Robert De Niro is 80 years old, and what better way to celebrate his birthday than with a look back at one of his most underrated classics: Ronin. John Frankenheimer’s career seemed to reach its nadir when he directed the ill-conceived remake of The Island of Dr. Moreau. Still, someone in Hollywood must have been impressed by how he held that tortured project together, as two years later, he would release 1998’s Ronin, boasting an all-star cast including Robert DeNiro, Sean Bean and Jean Reno. This action flick about a group of disavowed spies working as mercenaries wound up being a masterclass in action filmmaking from the director who helped invent the genre with The Train, Black Sunday, Grand Prix, and so many more.
While a modest box office hit, Ronin has become something of a classic, famed for its spectacular car chases through the streets of Paris. It’s...
While a modest box office hit, Ronin has become something of a classic, famed for its spectacular car chases through the streets of Paris. It’s...
- 8/17/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
1994’s Surviving the Game is one of the unheralded gems of nineties action flicks. It stars Ice-t, many years before he became part of the cast of Law & Order Svu. Back then, he was known primarily as a rapper, but following roles in New Jack City, Trespass and Ricochet, he became an up-and-comer, with many pegging him as a potential urban action star.
In Surviving the Game, Ice-t plays a homeless man being hunted in the wild in a variation on the classic tale, Most Dangerous Game. This story has always been excellent fodder for action flicks, with the previous year’s Hard Target ranking as one of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s classics.
While New Line Cinema couldn’t give the movie a massive budget, they didn’t cheap out either, giving Ice-t a great director in Ernest Dickerson, who was Spike Lee’s go-to cinematographer and the director of the well-received gangsta tale,...
In Surviving the Game, Ice-t plays a homeless man being hunted in the wild in a variation on the classic tale, Most Dangerous Game. This story has always been excellent fodder for action flicks, with the previous year’s Hard Target ranking as one of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s classics.
While New Line Cinema couldn’t give the movie a massive budget, they didn’t cheap out either, giving Ice-t a great director in Ernest Dickerson, who was Spike Lee’s go-to cinematographer and the director of the well-received gangsta tale,...
- 12/29/2022
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
This past weekend, director Charlotte Colbert celebrated the release of her feature film debut, She Will, courtesy of IFC Midnight. Starring Alice Krige and Kota Eberhardt, She Will is centered around an older actress named Veronica (Krige) who travels to Scotland after major surgery with the help of her caregiver Desi (Eberhardt) in hopes of recuperating. But once she arrives, Veronica finds herself confronting past trauma as mysterious forces begin to overcome her, and Desi does their best to try to figure out just what exactly has a hold on Veronica and what this kind of power is truly capable of.
Recently, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with both Charlotte Colbert and Alice Krige about their experiences working on She Will, and during the interview, they discussed the film’s powerful story that it tells, the importance of bridging generational gaps, the bond everyone developed while working on She Will together and more.
Recently, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with both Charlotte Colbert and Alice Krige about their experiences working on She Will, and during the interview, they discussed the film’s powerful story that it tells, the importance of bridging generational gaps, the bond everyone developed while working on She Will together and more.
- 7/21/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Lady Gaga has a new tattoo, and the significance behind it is a special one. On Thursday, Gaga, 29, got matching tattoos with the sexual assault survivors who joined her on the Oscars stage during the singer's powerful performance of "Til It Happens to You," the Oscar-nominated ballad written for The Hunting Ground, a documentary highlighting the campus rape epidemic. Mother Monster, who was raped when she was 19, shared the new body art as well as the entire tattoo process on Snapchat, during which she stated, "At rehearsal the survivors and I made a pact." Tattoo artist David Allen was the one behind Gaga's latest ink.
- 3/4/2016
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
Lady Gaga has a new tattoo, and the significance behind it is a special one. On Thursday, Gaga, 29, got matching tattoos with the sexual assault survivors who joined her on the Oscars stage during the singer's powerful performance of "Til It Happens to You," the Oscar-nominated ballad written for The Hunting Ground, a documentary highlighting the campus rape epidemic. Mother Monster, who was raped when she was 19, shared the new body art as well as the entire tattoo process on Snapchat, during which she stated, "At rehearsal the survivors and I made a pact." Tattoo artist David Allen was the one behind Gaga's latest ink.
- 3/4/2016
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
Lady Gaga's 2016 Oscars performance was much more than entertainment. To the thousands of sexual assault victims across the country, and those who took the stage with the pop star, Gaga's rendition of Best Original Song nominee "Til It Happens to You", which she wrote with songwriter Diane Warren for the documentary, The Hunting Ground, was a chance to share their story. "[Gaga] told us that she thought people in the audience may feel comfortable now, because there might have been people in that audience - or who were watching on TV - that have been assaulted and we hope to...
