Myrtle Beach's Chapin Memorial Library has begun a "Book to Movie Club," for which the title for January was "Jaws" - the novel from 1974 by the late Peter Benchley, and subsequent movie from 1975. "Jurassic Park" is planned for February.
It's been a while since we've seen a new film from director Sam Raimi , but the Evil Dead filmmaker's next movie could be a return to form of sorts. Per Variety , Raimi is in talks to direct Sony's remake of Jacques Audiard 's critically lauded 2009 French prison drama A Prophet , marking a return to smaller scale dramatic features after years of working within the genre realm.
It opens at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Dulles State Office Building, 317 Washington St., with a “flannel-casual” red carpet reception and screening of the 1982 science fiction chiller “The Thing,” directed by horror master John Carpenter, a Carthage native. “We're filling the schedule with some great films featuring actors, locations and stories from the north country,” said Marcus M. Knapp, film festival president.
Hey folks, Harry here... I like storm movies - and ever since Wolfgang Petersen did THE PERFECT STORM - the water effects have just been great - and as a fan of storm films from John Ford's HURRICANE to last year's brilliant foreign film THE WAVE and a lot inbetween. Here, we get Craig Gillespie helming, he's the director of LARS AND THE REAL GIRL, MR WOODCOCK and the remake of FRIGHT NIGHT.
Musicians who can act are a select bunch. But David Bowie, whose unexpected death floored fans like me, leaves a substantial visual legacy as well as a musical one and managed to find a unique niche for himself in films.As a theatrical performer who constantly reinvented himself, the diagonal into cinema was natural.
Jim Morris and Dennis Quaid, who played him in "The Rookie." Both are Mean Dads, undoubtedly.
Plenty of Alan Rickman's costars have commented on the actor's death, but more tributes keep coming. Matthew Lewis , who played Neville Longbottom in the "Harry Potter" films, was the latest to speak out when he appeared on the Radio X Weekend Breakfast Show with Jon Holmes.
There is a captivating french film maker taking the world by storm and his name is Maxime Ginolin. Who is Maxime Ginolin? He is a film maker who has spent most of his life in Africa, facing injustice and poverty from a very early age.
Roman Polanski directed classic films such as Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby , but, since 1977, he's been in the news mainly for the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl in the United States - a charge to which he pleaded guilty - and then fleeing American justice to hide out in Europe, where authorities such as those in France have refused to extradite him. Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir , an interview conducted by his long-time friend and producer Laurent Bouzereau, took place in Switzerland in 2009, when he was under house arrest while the Swiss authorities debated whether to extradite him to the US.