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Sex and the City Movie Will Send You Vodka Shoes
Did you know that the hit HBO television series Sex and the City, about a self-centered clotheshorse and the women who indulge her, has been made into a movie, to be released nationwide on May 30th? Well, yeah. It's happening. And in an effort to promote the film, little shoeboxes containing a bottle of Skyy vodka are being sent around to various bloggers, reporters, shut-ins, and ladydrunks. Jeff Houck, who writes a blog called The Stew, received the little press kit/care package recently, and took a moment to analyze its contents. It explains the "spirit" of the movie: drinking! "Get in the spirit with cocktails themed after the characters who defined cocktail culture for an entire generation," a card in the box says. Ohhh. For an entire generation! And, whee: themed cocktails! (They're going to be served at fun, sexy Houlihan's restaurants across the land.) I can't wait to get drunk and shuffle around with my shoebox like a real career lady. Where's my press kit, movie people? After the jump, find each lady's distinctive cocktail! More »
summer movie preview
Will The Wackness Be, Um, Wack?
Have you seen the trailer for that movie The Wackness? It has a supremely bizarre cast that includes Josh Peck (from the screechy, unbelievably unwatchable Nickelodeon show Drake & Josh), Ben Kingsley, and Mary-Kate Olsen (who, er, makes out with Sir Ben in the film). It's set in New York City during the heady old timey days of 1994, and follows a mumbly youngster (Peck) who deals drugs the summer before he waddles off to college. Besides the complete peculiarity of a 90's nostalgia movie existing at all, it looks like it could be fun if only for Kingsley's bizarre accent and the Olsen factor. It could also be really, really fucking annoying in that "precocious teen actors who think they're being really cool because they talk about drugs and act coy in a little indie movie" kind of way. Trailer (with a good song) after the jump. More »
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Summer Movie Preview
The new film Savage Grace, which tells the scandalous and bizarre story of Barbara Daly Baekeland (like Bakelite plastic) and her strange son, looks sort of wickedly good. It's a tale of homosexuality, incest, threesomes, and, eventually, murder. The film stars Julianne Moore, Eddie Redmayne, Stephen Dillane, and (ohh) Hugh Dancy. God love Julianne Moore for taking such a grand, kinky role. Though, I would expect nothing less of her. (Or, maybe I would.) Trailer is above.
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Gay Past Meets Gay Future
Remember that saucy, vaguely sad New York magazine article, from last October, about the Dupont brothers? They were the WASPy Connecticut twins for whom Andy Warhol developed an affinity when they were but seventeen years old. They slept with rich men and enchanted lonely Andy ("he would sometimes jerk me off—but I think he did genuinely like me," said brother Richard), and wandered listlessly through the Factory on their way to adulthood, like so many others at the time. Well, their story, specifically the one told in New York, is going to be made into the movie, and the Dupont boys (men now, I suppose) would like High School Musical's Zac Efron to take on both roles. Hah. Um. Weird. [P6]
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Film Critic Scared of His Own Bad Review
New York magazine film critic David Edelstein issues a bit of a mea culpa this morning, regarding Anthony Minghella and some not-so-pleasant comments he made about the late filmmaker's oeuvre. Last week he suggested that the English writer-director was perhaps artistically bullied by former Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein. Once Miramax got a hold of Minghella, Edelstein argued, Weinstein coerced him into directing high-gloss prestige pictures, Oscar-bait that didn't exactly sync up with the ragged little edge he showed in his first film, Truly, Madly, Deeply. Now, just a few short days later, Edelstein is recanting. More »
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The Tracey Fragments Could Be the Most Annoying Movie Ever
The upcoming film The Tracey Fragments stars Ellen Page (the Juno actress who invented youth), is about a bleakly disaffected youngster, looks to take place somewhere in the great Northern wilds, features a score by Broken Social Scene (they also did Half Nelson!), and employs a "highly inventive and dynamic Mondrian-like" split-screen technique. Add all that up and you get what could be the trendiest, most mind-suckingly irritating movie ever to exist. It's called The Tracey Fragments for Pete's sake. Also, "Mondrian-like"? Split screen may work (sort of) on shows like 24 but a whole movie of it is like watching a two hour preview. Does anyone remember Mike Figgis' 2000 split screen experiment Timecode? Exactly. It's hard to tell what the, you know, plot of the movie is from the trailer, but I'm guessing it has to do with the interconnectedness of all things, the places our choices take us, and people coming to terms with things. (Disclosure: I never saw Juno. So fuck off.) Trailer after the jump, featuring the late J.T. from Degrassi. More »
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Sex and the City Movie to Change Women's Lives Through Brand Exposure
The upcoming Sex and the City movie is going to be huuuge. Move over Academy Awards, this is going to be the new Super Bowl for ladies. Or at least advertisers hope so. The New York Times reports today about all the crazy marketing that's tied up in the movie's release. It's integrated! It's sassy! It's absolutely everywhere. ("the Skyy is the limit," writes Stuart Elliot.) Want to feel chic and cosmopolitan? Just trundle up to your local Houlihan's restaurant. You'll be able to sip a SATC themed drink named after your favorite character. Just like real New York ladies. More »
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Coreys Feldman and Haim To Pay You Back For Ruining Their Youth
