Monday, March 5, 2012

NSFW Meth Mind Trailer May Have You Seeking Rehab

Exactly what do you receive whenever you fold two decades' price of youthful stars - and something very confused-searching Tom Sizemore - right into a cautionary tale concerning the challenges of meth use? Try Meth Mind, a swear-y, scream-y, violent and completely destabilizing journey towards the deep worst known addiction this side of Words With Buddies. Your venerable guides: Lukas Haas, Wilson Cruz, Scott Patterson along with a laconic Sizemore amongst others. It is the feel-bad movie of 2012, not far off to some festival in your area! To wit, from the pr release: Kyle Peoples never thought about being the guy he's become in the 30s, a cpa stuck inside a stalemate job, having a lover who's more effective than he along with a family that does not get him whatsoever. Then when a evening of hanging out results in a new group of buddies and fun, Kyle sees an chance for avoid reality. But Kyle's new friendship with Maia and Dusty and also the trio's passion for very meth eventually cost Kyle his job, his companion, his home and the family. Kyle's escape becomes his trap, the party is definitely an illusion and also the very is gradually killing him, physically and psychologically. As he finally bottoms out and it is no more the youthful guy his father once boasted about with pride, Kyle must choose: existence or meth. Yikes. This factor has me wanting to visit rehab. Festival premieres are forthcoming, based on the release stay updated to Movieline for additional particulars as occasions warrant. Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

REVIEW: Unabashedly Half-Assed Tim and Eric's Big Movie Will Not Make Any Effort to impress

Just like any meander with the movies which have their roots inSaturday Evening Live sketches demonstrates, comedy ideas that actually work within the short form don't always an interesting feature make. You've your Wayne's Mobile phone industry's, sure, however you might also need yourNight in the Roxburys and it is Pats, interminable versions on a single joke pulled out more than anybody either watching or on screen wanted. The comedy ofTim Heidecker andEric Wareheim, designers ofTim and Eric Awesome Show, Congrats!, may as well originate from another universe as individuals SNL bits, butTim and Eric's Big Moviehas a minumum of one factor that is similar to The Women Guy- neither required nor advantages of the leap towards the giant screen. I ought to confess I showed up late to Tim and Eric. I only delved into theirAdult Go swimming series having seen the film, the alternative direction from the likely audiences for theBillion Dollar Movie, that will review perfect for established fans only at that year's Sundance premiere, the various walkouts of individuals most probably a new comer to and displeased through the pair's work incorporated individuals who actuallyshouted invective in the screen enroute out. This did not appear to daunt the company directors/authors/stars, who clearly thrive from a particular adversarial relationship using their audiences. Such as the pair's shows,Tim and Eric's Big Movierevels inside a type of aggressive anti-humor, using its fetishistic pleasure home based-video-worthy production nonvalues (edits which come a beat too early or past too far, frames that freeze on grotesque expressions, odd, deadpan line delivery), its altered undertake genre conventions, its passion for low-level corporate ephemera as well as an absolutely nonsensical plot. The image is tonally and stylistically in line with what they have accomplished for TV, but individuals episodes run 11 minutes.Tim and Eric's Big Movie is definitely an hour . 5 lengthy, and at that time getting no apparent lengthy-term arc, large ideas or forward momentum is not silly. It is a giant middle finger to anybody who stays around before the credits roll. In the story's (if you wish to refer to it as that) start, Tim and Eric are in a disastrous screening of the film they simply completed as well as for that they were strangely given a billion-dollar budget through the Schlaaang Corporation. One of the issues with Gemstone Jim: It is just three minutes lengthy, it stars aJohnny Depp impersonator who had been accidentally hired rather ofJohnny Depp, it's occur a terribly unconvincing excuse for Paris and it is filmmakers are responsible your money can buy they frittered away on such things as refurbishments on their own and actual gems. Desperate, they have a job they see marketed on tv, where a slightly Satanic guy named Damien Weebs (Will Ferrell) provides a billion dollars to anybody who are able to manage the Swallow Valley Mall and Pizza Court. Our heroes relabel themselves Dobis PR (from "Conducting BusinessInch), rid themselves of the orange skintones, blinding dental work and cheesy goatees and hang off for parts unknown for his or her awfully convenient new gig. There's something to admire in how very not wanting to pleaseTim and Eric's Big Movie is. As though to help remind you of methods meaningless everybody you are watching is, the film is even damaged into by segments titled "Understanding Your Movie" by which peoplereenact, within the style ofcorporate video tutorials, styles which have nothing related to what's come before or below. The mall the happy couple gets control works out to become a near-feral situation, full of baby wolves and oddball store tenants, supplying a handy excuse for a number of sketchlike encounters. There is a balloon stand run by Katie (Twink Caplan), with whom Eric is obsessed after glimpsing her inside a commercial there is a sword salesperson (Will Forte) who better business getting compensated to not sell his wares there is a used-toilet-paper seller whose boy Tim vigorously adoptsand there is a healbot who uses "the energy of Shrim," which appears to involve lots of feces. You will find no training to become learned, no hearts to become warmed, just absurdity stacked on absurdity using the periodic non sequitur and gross-out bit tossed in.Zach Galifianakis,Shaun Goldblum, John C. Reilly, Ray Smart yet others arrive in small roles, and also the film crescendos into an additional-absurd shoot-out ending. But everything weirdness is not enough to replace with the very fact thatTim and Eric's Big Movie isn't really very funny as well as engaging to view. It's an accumulation of random ideas and responses from the expected, no actual entity on its own. The only real watchable moment, really, may be the opening, that provides fake Schlaaang production companylogos before starting right into a faux commercial located by Shaun Goldblum, who introduces themself as "ChefGoldblum."It's offering the SchlaaangSuper Chair, a serious parody of theatrical experience-improving items like D-Box seats andSmell-O-Vision, and it is an amusingly warped undertake how companies attempt to enhance the entertainment experience. But thinking about the film that follows, it stops seeming so absurd - you actually need chemical helps to have the ability to view something so unabashedly half-assed. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Monday, February 27, 2012

