- Imperial County film commission important to economic development, officials say Sep 30, 2009
Some of the most notable productions done in Imperial County were the parade scene on Main Street in El Centro for the 2005 war movie Jarhead and the desert scenes in the sand dunes for 1983 s Return of the Jedi. Less notable films include David Lynch s 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert s Dune, Teeters said. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Liquidation threatens debt-laden MGM Sep 25, 2009
The efforts to restructure Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's massive debt load are beginning to play out like a war movie that, at this point, the studio itself could have trouble financing ... The efforts to restructure Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's massive debt load are beginning to play out like a war movie that, at this point, the studio itself could have trouble financing. (New York Post -- Business)
Niveau is not a skin cream Sep 19, 2009
Of course it does not help that most campy war movies have often depicted them as forbidding and as humourless as Frankenstein. This, however, is not the case in reality. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Meyers Movie Blog #7 - Back To School Sep 17, 2009
I can't help but be emotionally drawn into every war movie I watch. Many times, they are based on true accounts and really make you think about everything these men and women did during the horrific times throughout world conflicts. (Umassathletics.com)
Patrick Swayze: A Fanboy's Appreciation Of His Movie Career Sep 16, 2009
A year later, the sci-fi war movie "Red Dawn" made clear that Swayze was a true action star. Ask a fanboy for his favorite Swayze roll and you're not going to hear much talk about "Ghost." "Red Dawn" is where it's at. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Was that violence really necessary? Sep 14, 2009
Arguably, Inglourious Basterds isn't just a re-imagining of the war movie; it's a re-imagining of how we tell stories of war and brutality and sadism, so that we feel something of their horror. It is, if you will, a necessary evil. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Strikes with the strike master Sep 11, 2009
Costarring Moynahan Tom Brady s ex is set to star in a sci-fi war movie that s being described as Black Hawk Down meets Alien. Actress Bridget Moynahan will costar in Battle: Los Angeles with a cast that includes Aaron Eckhart, Ne-Yo, Michelle Rodriguez, and Michael Pena. (Boston Globe)
What's Next? Guillermo del Toro Sep 10, 2009
"3993 is a movie that, if I do it, would close the trilogy of Spanish Civil War movies [the others being The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth," del Toro told us in 2006, "because it's about a character in 1993 who believes that civil war is a thing of the past. And something from 1939 comes to life and proves that it's not ; that it's pretty much alive.". An adaptation of the classic, fantastical story by renowned horror author H.P. Lovecraft. (IGN FilmForce)
Flash! Movie tips from your robot overlords Sep 9, 2009
So if someone had given Steven Spielberg s war movie Saving Private Ryan a good rating, its nearest neighbors might be other war movies, or other movies directed by Spielberg. Then the team trained the software using a method that sounds almost like intuition. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Clooney, new Italian girlfriend dazzle Venice red carpet Sep 9, 2009
" The mission takes Lyn and Bob to prison camp run by another psychic soldier, played by Kevin Spacey. "This wasn't an Iraq war film, but a comedy about some of the crazy ideas that went on starting at the end of the Vietnam war, and then carried on," Clooney said. Also Tuesday, claustrophobics were warned off a real war movie, "Lebanon", by Israeli director Samuel Maoz, shot almost entirely from inside a tank assigned to search a town that had been bombed by Israeli warplanes. The intensely... (Channelnewsasia.com)
Clooney gets paranormal with Goats in Venice Sep 9, 2009
VENICE, Italy - George Clooney wants viewers to know one thing about his new movie, a comic tale of psychic warfare by the U.S. military: Its not a war movie. The Men Who Stare at Goats, directed by Grant Heslov, was shown out of competition Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival. (MSNBC -- News)
Chavez the un-demon comes to Venice in Stone film Sep 7, 2009
