George “The Animal” Steele — one of the WWE’s most notorious villains know for his green tongue, hairy torso and wild, unpredictable style — has died, the WWE announced Friday. He was 79.
Steele, whose name out of the ring was James Myers, had long been battling Crohn’s disease. He was diagnosed in 1988 after a nine year struggle with its symptoms, he explained on his website, and had his colon removed in 2002.
According to a Facebook post by pro-wrestling agent Eric Simms, Steele had entered hospice care on Thursday. His wife Patricia told TMZ he died Thursday of kidney failure.
After news of his death,...
Steele, whose name out of the ring was James Myers, had long been battling Crohn’s disease. He was diagnosed in 1988 after a nine year struggle with its symptoms, he explained on his website, and had his colon removed in 2002.
According to a Facebook post by pro-wrestling agent Eric Simms, Steele had entered hospice care on Thursday. His wife Patricia told TMZ he died Thursday of kidney failure.
After news of his death,...
- 2/17/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Metrograph
Forman, Spielberg, Hitchcock, and more play as part of “Universal in the ’70s.”
Ronin screens on Friday; King Kong shows this Saturday.
Museum of the Moving Image
Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and New York, New York will screen as part of the ongoing Scorsese retrospective.
The Tilda Swinton-led Teknolust screens this Sunday.
IFC...
Metrograph
Forman, Spielberg, Hitchcock, and more play as part of “Universal in the ’70s.”
Ronin screens on Friday; King Kong shows this Saturday.
Museum of the Moving Image
Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and New York, New York will screen as part of the ongoing Scorsese retrospective.
The Tilda Swinton-led Teknolust screens this Sunday.
IFC...
- 1/27/2017
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
On Tuesday, Cinemovie attended a special “Sneak Beak” event for the upcoming Angry Birds movie based upon the popular mobile video game franchise. The one question that the game developer Rovio gets asked most is, “Why are the birds so angry?” Questions like these and the immense popularity of the franchise propelled Sony to create a mythology behind the game. Producer John Cohen shared some snippets from the film and treated us to a hilarious Q&A with funnymen and Angry Bird voice cast Jason Sudekis, Bill Hader, Josh Gad, and Danny McBride (video below).
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- 2/27/2016
- by info@cinemovie.tv (Ethan Falk)
- CineMovie
Nascar driver Travis Kvapil's #44 ride was jacked from a hotel parking lot -- and TMZ Sports obtained surveillance video of the heist. The car and the truck that hauls it were both stolen out of the Drury Inn parking lot outside Atlanta -- and in the video you can see a Jeep SUV pull into the lot. One person dressed in black gets out of the Jeep, walks across the lot toward the transport...
- 2/27/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
It's never not apparent that this bio-doc from John Cohen is a labor of love — you can tell by the lack of objectivity and production values. But that's not to say it's necessarily a mistake to make a movie about a close friend, especially when your friend is an accomplished, emotionally layered, still unknown, and generally kick-ass lady like visual artist Mary Frank. (The film is presented free at Film Forum from April 16–22 with Tacita Dean's Jg.)
Well-versed in the aesthetics of '60s radicalism, Frank spent most of her life hokey-pokeying in and out of New York's downtown scene, cavorting with Kerouac and Ginsberg in between raising two kids and painting in her East Village studio. We get a topical sense of her trials, or what seem to have been the tria...
Well-versed in the aesthetics of '60s radicalism, Frank spent most of her life hokey-pokeying in and out of New York's downtown scene, cavorting with Kerouac and Ginsberg in between raising two kids and painting in her East Village studio. We get a topical sense of her trials, or what seem to have been the tria...
- 4/16/2014
- Village Voice
As per Joel Coen, “Llewyn Davis (played by Oscar Isaac), is a made up character, with Real music from the time period.” Step into the smoky “Gaslight Cafe” in 1961 where Llewyn is up on stage with a spotlight on him singing, “Hang Me, Oh Hang Me.”
