To this day, the name Phil Tippett is associated with a rather humorous internet meme . But while people may mock his job title on Jurassic Park , Tippett should be recognized for the incredible visual effects work he's done over the years on projects like Star Wars, RoboCop, Piranha, Starship Troopers , and more.
Cynthia Nixon, left, stars as poet Emily Dickinson with Keith Carradine in the historical biopic "A Quiet Passion," opening Friday at Circle Cinema. Johan Voets/Music Box Films Cynthia Nixon, left, stars as poet Emily Dickinson with Keith Carradine in the historical biopic "A Quiet Passion," opening Friday at Circle Cinema.
Friday Flicks on the Lawn, Say Anything GreenStreet 8 p.m. Friday, free The scene where John Cusack's lovestruck Lloyd Dobler stands outside the window, boom box held high, is one of the most romantic and iconic scenes from '80s cinema.
Robin Alden, Executive Director of Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries, receives prestigious Peter Benchley "Hero of the Seas" Ocean Award on May 11 in Washington, Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries' Executive Director Robin Alden is a "Hero of the Seas" award winner, one of the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards. She is being recognized for her career working at the grassroots, engaging fishermen's knowledge and participation to build sustainable, healthy coastal fisheries and fishing communities.
Park Chan-wook made the stylized Gothic thriller Stoker at Fox, Kim Jee-woon went to Lionsgate for the Arnold Schwarzenegger shoot-'em-up The Last Stand , and, in the most publicized instance of them all, Bong Joon-ho teamed up with The Weinstein Company for his sci-fi graphic novel adaptation Snowpiercer . They were all in for a shock; treated as royalty in their homeland, the trio suddenly found themselves displaced from the top of the pecking order, losing status in the studio hierarchy to the executives and the money men.
Katherine Waterston and the gray tank top that signals she is the de facto Ripley figure of "Alien: Covenant." Early on in "Alien: Covenant," before any spleens have ruptured or any Xenomorphs have reared their hideous heads, a large ship glides through outer space and unfurls its golden sails, like an ocean vessel catching a light breeze.
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After all, we're talking about David Lynch - a filmmaker about whom novelist David Foster Wallace once said "It's hard to tell if he's a genius or an idiot" after seeing the director at work on the set of the 1997 film "Lost Highway." For months now, Lynch has been promoting the revival of his seminal ABC TV series "Twin Peaks" on Showtime.
This week brings Alien: Covenant to theaters, and fans will get to see how the horror style of the original Alien meshes with the more scientific side of Prometheus that attempts to explain the origin of the monstrous xenomorphs who love killing space colonists. That means there's no better time for the folks at Screen Junkies to deliver their send-up of James Cameron's sequel Aliens , which really upped the ante from what Ridley Scott created with the original Alien .