For his admirers, Chavez, who grew up in a peasant family, is an emblematic figure of bottom-up change, says Stone, who directed the 2003 film "Comandante" about Cuba's Fidel Castro and the Central America war movie "Salvador" in 1986. Interviewed by Stone, Argentine President Cristina Kirchner says in the film: "It is the first time in history that the leaders of so many countries look like the people they govern.". (Yahoo! Asia News)
Movie Matters: New WWII film challenges history, spurs dialogue Sep 4, 2009
This is particularly true of biographical war movies: there are a million possible stories to tell, but no matter how many new and creative ways filmmakers try to tell it, we never win the war in Vietnam. The North always beats the South, the Japanese are bombed at Hiroshima, and Napoleon loses every time. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Glorious hours of basterdy Sep 3, 2009
Inglourious Basterds is the war movie the world really needed: an outrageous fairytale that shows a very different outcome to Hitler's final solution, and at the end of the film we all came out of that cinema beaming and feisty, those teenage boys pumped with pride, the middle-aged dads clench-jawed with defiance, the old Jewish ladies clutching their choc-top wrappers with bold empowerment, marching up to the kiosk to demand a refund on their over-minty choc-tops. And me. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Steven Spielberg unveils his 'dreams' for India Sep 3, 2009
Best war movies of all time. Bookmark / Share. (India Times)
Movie crew attacked Sep 2, 2009
Life imitates art as gunmen attack crew of Afghan war movie - CNN.com ... Life imitates art as gunmen attack crew of Afghan war movie. (CNN -- International)
Zhang Ziyi, John Woo honored at China film awards Aug 30, 2009
Chen was honored for his biopic of late Peking Opera star Mei Lanfang, "Forever Enthralled." Feng won for his war movie "Assembly," which revolves around the heroics of a People's Liberation Army unit during the Chinese civil war in the 1940s. Chen struck a patriotic note in his acceptance speech, shooting down recent speculation that he had become an American citizen. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
GI Joe, post-American hero Aug 29, 2009
"The producers also wish to thank the following," it says, and the list that follows is headed by the Department of Defense, which has been "advising" Hollywood on how to make war movies - with generous loans of equipment, troops, consultants, and weaponry in return for script "supervision" - since the silent era. Undead Joe Think of GI Joe as a modern American zombie. (Asia Times Online)
Worker at NY museum in Stiller film had child porn Aug 28, 2009
Ben Stiller leads a group of actors making a war movie into a real war in "Tropic Thunder," a comedy that works, Bee film critic Rick Bentley says. Strap in for summer movies. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Hingham's 375th anniversary kick-off is Sept. 12! Aug 28, 2009
Other upcoming events include a historical Quest, concerts, lectures, a student art exhibit, a showing of the Civil War movies The Red Badge of Courage and Glory, and demonstrations on how to plant and grow a World War II-style Victory Garden. The yearlong celebration will culminate in a town-wide event in Sept. 2010 honoring the individuals who shaped nearly four centuries of Hingham history. (Hingham Journal, MA)
Tarantino picks favorite WWII movies Aug 25, 2009
SHOWCASE :: Erie's Entertainment Web Site. R. Kelly to play Pittsburgh (Oct. (Erie Times-News, PA)
A Review of Inglourious Basterds Aug 24, 2009
Quentin Tarantino Delivers a Top Notch War Movie ... It is this critic s opinion that in making Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino has given movie goers a fresh and inventive war movie that pays respect to the history it depicts, but also reinvigorates a genre that has become weighed down with a host of Saving Private Ryan clones. (Suite101.com)
Box Office Weekend: The Basterds Are Glourious Aug 24, 2009
It isn't emotionally involving. Brad Pitt gives the worst performance of his life. (Time.com)
Tarantinos Basterds wins box-office war Aug 24, 2009
Tarantinos Basterds wins box-office war - Movies- msnbc. Tarantinos Basterds wins box-office war. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Tarantino, Pitt Take on the Nazis Aug 22, 2009
He said he finds war movies and westerns very close in genre. "Westerns and war films always exist by themselves in video store shelves -- symbiotically mixed," he said. (ABC News)
'Inglorious Basterds': Long March, By Kurt Loder Aug 22, 2009
