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There’s no such thing as a typical Gus Van Sant film.

With the possible exception of Steven Soderbergh, no American filmmaker working today has had a career marked by such radical shifts in style, budget and artistic ambition as the 73-year-old director from Louisville, Kentucky. From edgy indies to blockbuster crowd-pleasers, prestige Oscar bait to experimental movies, Van Sant has spent the past 40 years delighting, surprising and confounding his audience.

His early films — the “Portland trilogy” of 1988’s Mala Noche, 1989’s Drugstore Cowboy and 1991’s My Own Private Idaho — were gritty, realist dramas about outsiders: migrant workers, nomadic drug addicts and gay hustlers. The mid-’90s saw Van Sant pivot to more studio-friendly fare: the glossy camp of the 1995 dark satire To Die For, featuring Nicole Kidman in a career-making wig, and 1997’s Good Will Hunting, a $225 million global hit that introduced the world to Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

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Film at Lincoln Center

A career-spanning Luc Moullet retrospective begins; In the Mood for Love and In the Mood for Love 2001 continue.

Museum of Modern Art

A Michael Caine retrospective begins.

Film Forum

The long-lost director’s cut of Joseph Cates’ Who Killed Teddy Bear? begins screening on 35mm; Roman Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy starts a belated run; Brazil and a number of Akira Kurosawa’s most seminal films play.

IFC Center

The Lovers on the Bridge plays in a new restoration while In the Mood for Love and In the Mood for Love 2001 continue; Cure, Commando, Friday, and Ghost in the Shell screen late; Babe: Pig in the City shows early.

Roxy Cinema

The Wachowskis’ Speed Racer and Cassavetes’ Husbands screen on 35mm; Alien and a restoration of Christiane F. also play.

Anthology Film Archives

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Two-time Oscar-nominated director Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk, Drugstore Cowboy) will receive this year’s Campari Passion for Film Award at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.

The honor recognizes film professionals whose creative work “reflects a deep and enduring passion for cinema.” Unlike a lifetime achievement award, the Campari Passion for Film Award celebrates artistic vision and the drive to leave a lasting imprint on cinematic storytelling.

Van Sant will receive the honor in Venice on Sept. 2, ahead of the out-of-competition world premiere of his new film, Dead Man’s Wire. The based-on-a-true-story thriller stars Bill Skarsgard, Dacre Montgomery, Colman Domingo, Cary Elwes, Myha’la and Al Pacino.

“I’m truly honored to receive the Passion for Film award,” Van Sant said in a statement. “My heartfelt thanks to Campari for this recognition — it means a great deal to me. I’m grateful not only for their acknowledgement of my work,...

It’s not difficult to guess at some of the influences absorbed into Harris Dickinson’s raw character study, Urchin — the bleak nihilism of Mike Leigh’s Naked; the unvarnished realism of Ken Loach; the immersive textures as well as the loose-limbed vitality of Josh and Benny Safdie’s Heaven Knows What; the subjective realism, grubby poetry and surreal interludes of Gus Van Sant’s early films, Mala Noche, Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho.

That’s not to say the English actor’s feature directing debut is derivative or doesn’t reveal his own voice. Any first-time filmmaker capable of distilling his inspirations into a highly personal portrait of the kind of life on the edges of society he has clearly observed firsthand is a talent.

Dickinson’s protagonist, Mike, is an addict trying — with fluctuating degrees of commitment — to break the pattern of self-destruction that seems baked into his DNA.

Gus Van Sant is a fiercely individual voice with one foot in the independent world and another in the studio system, Van Sant’s filmography varies wildly from mainstream entertainments to peculiar experiments, from sublime highs to extreme lows. Let’s take a look at all 17 of his films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky, Van Sant kicked off his filmmaking career with the micro-budget, black-and-white “Mala Noche” (1985), a major preamble to the New Queer Cinema. His next feature, “Drugstore Cowboy” (1989), firmly established him as an indie maverick, a reputation he would fulfill with his followup, the River Phoenix/Keanu Reeves road movie “My Own Private Idaho” (1991). He dipped his toes into studio filmmaking with the gleefully dark satire “To Die For” (1995), which won Nicole Kidman a Golden Globe as Best Comedy/Musical Actress.

He hit the Oscar jackpot for the first time with the inspirational drama...

