Review by Dane Marti
Angry Birds is a film experience of monumental proportions—if gauged by the excited kids in the theater. Basically, the story centers around an angry red bird living amidst a colorful array of other flightless birds on a small island somewhere in the world. The birds are all colorfully plumed and seem to be awfully well adjusted. Some might say, too well adjusted for their own good. I’m not exactly sure why the birds are unable to fly, but that must have been a major element of the original game that this film grew from.
Red bird is Angry. He’s hot under the feathers! Like many of us non-cartoon humans—at least I like to think I’m not a cartoon! –Red bird has seriously intense anger issues, and near the start of his amusing film, he finds himself in a class with other malcontents.
Angry Birds is a film experience of monumental proportions—if gauged by the excited kids in the theater. Basically, the story centers around an angry red bird living amidst a colorful array of other flightless birds on a small island somewhere in the world. The birds are all colorfully plumed and seem to be awfully well adjusted. Some might say, too well adjusted for their own good. I’m not exactly sure why the birds are unable to fly, but that must have been a major element of the original game that this film grew from.
Red bird is Angry. He’s hot under the feathers! Like many of us non-cartoon humans—at least I like to think I’m not a cartoon! –Red bird has seriously intense anger issues, and near the start of his amusing film, he finds himself in a class with other malcontents.
- 5/20/2016
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
That game you used to play is getting a full-length feature and the trailer gives us a first look at favourite characters like Nameless Red Bird and Black Blowy-Up Bird
Angry Birds is the red-hot iPhone app of the moment. It’s literally a one-in-a-million sensation. Your friends can’t stop playing it. The world’s edgiest comedians can’t stop referencing it – and now it’s heading to the big screen! What sort of blockbus… oh, hang on, my fault, sorry. I thought it was 2012. Let me start again.
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Angry Birds is the red-hot iPhone app of the moment. It’s literally a one-in-a-million sensation. Your friends can’t stop playing it. The world’s edgiest comedians can’t stop referencing it – and now it’s heading to the big screen! What sort of blockbus… oh, hang on, my fault, sorry. I thought it was 2012. Let me start again.
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- 9/23/2015
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
How I Met Your Mother returned from its winter hiatus with an episode that returned one of the hit sitcoms most enduring tropes – Slapsgiving.
'How I Met Your Mother' Recap
With just 10 episodes remaining in How I Met Your Mother’s final season, Marshall (Jason Segel) has just two free slaps left for Barney (Neil Patrick Harris). Leading up to the penultimate slap, Marshall takes his wife and friends on a mystical journey of his imagination in which he encountered a trio of sage masters who teach him “The Slap of a Thousand Exploding Suns.”
Red Bird & White Flower
The first stop on his yearlong enlightenment trek is for The Cruel Tutelage of Red Bird (aka an Asian costumed Cobie Smulders). Red Bird’s task is to teach Marshall speed, which he practices on a quick-limbed tree. Though the tree initially gets the better of him, Marshall prevails...
'How I Met Your Mother' Recap
With just 10 episodes remaining in How I Met Your Mother’s final season, Marshall (Jason Segel) has just two free slaps left for Barney (Neil Patrick Harris). Leading up to the penultimate slap, Marshall takes his wife and friends on a mystical journey of his imagination in which he encountered a trio of sage masters who teach him “The Slap of a Thousand Exploding Suns.”
Red Bird & White Flower
The first stop on his yearlong enlightenment trek is for The Cruel Tutelage of Red Bird (aka an Asian costumed Cobie Smulders). Red Bird’s task is to teach Marshall speed, which he practices on a quick-limbed tree. Though the tree initially gets the better of him, Marshall prevails...
- 1/14/2014
- Uinterview
How I Met Your Mother returned from its winter hiatus with an episode that returned one of the hit sitcoms most enduring tropes – Slapsgiving.
'How I Met Your Mother' Recap
With just 10 episodes remaining in How I Met Your Mother’s final season, Marshall (Jason Segel) has just two free slaps left for Barney (Neil Patrick Harris). Leading up to the penultimate slap, Marshall takes his wife and friends on a mystical journey of his imagination in which he encountered a trio of sage masters who teach him “The Slap of a Thousand Exploding Suns.”
Red Bird & White Flower
The first stop on his yearlong enlightenment trek is for The Cruel Tutelage of Red Bird (aka an Asian costumed Cobie Smulders). Red Bird’s task is to teach Marshall speed, which he practices on a quick-limbed tree. Though the tree initially gets the better of him, Marshall prevails...