“The Gaslight Cafe” was an American coffee house located in the basement of 116 MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village. The Gaslight (alternatively known as “The Village Gaslight”) opened in 1958 and was a well known venue for folk music and other musical acts, until it closed in 1971.
When Llewyn finishes his set, he is told that there is a man wearing a dark suit in the back alley who wishes to meet him. As he approaches him, he gets beat up. Poor Llewyn, he’s down on his luck, and, in my opinion, born a little too early. Perhaps if he had been playing his songs in the late ’60′s, he would probably have been better received, but because it is 1961, most of the other acts, like “Jim and Jean,” still have a Very clean cut look, personality and sound.
Broke, couch-surfing, locked out of the apartment with his friend’s cat, trying to get singing gigs, a manager who doesn’t help him, an ex-girlfriend who wants nothing to do with him, Llewyn is looking for a break.
Funniest scene: Adam Driver’s singing role as Al Cody in “Please Mr. Kennedy.”
Musical Performances
1. Hang Me, Oh Hang Me – Oscar Isaac
(Traditional; Arranged by Oscar Isaac & T Bone Burnett) 3:26
2. Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song) – Oscar Isaac & Marcus Mumford (Traditional; Arranged by Marcus Mumford, Oscar Isaac, T Bone Burnett) 3:01
3. The Last Thing on My Mind – Stark Sands with Punch Brothers (Tom Paxton) 3:35
4. Five Hundred Miles – Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, Stark Sands (Hedy West) 3:27
5. Please Mr. Kennedy – Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver (Ed Rush, George Cromarty, T Bone Burnett, Justin Timberlake, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) 1:59
6. Green, Green Rocky Road – Oscar Isaac (Len Chandler & Robert Kaufman) 3:18
7. The Death of Queen Jane – Oscar Isaac (Music by Dáithí Sproule; Lyrics: Traditional) 3:58
8. The Roving Gambler – The Down Hill Strugglers with John Cohen (Traditional; Arranged and Adapted by The Down Hill Strugglers) 3:05
9. The Shoals of Herring – Oscar Isaac with Punch Brothers (Ewan MacColl)
Small Interviews
Q: Why do you make movies about failures?
A: Joel Coen: “Because all the success stories have all been done.”
A: T-Bone Burnett: “Even if the scene or moment is supposed to be bad, the music has to be great.”
Q: How did you want it to look?
A: We actually shot more in the East Village than the West Village. Some streets in the East Village aren’t as built up as the modern day MacDougal Street. We wanted something to feel more like it would have in 1961. We did shoot a little in the West Village; Village Cigars, Thompson Street, Jones Street, and MacDougal.
A: Our first thought for the film was to shoot in black and white on 16mm, but that idea fell by the wayside when we started designing shots.
Actress in the film Bonnie Rose, Bette Midler’s stand in for The First Wives Club, and Isn’t She Great, and Dodi Gamble in Inside Llewyn Davis, answered the following questions for me.
Q: If you had to describe the Coen Brothers and then Llewyn Davis in one word, what would they be?
A: It is very hard to say one word about the Coen Brothers…..
I would have to use two words about these two men who are iconic.
The Coen brothers are “Authentic Geniuses.”
The character of Llewyn Davis, is “resolute.”
The New York Film Festival (Sept. 27-Oct.13) is going on now. Los Angeles' own Rose Kuo (formerly director of the AFI FIlm Festival) has notched it up this year as our local newspaper L.A. Times has pointed out to us in perhaps a somewhat condescending way. Nyff was never a "quaint afterthought", but it was not what the Lincoln Center Film Society offered the trade with new offerings of films you can see in its spring festival New Directors/ New Directions. But this year, it is on the trade's map of top fall film festivals for the first time since 1984 when Blood Simple of the Coen Brothers made the trade realize its great value. Covering for SydneysBuzz in New York is Sharon Abella, an occasional writer for SydneysBuzz. Editor-in-chief of One World Cinema ,an internationally-minded website about film, music and travel, Sharon Abella holds multiple degrees in the sciences, and she makes the point that this site would not be possible without the help of God, family, friends, and her life partner, Jon Kilik. We are happy to be able to post her articles on SydneysBuzz.
