An appreciation by Noah Mallin Richard Widmark was the paradoxical nice guy offscreen who played bigots (No Way Out, with Sidney Poitier), right-wing nutjobs (The Bedford Incident as a submarine commander on the brink of starting World War III) and a chilling giggling psychopath (in his breakthrough role in Kiss of Death.) Kiss of Death [...]
Kaki King Kaki King is kind of the Joe Satriani of indie folkie guitarists. Like guitar wankster Satriani she’s at the point in her career where she has to write actual songs and sing and she delivers on the new album Dreaming of Revenge. Here’s the light-trail-happy video for “Pull Me Out”: Pioneering indie rapper [...]
By Guest Blogger (faux) Larry King Wow it’s great to be here blogging, as the kids say. In my many years of broadcasting I’ve been on so many forms of media that it’s hard to keep track — radio, television, film, cuneiform, and now “The Net”. Fantastic Sandra Bullock film by the way. I gotta [...]
Saul Bass is one of the greatest graphic artists of the twentieth century, designing iconic credit sequences for such films as The Man With The Golden Arm. Now some smarty, arty pants has imagined what the Star Wars credit sequence would have looked like a la Bass: Here’s the actual factual Bass’ sequence for It’s [...]
New Line, the former independent film studio founded 40 years ago by Bob Shaye, is being shuttered by corporate parent Warner Bros. The New Line label will still be used and its current slate of films will be released but it will no longer function as a separate entity. New Line started off distributing off [...]
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