Movies That Made Me veteran guest and screenwriter Dan Waters discusses his favorite year of cinema (1989) with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Phantom Carriage (1921)

Love At First Bite (1979)

Hudson Hawk (1991)

Demolition Man (1993)

Heathers (1989)

Warlock (1989)

The Matrix (1999)

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Jaws (1975)

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

Nashville (1975)

Born On The Fourth Of July (1989)

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Field Of Dreams (1989)

My Left Foot (1989)

Crimes And Misdemeanors (1989)

Do The Right Thing (1989)

Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

Sex Lies And Videotape (1989)

Easy Rider (1969)

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

The Wild Bunch (1969)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

All That Jazz (1979)

Hair (1979)

Alien (1979)

Fight Club (1999)

Office Space (1999)

Magnolia (1999)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

American Pie (1999)

The Iron Giant (1999)

All About My Mother (1999)

Being John Malkovich (1999)

The Breakfast Club (1985)

Pretty In Pink (1986)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Say Anything… (1989)

Miracle Mile (1989)

True Love (1989)

Powwow Highway (1989)

Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)

Southside With You...

Before each Smackdown, suggestions for alternates to Oscar's roster...

Tilda Swinton in "Caravaggio"

1986 was, from the digging I've done, a fascinating year for queer cinema. Some of the films originated in '85 but belatedly hit the US in 1986, disparate efforts such as Desert Hearts, My Beautiful Laundrette, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, and What Have I Done To Deserve This?!. Meanwhile, Working Girls premiered at that year’s Cannes but didn’t get a US release until February 1987. All of these films showed up in one form or another alongside pure-cut ‘86 releases like Parting Glances and Caravaggio, indicating a shifting tide of indie and mainstream cinema with vested, complex, even sympathetic interests in LGBT themes and characters, often made by queer filmmakers. Not only that, but the films themselves are risky and provocative. Save for the deeply unpleasant Mala Noche, all are worth real engagement, and you couldn’t go...

Yorgos Lanthimos's Nimic is exclusively showing on Mubi in the Luminaries series.Above: Vasilis Marmatakis’s poster for Nimic.Has there ever been a graphic designer more closely allied with a filmmaker than Vasilis Marmatakis is with Yorgos Lanthimos? Saul Bass and Otto Preminger are the team that most easily come to mind, but even then, though Preminger was a great supporter of and advocate for Bass’s work, I don’t feel that Bass’s designs quite express Preminger’s ethos in the same way that Marmatakis’s designs encapsulate the wonderful strangeness of Lanthimos’s work. Starting with Dogtooth in 2009, Marmatakis has created the windows to his friend’s worlds with a series of iconic posters that are among the very best of the past 20 years.Above: Vasilis Marmatakis’s posters for Yorgos Lanthimos’s films (clockwise from top left) Dogtooth (2009), The Lobster (2015), Alps (2011), The Favourite (2018) and...

Gus Van Sant celebrates his 67th birthday on July 24, 2019. A fiercely individual voice with one foot in the independent world and another in the studio system, Van Sant’s filmography varies wildly from mainstream entertainments to peculiar experiments, from sublime highs to extreme lows. In honor of his birthday, let’s take a look at all 17 of his films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky, Van Sant kicked off his filmmaking career with the micro-budget, black-and-white “Mala Noche” (1985), a major preamble to the New Queer Cinema. His next feature, “Drugstore Cowboy” (1989), firmly established him as an indie maverick, a reputation he would fulfill with his followup, the River Phoenix/Keanu Reeves road movie “My Own Private Idaho” (1991). He dipped his toes into studio filmmaking with the gleefully dark satire “To Die For” (1995), which won Nicole Kidman a Golden Globe as Best Comedy/Musical Actress.

SEENicole Kidman movies:...

Heading to Berlin with his Amazon-financed Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot, Gus Van Sant tells Screen why he still prefers to see films in a theatre.

Gus Van Sant could easily be the most anonymous person in the room when Screen International meets the filmmaker at Sundance Film Festival. Far from ostentatious, and with his dog at his feet, it is the expression that gives him away — like a 1960s surfer dad caught in the headlights of today.

Decked out in a plaid shirt and jeans in a converted media lounge in Park City, Van Sant gives nothing away about how he feels Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot went down at its Sundance world premiere several days earlier. In fact, there was generous applause at the Eccles Theatre and U.S. critics have been mainly supportive.

