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8 articles from 2008

26 August 2008 6:30 PM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

Year: 2008

Release date: Unknown

Director: Wolf Wolff & Ohmuthi

Writer: Wolf Jahnke

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: oblivion

Rating: 2 out of 10

Virus Undead is, quite possibly, one of the worst movies I have ever seen. With the exception of some solid cinematography and interesting shots, the film is lackluster in every way. It fails to deliver on anything but exposition, which is only done well in the opening 10 minutes. After that, the plot kicks in and ruins any hope of redeeming value. Even the zombies are unimpressive, though the make-up artists did a fair job with them. Any thrill we'd get from seeing the walking dead (that should, ultimately, be a focus of this genre) fails after waiting through 50 monotonous minutes for a mere glimpse. What action we do see is short and stale, and any tension is lost in how utterly obvious everything is. After the opening narrative and montage,

20 July 2008 1:26 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

'When Hillary Clinton's once- inevitable presidential campaign became this year's Betamax, the anti-Hillary industry was left bereft, its dreams of selling Hillary voodoo dolls and barf bags suddenly dashed," writes James Kirchick in Portfolio magazine.

David Bossie could not release 'Hillary: The Movie' during her campaign because of Federal Election Commission regulations. The restrictions were lifted, "but the movie's potential audience seems greatly diminished."

A Web site, StopHerNow.com, has changed its name to Stop-Him-Now.com. Its credo is "Saving America from the radical leftist agenda of Barack Obama.

By LIZ SMITH

7 July 2008 12:08 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

I am almost in complete agreement with Anne Thompson, the Deputy Editor of Variety.com, who railed a recent list put together by the Western Writers of America. Her headline: "Westerns Top 100 List Sucks: Shane Number One"

That about says it all. Shane is by no means the best Western ever made. But this list has a much more populist bent than a truly artistic one and that's fine, unless you're trying to be accurate. See, the problem is, you just can't defend Shane as the best Western of all time.

It borders on the illogical to not have The Searchers as the number one Western, because in addition to being an exceedingly well-made film, it for the first time blurred the line between right and wrong, meaning most of the good Westerns that preceded it had failed to account for the moral ambiguity of living life by the gun

Colin Boyd

25 May 2008 7:14 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

American comedian-turned-director Dick Martin has passed away at the age of 86.

He died early Saturday evening surrounded by family and friends, after suffering from respiratory complications at a hospital in Santa Monica, California, according to the star's spokesperson Barry Greenberg.

Martin enjoyed a career spanning 40 years, but was perhaps best known for his role as co-host of the hit 1960s TV series Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In.

The variety show debuted in January 1968, winning over both audiences and critics and topping the Nielsen TV ratings charts for two years. The show, which featured song-and-dance segments and stand-up banter between Rowan and Martin, helped launch the careers of several young actors and comedians, including Goldie Hawn, Lily Tomlin, Ruth Buzzi, Arte Johnson, Henry Gibson and Jo Anne Worley.

Hollywood stars John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, as well as then-presidential hopeful Richard Nixon, also made brief appearances on the show before it was cancelled in 1973.

Martin later moved on to directing, following the advice of fellow comic and actor Bob Newhart. He quickly established himself as one of Hollywood's most hard-working TV directors, working on episodes of Newhart, In The Heat Of The Night, Archie Bunker's Place and Family Ties.

Martin is survived by his wife Dolly Read and two sons from his first marriage to Peggy Connelly: actor Richard Martin and Cary Martin. At his request, there will be no funeral.

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20 May 2008 9:02 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Though the plot of the 1930 Western The Big Trail is one steady march from the banks of the Mississippi to Oregon territory, it's otherwise a film of false starts. Director Raoul Walsh, who enjoyed considerable success in the silent era, and experienced a second golden age from the late '30s on, thanks to films like They Drive By Night and White Heat, employed 70mm film and a then-new widescreen process called "Fox Grandeur," an early form of what would later be known as Cinemascope. As his star, he plucked from relative obscurity a baby-faced, wavy-haired young actor named John Wayne. Trouble was, with the onset of the Depression, few theaters had the technology to show the film as it was meant to be seen. The Big Trail flopped, and Wayne labored on in B-Westerns until Stagecoach made him a star in 1939. Did audiences miss much? Yes and...

Keith Phipps

15 May 2008 10:23 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Warren Cowan, whose Rogers and Cowan public relations company has represented many of Hollywood's leading luminaries and the music industry's best-selling recording artists over more than a half century, died Wednesday of cancer at age 87. His clients included Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Gene Kelly, John Wayne, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Steve McQueen, Cary Grant, Sylvester Stallone, Ronald Reagan, The Doors, Elton John, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Michael Jackson.

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30 April 2008 3:39 PM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Warner Bros. plans to make home theaters look much like theaters did a half century ago with the release of the classic How the West Was Won, starring John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda, on Blu-ray disc in August. The high-definition video will offer a "SmileBox" version -- essentially making the screen look as if it were curved like an old Cinerama screen. Only a handful of features were made in the Cinerama process, which featured a screen so large that it wrapped around the audience's field of vision, producing a 3D effect. The screen was so large that it took three projectors to fill it -- one projecting onto the left third of the screen, another the middle, and another the right. Likewise, the movies were shot with a special camera that shot the three images simultaneously. While nature documentaries and thrill-ride experiences were initially released in the Cinerama process, 1962's How the West was Won was the first feature film to be filmed and projected in the process. Warner Home Video's Blu-ray release will also include the documentary Cinerama Adventure.

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21 January 2008 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Denzel Washington has topped the list of America's favorite movie stars for the second consecutive year. The American Gangster star beat Tom Hanks to the number one spot in the annual Harris Poll, and Johnny Depp jumped up four positions from last year's survey to steal the number three position. Julia Roberts was the highest ranking female at four, while late film legend John Wayne - the only actor to rank in the poll's top 10 every year since its inception in 1994 - was placed at number six. The top 10 is as follows: 1. Denzel Washington; 2. Tom Hanks; 3. Johnny Depp; 4. Julia Roberts; 5. Will Smith 6. John Wayne; 7. Matt Damon; 7. Sean Connery; 9. Sandra Bullock; 10. Bruce Willis.

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