it the usual avalanche of insider film-geek references: A character named Aldo Raine is a reference to the late Aldo Ray, star of the 1955 war movie "Battle Cry"; the name of another character Hugo Stiglitz refers to a Mexican horror-film star ... "Grand Illusion" is the greatest and most humane of all war movies humane in the sense that it deals with timeless human concerns: the passage of time, the futility of war ... In short, "Inglourious Basterds" is not "Pulp Fiction." It's not even a war... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Tarantino's Favorite WW II Movies Aug 22, 2009
"Probably my favorite war movie," Tarantino said. "That's one of the most entertaining movies ever made and was kind of the touchstone goal for ("Inglourious Basterds") to one degree or another. ... Make a World War II movie that's just entertaining, that you just enjoy watching the movie.". (CBS News -- Entertainment)
Tarantinos back, bravado intact Aug 22, 2009
Hes not here to subvert nationalism - Americans are the good guys like never before - but to redefine what a serious war movie can do ... Theyve all had the gangster/ninja/murderer setup necessary for a good mix of pyrotechnics, but his war movie is perplexingly light on action ... And thank god for a war movie set in a foreign land with actual foreign languages. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
'Inglourious Basterds' Aug 21, 2009
"Inglourious," inspired by the conventionally spelled Enzo Castellari 1978 war movie, re-imagines a world where an American named Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) assembles a band of brothers. Jewish-American brothers who will, Raine promises, be cruel to the Germans. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Inglourious Basterds: Stalking History and Hitler Aug 21, 2009
Inglourious Basterds' Review: Tarantino Stalks History, Hitler - TIME (Time.com)
Newsweek: Tarantino turns Jews into Nazis Aug 21, 2009
The scalpingwhich, this being a Tarantino movie, leaves nothing to the imaginationis a clue to the kind of post-modern fun that the director wants to have here, as he throws elements of both the war movie and the Western into his directorial blender and hits "pure" (and, more seriously, reveals how much the two genres overlap). A second, parallel storyline about Jews who fight back, involving not one but two plans to assassinate the high Nazi brass at a film premiere, invokes the cinema... (MSNBC -- Movies)
'Office' Star Loves Temp Job As 'Basterd' Aug 20, 2009
"I think that's part of the fun of casting someone like me. You don't expect me to do violent acts in a war movie. Once I focused on the task at hand, it was like anything I didn't enjoy but wanted to get an A on.". Under the tutelage of Tarantino, Novak said he couldn't help but take the opportunity but study the writer-director on "Inglourious Basterds." What made it even better, Novak added, was that Tarantino didn't act impressed with himself. (Click2Houston, TX)
Michael FarberON THE FLY Aug 19, 2009
Marleau's demotion -- think of a guy getting his stripes ripped off in one of those old war movies -- effectively ends his time in San Jose. Theoretically he can stick around -- Modano did in Dallas when he ceded the C to , and actually matured after losing the C in Tampa Bay -- but Sharks general manager Doug Wilson knows he has to change the mix on his team. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NHL)
YOU CAN'T CALL THIS AUDIENCE IN... Aug 19, 2009
"I think, 'I like war movies.' So then, 'Well, what might specially interest me about them.' Then I think, 'Maybe to follow one bunch of guys in the genre of "The Dirty Dozen. " ' I'm a writer. So in the course of creating the characters it takes on a life of its own. I came up with scenes in my head 10 years ago. When I finally sat down, from what's Chapter 3 to the end took me six months. "Halfway through I began to think who could play my lead character. (New York Post -- Gossip)
EW Picks: 'Mad Men' and 'Basterds' Aug 17, 2009
(Entertainment Weekly) -- In Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" (out Friday) -- a simultaneous tribute to and deconstruction of war movies and '40s noir -- a special unit of Jewish-American soldiers is sent behind enemy lines to spread shock and awe among German troops in Nazi-occupied France. Brad Pitt leads the cast of Quentin Tarantino's new film, "Inglourious Basterds.". (CNN)
'Locker' brings you into war's addiction Aug 16, 2009
I raved about this film when it opened July 31 in Fresno, calling it one of the best war movies Ive seen. (Ive reposted a link to my review of the film on fresnobeehive. (Fresno Bee)
Raghu Krishnan: Poetry in pity of War Aug 15, 2009
Patch, while mourning the loss of his mates for the rest of his life, never watched war movies or attended regimental reunions. When he laid a wreath at the memorial to British soldiers at Passchendaele on the 90th anniversary of the battle, he also laid a wreath at the nearby cemetery for German troops. (India Times)
