of Brackett's script, but she did receive screenwriting credit, along with director Lawrence Kasdan, for the 1981 sequel to Star Wars sequel.

The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite movie of all time, and while I think it's perfect as is, I couldn't help but wonder what if?. So, I read the script and let me tell you, not only would Empire have been so much different if Brackett's script was used, but so too would the history of the entire Star Wars universe! Reading this script was like getting a peek at an alternate Empire universe. I'm a big fan of the Star Wars expanded universe, so I would have loved to see some of the elements of Bracket's version make it into some of those books.

Check out some of the details from Brackett's script here below [...]

Shia LaBeouf Claims ‘Transformers 3′ Will Be Better; Alan Tudyk Joins Cast

Posted: 15 May 2010 03:52 PM PDT

Things are starting to get rolling on Transformers 3, and as you all know, a lot of work must be done in order to make up for what we were given in the first sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

To helps fans start to get excited, some casting and talking has occurred this week, and both are worth peek and a read.

To start things off, The Wrap is reporting that fan-favorite Alan Tudyk has joined the cast of the third movie. It's not known who the Firefly, Dollhouse, and V star will be playing in the movie, but he's always a welcome addition to any movie being made. The actor joins fellow newcomers John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, and Ken Jeong Join who were cast in March, as well as Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey.

In addition to the exciting castings so far, star Shia LaBeouf has also been talking about the next chapter and his thoughts on the last film, including the fans' disdain. [...]

Movie Review: Robin Hood

Posted: 15 May 2010 03:35 PM PDT

Robin Hood - ***1/2
Directed by Ridley Scott
Starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Max von Sydow, Mark Strong, William Hurt
Release date: May 14, 2010

Contemplate all you want. Debate and quarrel with director Ridley Scott's primitive vision of one of the world's most celebrated and decadent of men: Robin Hood. Men of charismatic demeanor such as Errol Flynn (1938), Sean Connery (1976), and Kevin Costner (1991) all managed to make evident the unalterably essence of cool that Robin Hood conveyed. Director Scott disrupts that essence, disintegrating it completely and allowing his vision of Robin Hood to be a dynamic mixture of both barbarian and comforter. Some will see this barbarism as an incredulous act when tacked on to such a time-honored icon. But this is exactly Scott's intention. He wants to depict Robin Hood before he actually earns the name Robin the Hood by responding not to the whimsicality and glorious luster previous manifestations of this character took participation in. This is Scott adapting a scheme from the superhero genre; the prologue enlightening us on how Robin became the man we all know him by now. When he is stripped from all the external charms he comes at you, thanks to Russell Crowe's wonderful performance, like an irresistible torrent that leaves you mute and silent, but also wild and boisterous.

Robin Hood instills what has been rudely banished from the action epic picture in the last decade, and that is the grandeur, size and, most importantly, the emphasis on humanity. Scott, who has intertwined humanity with the most radical of individuals (non-humans in Blade Runner and drug lords in American Gangster), has an acute eye for that which makes the heart ache and he promulgates this discovery in a robust fashion, slowly developing scenes that are frankly beautiful. He sees the emotional factor that most directors drown out with excessive action scenes [...]

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