Happy! leans even further into the depravity fans know and love it for, but at what cost to the story?
This Happy! review contains no spoilers.
When Syfy decided to transform Grant Morrison’s Happy! comic book series into a TV show, many were understandably taken aback. Not because of the graph novel’s intensely violent and crude subject matter (which the first season unabashedly dove head-first into), but for the length. The limited series ran for only four issues. The first season of Happy!, meanwhile, consisted of eight hour-long episodes. How the hell does that work?
Depending on who you ask, it either does or doesn’t. But Syfy and the show’s fans were happy enough with the result, which is why Happy! is back for a second season consisting of yet another eight episodes. This time, however, Morrison, executive producer and director Brian Taylor, writer and associate...
This Happy! review contains no spoilers.
When Syfy decided to transform Grant Morrison’s Happy! comic book series into a TV show, many were understandably taken aback. Not because of the graph novel’s intensely violent and crude subject matter (which the first season unabashedly dove head-first into), but for the length. The limited series ran for only four issues. The first season of Happy!, meanwhile, consisted of eight hour-long episodes. How the hell does that work?
Depending on who you ask, it either does or doesn’t. But Syfy and the show’s fans were happy enough with the result, which is why Happy! is back for a second season consisting of yet another eight episodes. This time, however, Morrison, executive producer and director Brian Taylor, writer and associate...
- 3/25/2019
- Den of Geek
Debbie Reynolds ca. early 1950s. Debbie Reynolds movies: Oscar nominee for 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown,' sweetness and light in phony 'The Singing Nun' Debbie Reynolds is Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” star today, Aug. 23, '15. An MGM contract player from 1950 to 1959, Reynolds' movies can be seen just about every week on TCM. The only premiere on Debbie Reynolds Day is Jerry Paris' lively marital comedy How Sweet It Is (1968), costarring James Garner. This evening, TCM is showing Divorce American Style, The Catered Affair, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and The Singing Nun. 'Divorce American Style,' 'The Catered Affair' Directed by the recently deceased Bud Yorkin, Divorce American Style (1967) is notable for its cast – Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke, Jean Simmons, Jason Robards, Van Johnson, Lee Grant – and for the fact that it earned Norman Lear (screenplay) and Robert Kaufman (story) a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award nomination.
- 8/24/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
This year's Vatican Christmas concert will have everything: cardinals, bishops, and Patti Smith, who is headlining the gig after a personal invitation from Pope Francis. The Pope appears to be curating the concert himself, which is just one more thing he has in common with Lorde. Pope Francis and Patti shook hands at the Vatican last year, and we like to imagine they've stayed pen pals ever since — still, this might be a good opportunity for Smith to break out the less-blasphemous version of "Gloria" she sometimes does in concert. The singing nun who won the Italian version of The Voice will also make an appearance, but that was slightly more predictable.
- 11/14/2014
- by Nate Jones
- Vulture
Yep, that's Sister Cristina Scuccia covering the controversial 1984 track.
Talk about a new take on an old classic.
The singing nun from Italy's version of The Voice made headlines by covering iconic pop hits like Madonna's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and Alicia Keys' "No One," eventually earning her a recording contract with Universal. Now, Sister Cristina Scuccia, 26, has unveiled her first single – and it's a doozy.
Pics: Madonna is 56 and Still Lookin' Good
Sister Cristina has transformed Madonna's "Like a Virgin" from upbeat, '80s pop to a stripped-down "secular prayer."
"If you read the lyrics without being influenced by what has gone before, you discover that it is a song about the capacity of love to make people new again, to release them from their past," she told Italian newspaper Avvenire, as translated by The Huffington Post.
The music may be decidedly different, but Sister Cristina did offer a nod to...
Talk about a new take on an old classic.
The singing nun from Italy's version of The Voice made headlines by covering iconic pop hits like Madonna's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and Alicia Keys' "No One," eventually earning her a recording contract with Universal. Now, Sister Cristina Scuccia, 26, has unveiled her first single – and it's a doozy.
Pics: Madonna is 56 and Still Lookin' Good
Sister Cristina has transformed Madonna's "Like a Virgin" from upbeat, '80s pop to a stripped-down "secular prayer."
"If you read the lyrics without being influenced by what has gone before, you discover that it is a song about the capacity of love to make people new again, to release them from their past," she told Italian newspaper Avvenire, as translated by The Huffington Post.
The music may be decidedly different, but Sister Cristina did offer a nod to...