Strange impressions Aug 14, 2009
As well as celebrating the war movies of yore, Inglourious Basterds celebrates Tarantino's patented love of dialogue, even more so than Pulp Fiction. It's crucial to the way Tarantino wants his films to work. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Jumping The Gun For War Flick Aug 13, 2009
Careful spellers will notice that this is not the upcoming Quentin Tarantino epic "Inglourious Basterds," which is not opening until Aug. 21, but rather the original 1978 war movie upon which it is based. And while it seems just wrong that it is premiering at a rarefied art-house cinema rather than a 42nd Street grind house, well, times have changed. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Cinema File: 'G.I. Joe' launches surprising attack (with PODCAST) Aug 13, 2009
Cinema File: 'G.I. Joe' launches surprising attack081309marquee5Athens Banner-Herald I don't like war movies ... I don't like war movies. (Athens Banner-Herald)
11 comments Aug 12, 2009
The Quiet War Movie - HUMAN EVENTS. The Quiet War Movie by 08/07/2009 ... Morgenstern is not kidding about "austere technique." This has to be the quietest war movie ever made, and it's a quiet movie about ; bombs. (Human Events Online)
Robin Hood in Hollywood Aug 11, 2009
The next few years saw little of Robin, perhaps because of a glut of war movies, but further films were released in 1946 and 1948. At least six versions followed in the 1950's, including one from Walt Disney studios. (Suite101.com)
Kruger with a Luger Aug 3, 2009
Written and directed by Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds is a retooling of the heroic war movie. In it, a Jewish death squad operates behind German lines in World War II, exacting revenge for Aryan atrocities. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The Hurt Locker A film not to be missed (1) Aug 2, 2009
Oh, heck, let s immediately amend that: It is the best war movie ever made by a female director (Kathryn Bigelow). And go one further: The Hurt Locker is on my list of the best films ever made by man or woman about war, any war, and its effect on ordinary soldiers. (Desert Entertainer, CA)
In the Loop de Loop of governance Aug 1, 2009
Focusing on high drama, Iraq War movies have previously relied on high mindedness and high drama to prove a point. Iannucci had a better idea make your enemy look ridiculous. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Celebrate Tarantino with burgers Jul 31, 2009
SHOWCASE :: Erie's Entertainment Web Site. Pollstar lists date for Darius Rucker on Nov. 6 at Warner Theatre; no on-sale date yet. (Erie Times-News, PA)
SDCC 09: Gears of War Movie Churning Jul 30, 2009
SECTIONS MOVIES CHANNELS ; GET GAMES. The Rock a no-go, but bad-ass female soldiers a near certainty. (IGN FilmForce)
Warcraft Movie Possibilities Jul 24, 2009
Legendary's Thomas Tull has said "It's not so much a quest movie; it's more of a war movie." That essential conflict between the cultures of the Horde and the Alliance will definitely be the main focus of the movie, but the Warcraft world includes many stories of corruption, redemption, and factional friction, so it's doubtful that the movie will take a simple black and white view of the war. Still, to appeal and communicate to the large groups outside of the franchise's fanbase, the producers... (IGN PC Games)
Braves in thick of wild-card race Jul 22, 2009
Probably the best movie I ve seen this year, and one of the best three or four war movies I ve seen in a quarter-century. BULL BLACK NOVA by Wilco (Jeff Tweedy) It s in my hair It s on my clothes It s in the river, over the road It s shining down my angry star Hanging off the hood of my car. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
TV's insipid commercials, decoded Jul 17, 2009
"Incoming" is a clich from war movies. The globules offend taste. (Yahoo News)
Secret Program Fuels CIA-Congress Dispute Jul 10, 2009
We've updated CBSNews. Washington Post: Democrats Accuse Agency of Pattern of Withholding Information From Lawmakers. (CBS News)
Peering inside “The Hurt Locker” Jul 9, 2009
Few war movies, let alone movies in general, have such a grip on place, and war torn Baghdad has never been so convincingly rendered not even in a documentary. A sense of understanding permeates every level of Kathryn Bigelow s (K-19: The Widowmaker) latest film. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Hawk or dove? Jul 7, 2009
