Ahead of American Ultra’s release in UK cinemas, we look at the rise of the stoner in film, from the 30s to the present...
"The motion picture you are about to witness may startle you. It would not have been possible, otherwise, to sufficiently emphasize the frightful toll of the new drug menace which is destroying the youth of America in alarmingly increasing numbers. Marihuana is that drug - a violent narcotic - an unspeakable scourge - the Real Public Enemy Number One!
So reads the opening crawl to the now infamous film Reefer Madness. Originally released in 1936, it was designed as a hard-hitting expose of marijuana and its inherent dangers. The drug could cause "violent, uncontrollable laughter," the movie's introduction read. It could induce "dangerous hallucinations," "monstrous extravagances," all eventually leading to "shocking acts of physical violence... ending often in incurable insanity."
Reefer Madness was one of many...
"The motion picture you are about to witness may startle you. It would not have been possible, otherwise, to sufficiently emphasize the frightful toll of the new drug menace which is destroying the youth of America in alarmingly increasing numbers. Marihuana is that drug - a violent narcotic - an unspeakable scourge - the Real Public Enemy Number One!
So reads the opening crawl to the now infamous film Reefer Madness. Originally released in 1936, it was designed as a hard-hitting expose of marijuana and its inherent dangers. The drug could cause "violent, uncontrollable laughter," the movie's introduction read. It could induce "dangerous hallucinations," "monstrous extravagances," all eventually leading to "shocking acts of physical violence... ending often in incurable insanity."
Reefer Madness was one of many...
- 8/27/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
"When you read about the scene you see this mania for authenticity," says Joel Coen, describing what enticed him and his brother Ethan into making Inside Llewyn Davis, a film about folksingers in Greenwich Village just before Bob Dylan touched down and took off. But Coen isn't really praising the folksingers' authenticity – it's their mania that fascinates him. In the very next sentence he goes on: "You have these guys like Elliott Adnopoz, the son of a neurosurgeon from Queens, calling himself Ramblin' Jack Elliott. In the film we have...
- 12/4/2013
- Rollingstone.com
Much like the Queen’s Speech, or turkey with stuffing, the Christmas Number One Single is part of tradition in the UK, and year on year, there is huge speculation over which song will top the charts on Christmas Day. There have been some classics that made it to the top (Merry Christmas Everyone, Do They Know It’s Christmas to name just a couple), but what about those classic songs that Didn’T make it all the way?
Here’s a list of songs that are instantly recognisable, but none of which actually topped the UK Charts.
1. Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas (1994)
Since the songs’ original release in ’94, it has been re-released on more than a few occasions, however Mariah has never got higher than the second spot in the UK charts for this song. In the UK, it’s officially the most played Christmas song over the last decade,...
Here’s a list of songs that are instantly recognisable, but none of which actually topped the UK Charts.
1. Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas (1994)
Since the songs’ original release in ’94, it has been re-released on more than a few occasions, however Mariah has never got higher than the second spot in the UK charts for this song. In the UK, it’s officially the most played Christmas song over the last decade,...
- 12/17/2012
- by Joseph OHare
- Obsessed with Film
Breaking Dawn 2-peats. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 was Number One at the box office this weekend for the second weekend in a row with $42 Million for $221.3 Million so far. The Muppets premiered in Second Place with $29.5 Million. Happy Feet Two was Third with $13.4 Million. Arthur Christmas premiered in Fourth Place with $12.7 Million. Hugo was Fifth with $11.3 Million. Jack and Jill, Immortals, Puss in Boots, Tower Heist, and The Descendants rounded out the top ten respectively.
The Muppets is a 2011 American musical and comedy film, and the first Muppets theatrical release in 12 years, as well as the first Disney-produced Muppets film since 1996′s Muppet Treasure Island. In the film, Walter (performed by Peter Linz), the world’s biggest Muppet fan, and his brother Gary (Jason Segel) and friend Mary (Amy Adams) must raise $10 million to save the Muppet Theater from Tex Richman (Chris Cooper), a businessman who plans to...
The Muppets is a 2011 American musical and comedy film, and the first Muppets theatrical release in 12 years, as well as the first Disney-produced Muppets film since 1996′s Muppet Treasure Island. In the film, Walter (performed by Peter Linz), the world’s biggest Muppet fan, and his brother Gary (Jason Segel) and friend Mary (Amy Adams) must raise $10 million to save the Muppet Theater from Tex Richman (Chris Cooper), a businessman who plans to...