Now Van Sant’s latest feature heads to Berlin, where FilmNation handles international sales and a broader audience will sample his tribute to late quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan, which glides between acerbic character study and observational comedy. Van Sant had known Callahan’s drawings and began hanging out with his fellow Portlander when Robin Williams optioned Callahan’s book circa 1997, and they began to map out an adaptation. “He didn’t live very far — it was only 10 blocks,” Van Sant mumbles, breaking into a fleeting smile when someone brings his Australian Shepherd puppy. “We went on trips. He liked to go in a cab that could take his wheelchair and go to a restaurant on the beach.”...

ABC unveiled the celebrities and their pro pairings Tuesday for this fall’s “Dancing With the Stars,” live on “Good Morning America.” Below are the 13 selected stars and their official bios, all in the Disney-owned broadcaster’s words — so don’t blame TheWrap if you hate the wording (or the selections, we suppose). Each celebrity’s pro partner is listed in parentheses beside their respective “star.” Season 23 of “Dancing With the Stars” kicks off Monday, Sept. 12 at 8/7c on ABC. Also Read: Ryan Lochte's Bad Night In Rio Will Cost Him a Million -- But At Least He Won't...

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Grimm concludes season 5 with a two-part finale that kept the dramatic tension high throughout...

This review contains spoilers.

5.21 & 5.22 The Beginning Of The End

This season of Grimm has had its ups and downs, it’s fair to say. For the most part its now-established formula of fairy-tale creatures, romance, action and modern-day heroes and villains has continued to excite fans – but there have also been a few issues with pacing, gaps in storytelling and questionable plot twists.

The show’s two-hour season five finale, however, went above and beyond what we’ve seen this season. Despite its extended length, the episode crammed an awful lot in, yet remained fast paced, keeping the dramatic tension high at all times.

What really comes across is that Black Claw’s grip on society now seems unbreakable. The group’s plans to methodically infiltrate every aspect of government, police and other agencies is paying off,...

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After treading water for weeks, Grimm is finally building up to the big end-of-season clash due in the approaching two-part finale...

This review contains spoilers.

5.20 Bad Night

As we crash inevitably onwards to next week’s two-hour season finale, Bad Night tries valiantly to inject some tension into the proceedings. And to some extent it works, with most of the episode focusing on Nick’s transformation from mild-mannered detective to a man consumed by a need for revenge against those who have taken his family.

It’s understandable, of course, that he’s feeling vexed after Black Claw forced Adalind to up and leave with their child, all so newbie politician Renard can benefit from a camera-friendly instant family. (There’s clearly more to it than that though, right?)

The writers are obviously attempting to portray a new darker side to Nick; a man driven by revenge...

Luminary digital influencers like GloZell Green, Frankie Grande and Brittany Furlan have banded together for a new PSA that aims to put out home fires -- a startlingly common tragedy, according to the American Red Cross, that claims roughly 7 lives every day.

The home fire awareness campaign, dubbed 2Steps2Minutes, features top stars advocating that viewers practice a fire drill plan that takes no more than two minutes, and to check their smoke alarms every month.

The Red Cross created the cheeky spot in collaboration with YouTube channel What’s Trending, media giant iHeartMedia, The Charity Network and Reveal Project, a seller of socially conscious merchandise. It was directed by the Brothers Reidell -- of Camp Takota and Bad Night fame. Check it out below.

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It’s almost September and that means Netflix is about to refresh their content, for better or worse. Some of the notable titles leaving include: High Fidelity, Anchorman 2, and The Skeleton Twins. So if you haven’t seen some of these titles, plan your nights accordingly. We of course can look forward more than a few new titles including The Monster Squad, Moonrise Kingdom (pictured above), and The Walking Dead: Season 5.

Available 9/1

72 Dangerous Animals: Australia: Season 1

Arthur: Season 17

Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher (2014)

Battle Creek: Season 1

Blackbird (2014)

Capital C (2014)

Combustion (2013)

Da Jammies: Season 1

Divorce Corp. (2014)

Giggle and Hoot’s Best Ever! (2014)

Hamlet (1990)

Hardball (2001)

Heather McDonald: I Don’t Mean To Brag (2014)

Lawrence of Arabia: Restored Version (1962)

Los hombres también lloran: Season 1

Masters of the Universe (1987)

Mississippi Damned (2009)

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: Volume 1

Mouk: Season 1

Our Man in Tehran (2013)

Pandas: The Journey Home (2014)

Person of Interest:...

