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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. In addition to the selections below you can also take home Battlestar Galactica: Season Four and Righteous Kill.
Link Time! 7/15
- FilmExperience asks: If you could weekend at the beach with any movie character, who would it be? (Their pick: Madison the mermaid from Splash.)
- The TV Addict has audio from chatting with Wentworth Miller and Sarah Wayne Callies at yesterday's TCA Prison Break-fast.
- Popwatch's Annie Barrett laments the fact that movies she'd like to see in the theater don't stick around the theaters long enough for her to see them and she wants to start a chain of Theaters for the Lazy.
- Vulture wonders whether Kids or The Wackness is more authentically 1994.
- Stereogum has the new Radiohead video for "House of Cards," which makes my eyeballs hurt a little bit.
- TV Squad reveals that there's a campaign afoot to save The Mole — and the show's own producers are waging it.
- Cinematical marvels at the insane anticipation and hype surrounding The Dark Knight — among geeks and non-geeks alike.
- Calling all fans of The Smiths: Take BellaSugar's new "Beauty Product or Morrissey Song?" quiz!
Buzz In: What Are the Worst On-Screen Kisses?
After viewing The Wackness I had lots of nice overall feelings about the movie but one tiny little part of it still makes me go, "Eeesh!" And that would be the part where Mary-Kate Olsen makes out with Ben Kingsley. Yeah, that makeout session (because it's definitely more than a little peck!) gave me the opposite of warm-fuzzies inside.
Buzz News Roundup, 6/30
- American Idol's Kristy Lee Cook has signed a recording deal with Arista Nashville, USA Today reports.
- According to the Futon Critic, AMC has enlisted Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel to star in a six-part miniseries remake of the TV show The Prisoner.
- Variety reports that The Real World producers Bunim-Murray could be tapped to run Project Runway when the show moves to Lifetime.
- Ne-Yo has bumped Coldplay out of the No. 1 spot on the UK singles chart, Billboard reports.
- The Wackness and the documentary Man on Wire were audience favorites at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival, Variety writes.
- Neal McDonough is the latest actor to join Desperate Housewives as a possible love interest for Edie, Zap2it reports.
- Billboard announces that Bon Jovi will play a free show in Central Park on July 12.
- Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and Google are teaming up for an Internet-only animated series that will be released this Fall, writes the New York Times.
Ben Kingsley Is the Man of the Hour
Ben Kingsley has always been a man of many faces (and accents), but lately it seems like he's popping up in every movie (and every time with a different accent). I knew he was in War, Inc. with John Cusack, and in one of my Tribeca favorites, The Wackness.
Tribeca Review: The Wackness
Previously, I'd mostly known The Wackness as that weird-looking Sundance movie in which an Olsen twin makes out with Ben Kingsley and which features a ton of pot smoking. While those things are true, I also gotta say I really liked this weirdo pot-smoking movie. I can easily see why The Wackness won the audience award at Sundance this year: it's funny, it's got that tender boy-grows-up storyline, and there's plenty of sex, drugs and a ridiculously awesome, rap-heavy soundtrack.
Movie Preview: The Wackness
The Wackness was one of the films that received a lot of buzz during the Sundance film festival — even taking home the 2008 Audience Award. When I first heard about the film it was hard to piece together what this thing would be about, especially with the bizarre combo of Mary-Kate Olsen and Ben Kingsley.
Finally, The Wackness has a trailer and I can see that the story centers around some teenagers mostly concerned with "chillin'" in New York.
Live From Park City, It's the Sundance Film Festival!
It's cold! It's crowded! It's the 2008 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah!
Sundance Spotlight: The Wackness
I am so thrilled to go to Sundance this year, and I can't wait to see as many movies as possible while I'm out there! For the next few days I'll be highlighting some of the films I'm most curious to see. Today's spotlight: The Wackness
I first heard about The Wackness in conjunction with these photos which certainly do seem to embody the term "wackness".
Mary-Kate and Ben Kingsley Are The Wackness
It's no secret that I love me some Mary-Kate Olsen and was especially excited to hear about her career taking a positive step with her role on the excellent (and coming back tonight!) "Weeds," but this newest bit of casting news is a little disheartening to say the least.
First of all, it's titled The Wackness
Yup, that's right. She and Ben Kingsley are starring in a comedy inexplicably set in 1994 about "a troubled teenage drug dealer and a drug-addled psychiatrist — after the former trades pot for therapy sessions, then falls for the doctor's daughter."
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