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Sacha Baron Cohen to Play Freddie Mercury in Pic
Sacha Baron Cohen has finalized a deal to play Queen front man Freddie Mercury in an upcoming GK Films project, reports Deadline . The comedic actor best known for his outrageous and controversial...
Sep 18, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongForget Genital Mutilation; ‘Antichrist’ is Disturbing Enough Without it
As Lars Von Trier’s “Antichrist” arrives on DVD, I felt compelled give the film a second viewing. What I found was this: despite the overwhelming controversy surrounding the film’s gratuitous sexual...
Sep 16, 2010 / Vanessa GranielloRon Perlman Joins Impressive Cast in Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Drive’
Ron Perlman has signed on to star opposite Ryan Gosling in Nicolas Winding Refn’s (“Bronson”) action drama “Drive,” according to ScreenDaily . Perlman is the latest addition to an already stellar...
Sep 16, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongHell Comes To Frogtown (1988)
As a product of the 1980s, I often reflect on my childhood and the distinctive pop culture of that era. Television provided me endless hours of action and adventure through the eyes of my favorite...
Sep 15, 2010 / Greg Kita‘The Tourist’ Trailer
Frank is an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Venice, Frank pursues a...
Sep 15, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongWarner Bros. Picks Up Al Capone Script, ‘Cicero’
Hollywood has long had a fascination with notorious gangster, Al Capone. And, at least over at Warner Bros., that fascination is alive and well. The studio has decided to pick up a screenplay,...
Sep 15, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongPiranha 3D (2010)
Despite James Cameron’s impassioned attempts to legitimize a 1950s gimmick employed by cinema hucksters to serve cheap thrills to audiences willing shell out a couple of extra bucks, 3D has yet to...
Sep 13, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongJapanese director wants new film to educate kids
Controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike is making a samurai film that he hopes will educate Japan’s youth, according to the AP. “I wanted the audience to realize that this story is not taking...
Sep 11, 2010 / Bryan Lufkin‘Beetlejuice’ Actor, Glenn Shadix, Dies After Fall
Glenn Shadix, best known for his role as Otho, the eccentric, effeminate interior designer in Tim Burton’s gothic ghost picture “Beetlejuice” (1998), died Tuesday morning following a fall at his...
Sep 8, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Transformers: The Movie (1986)
With the resurgence of movies based on toys in recent years, it was high time to reach into the past and dust off the hidden gem that started it all. Many people who grew up watching the...
Sep 5, 2010 / Greg KitaScott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
Hipster loathing has graduated from passive distaste to aggressive protest. The religion of rebellion, of conformity to anti-conformity, seems to every generation looking back on their bygone years...
Sep 1, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Peepli Live’: Important, Not Excellent
”Peepli Live” has been the toast and tea of town for the better part of this past year. A Sundance selection and Berlinale screening, it has been picking up favor and five star reviews across the...
Aug 29, 2010 / Kamayani Sharma‘Toy Story 3’ to Cross $1 Billion Mark; Makes Disney Only Studio With Two $1 Billion Movies in the Same Year
BURBANK, Calif. – August 27, 2010 – Two weeks after becoming the highest-grossing animated film of all time, Disney-Pixar’s “Toy Story 3” will cross the $1 billion mark at the global box office...
Aug 27, 2010 / StaffJeremy Renner Cast in ‘Mission Impossible 4’
The search for a new star to carry Paramount’s latest installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise is over. Oscar-nominated star Jeremy Renner, who anchored Kathryn Bigelow’s acclaimed Iraq War...
Aug 26, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongDavid Lynch Tapped as Guest Art Director for AFI Fest
Iconoclastic director, David Lynch, the quintessential purveyor of the weird and wonderful, has been hired as the first ever guest artistic director for the upcoming AFI Fest in Hollywood, Ca. Some...
Aug 25, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
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