New to Netflix in September are two kinds of undead: Season 5 of "The Walking Dead" and the revived-from-cancellation A&E series, "Longmire," which was saved by Netflix.

As far as movies, there's the restored version of the Oscar-winning 1962 epic "Lawrence of Arabia," Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," the first three "Rambo" films, the terrific "The Bank Job" with Jason Statham and "Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom" with Idris Elba.

There are also period dramas you might have missed from last year with Jessica Chastain ("Miss Julie") and Mia Wasikowska ("Madame Bovary") and hey, "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl!"

Available September 1

"72 Dangerous Animals Australia": Season 1 (2014)

"Combustión" (2013)

"Da Jammies": Season 1

"Giggle and Hoot's Best Ever!" (2014)

"Hamlet" (1990)

"Hardball" (2001)

"Heather McDonald: I Don't Mean To Brag" (2014)

"Lawrence of Arabia: Restored Version" (1962)

"Los Hombres también lloran": Season 1

"Masters of the Universe" (1987)

"Mississippi Damned" (2009)

"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood": Volume 1

"Mouk...

Want to catch up with post-2005 Doctor Who but don’t have 85 spare hours to watch the whole thing? We’ve some tips for you…

Maps To TV Shows: Is there a popular show you’d really like to watch but you just don’t have time to wade through years of it all at once? Do you just want to know why that one character keeps turning up on Tumblr? Do the fans all tell you ‘season one is a bit iffy but stick with it, it gets great!’, leaving you with absolutely zero desire ever to watch the boring/silly/just plain weird season one? Then Maps To TV Shows is for you!

In these articles, we’ll outline routes through popular TV shows focusing on particular characters, story arcs or episode types. Are you really into the Klingon episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Do...

A pair of popular YouTubers are set to make their feature film debut. Lauren Elizabeth (aka LoveLaurenElizabeth) and Jenn McAllister (aka JennXPenn) are set to star in Bad Night, a film produced by Grb Entertainment.

Bad Night, which was announced at Playlist Live, will be the first film from Grb, which is best known for producing reality TV shows like A&E's Intervention. The project will star McAllister and Elizabeth as a pair of high school students who get lost during a class field trip. That plot summary, with its school-based shenanigans, resembles Cameron Dallas vehicle Expelled, another film led by an online video star.

The similarities between Bad Night and Expelled run a lot deeper than their respective plots. Expelled brought partners from the AwesomenessTV multi-channel network to the big screen, and both Elizabeth and McAllister are represented by Big Frame, the talent management company owned by AwesomenessTV. Two of Big Frame's employees,...

The Good Wife, Season 6, Episode 1: “The Line”

Written by Robert King and Michelle King

Directed by Robert King

Airs Sundays at 9pm(ish) Et on CBS

Five full seasons and over 100 episodes in, and The Good Wife is managing the unthinkable: it’s accelerating. The sixth-season premiere, “The Line,” teases business as usual, picking up immediately following season five’s final moments, before totally changing course with one swift motion, propelling the episode into a dozen unexpected directions with reckless abandon. For Robert and Michelle King, the series’ reliably canny showrunners (and the co-authors of the episode), contradicting the usual trajectory of veteran drama series is just business as usual.

Perhaps season five, which blew up the series not once but twice, has turned the Kings into even bigger storytelling adrenaline junkies, because “The Line” is a remarkably breathless hour of storytelling, albeit one that finds enough room for vintage character moments,...

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is the long awaited sequel to Sin City (2005), a film which grossed over $158 million worldwide and became a fan favorite in no small part due to a visual style that bleeds neo-noir like Frank Miller’s artwork itself. Some have said that it is among the most faithful comic book adaptations ever made. Having the original author and the artist of the comic aboard as the co-director and writer didn’t hurt a bit, clearly. Miller and Robert Rodriguez once again team up to direct the sequel. Frank Miller is the writer (and comic book legend). Sin City: A Dame to Kill For also boasts the return of many cast members. Something you might not expect given the nine-year-gap between films.

