The single advantage the awful Twilight movies have over Stephenie Meyer’s awful-but-gripping novels is that, unlike the books’ sad sack, movie Bella Swan is a spiky, populist heroine. On film, Kristen Stewart beautifully underplays (or, for all I know, overplays to the absolute peak of her abilities) Bella’s deadpan ordinariness,…
Hey girl, you’re so pretty you could be on reality TV. And now, here’s your chance: Cornwell Casting will be in town on Thursday and we’ve got tips, details and advice from the man, himself – Jason Cornwell – who is handling the whole rodeo. We know what he’s looking…
Gay Video & Lesbian Movies – Logo: Fierce TVScene 1: Don’t-Call-Him-Crazy James is lounging poolside, and up walks the blond mensch of a side character, Brayden, rocking an outfit that might be sold at Chico’s in 2048. James makes fun of Bray-Bray’s get-up, comparing him unfavorably to Joan Rivers. But…
“Action + Half-Naked Men = The Perfect Date Movie” The latest visually striking sword and sandals flick (a la 300) comes from director Tarsem Singh, the same guy who brought us The Cell and The Fall. So, what this means is, good or bad, you know that Immortals is going…
Once upon a time, there were fewer TV channels but better TV shows. Now there are many, many TV channels, but a narrower range of attractive choices. You get many hours of Kardashians and many more hours of shows that cover things that happen on the Kardashians’ shows. In the…
A resounding “yes” to the question trembling on every lip: There is life after Hereafter! Clint Eastwood goes deep into Oliver Stone territory and emerges victorious with J. Edgar. Although hardly flawless, Eastwood’s biopic is his richest, most ambitious movie since the Letters from Iwo Jima-Flags of Our Fathers duo,…
An egalitarian study of crime and punishment in a small Southern town, Into the Abyss is also an unmistakably Herzogian inquiry into the lawlessness of the human soul. That would be the abyss of the title, though if you’re looking for more of that kind of shameless lyrical swagger, you…
Tags: Gay Video & Lesbian Movies, Logo: Fierce TV Sorry for the delay this week, punkins. Logo TV and my DVR are having a lover’s spat right now. I missed the first airing of Episode 5, and am just now catching up. Not that there’s too much to catch up…
Co-writer/director Drake Doremus is a bit of a film fest vet, having had most if not all of his features and shorts premiere at festivals. Two in fact at Sundance — 2010’s Douchebag and his latest, Like Crazy. But it was Crazy that earned Doremus one of the highest honors…
Kristin Chenoweth, star of the upcoming GCB on ABC, was originally scheduled for a NasherSALON appearance on November 18. But filming a new television series means priority goes to, well, filming a new television series… Nasher Sculpture Center has sent word that to accommodate Chenoweth’s filming schedule, the event has…
“Oh, that sounds awesome! Let’s see that.” “It’s only open in New York and L.A.” “I guess we’ll just have to stay home and watch reruns of Hoarders all weekend. Lame.” Don’t let this happen to you. Again. Every Friday, Opening Credits will provide you with a peek at what’s…
A revenge of the have-nots playing on the clear class stratification of the luxury high-rise, Tower Heist pits lobby against penthouse. Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller) is the manager of The Tower, an exclusive apartment building on New York’s Columbus Circle (the Trump International, in fact). Josh’s job is to know…
The morality of the mad-scientist tale has remained more or less fixed since the beginning of sound cinema: From Dr. Frankenstein’s hubristic claim to “know what it feels like to be God,” to Jurassic Park’s criticism of “scientists [who] were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop…
Tags: Gay Video & Lesbian Movies, Logo: Fierce TVThis week on The A-List: Dallas, our cast members engaged in one long, drunken game of Telephone. As usual, it ended with sex, rage and bananas. Let’s do this. Scene 1: We open on the object of everyone’s desire, cowboy Levi, as…
We’ve done it. A complete 31 fun-filled days of Horror. Some have made us laugh. Some cry. And when we’re talking about this genre, those two reactions usually carry completely different connotations! We appropriately kicked this thing off with John Carpenter’s Halloween and Nick, Merritt, and I attempted to take…
Corn rigs and barley rigs, not Nicolas Cage. 1973, not 2006 remake. These differences are very important. There’s no shouting for the drone to die. There is no mouth-breathing Cage-face. No, in Robin Hardy’s horror feature, the Wicker Man the build-up is about the story and not about the cast…
There are so many Horror films to watch around All Hallow’s Eve (see previous 27 entries) but so few of them actually have to do with or take place on Halloween! John Carpenter’s iconic and classic Halloween (our film from October 1st that kicked off this whole spooky shebang) is…
Not a baseball fan? Before you read my reasons why Psycho is a fantastic horror film, head on over to Angelika Film Center to get in line for a screening of the Hitchcock classic on the big screen (it starts at 8 p.m. in Dallas and 7 p.m. in Plano)…
Johnny Depp — yes, the Johnny Depp — was in Austin over the weekend for the Austin Film Festival, where the actor was honored with the first-ever “Extraordinary Contribution To Film — Acting Award.” Depp’s latest film, The Rum Diary — a screen adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s long lost…
The Rum Diary Needs More Punch
Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary is what the Brits might call a rum movie — an oddly inoffensive piece and a personal project for its disconcertingly unengaged star Johnny Depp. The movie adapts a novel Hunter S. Thompson began in the early ’60s and published, under…
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the close-second candidate to be attributed authorship of the 37 plays of William Shakespeare, the glover’s son-turned-actor from Stratford-upon-Avon — who, due to the troublesome existence of evidence, remains the general favorite. De Vere is the protagonist of Anonymous, a work of…
Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King are a match made in scary, anxiety-inducing horror movie heaven. Oh, no wait. Actually, let’s make that perfect pairing a three-way with Jack Nicholson. Creepy Jack Nicholson, to be specific. The tale is a classic: Isolation (or near isolation) + malicious spirits + person of…
