Tweet Ridley Scott continued work on his highly secretive Alien prequel Prometheus, starring Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender and Idris Elba among others. The veteran director also agreed to return to another one of his classic sci-fi franchises, his 1982 film…
Author: Steve Ramos
Steve Ramos is a national, award-winning journalist whose advocacy of independent and art cinema has made him one of America's leading critical voices. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Boxoffice, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Movie Jungle.com, New York Magazine.com, Screen Daily and indieWire among others. In 2001, Ramos broke the story of a Cincinnati art-house theater snipping a sex scene from director Wayne Wang's "The Center of the World," which led the theater owner to ban him indefinitely from the theater. Ramos has programmed for film non-profits like 92Y Tribeca in order to bring independent film to larger audiences. He earned a BA in Philosophy from Xavier University and makes his home in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife and son.
The Morning Feed: Real-life Maid Loses Case against ‘Help’ Author Kathryn Stockett
Tweet Ablene Cooper, a maid in Jackson, Miss., claimed the character of the wise maid Aibileen (Viola Davis) in Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel The Help was based on her and sought $75,000 in damages over the unpermitted appropriation. Mississippi Judge…
The Morning Feed: Lady Gaga to Decorate Barneys New York Christmas Windows
Tweet After becoming a cover girl for fashion magazines Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar earlier this year, performer Lady Gaga cements her trendsetter status with a deal to decorate the Madison Ave. Christmas windows at Barneys New York. In addition to…
Get Me Ron Perlman! Mike Myers Back for ‘Austin Powers 4’
Tweet The dog days of August are upon us, as well as the closing weeks of the summer movie season, but there are still plenty of Hollywood casting news both silly and serious to fill this week’s “Get Me Ron…
‘The Help’ Review: Bryce Dallas Howard makes a villainess to remember in Civil Rights-era melodrama
Tweet The Help Walt Disney Studios Rated PG-13 Running Time: Minutes Grade: C+ Movie baddies are seldom as delicate and pretty as Bryce Dallas Howard’s Southern belle Hilly Holbrook. Howard (yes, Ron Howard’s daughter) is equally funny and revolting as…
Let Us Now Praise: ‘A Little Help’ lead Jenna Fischer
Tweet One of my favorite books, from one of my most favorite writers, is James Agee’s 1941 collaboration with photographer Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. In their extensive reporting project for Fortune magazine, Agee and Evans bring…
Get Me Ron Perlman! Tom Cruise Joins Suspense Drama ‘One Shot’
Tweet Because I’ve been asked numerous times, I wanted to explain why I call this column about the week’s casting news “Get Me Ron Perlman!” I’ve sat down and interviewed Ron Perlman multiple times but my favorite moment occurred over the…
The Morning Feed: Jean-Luc Godard: “I am not an auteur, well, not now anyway.”
Tweet Jean-Luc Godard’s latest work, Film Socialisme, self-described as a “symphony in three movements,” that unfolds on a Mediterranean cruise ship and a gas station in rural Switzerland, continued its slow and steady, worldwide expansion since playing film festivals last…
‘Horrible Bosses’ Review: Jason Bateman delivers steady laughs but fails to save workplace-as-hell comedy
Tweet Horrible Bosses Warner Bros. Rated R Running Time 93 minutes Grade: C+ The showiest scenes in director Seth Gordon’s workplace-as-hell comedy Horrible Bosses belongs to veteran comic actress Jennifer Aniston who looks fit and fabulous as a sex-crazed dentist…
The Morning Feed: Superhero blockbuster ‘Captain America’ Changes Its Name Overseas
Tweet Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios made two titles available to foreign buyers of their upcoming superhero blockbuster Captain America: The First Avenger in order to sidestep any possible dips in box office in faraway lands where the word “America”…