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- Netflix Review: Drive
- Movie Review: Lawless
- Interview: Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols On Uhura’s Groundbreaking Kiss With Captain Kirk
- Edgar Wright’s ‘The World’s End’ Adds Paddy Considine To The Cast
| Posted: 08 Sep 2012 05:55 PM PDT   Drive Netflix Streaming DVD | Blu-ray Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, Oscar Isaac, Kaden Leos FilmDistrict Originally Released: May 20, 2011 Let me just begin this article by pointing out the final paragraph of this post is the most important of the review. Featuring Ryan Gosling amidst an impressive cast, the Nicholas Winding Refn-directed Drive is one of those rare films that become immediate classics. While touting some action and crime thriller material, the film is essentially a character study, with extraordinary technical work and some significant symbolism – all of which when combined demand your attention throughout the entire movie. Drive focuses around an unnamed protagonist known only as The Driver, who leads a life of dichotomy involving cars – working as a mechanic and stunt driver by day, but by night works as a getaway driver for criminals in Los Angeles working heists. Moving to a new apartment, he lives next door to neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan) and her son Benicio (Kaden Leos). The three develop a new friendship that seems to put The Driver onto a new passageway in life [...]            |
| Posted: 08 Sep 2012 02:30 PM PDT  Lawless Directed by John Hillcoat Written by Nick Cave Starring Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Guy Pearce The Weinstein Company Rated R | 115 Minutes Release Date: August 29, 2012 Directed by John Hillcoat (The Road) and based on Matt Bondurant's 2008 novel The Wettest County in the World, Lawless follows the legendary exploits of the Bondurant brothers in Prohibition-era Franklin County, Virginia, who made a living by bootlegging Moonshine across county lines and wheelin' and dealin' with Chicago mobsters. Adapted into a screenplay by Nick Cave (of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) Lawless stars Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, and Jason Clarke as Jack, Forrest, and Howard Bondurant, respectively, rebellious good old boys with a knack for moving white lightning through the Appalachian Mountains. Business is good until Special Deputy Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce), a particularly brutal, prideful gentleman from Chicago, shows up on behalf of the District Attorney. Rakes wants a cut of the profits made by Franklin's legendary bootleggers. To paraphrase the immortal Hall and Oates, the Bondurants can't go for that (no can do). It's North vs. South all over again as the Virginian outlaws battle the big-city scumbag who threatens their way of life [...]      |
| Interview: Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols On Uhura’s Groundbreaking Kiss With Captain Kirk Posted: 08 Sep 2012 01:05 PM PDT  By Rufus T. Firefly The character Nichelle Nichols played on the original Star Trek series and subsequent films has been a part of American life for longer than I've been alive. During the time between her first appearance in the episode "The Man Trap," which aired on September 8, 1966, and her last official duty in a Starfleet uniform in the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Communications Officer Lieutenant Uhura of U.S.S. Enterprise would become the most recognized female archetype in the history of space exploration. It's hard to imagine that after only one season of playing the now iconic character, Nichols actually considered quitting the show because she felt Uhura didn't have enough to do. "I thought she was a glorified telephone operator in space," she once said, before she was famously convinced to continue doing the show by none other than Dr. Martin Luther King himself. "Dr. King was a big fan of the show," Nichols told me. "He felt it was important that children of all races see an African American female appearing on television as an equal." Over the last 46 years, Nichols has watched Lieutenant Uhura transcend the real-life boundaries of her race and gender, as the country's social attitudes eventually evolved around her. The following decades would see "Communications Officer Lieutenant Uhura" become "Commander Uhura," while Nichols herself would become the only actress on television to be simultaneously cited as an inspiration for both her peers in the science fiction community and actual female astronauts. Though, when asked what her single favorite moment in the life of Commander Nyota Uhura is, Nichols just smiled and without a moment's pause said, "It would have to be that kiss." [...]      |
| Edgar Wright’s ‘The World’s End’ Adds Paddy Considine To The Cast Posted: 08 Sep 2012 07:41 AM PDT  One of the most notable things about Edgar Wright's Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy is the use of the same actors playing different parts. It's unknown if Martin Freeman will appear in some way in the final film, The World's End, with his schedule tied up with The Hobbit films, and there is no word if Bill Nighy is signed on. But one familiar face is indeed coming back, and it's the face that you see in the header. Paddy Considine, who was in Hot Fuzz, will be joining Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Rosamund Pike for this bar-hopping film that sends the cast on a quest to reach a fabled bar, The World's End, during what turns out to be the end of the world. We don't know if it will be one of those typical world-ending catastrophe since there is a rumor floating around that there might be aliens involved in this comedy [...]      |
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