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An actor who plays so many shoot-em-up guys in films such as "Taken" has little room to criticize gun violence "There's too many *&^%$#@ guns out there," Neeson is reported to have said during an interview in Dubai last week. "I think the U.S. population is like, 320 million.
AICN HORROR looks at THE SHOOT! ATTICUS INSTITUTE! DEVIL'S TOWER! CRASH! MOCKINGBIRD! ATTACK OF THE MORNINGSIDE MONSTER! IN THE HOUSE OF FLIES! HAUNTING OF FOX HOLLOW FARM! WOLVES! GNOME ALONE! PITY! HALLOWEEN H20! & MYERS: RISE OF THE BOOGEYMAN! Greetings, all. Ambush Bug here with another AICN HORROR: ZOMBIES & SHARKS column.
In the fall of 2000, Christopher Duran and Ashley Ellerin were outside her yellow bungalow behind Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood when a good-looking guy offered to help Duran fix his flat tire. The friendly stranger, Michael Gargiulo, paid special attention to blond beauty and part-time Las Vegas stripper Ellerin, a student at L.A.'s Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising.
The 2009 film Great Directors from doc filmmaker Angela Ismailos is a great introduction to the work, creative philosophies and personalities of ten directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film presents conversations and clips from the work of those filmmakers, and is just the sort of thing to turn new audiences on to films from each of those filmmakers, or, if you're already a fan of that crew, to bolster your knowledge of each.
What do aliens and mashed potatoes have in common? The connection between this unlikely pairing is quite evident to anyone who has seen Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Suffice it to say, Roy Neary's spud sculpture of Devils Tower is just one of the many famous elements from the iconic 1977 film, released only six months after another sci-fi movie you may have heard of: "Star Wars."
Nothing like that happens in the new film version of Sondheim's modern take on the meanings of fairy tales satirizes Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and other stories. Starting with the classic trip into the magical, forbidding forest, it twists those well-known legends about maturation and morality into a fearful presentation of social experience.
Having a crappy week? Blame the date! According to the Internet and pseudoscientist radio personalities everywhere, last Monday was "Blue Monday," the most depressing day of the year. We know that is not true because most of us in Whistler were busting fresh pow laps in the alpine on Monday but the truth is "Blue Monday" is a marketing gimmick designed back in 1995 to sell holidays for a company called Sky Travel.
Deadline reports that Con Air and Expendables 3 director Simon West will helm the redo of the 1958 flick, which starred a young Steve McQueen battling a gelatinous alien mass. There was a 1972 sequel and then a remake in 1988.