- 2/29/2016
- by Rose Minutaglio and Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
By Patrick Shanley
Managing Editor
This year’s best original song front runner seems to be Lady Gaga and Diane Warren’s “Til It Happens To You” from the documentary, The Hunting Ground, which examines the prevalence of sexual assault cases on college campuses throughout the U.S. The song is very personal for both artists, as both recently opened up about their past experiences with sexual assault in a L.A. Times interview.
The song’s importance, and its resonance with audiences (the music video has over 24 million hits on Youtube) and Academy voters, lies in its social commentary. The four young women who are the subjects of the film (Annie E. Clark, Andrea L. Pino, Sofie Karasek and Kamilah Willingham) recently penned a letter to the songwriters thanking them and that “the release of your song will have an unparalleled impact on the culture of campuses nationwide,” as reported by Billboard.
Managing Editor
This year’s best original song front runner seems to be Lady Gaga and Diane Warren’s “Til It Happens To You” from the documentary, The Hunting Ground, which examines the prevalence of sexual assault cases on college campuses throughout the U.S. The song is very personal for both artists, as both recently opened up about their past experiences with sexual assault in a L.A. Times interview.
The song’s importance, and its resonance with audiences (the music video has over 24 million hits on Youtube) and Academy voters, lies in its social commentary. The four young women who are the subjects of the film (Annie E. Clark, Andrea L. Pino, Sofie Karasek and Kamilah Willingham) recently penned a letter to the songwriters thanking them and that “the release of your song will have an unparalleled impact on the culture of campuses nationwide,” as reported by Billboard.
- 1/28/2016
- by Patrick Shanley
- Scott Feinberg
The Hunting Ground Radius/ CNN Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B+ Director: Kirby Dick Screenwriter: Kirby Dick Cast: Anna E. Clark, Andrea Pino, Kamilah Willingham, April Powell-Willingham, Erica Kinsman, Tom Seeberg Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 2/10/15 Opens: February 27, 2015 I don’t get it. When I went to Tufts University during the fifties, girls had curfews, co-ed dorms were considered pure folly, virginity was not the exception, and the fraternity houses served beer without date-rape drugs as the only beverage at parties. Any student rapes must have been quite expertly hushed up because I had not heard of a single one, despite the [ Read More ]
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- 2/22/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
This is a pretty awesome story. A team of FX artists from Little Mountain Productions built this incredibly cool Millennium Falcon for 9-year old Christian as part of a Make-a;Wish Foundation wish-granting. The Falcon will top off a play fort in the kids back yard. The Millennium Falcon they built even has a solar powered Led interior and exterior lighting.
What a great group of people to donate their time and money to do this for Christian. It's good to know that there are still good selfless people out there in the world trying to make the world a better place. Christian is obviously a huge Star Wars fan and it looks like he's gonna have a blast with this thing!
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Christian in his awesome new Millennium Falcon fort!
"When he was first diagnosed, he carried his X-Box back and forth from the hospital," his grandmother Tracy Clark said.
What a great group of people to donate their time and money to do this for Christian. It's good to know that there are still good selfless people out there in the world trying to make the world a better place. Christian is obviously a huge Star Wars fan and it looks like he's gonna have a blast with this thing!
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Christian in his awesome new Millennium Falcon fort!
"When he was first diagnosed, he carried his X-Box back and forth from the hospital," his grandmother Tracy Clark said.
- 6/23/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
While digitizing their vast archives, Life magazine uncovered a stash of never-before-seen photos of Marilyn Monroe, taken by staff photographer Ed Clark in Griffith Park in August 1950. She was 24 at the time, wearing shorts and a "simple button-down shirt monogrammed with her initials." I love the one after the jump of her reclining on a bench in a halter top while reading a script. Was it All About Eve?...
- 8/13/2009
- Movieline
Rare Monroe Photos Posted Online
Movie icon Marilyn Monroe's 83rd birthday has been marked by the release of unseen photos of the actress taken almost 60 years ago.
The Some Like It Hot star would have turned 83 on Monday.
The shots, posted on website Life.com, were taken by Life magazine's longtime photographer Ed Clark in 1950, three months after Monroe's first on-screen role in The Asphalt Jungle.
Clark died in 2000.
The Some Like It Hot star would have turned 83 on Monday.
The shots, posted on website Life.com, were taken by Life magazine's longtime photographer Ed Clark in 1950, three months after Monroe's first on-screen role in The Asphalt Jungle.
Clark died in 2000.
- 6/2/2009
- WENN
She's still the iconic image of the Hollywood blonde, even 47 years after her death - at age 36 - in 1962. With Monday marking what would have been the 83rd birthday of Marilyn Monroe, Life.com has posted a gallery of never-before-seen images of the then-rising star, taken in 1950 by Life photographer Ed Clark in Los Angeles's Griffith Park. Monroe, then 24, had already played the girlfriend of a crooked lawyer in The Asphalt Jungle and was soon to be seen as "a graduate of the Copacabana school of dramatic art" in the Oscar-winning All About Eve. Still ahead: the subway-swept skirt in...
- 6/1/2009
- PEOPLE.com
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