- 10/21/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
The singing nun, who earlier this year became a viral sensation, on Thursday night won The Voice of Italy, which airs on public broadcaster Rai. Sister Cristina Scuccia's performance of Alicia Keys hit " No One" earlier this year during the audition period of the singing competition drew more than 4 million online views within two days and has since reached more than 50 million views. The 25-year-old nun of the Ursuline Sisters of the Holy Family also had success with her blind audition on the show. Her performance turned all four chairs, as coaches Raffaella Carra, J-Ax,
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- 6/6/2014
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Canadian actor Larry D Mann has died, aged 91.
Mann was perhaps best known for playing the train conductor in The Sting and voicing Yukon Cornelius in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
He was also known for his many TV appearances including Howdy Doody and MacGyver.
Mann also had roles in dozens of other shows during his long career, including My Favourite Martian, Get Smart, The Man From Uncle, Quincy Me and The Dukes Of Hazzard.
The character actor also had a recurring role as a judge on Hill Street Blues.
In film, he had parts in Robin And The 7 Hoods, The Singing Nun, In The Heat of the Night and The Octogon.
Mann was perhaps best known for playing the train conductor in The Sting and voicing Yukon Cornelius in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
He was also known for his many TV appearances including Howdy Doody and MacGyver.
Mann also had roles in dozens of other shows during his long career, including My Favourite Martian, Get Smart, The Man From Uncle, Quincy Me and The Dukes Of Hazzard.
The character actor also had a recurring role as a judge on Hill Street Blues.
In film, he had parts in Robin And The 7 Hoods, The Singing Nun, In The Heat of the Night and The Octogon.
- 1/8/2014
- Digital Spy
First off, let me give full credit where it is due for that headline - I first heard the genius title mashup "The Diary of Anne Frankenstein" in gay horror director Joshua Grannell's (aka Peaches Christ) wonderfully demented horror comedy All About Evil. (It also later appeared in the anthology flick Chillerama.) But I'm delighted that American Horror Story gave me the perfect opportunity to use it. Martyred Jewish teenagers and mad scientists - they go together like chocolate and peanut butter! ("You've got your martyred Jewish teen in my mad scientist!" "No, you've got your mad scientist in my martyred Jewish teen!")
Anyway, for once we don't start an episode with Jenna Dewan Tatum squawking to raise the dead and Adam Levine using his remaining arm to text his agent for a way the hell out of what was supposed to be a 5-minute cameo, and Thank God For That.
Anyway, for once we don't start an episode with Jenna Dewan Tatum squawking to raise the dead and Adam Levine using his remaining arm to text his agent for a way the hell out of what was supposed to be a 5-minute cameo, and Thank God For That.
- 11/8/2012
- by brian
- The Backlot
Dear Lord. After a sprawling, whiz-bang premiere, this week American Horror Story: Asylum slowed down the pace just a titch (what, no aliens this week?!) but still managed to pack in an exorcism, a hit-and-run, and some awesomely bitchy dialog. Let's visit Briarcliff and see what's up with our favorite crazies, shall we?
Jenna Dewan Tatum screams and runs, screams and runs. This must be what Justin Bieber's life sounds like. She grabs Adam Levine by his remaining arm and tries to drag him to safety - but just as she gets him to the big steel door, Bloody Face grabs his legs and yanks him in the other direction. Make a wish!
Unfortunately, he doesn't snap in two. She slams the door and watches through the glory hole as ol' Parakeet Puss perforates her hubby with his lobotomy-thingy:
Bloody Face then starts banging on the door like it...
Jenna Dewan Tatum screams and runs, screams and runs. This must be what Justin Bieber's life sounds like. She grabs Adam Levine by his remaining arm and tries to drag him to safety - but just as she gets him to the big steel door, Bloody Face grabs his legs and yanks him in the other direction. Make a wish!
Unfortunately, he doesn't snap in two. She slams the door and watches through the glory hole as ol' Parakeet Puss perforates her hubby with his lobotomy-thingy:
Bloody Face then starts banging on the door like it...
- 10/25/2012
- by brian
- The Backlot
Belgium's most celebrated film-makers discuss the challenges of working together and their new award-winning film The Kid With a Bike
Liège is grim, but Seraing, a half-hour bus ride away, is even grimmer. It's a wasteland of broken windows, abandoned factories and unchecked graffiti. It's in Seraing that you can find the tomb of British-born John Cockerill, who in the early 19th century revolutionised the steel industry and helped to turn the region into the first fully industrialised area in continental Europe."When we were at school, it was still busy," says Jean-Pierre Dardenne. "There were shops, lots of people … Now in places there's 25% unemployment."
The Dardenne brothers, Belgium's most celebrated film-makers, grew up in Seraing, and it's here that they set their films. The town is so palpable in their work that it is almost a character in its own right.
We meet in the offices of Les Films...