- 11/28/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
If, over the last 10 months, you’ve sometimes felt that sitting through 2011’s movies has been somewhat akin to sitting through TV’s summer reruns, that’s because you have been sitting through reruns. Well, reruns Hollywood style.
According to a Box Office Mojo story earlier this year, 2011 will end as a record year for sequels, prequels, and spin-offs. I don’t know if Mojo included remakes in that calculation, but whether they did or didn’t, remakes have certainly added to that oppressive déjà vu feeling which seems to roll into the multiplex every couple of weeks.
And we’re not even considering the familiar-feeling clones and knock-offs. “Oh, yippee, another superhero flick! Another The Hangover wannabe!” It’s like that Twilight Zone where Dennis Weaver is damned to relive the same bad dream over and over; the people take different parts in each cycle, but it’s still the same nightmare.
According to a Box Office Mojo story earlier this year, 2011 will end as a record year for sequels, prequels, and spin-offs. I don’t know if Mojo included remakes in that calculation, but whether they did or didn’t, remakes have certainly added to that oppressive déjà vu feeling which seems to roll into the multiplex every couple of weeks.
And we’re not even considering the familiar-feeling clones and knock-offs. “Oh, yippee, another superhero flick! Another The Hangover wannabe!” It’s like that Twilight Zone where Dennis Weaver is damned to relive the same bad dream over and over; the people take different parts in each cycle, but it’s still the same nightmare.
- 11/6/2011
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
Bob Geldof involved in an upcoming movie project – now that’s a good news, right? Wait until you hear the rest of it!
According to the latest reports, Geldof is attached to star in the French film Mauvaise Fille. You can find Bad Girl translation on the internet, but I guess that actually means Bad Daughter.
One thing is for sure – this movie is actually an adaptation of Justine Levy‘s book of the same name, and for the rest of the details, check out the rest of the report. Trust me, it’s interesting enough!
Geldof, musician and activist, will star as French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy, or should we say – a character closely based on Levy, one of France’s most famous public intellectuals. Just in case you’re wondering what’s so special about Bernard-Henri Levy, we’re here to answer that question.
Levy, (often referred to today,...
According to the latest reports, Geldof is attached to star in the French film Mauvaise Fille. You can find Bad Girl translation on the internet, but I guess that actually means Bad Daughter.
One thing is for sure – this movie is actually an adaptation of Justine Levy‘s book of the same name, and for the rest of the details, check out the rest of the report. Trust me, it’s interesting enough!
Geldof, musician and activist, will star as French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy, or should we say – a character closely based on Levy, one of France’s most famous public intellectuals. Just in case you’re wondering what’s so special about Bernard-Henri Levy, we’re here to answer that question.
Levy, (often referred to today,...
- 3/16/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
The funny, animated western for the win. Rango premiered in the Number One spot at the box office with $38 Million. The Adjustment Bureau premiered in the Second Place with $20.9 Million. Beastly premiered in Third Place with $10.1 Million. Hall Pass was Fourth with $9 Million. Gnomeo and Juliet was Fifth with $6.9 Million. Unknown, The King’s Speech, Just Go With It, I Am Number Four, and Justin Bieber: Never Say Never rounded out the top ten respectively.
Rango is a 2011 American computer-animated comedy western film directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Graham King. It features the voices of actors Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, Ned Beatty, and Timothy Olyphant.
Source: Boxofficemojo...
Rango is a 2011 American computer-animated comedy western film directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Graham King. It features the voices of actors Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, Ned Beatty, and Timothy Olyphant.
Source: Boxofficemojo...
- 3/7/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
Bob Geldof has blasted charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" as one of the "worst songs ever". The former Boomtown Rats singer and charity campaigner co-wrote the festive staple, which was recorded by a host of the biggest names in pop music in November 1984 and released later that year, with Midge Ure to raise money for the relief of the 1984-1985 famine in Ethiopia.
The song set the record for biggest selling U.K. single at the time, selling a million copies in the first week and retaining the Number One spot in the charts for five weeks, eventually selling more than 3.5 million copies in the U.K.
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" has since become a favorite Christmas track in the U.K. and continues to receive heavy airplay during the festive season, although Bob, who also helped co-ordinate and appeared on a U.S. equivalent charity track,...
The song set the record for biggest selling U.K. single at the time, selling a million copies in the first week and retaining the Number One spot in the charts for five weeks, eventually selling more than 3.5 million copies in the U.K.
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" has since become a favorite Christmas track in the U.K. and continues to receive heavy airplay during the festive season, although Bob, who also helped co-ordinate and appeared on a U.S. equivalent charity track,...
- 11/30/2010
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
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