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Buzz News Roundup, 5/15
- Coldplay is giving away its live album for free online. — Billboard
- Mickey Rourke will star in a remake of British gangster movie Mona Lisa. — Variety
- NBC has renewed Last Call With Carson Daly.
The Informers: Convoluted and Boring
Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue.
The Wrestler
I said it in my list of must haves for April and I'll say it again: In addition to being a touching film with an astounding performance by Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler is one of those rare movies that a diverse group of adults can agree to see together.
Buzz News Roundup, 3/13
- Spider-Man 4 has gotten a release date of May 6, 2011. — Zap2It
- Jack White has formed a new group called The Dead Weather with The Kills frontwoman Alison Mosshart, Raconteurs bassist Jack Lawrence, and Queens of the Stoneage guitarist Dean Fertita. — Billboard
- Scrubs's Dr.
What Are Your Favorite Scenes From This Year's Oscar-Nominated Movies?
I keep thinking about this great scene in The Wrestler between Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei's characters in a bar. I won't give it away for those who haven't seen the movie yet but it involves some funny dialogue between the two about the decade they agree was the best. It's a small, intimate moment rendered so perfectly that you completely forget you're watching two actors — it feels more like overhearing a conversation at your local dive bar.
Movie Preview: Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane in Killshot
Killshot, a thriller starring Diane Lane, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rosario Dawson and "comeback kid" Mickey Rourke, has already quietly opened in certain cities but hasn't gotten quite the promotional push you might expect from a film that boasts a recent Oscar nominee. Lane plays Carmen Colson who is placed in the Federal Witness Protection program with her husband Wayne "after witnessing an extortion scheme go wrong. Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced intimidating hit man [Rourke] and a psychopathic young upstart killer [Gordon-Levitt]."
2009 Sundance Spotlight: Brooklyn's Finest, The Informers, 500 Days of Summer
While I won't be heading down to the 2009 Sundance Film Festival this year, I will be sorting through the humongous pile of festival entries to share with you some of the films I think look most promising. From quirky documentaries to talented young filmmaker debuts to a potential runaway hit, Sundance is filled with entertainment possibilities. Here are today's selections:
Brooklyn's Finest
Directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), Brooklyn's Finest just became this year's first sale at Sundance.
Buzz News Roundup, 1/9
- Breaking Bad will return in March and Mad Men should start up again in the Summer — even though Matthew Weiner still doesn't have a contract. — Zap2it
- Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell are in talks to star as the villains in Iron Man 2. — The Hollywood Reporter
- Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried are set to star in the thriller Chloe.
Movie Preview: The Wrestler
I've been swatting away the buzzings of "Oscar watch" and "best film of the year" in regard to indie drama The Wrestler for a while now, just waiting until I could see a trailer and hopefully understand what all the fuss is about. The film stars Mickey Rourke (whose "astonishing performance" here has some calling him a "comeback kid") as an aging professional wrestler with a ton of regrets. He starts to try and take control of his life, however, when he befriends an exotic dancer (Marisa Tomei) and attempts to make peace with his estranged daughter (Evan Rachel Wood).
Buzz News Roundup, 11/12
- Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood will tour together for 24 shows starting at the end of January, Billboard reports.
- Author Norman Mailer died over the weekend at age 84, USA Today reports.
- The CW will debut Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants, a mother-daughter beauty showdown, on Dec. 12, and all the scandalous details are at The Futon Critic.
- TV Guide reports that the Star Trek movie has yet another cast member: Jennifer Morrison of House.
- Spoon, Gym Class Heroes, and Muse took top honors at the MTVu Woodies last week, NME reports.
- Rosie O'Donnell is eyeing an online talk show, writes People.
- According to The New York Post, Project Runway is ridiculously grueling to film.
- Hollywood writers aren't the only ones off the job: Broadway stagehands have gone on strike, too, The New York Times reports.
- Mickey Rourke will replace Nicolas Cage in The Wrestler, an indie drama from director Darren Aronofsky, Variety reports.
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