It has not been an easy week. At the start of the week, we had our editorial meeting here at HitFix, as we do every Monday, to talk about both the week ahead and longer-term projects as well. For fairly obvious reasons, there was a fair amount of talk about Valentine's Day content, and I mentioned a few different ideas that I might write about, including one that I'll end up publishing at some point about Steve Martin. But even as I pitched a few ideas, I found myself uncomfortable with the entire idea of writing about romantic films right now. Honestly, I was hoping to spend this week with my head down and then just sail right through this weekend without writing about love at all, because for the first time in my adult life, I am no longer sure what I think about it. After all, I was with my wife for 14 years.
- 2/14/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
Truth be told, if Anakin Skywalker were never seduced by the Dark Side, we wouldn't have Darth Vader. And if we didn't have Darth Vader, we wouldn't have the first three Star Wars movies. Instead, we might have some silly dysfunctional family comedy about the trials and tribulations of a lightsaber-wielding Jedi trying to juggle dad duties while protecting the universe... or something. And if that family comedy was a comic strip, it might look a little something like these adorable fan-made images from Italian artist Renata Castellani [via GeekxGirls] that imagines a world where Luke and Leia grew up together alongside a loving dad and a Padme who didn't die right after giving birth. Oh, what could've...
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- 5/24/2014
- by Erik Davis
- Movies.com
Iron Sky
Directed by Timo Vuorensola
Written by Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko
Finland/Germany/Australia, 2012
When you hear “Space Nazis,” certain episodes of Star Trek come into mind. A popular theme in works of science fiction, it is a phrase coined with the idea of Nazis settling on the Moon after their defeat in World War II, not to mention it being a popular conspiracy theory.
Iron Sky is the latest reimagining of this theory.
The film is set in 2018. James Washington (Christopher Kirkby), a black male model, is sent to the Moon in a bid to help the President (Stephanie Paul) be re-elected. He is captured by the Nazis, who have been based on the dark side of the moon since 1945, and subsequently becomes involved in their plan to invade and rule Earth.
Even before its release, Iron Sky faced controversy in the UK due to the distributor...
Directed by Timo Vuorensola
Written by Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko
Finland/Germany/Australia, 2012
When you hear “Space Nazis,” certain episodes of Star Trek come into mind. A popular theme in works of science fiction, it is a phrase coined with the idea of Nazis settling on the Moon after their defeat in World War II, not to mention it being a popular conspiracy theory.
Iron Sky is the latest reimagining of this theory.
The film is set in 2018. James Washington (Christopher Kirkby), a black male model, is sent to the Moon in a bid to help the President (Stephanie Paul) be re-elected. He is captured by the Nazis, who have been based on the dark side of the moon since 1945, and subsequently becomes involved in their plan to invade and rule Earth.
Even before its release, Iron Sky faced controversy in the UK due to the distributor...
- 5/26/2012
- by Katie Wong
- SoundOnSight
Jonathan Franzen's family epic, a new collection from Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin's love letters, a memoir centred on tiny Japanese sculptures ... which books most excited our writers this year?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
- 11/27/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Photo by Pop Culture Passionistas
Costume designer extraordinaire, Edith Head, is alive and well and living in Burbank. At least, that is, through this weekend when the run of A Conversation with Edith Head, a one-woman show about the costumer, comes to an end. Susan Claassen has been bringing Head to life at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood since September 23. If you have not had a chance to see the show, call for tickets now, before it closes on October 24.
Claassen, an actress/writer/director/producer, began her journey with Edith Head nine years ago, when she was watching the Biography channel. She was astounded at the physical similarity she bore to the Hollywood legend and thought her story was fascinating. In a recent interview Susan told us, "That was the first impetus to explore the possibility."
After researching a bit and contacting the Motion Picture and Television Fund,...
Costume designer extraordinaire, Edith Head, is alive and well and living in Burbank. At least, that is, through this weekend when the run of A Conversation with Edith Head, a one-woman show about the costumer, comes to an end. Susan Claassen has been bringing Head to life at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood since September 23. If you have not had a chance to see the show, call for tickets now, before it closes on October 24.
Claassen, an actress/writer/director/producer, began her journey with Edith Head nine years ago, when she was watching the Biography channel. She was astounded at the physical similarity she bore to the Hollywood legend and thought her story was fascinating. In a recent interview Susan told us, "That was the first impetus to explore the possibility."
After researching a bit and contacting the Motion Picture and Television Fund,...
- 10/20/2010
- by Pop Culture Passionistas
- popculturepassionistas
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