'How I Met Your Mother' Recap
With just 10 episodes remaining in How I Met Your Mother’s final season, Marshall (Jason Segel) has just two free slaps left for Barney (Neil Patrick Harris). Leading up to the penultimate slap, Marshall takes his wife and friends on a mystical journey of his imagination in which he encountered a trio of sage masters who teach him “The Slap of a Thousand Exploding Suns.”
Red Bird & White Flower
The first stop on his yearlong enlightenment trek is for The Cruel Tutelage of Red Bird (aka an Asian costumed Cobie Smulders). Red Bird’s task is to teach Marshall speed, which he practices on a quick-limbed tree. Though the tree initially gets the better of him, Marshall prevails...
- 1/14/2014
- Uinterview
Happy Slapsgiving! Well, maybe not so happy for Barney — or for How I Met Your Mother viewers, for that matter, because the deployment of Marshall’s final slaps marks the sitcom’s impending finale. But fret not: One slap and 10 episodes remain.
Also, to ease your pain: Boyz II Men sang “You Just Got Slapped,” guys! Someone please upload that to YouTube, Asap… (Update: Here it is!)
But we’re getting ahead of ourselves: “Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmara” follows season 3′s “Slapsgiving” and season 5′s “Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap” as Marshall makes good on his Slap Bet...
Also, to ease your pain: Boyz II Men sang “You Just Got Slapped,” guys! Someone please upload that to YouTube, Asap… (Update: Here it is!)
But we’re getting ahead of ourselves: “Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmara” follows season 3′s “Slapsgiving” and season 5′s “Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap” as Marshall makes good on his Slap Bet...
- 1/14/2014
- by Katie Atkinson
- EW.com - PopWatch
If you thought "Angry Birds Space" was the final frontier for those feathered pig hunters, think again. "Angry Birds Star Wars" blasts off on Nov. 8 and will be available for iOS, Android, Amazon Kindle Fire, Mac, PC, Windows Phone and Windows 8.
"This is the best Angry Birds game we've ever done," Peter Vesterbacka, Cmo of Rovio Entertainment, which partnered up with LucasFilm for the new game, says in a statement. "It's the best parts of Angry Birds with all new cutting-edge gameplay set in in a galaxy far, far away. As a big 'Star Wars' fan myself, I'm really excited about this new universe. The Force is definitely strong with this one."
But don't just expect the birds and pigs to be wearing "Star Wars" costumes.
"They are not Angry Birds dressed up as Star Wars characters," Paul Southern, vice president of licensing and consumer products marketing for Lucasfilm Ltd.
"This is the best Angry Birds game we've ever done," Peter Vesterbacka, Cmo of Rovio Entertainment, which partnered up with LucasFilm for the new game, says in a statement. "It's the best parts of Angry Birds with all new cutting-edge gameplay set in in a galaxy far, far away. As a big 'Star Wars' fan myself, I'm really excited about this new universe. The Force is definitely strong with this one."
But don't just expect the birds and pigs to be wearing "Star Wars" costumes.
"They are not Angry Birds dressed up as Star Wars characters," Paul Southern, vice president of licensing and consumer products marketing for Lucasfilm Ltd.
- 10/8/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
What would happen if one of the biggest sci-fi/fantasy franchises and on the most successful mobile gaming franchises of all time joined forces? We may find out sooner you think as Rovio recently teased what could be their biggest crossover ever – Angry Birds Star Wars!
Earlier today Rovio posted the following on Twitter, accompanied by the image you see above:
Shortly after that an official Tumblr page appeared showing off the same image, this time as an animated Gif that made things much more clear and leads us to believe that some sort of Star Wars / Angry Birds crossover is just around the corner.
Rovio hasn't shared any specific details, but if the lightsaber action seen above isn't a dead giveaway I don't know what is. Stay tuned, as we'll surely have more information to share with you very soon.
Update: Almost immediately after writing this we stumbled across...
Earlier today Rovio posted the following on Twitter, accompanied by the image you see above:
Shortly after that an official Tumblr page appeared showing off the same image, this time as an animated Gif that made things much more clear and leads us to believe that some sort of Star Wars / Angry Birds crossover is just around the corner.
Rovio hasn't shared any specific details, but if the lightsaber action seen above isn't a dead giveaway I don't know what is. Stay tuned, as we'll surely have more information to share with you very soon.
