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The Morning Feed: NASA Officials honor late Ray Bradbury calling Mars landing site ‘Bradbury Landing’
Tweet Science fiction author Ray Bradbury, who died June 5 at age 91, received arguably the greatest posthumous tribute possible when NASA officials called the Mars landing site of the Martian rover Curiosity the “Bradbury Landing.” According to The Guardian,…
The Morning Feed: Danny Boyle Wows Olympic Audience with risky Opening Ceremony
Tweet Fans of filmmaker Danny Boyle’s eclectic movies, from the recent 127 Hours, starring James Franco as a mountain climber pushed to the limit in order to free his right hand from a boulder, to past hits Slumdog Millionaire and…
Get Me Ron Perlman! Colin Firth in talks to Join Spike Lee’s ‘Old Boy’
Tweet The 2011 holiday movie season with all its awards-oriented releases is unfolding in rapid fashion but the “Get Me Ron Perlman” column, the only casting news column named after character actor par excellence Ron Perlman, remains focused on future…
‘Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football’ filmmaker Rashid Ghazi travels to Dearborn, Mich. to make a documentary about high school sports but exits with story of deep-rooted patriotism
Tweet Drive Interstate 75 through the brown fields of industrial Detroit and you’ll see countless stories of hardship and struggle just beyond your car windshield. Rashid Ghazi, a Chicago-based sports marketing and TV consultant, looks beyond the despair and tells…
‘Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football’ Review: Stories of tolerance and football come together on a high school field in engaging doc ‘Fordson’
Tweet Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football North Shore Films Unrated Running Time: 92 minutes Grade: B REVIEW BY STEVE RAMOS For Fordson High School football players in the working class section of Dearborn, Michigan, the big game involves hunger, thirst…
TIFF 2011: ‘Livid’ Review: French filmmaker duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo create a frightening fantasy
Tweet Livid The Weinstein Company Rating: TBD Running Time: 88 minutes Grade: B REVIEW BY STEVE RAMOS The French filmmaker duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo are undisputed masters of horror thanks to their incredible debut thriller Inside (A l’intérieur),…
TIFF 2011: ‘Damsels in Distress’ Review: Whit Stillman returns with quirky female comedy
Tweet Damsels in Distress Sony Pictures Classics Rating TBA Running Time: 98 minutes Grade: B REVIEW BY STEVE RAMOS Up-and-coming actress Greta Gerwig and long-absent filmmaker Whit Stillman make a comic dream team in the hip and intentionally odd…
The Morning Feed: Talk Show Host Craig Ferguson Receives Letter Filled with White Powder
Tweet Late-night talk show host Craig Ferguson received an unexpected scare and some unique monologue material when two of his Late Late Show staffers came in contact Tuesday with a mysterious white powder after opening an envelope at his CBS…
Box Office Guru: ‘One Day’ Stumbles in its Debut; just like ‘Conan’
Tweet Long after the reporting of the weekend’s top-earning movies became an evening news fixture; past the rising popularity of showbiz websites dedicated solely to box office reporting, I wrote indieWire’s weekly box office column for a couple of years…