It was his memoir, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (1995), which inspired The Fog of War movie. He described the war as "terribly wrong" owing to a combination of the anti-communist climate of the times, mistaken assumptions of foreign policy and military misjudgements. (BBC News -- Americas)
Pitt, McAdams, Williams deliver the drama Jun 30, 2009
After seeing it at Cannes, the wrote, It isn't funny; it isn't exciting; it isn't a realistic war movie, yet neither is it an entertaining genre spoof or a clever counterfactual wartime yarn. However, wrote, This is a fairy tale of unusual and thoughtful daring. (MSNBC -- Movies)
'The Hurt Locker': World Of Warfare, By Kurt Loder Jun 28, 2009
"The Hurt Locker" is a movie about war, and it's set in Iraq, but it's not another Iraq War Movie. Director Kathryn Bigelow and the screenwriter, combat journalist Mark Boal, are too smart and tough-minded to inflate the story with windy political. (VHI.com -- Music News)
The Hurt Locker Jun 26, 2009
The pretext for the discussion was Clint Eastwood's , but the structural problem we discussed is endemic to the genre: War movies tend to begin by introducing a large number of characters (an incoming boot-camp class, a unit of soldiers, etc. differentiating them just enough so the audience can tell them apart (the gung-ho warrior, the coward, the sensitive guy), and then picking them off one by one in a series of gruesome battle scenes until the last man standing, our protagonist, either dies... (Slate)
"The Hurt Locker" Jun 26, 2009
Could an Iraq war movie actually be good ... And while we're all supposed to tread carefully around the land mines of gender generalizations, there's no escaping the fact that "The Hurt Locker" is a war movie made by a woman ... Could an Iraq war movie actually be good. (Salon)
The King is dead Jun 26, 2009
Site Presented By Friday, Jun 26, 2009. From death photos to celebrity sound-bites, the three-ring circus of mourning Michael Jackson has just begun. (Salon)
The Hurt Locker has an explosive, slow fuse Jun 26, 2009
Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal (who has a story credit on another powerful Iraq war movie, In the Valley of Elah) keep the film mostly episodic, placing their characters (and the audience) into one perilous situation after another. Theres not tons of dialogue, naturally, but we get a sense of who these fighting men are and what theyre willing to do to survive over the course of each terrifying and dangerous incident. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Soprano family values Jun 26, 2009
Its finally here: the war movie this era needs. An explosive film with the peril of combat. (Yahoo News -- The Sopranos)
Media Watch- No white hats Jun 26, 2009
Remember in old war movies when the first step of any invading army was to take control of the radio stations. Later, of course, it was TV stations. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
Transformers 2 Jun 25, 2009
Half science-fiction war movie and half Indiana Jones treasure hunt, this adventure could have been enjoyably delirious in other hands, but director Michael Bay more than lives up to his reputation for bombastic preening. The constantly moving camera appears to be attached to a gyroscope: what passes for a "personal" touch might be a poster advertising Bay's own Bad Boys 2 (2004). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
7 common slot machine superstitions Jun 25, 2009
Over the course of war movies (or an NFL game) you've probably heard the saying, "No guts, no glory." Yet many slot players believe that if an operator interrupts their play to inspect the guts of their machine, they will not win again. These players allege that slot operators change the "payout cycle." Nothing could be further from the truth (or the law, for that matter). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Anderson, Steele, Doty honored for service Jun 25, 2009
Anderson said he enjoyed the dedication of the LCVP. He said the LCVPs are seen often in war movies and called them the ;spearhead; of the American Army. It was very nice to be honored on something like that,; he said. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
Moon landing Jun 22, 2009
" He hopes people will be keen, therefore, to watch Moon, a science-fiction thriller about a lonely lunar astronaut who has been stationed on the titular satellite for three years. DoppelgangerHis only companion is Gerty, a sentient computer with a basic ability to emote and empathise that makes it much more than a tin machine. Astronaut Sam is played by US actor Sam Rockwell Sam, played by Sam Rockwell, is looking forward to returning to Earth to be reunited with his wife and young daughter.... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
