Tweet The Hangover Part II Warner Bros. Rated R Running Time: 101 Minutes Grade: B In this summer’s race of movie sequels, the party boys of The Hangover Part II are laggards. After all, Captain Jack Sparrow is back for…
Month: May 2011
The Morning Feed: Judge Denies Tattoo Artist’s Request To Stop Release of ‘Hangover 2’
Tweet Tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill, who inked boxer and Hangover supporting actor Mike Tyson with a tribal tattoo around his eye in 2003, filed a lawsuit in federal court April 28 claiming Warner Bros. violated his copyright by giving…
The Morning Feed: Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’ Wins Cannes Palme d’Or
Tweet The 64th Cannes Film Festival came to a close yesterday and according to The Guardian Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, a drama about a 1950s Texas family, starring Brad Pitt as a somewhat stern father and Sean Penn…
The Morning Feed: Lars von Trier Says He’s Proud of Cannes Ban
Tweet The biggest news out of the 64th Cannes Film Festival continued to be Danish director Lars von Trier. Not Von Trier’s competition film Melancholia, starring Kirsten Dunst as a bride preparing for her wedding while a planet hurtles towards…
The Morning Feed: Lars von Trier Shocks Cannes (Again) and Receives Festival Ban
Tweet Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier first earned his reputation as the bad boy auteur of the Cannes Film Festival with divisive movies like Antichrist and his 2000 Palme d’Or winner Dancer in the dark. In recent years, Von Trier…
The Morning Feed: Terrence Malick Skips Cannes Premiere of ‘The Tree of Life’
Tweet Brad Pitt found himself defending his Tree of Life director, Terrence Malick, at a Cannes press conference for the world premiere of the film, about a 1950s Texas family, starring Pitt as the somewhat stern father. Malick, famously private…
The Morning Feed: Johnny Depp Turns Cannes Crowds Into a Frenzy Promoting ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’
Tweet The 64th Cannes Film Festival wrapped up its opening weekend festivities and the crowds went crazy for Johnny Depp and the rest of his Pirates of the Caribbean colleagues as they hit the Croisette to promote the fourth installment…
The Morning Feed: Lynne Ramsay Wows Cannes with ‘We Need to Talk about Kevin’
Tweet The 64th Cannes Film Festival entered its opening weekend with Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay receiving the lion’s share of acclaim so far for her family drama We Need to Talk about Kevin. Ramsay adapted Lionel Schriver’s bestselling novel for…
The Morning Feed: Restored ‘A Clockwork Orange’ To Debut at Cannes!
Tweet The 64th Cannes Film Festival continued today with Angelina Jolie’s photo call in support of the DreamWorks animated feature Kung Fu Panda 2 attracting much of the media attention. For the cinema buffs on the Croisette, the bigger news…
The Morning Feed: Weinstein Company Buys ‘The Artist’ For First Deal of Cannes 2011
Tweet The 64th Cannes Film Festival started today with a photo call for the DreamWorks animated feature Puss in Boots and The Weinstein Company made the first deal by buying U.S. rights as well as some key foreign territories for…