“The Gaslight Cafe” was an American coffee house located in the basement of 116 MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village. The Gaslight (alternatively known as “The Village Gaslight”) opened in 1958 and was a well known venue for folk music and other musical acts, until it closed in 1971.
When Llewyn finishes his set, he is told that there is a man wearing a dark suit in the back alley who wishes to meet him. As he approaches him, he gets beat up. Poor Llewyn, he’s down on his luck, and, in my opinion, born a little too early. Perhaps if he had been playing his songs in the late ’60′s, he would probably have been better received, but because it is 1961, most of the other acts, like “Jim and Jean,” still have a Very clean cut look, personality and sound.
Broke, couch-surfing, locked out of the apartment with his friend’s cat, trying to get singing gigs, a manager who doesn’t help him, an ex-girlfriend who wants nothing to do with him, Llewyn is looking for a break.
Funniest scene: Adam Driver’s singing role as Al Cody in “Please Mr. Kennedy.”
Musical Performances
1. Hang Me, Oh Hang Me – Oscar Isaac
(Traditional; Arranged by Oscar Isaac & T Bone Burnett) 3:26
2. Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song) – Oscar Isaac & Marcus Mumford (Traditional; Arranged by Marcus Mumford, Oscar Isaac, T Bone Burnett) 3:01
3. The Last Thing on My Mind – Stark Sands with Punch Brothers (Tom Paxton) 3:35
4. Five Hundred Miles – Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, Stark Sands (Hedy West) 3:27
5. Please Mr. Kennedy – Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver (Ed Rush, George Cromarty, T Bone Burnett, Justin Timberlake, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) 1:59
6. Green, Green Rocky Road – Oscar Isaac (Len Chandler & Robert Kaufman) 3:18
7. The Death of Queen Jane – Oscar Isaac (Music by Dáithí Sproule; Lyrics: Traditional) 3:58
8. The Roving Gambler – The Down Hill Strugglers with John Cohen (Traditional; Arranged and Adapted by The Down Hill Strugglers) 3:05
9. The Shoals of Herring – Oscar Isaac with Punch Brothers (Ewan MacColl)
Small Interviews
Q: Why do you make movies about failures?
A: Joel Coen: “Because all the success stories have all been done.”
A: T-Bone Burnett: “Even if the scene or moment is supposed to be bad, the music has to be great.”
Q: How did you want it to look?
A: We actually shot more in the East Village than the West Village. Some streets in the East Village aren’t as built up as the modern day MacDougal Street. We wanted something to feel more like it would have in 1961. We did shoot a little in the West Village; Village Cigars, Thompson Street, Jones Street, and MacDougal.
A: Our first thought for the film was to shoot in black and white on 16mm, but that idea fell by the wayside when we started designing shots.
Actress in the film Bonnie Rose, Bette Midler’s stand in for The First Wives Club, and Isn’t She Great, and Dodi Gamble in Inside Llewyn Davis, answered the following questions for me.
Q: If you had to describe the Coen Brothers and then Llewyn Davis in one word, what would they be?
A: It is very hard to say one word about the Coen Brothers…..
I would have to use two words about these two men who are iconic.
The Coen brothers are “Authentic Geniuses.”
The character of Llewyn Davis, is “resolute.”