Amazing Race's Dork and Cherie: We Never Imagined It'd Come Lower to Math

Once The Real Regular folks of Orange County's Tamra must be stuck around the deserted island using one of her castmates, who'd she choose? Not her Closest friend Vicki or new bestie Gretchen. "Louise!" Tamra notifies TVGuide.com. "She's an enjoyable experience which i understand she'd have champagne packed somewhere." Discover More > Other Links From TVGuide.com The Particular Regular folks of Orange CountyVicki GunvalsonGretchen RossiTamra BarneyHeather Dubrow

VIDEO: Which Oc Housewife May be the Fakest? Tamra Informs Us!

Giancarlo Esposito Mirror, mirror around the wall, and also require a normal TV gig come fall? Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito, who plays the Miracle Mirror on ABC's Not so long ago, has arrived a job in J.J. Abrams' NBC pilot Revolution. Pilot Season: Obtain the scoop! Revolution is referred to like a high-octane action drama that follows several figures battling to outlive and reunite with family members inside a world where all types of energy have inexplicably stopped to exist. Esposito will have Capt. Neville, a tough-as-steel military guy having a genteel southern manner who might not continually be what he appears. Supernatural's Eric Kripke will write and executive-produce withAbrams and Bryan Burk.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Movieline Liveblogs the 2012 Academy Awards (Plus: Complete Winners List!)