Liège is grim, but Seraing, a half-hour bus ride away, is even grimmer. It's a wasteland of broken windows, abandoned factories and unchecked graffiti. It's in Seraing that you can find the tomb of British-born John Cockerill, who in the early 19th century revolutionised the steel industry and helped to turn the region into the first fully industrialised area in continental Europe."When we were at school, it was still busy," says Jean-Pierre Dardenne. "There were shops, lots of people … Now in places there's 25% unemployment."
The Dardenne brothers, Belgium's most celebrated film-makers, grew up in Seraing, and it's here that they set their films. The town is so palpable in their work that it is almost a character in its own right.
We meet in the offices of Les Films...
- 3/16/2012
- by Anne Billson
- The Guardian - Film News
Pert, pretty, multi-talented, actress-singer-dancer-Hollywood collector Debbie Reynolds is Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Day on Friday, August 18, as TCM continues its "Summer Under the Stars" series. TCM is presenting 13 Debbie Reynolds movies. [Debbie Reynolds Movie Schedule.] Fans of Gene Kelly's Singin' in the Rain (1952) will be able to watch the romantic comedy-musical for the 118th time. I'm not one of them; in fact, I much prefer Kelly and Stanley Donen's On the Town (1949), and I'd say that George Sidney's Show Boat (1951) and Donen's Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) are my favorite musicals of the 1950s. But fan or no, there's much to enjoy in Singin' in the Rain, including Reynolds and Donald O'Connor's performances, several great songs from the 1920s, and Jean Hagen's high-pitched mix of Norma Talmadge, (the British) Mabel Poulton, and Corinne Griffith. The iconic "Singin' in the Rain" number is one of my least favorite...
- 8/20/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
DVD Playhouse: January 2011
By
Allen Gardner
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (20th Century Fox) Sequel to the seminal 1980s film catches up with a weathered, but still determined Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, who seems to savor every syllable of Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff’s screenplay) just out of jail and back on the comeback trail. In attempting to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan), Gekko forges a reluctant alliance with her fiancé (Shia Labeouf), himself an ambitious young turk who finds himself seduced by Gekko’s silver tongue and promise of riches. Lifeless film is further evidence of director Oliver Stone’s decline. Once America’s most exciting filmmaker, Stone hasn’t delivered a film with any teeth since 1995’s Nixon. Labeouf and Mulligan generate no sparks on-screen, and the story feels forced from the protracted opening to the final, Disney-esque denouement. Only a brief cameo by Charlie Sheen,...
By
Allen Gardner
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (20th Century Fox) Sequel to the seminal 1980s film catches up with a weathered, but still determined Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, who seems to savor every syllable of Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff’s screenplay) just out of jail and back on the comeback trail. In attempting to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan), Gekko forges a reluctant alliance with her fiancé (Shia Labeouf), himself an ambitious young turk who finds himself seduced by Gekko’s silver tongue and promise of riches. Lifeless film is further evidence of director Oliver Stone’s decline. Once America’s most exciting filmmaker, Stone hasn’t delivered a film with any teeth since 1995’s Nixon. Labeouf and Mulligan generate no sparks on-screen, and the story feels forced from the protracted opening to the final, Disney-esque denouement. Only a brief cameo by Charlie Sheen,...
- 1/21/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
No 41: Debbie Reynolds, 1932-
She was born in Texas, her father a railway carpenter, and raised in Los Angeles, a stone's throw from Warner Brothers, who signed her up at 16 but shortly thereafter let her go to MGM. Every studio had a roster of ingénues and girls-next-door, and she appeared in endless movies as a pert kid. Her 1955 marriage to Eddie Fisher made them the ideal couple of the Eisenhower years, though the idyll was smashed when he left her for Elizabeth Taylor. Reynolds was one of the top 10 box-office stars in 1959, but her movie career soon went into decline. She was, however, to work regularly in TV and nightclubs and on stage way into her 60s.
She cites the saccharine The Singing Nun (1966), in which she played the wimpled Belgian singer "Soeur Sourire", as her favourite film. Yet in truth she only made three really memorable appearances, one...
She was born in Texas, her father a railway carpenter, and raised in Los Angeles, a stone's throw from Warner Brothers, who signed her up at 16 but shortly thereafter let her go to MGM. Every studio had a roster of ingénues and girls-next-door, and she appeared in endless movies as a pert kid. Her 1955 marriage to Eddie Fisher made them the ideal couple of the Eisenhower years, though the idyll was smashed when he left her for Elizabeth Taylor. Reynolds was one of the top 10 box-office stars in 1959, but her movie career soon went into decline. She was, however, to work regularly in TV and nightclubs and on stage way into her 60s.
She cites the saccharine The Singing Nun (1966), in which she played the wimpled Belgian singer "Soeur Sourire", as her favourite film. Yet in truth she only made three really memorable appearances, one...
- 12/28/2008
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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