Update: Almost immediately after writing this we stumbled across...
- 10/5/2012
- by Don Hatfield
- MTV Multiplayer
With the exception of, in some cases, Bad Santa, most would agree that Billy Bob Thornton‘s best, recent outing would have to be Friday Night Lights — he and Peter Berg are in this same camp, now that I think about it — which, having an overactive mind, gets me thinking history played a big part in this next career step. Or, maybe he just likes baseball.
According to Variety, he and Edward Burns are taking the top spots in Three Nights, director David Anspaugh‘s (Rudy, Hoosiers) big-screen take on Three Nights in August, a sports memoir from… Friday Night Lights author H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger. (Yes, that’s what I took too long to build up to.) Unlike that seminal account of high school football, however, Three Nights is a fictionalized portrayal of strategic choices made by St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony Larussa during a three-game, 2003 series against the Chicago Cubs.
According to Variety, he and Edward Burns are taking the top spots in Three Nights, director David Anspaugh‘s (Rudy, Hoosiers) big-screen take on Three Nights in August, a sports memoir from… Friday Night Lights author H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger. (Yes, that’s what I took too long to build up to.) Unlike that seminal account of high school football, however, Three Nights is a fictionalized portrayal of strategic choices made by St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony Larussa during a three-game, 2003 series against the Chicago Cubs.
- 6/7/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Red Bird Cinema will co-produce four projects with producer Jeff Waxman, as well as Edward Burns and Aaron Lubin of Marlboro Road Gang Productions, the partners said Wednesday. In addition, the production companies are making plans to acquire and develop new projects. Red Bird's executive and creative team includes producer John Loar, actor and producer Kevin Pollak, actor Billy Bob Thornton and baseball manager Tony Larussa. Marlboro Road's Burns and Lubin are best known for directing and producing indie films like "The Brothers McMullen", "She's the One", "Sidewalks of New York", and "Newlyweds." Also...
- 6/6/2012
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
All realities collided in "Two Birds" - and things aren’t looking so good for Britten.
While I thought the conspiracy might be contained in the red reality, it’s looking more and more likely that may not be the case, and it shouldn’t be. The repercussions of the accident ripple out in both realities, and they both have lasting consequences on Britten because of it. Therefore, it then becomes a question of who can Britten trust, because he can’t involve his family, and both Dr. Lee and Dr. Evans refused to believe his predicament.
It’s hard not to blame them. Britten looks like someone who’s finally experienced a mental break. Jason Isaacs portrayed it physically as well. Many times a character that suffers a mental break still looks completely put together. Michael, on the other hand, isn’t clean-shaven and doesn’t look like he’s slept in days.
While I thought the conspiracy might be contained in the red reality, it’s looking more and more likely that may not be the case, and it shouldn’t be. The repercussions of the accident ripple out in both realities, and they both have lasting consequences on Britten because of it. Therefore, it then becomes a question of who can Britten trust, because he can’t involve his family, and both Dr. Lee and Dr. Evans refused to believe his predicament.
It’s hard not to blame them. Britten looks like someone who’s finally experienced a mental break. Jason Isaacs portrayed it physically as well. Many times a character that suffers a mental break still looks completely put together. Michael, on the other hand, isn’t clean-shaven and doesn’t look like he’s slept in days.
- 5/18/2012
- by snickrz@gmail.com (Nick McHatton)
- TVfanatic
"In the week where the film industry honor the six decade career of the late director Ken Russell, comes the announcement of the death of Christopher Logue," writes Rhett Bartlett. "Mr Logue wrote the screenplay for Ken Russell's sole film in 1972 — Savage Messiah," a biopic based on the life of French sculptor Henri-Gaudier Brzeska. "One year before his screenplay, Mr Logue appeared in Ken Russell's 1971 bold film — The Devils, as Cardinal Richelieu, the French clergyman who begins the film by influencing Louis Xiii to raze fortified castles and suppress feudal nobility." Bartlett also notes that Logue appeared as the "Spaghetti-eating Fanatic" in Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky and "made a brief appearance in Jerzy Skolimowski's Moonlighting (1982) and 19 years later in [Charles Shyer's] The Affair of the Necklace. Christopher Logue died on 2 December 2011, five days after Ken Russell."
"'Now hear this' — the three words that Christopher Logue, who has...
"'Now hear this' — the three words that Christopher Logue, who has...
- 12/8/2011
- MUBI
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