Hollywood's biggest (and possibly most anticlimactic) night is upon us, which can only mean one thing: Movieline's third annual Oscar Liveblog Extravaganza! Join your Movieline editors and loyal readers as we parse the Academy Awards to within an inch of their glamorous lives. The fun begins on the red carpet at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, with the Oscarcast proper commencing at 8:30 p.m ET/5:30 p.m. PT. And in any case, keep abreast of this year's Oscar class with our commentary after the jump. [ADVISORY 8 p.m. ET: The CoverItLive/Twitter interface is buggy for the time being; we're working on a solution! Thanks for your patience!] [ADVISORY 8:20 p.m. ET: Many apologies to readers who had been checking out the livetweet module; technical difficulties on the Twitter interface made it impossible to continue. Please chime in with us in the comments!] 11:38 Well, thanks for playing along, and sorry for the technical difficulties. But enough about Harvey Weinstein's high-five abilities! That is all. More Monday on Movieline. Go drinking! What are you still doing here? 11:35 And Tom Cruise announces The Artist as Best Picture winner. And give Uggie the Oscar! 11:33 Some really great plastic surgery in the last 3 minutes. 11:30 Meryl Streep wins Best Actress! Great? 11:26 "Rooney, you have no experience. Congrats, get the fuck out of here." 11:24 Best Actress! Colin Firth is so eloquent. "Glenn! You are so Nobbsie. Hallo, Nobbsie! Well done, Glenn. You did Nobbsie. Nobbsie!" 11:20 VIOLIN LADY! 11:18 Congrats to Jean Dujardin! You'll never work in this town again. 11:14 I have nothing left. Demian, George, Jean... what a way to introduce yourself to PUUUUUKE 11:08 Thank you to the Academy for elevating George Kuchar to roughly 10 dead-industry-people places below Elizabeth Taylor. 11:03 I DIED 10:58: VIOLIN LADY! 10:52 Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius. Obviously. 10:48 Oscar date: "Where is our dead people montage? Where is our dead people montage?" Yeah, kinda. 10:45 Yayyyyy, photo-bombers Brandon Oldenburg and William Joyce take Best Animated Short. Congrats. Cocktail/smoke/heroin/sleep break... BRB. 10:42 Short winners: The Shore (dramatic) and Saving Face (documentary). Y'all are totally fucking up my Oscar pool. 10:39 Kristin Wiig, film size queen. May I suggest Margaret? 10:33 Adam Sandler wants to get to the truth. By the time he's 85. He might get there. 10:30 Woody Allen wins Best Original Screenplay. Let's get to what affects Reese Witherspoon about Overboard. 10:26 Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash win it for The Descendants. Payne, insufferably, to his mother: "If I ever won another Oscar, I had to dedicate it to you." Well, then. 10:18 Should I be saying something about these suits? The cymbals? Or that 1/2 of Flight of the Conchords just won an Oscar? Yes, that. 10:13 Ludovic Bource! Way to rape the Oscars! 10:10 Uggie was on the Oscars. We did it. 10:04 VIOLIN LADY! 10:01 For Beginners, Christopher Plummer becomes the oldest actor ever to win an Oscar. Take it away, kid. 9:58 Melissa Leo, who are you wearing? "Penney's" Oh. 9:56 Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich in the same Oscarcast? What did we do to deserve this? Oh, by the way, Hugo just won Best Visual Effects. 9:54 Emma Stone single-handedly saved at least the last half-hour of the Oscars. Thanks you, Emma! 9:47 Gore Verbinski is an Academy Award-winner. That is all. 9:45 Check out Movieline's Best Documentary Feature roundtable here. 9:42 Robert Downey and Gwyneth Paltrow "introduce" Best Documentary Feature: Undefeated. Um, wow. Shocking upset over Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory. 9:40 The Oscars just jumped the circus elephant. 9:37 Thank you Miss Piggy and Kermit! Here's my take on "What it Means to Go to the Bathroom." 9:29 If the idea is that you power through the bullshit and montages and give the winners time to speak, then I am allllll for that. Oh, wait - Cirque Du Soleil coming up next. Never mind! 9:26 Hugo wins Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing. My drinking games can't keep up with this pace! Slow down, Tina Fey! 9:24 Yay! Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall win Best Editing for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and have nothing to say. Nicely done, gentlemen. 9:22 The cults of the Oscars and Christopher Guest just died before my eyes. 9:17 Via @jenyamato at @movieline: "Is it too much to hope that one day the Oscars will get Keyboard Cat to play off the long-winded acceptance speeches?" AMEN, SISTER. 9:15 VIOLIN LADY! 9:14 Octavia Spencer wins Best Supporting Actress! Roll Tide! 9:10 Incidentally, what does Otis the Oscar Cat think this year's awards so far? Ahem. 9:07 A Separation wins Best Foreign-Language Feature! Way to go, Iran! Imagine what you'll do with nuclear weapons! 9:06 Loving Sandra Bullock right now. I needed Chinese by way of German, seriously. 9:01 Lovely film-fan montage. "I remember saying, 'Can I please do that?'" No, Adam Sandler, you cannot. 9:00 OK, so the theme is to go to the movies. 8:58 "Ldkjhafdslkjfhakljdhfsalkjhdadjk!!!" Couldn't have said it any better, Cameron and J-Lo! Oh, and The Iron Lady won Best Make-Up. 8:57 Another minute passed! This calls for the next shot. 8:56 Mark Bridges and The Artist win Best Costume Design. And first Harvey Weinstein mention! This calls for a shot. 8:54 Roland Emmerich was on the Oscars. Now I can die. #ConsiderEmmerich 8:52 We were off to such a nice, fast start! And now... this clip reel? "That's when movies were actually made on film." YOUR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER SHOT DIGITAL, ASSHOLE. 8:46 Nice to see Donatella Versace make Italy 2-for 2. Is it a Hugo night? 8:44 Robert Richardson! Huge upset! I think? I'm drunk. Second 3-D winner in three years, though - not bad. Check out his Movieline chatwith Jeff Cronenweth here. 8:43 Big night for you, Carl! 8:41 Did I miss the Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close part of that song? Or was just the part where Crystal bombed? 8:39 Marty Scorsese's daughter knows how pathetically weak this is. So much for the younger demographic! 8:37 How did we ever overlook the "Chapter 11 Theater"? 8:35 I have no idea what is going on with this intro. Bourbon, please. 8:25 I feel like I've lived and/or worked a lifetime in the last 90 minutes. Only six hours to go!