The New York Film Festival (Sept. 27-Oct.13) is going on now. Los Angeles' own Rose Kuo (formerly director of the AFI FIlm Festival) has notched it up this year as our local newspaper L.A. Times has pointed out to us in perhaps a somewhat condescending way. Nyff was never a "quaint afterthought", but it was not what the Lincoln Center Film Society offered the trade with new offerings of films you can see in its spring festival New Directors/ New Directions. But this year, it is on the trade's map of top fall film festivals for the first time since 1984 when Blood Simple of the Coen Brothers made the trade realize its great value. Covering for SydneysBuzz in New York is Sharon Abella, an occasional writer for SydneysBuzz. Editor-in-chief of One World Cinema ,an internationally-minded website about film, music and travel, Sharon Abella holds multiple degrees in the sciences, and she makes the point that this site would not be possible without the help of God, family, friends, and her life partner, Jon Kilik. We are happy to be able to post her articles on SydneysBuzz.
- 10/1/2013
- by Sharon Abella
- Sydney's Buzz
The latest trailer for "Inside Llewyn Davis" offers fans a first listen at Marcus Mumford's cover of "Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song)."
Co-sung by Mumford and "Inside Llewyn Davis" star Oscar Isaac, the track, a traditional folk favorite, was arranged by Mumford, Isaac and T Bone Burnett.
Beyond that tease, the new trailer for "Inside Llewyn Davis" provides more information about the film, which Joel and Ethan Coen co-wrote and co-directed. CBS Films will release "Inside Llewyn Davis" on Dec. 6 and it's expected to be a major player at the 2014 Oscars.
Check out the soundtrack listing below, via Rolling Stone.
"Hang Me, Oh Hang Me" (Traditional; arranged by Oscar Isaac and T Bone Burnett) – Oscar Isaac "Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song)" (Traditional; arranged by Marcus Mumford, Oscar Isaac and T Bone Burnett) – Marcus Mumford and Oscar Isaac "The Last Thing on My Mind" (Tom Paxton) – Stark Sands with Punch Brothers...
Co-sung by Mumford and "Inside Llewyn Davis" star Oscar Isaac, the track, a traditional folk favorite, was arranged by Mumford, Isaac and T Bone Burnett.
Beyond that tease, the new trailer for "Inside Llewyn Davis" provides more information about the film, which Joel and Ethan Coen co-wrote and co-directed. CBS Films will release "Inside Llewyn Davis" on Dec. 6 and it's expected to be a major player at the 2014 Oscars.
Check out the soundtrack listing below, via Rolling Stone.
"Hang Me, Oh Hang Me" (Traditional; arranged by Oscar Isaac and T Bone Burnett) – Oscar Isaac "Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song)" (Traditional; arranged by Marcus Mumford, Oscar Isaac and T Bone Burnett) – Marcus Mumford and Oscar Isaac "The Last Thing on My Mind" (Tom Paxton) – Stark Sands with Punch Brothers...
- 7/1/2013
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
Hey, you're not still trudging through the hard-to-beat "Dark Souls," are you? I mean, you've already beaten it, posted a speed run, and you're wondering why FromSoftware made the game so easy.
Ah, I'm kidding, that game was nuts, but there's a third "Souls" game on the way from creator Hidetaka Miyazaki, who's supervising the in-production "Dark Souls II" for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3.
The trailer doesn't give any hints as to how the gameplay will be different this time out (although we do get to see some new enemies), but the press release from publisher Namco Bandai promises "a new hero, a new storyline, and an unfamiliar world for players to survive in, while delivering the uncompromising challenge and ultimate sense of empowerment that players hunger for." At the same time, the information-sharing across games will also be getting a revamp in the sequel in what's being promised...
Ah, I'm kidding, that game was nuts, but there's a third "Souls" game on the way from creator Hidetaka Miyazaki, who's supervising the in-production "Dark Souls II" for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3.
The trailer doesn't give any hints as to how the gameplay will be different this time out (although we do get to see some new enemies), but the press release from publisher Namco Bandai promises "a new hero, a new storyline, and an unfamiliar world for players to survive in, while delivering the uncompromising challenge and ultimate sense of empowerment that players hunger for." At the same time, the information-sharing across games will also be getting a revamp in the sequel in what's being promised...
- 12/12/2012
- by Charles Webb
- MTV Multiplayer
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