Remember The Lost Boys, that Two Corey's plus Jason Patric, Jamie Gertz, and Kiefer Sutherland vampire cult flick that you lurved so much when you were younger? You know, because it was dark and hip and funny and a little bit punk (for, you know, a studio monster movie)? Now, roughly forty-six years since the film premiered, a sequel called Lost Boys: The Tribe is being foisted upon this weary world. It looks exactly as cheap and schlocky as one would expect. Find a trailer after the jump, and then oh! stay tuned for the surprisingly articulate and lucid Corey Feldman getting in depth about the philosophy of the Lost Boys realm. It's just a tiny bit devastating. More »
television
Another Filmmaker Flees Film
Because the studios have forgotten how to make good movies and indies don't pay shit, talented and interesting filmmakers continue to trot on over to television. The latest is Anthony Minghella, the auteur behind The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and the way underrated Breaking & Entering (among others), who has a pilot that's just been picked up by HBO. His The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, about crime solving women in Botswana (adapted from Alexander McCall Smith's books), has received a thirteen episode order from the cable network (which is producing in conjunction with the Weinstein Company and the BBC.) More »
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HBO Preserves New Jersey For Possible Sopranos Movie
Recently Nick D'Urso, manager of New Jersey's Satin Dolls gentleman's club, got a call from HBO asking him to hold off on his planned renovations. You see, Satin Dolls also doubles as the Bada Bing strip club from HBO's stunning, somber, and definitively over mob series The Sopranos. D'Urso swears that he heard legit info that a Sopranos movie could be in the works and HBO is making sure its top locations stay as much the same as possible. Soprano Sue, a crazed fan of the show who did some amateur location scouting for HBO, also says she heard about a movie from a crew member. And that pretty much sucks. If it does happen, it will completely negate the series finale's brilliantly confounding and expressive abrupt cut to black. Unless, you know, it's a prequel or something. Though that would probably involve unfortunate hairpieces and casting new kids and ick I think that would be much, much worse. HBO honors their omerta and says "No comment." Though they seem to like the show to movie idea. A lot. Give it a rest, everybody. [OhNoTheyDidn't] After the jump, that famous final scene. More »
Duuude
If you like movies about funny stoner boys who have wacky misadventures (and who doesn't) then you'll want to watch the official, not going to be taken off YouTube trailer for Seth Rogen's new action-comedy Pineapple Express. Though, make sure you're over 18! Because it's a pretty racy clip and Sony will know if you're lying, goddamnit.
If you like movies about funny stoner boys who have wacky misadventures (and who doesn't) then you'll want to watch the official, not going to be taken off YouTube trailer for Seth Rogen's new action-comedy Pineapple Express. Though, make sure you're over 18! Because it's a pretty racy clip and Sony will know if you're lying, goddamnit.
the writing life
Great Movies About Writers
Entertainment Weekly ran a feature today showing 14 of their favorite films about writers, in honor of the WGA strike ending. It's a pretty good sampling we think, and have decided to go one step further and dredge up some clips. We were able to find 12 of the 14 films listed, so we've included two bonuses: a clip from Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys, and a touching video of aspiring poet Vada Sultenfuss reciting a sad poem in the groundbreaking 1991 film My Girl. (We tried to find the ice cream poem, but alas were foiled.) What films did they miss? More »
horror
Let Sleeping Zombies Lie
George Romero, master of the zombie genre, made some really good movies in the second half of the last century, in particular the classic Night of the Living Dead and the satirical but still fucking scary "zombies in a Pittsburgh shopping mall" Dawn of the Dead. So it is with great sadness that we watch him trundle off into irrelevance via the "keepin' up with the kids!" route. His newest walking dead movie is called Diary of the Dead, and like Cloverfield and Brian DePalma's Redacted before it, employs that irksomely popular (and rarely successful) motif of faux "found footage." An enterprising young man has decided to document the zombie apocalypse because, I guess, he figures that YouTube will be the only thing left once all our brains have been eaten. I suppose it can be a nifty technique when used properly, but if his super clunky 2005 effort Land of the Dead is any indication, old Romero just isn't at the top of his game anymore. Though, I guess we can't blame him for not wanting to hole up in his house forever, the ghastly moans of the past rattling the doors and windows. [AV Club] After the jump, a trailer for Diary of the Dead. More »
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Hottie Heiress Nottie Ashamed
Celebrated actress Paris Hilton has a new film coming out this weekend entitled The Hottie & Nottie. She has been shamelessly promoting this movie, which is about a pretty girl (Hilton, natch) and her ugly friend (Christine Lakin, from Step by Step!), all over the place, from the Sundance Film Festival to my ivy-covered, mortarboard-littered hometown of Boston. (Where apparently she was the biggest damn thing to hit town in years. Sigh.) Usually when an actor has a film that's supposedly this abysmally bad (only 10% on Rotten Tomatoes) they completely ignore it and do as little press as possible. But not Hilton. She's been on TV shows like Letterman and Ellen, bopping around, making jokes. You almost have to admire it. Trailer is above and, after the jump, a clip from the film that shows off Paris's beguiling talent and the totally snappy script. Plus, Hilton on Letterman. [Our favorite review: Slant, via NYT]More »
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