Friday, February 24, 2012

Not so long ago Scoop: Sebastian Stan's Mad Role Revealed

Rachel Dratch, Danny Comden Rachel Dratch is coming back to NBC. The Saturday Evening Live alum, that has also from time to time made an appearance on 30 Rock, has became a member of the cast from the Kari Lizer project, now entitled Lady Buddies, TVGuide.com is familiar with solely. Pilot Season: Obtain the scoop! Within the comedy, two female buddies - Nicole (Andrea Anders), who apparently has got the perfect existence and, Jen, who can't appear to have it together - live two completely different lives, but can't do without one another. Dratch will have Lisa, the latest person in Nicole and Jen's number of lady buddies. She's a little bit worse off in each and every way than Jen, and that's why Jen keeps her around. Danny Comden (Urban Legend, I am Together With Her) has additionally became a member of the cast as Jen's ex-husband, a rock star-type chef. The Brand New Adventures of Old Christine's Lizer will write and executive-produce.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Weinstein Co Searching To Boost $150M: Bloomberg

The Weinstein Co entirely honours-season glory because of this season’s Best Picture Oscar leader The Artist leading the distributor’s 16 overall nominations.However the black-and-whitened quiet film hasn’t been a blockbuster in the box office, getting drawn in no more than $28 million locally up to now. Therefore it’s unsurprising to determine that Bloomberg is confirming the indie studio is searching to boost $150 million to aid film procedures and retire debt. The sources reported within the report stated that amount could change, but the loan could be backed by the organization’s library and Union Bank is leading the offer. The studio updated its debt this year and has worked its long ago to an advaced status, winning the very best Picture Oscar this past year using the King’s Speech and receiving critical praise this year using the Iron Lady and My Week With Marilyn.