As with the original Sin City, this one is a collection of short, hard-boiled crime films all intertwined together. Sort Raymond Chandler...

Chicago – When the first “Sin City” (2005) was released – based on the graphic novels by Frank Miller – the conversion of a film to a noir-like comic book atmosphere was pioneering. The sequel “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For” has heightened that look, but this time has much less to say.

Rating: 3.0/5.0

With an all-star cast, and leftover revenge factors from the first film, co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller – with a guest director credit from Quentin Tarantino – pile on the quality kills, nudity and extreme gunplay. This plays fine for the 15-year-old boy in all of us, but doesn’t challenge itself beyond that commonality, and the film suffers from a redundancy that starts to draw away even from the super hyper, black-and-white city of darkness. “Sin City” still packs a jolt to the senses, but once the first wave hits, the rest hit the shore with diminishing power.

This is a “meanwhile” plot,...

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Written by Frank Miller

Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller

USA, 2014

Unlikely as it may have seemed, 2014 has emerged as the year where, among other things, Eva Green proved to be the best part of a rock-dumb green screen sequel film. First there was her turn in 300: Rise of an Empire, and now comes Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. She is the eponymous “dame,” Ava Lord, a character so rigidly crafted to the femme fatale archetype as to be a cartoon. Of course, that goes for all the characters in this series, as they are portrayed both in these films and in the comic book series on which they are based. The cast also overflows with corrupt politicians, brassy whores, and down-on-their-luck antiheroes suffering apparent vocal fry, with a towering black manservant and a mute Asian assassin thrown in for good measure.

Co-directors Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez reunite to bring Miller’s visually stunning “Sin City” graphic novels back to the screen in 3D in Frank Miller’S Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. Recently, Wamg sat down with Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Eva Green, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, along with other members of the press, at the films La Press Conference. Check it out below.

In a town where justice doesn’t prevail, the desperate want vengeance and ruthless murderers find themselves with vigilantes on their heels. Their paths cross when they converge on Sin City’s famous Kadie’s Club Pecos. The film opens with fan-favorite “Just Another Saturday Night,” when Marv (Mickey Rourke) finds himself in the center of carnage as he tries to remember the events leading up to it. “The Long, Bad Night” tells the tale of Johnny, a cocky...

We are excited to host a giveaway of passes for you to see an Advance Screening of Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, the follow-up to the revolutionary 2005 film, Frank Miller’s Sin City.

Synopsis

Co-directors Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez reunite to bring Miller’s visually stunning “Sin City” graphic novels back to the screen in 3D in Frank Miller’S Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.

In a town where justice doesn’t prevail, the desperate want vengeance and ruthless murderers find themselves with vigilantes on their heels. Their paths cross in Sin City’s famous Kadie’s Club Pecos.

The film opens with fan-favorite “Just Another Saturday Night,” when Marv (Mickey Rourke) finds himself in the center of carnage as he tries to remember the preceding events.

“The Long, Bad Night” tells the tale of Johnny, a cocky young gambler (Joseph Gordon-Levitt...

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For opens on August 22 and Wamg has your free passes to see the film early!

Co-directors Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez reunite to bring Miller’s visually stunning “Sin City” graphic novels back to the screen in 3D in Frank Miller’S Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.

In a town where justice doesn’t prevail, the desperate want vengeance and ruthless murderers find themselves with vigilantes on their heels. Their paths cross in Sin City’s famous Kadie’s Club Pecos. The film opens with fan-favorite “Just Another Saturday Night,” when Marv (Mickey Rourke) finds himself in the center of carnage as he tries to remember the preceding events.

“The Long, Bad Night” tells the tale of Johnny, a cocky young gambler (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) taking his chances with the biggest villain in Sin City, Senator Roark (Powers Boothe).

The central story, Miller...

You know you’ve arrived – not just as a filmmaker but as a human being – when President Barack Obama comes over to your pad to hang out poolside and have some lunch. Though Robert Rodriguez was coy about that bit of info slipping out at the Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For press conference in Beverly Hills last week.

He did admit he made pizza pies for the prez. “Yes, we had Potus pizza,” he quipped.

Also on hand for the Dimension Films event were Rodriguez’s co-director, Frank Miller, and stars Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Eva Green and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Based on Miller's Dark Horse Comics series, the sequel includes two segments derived from existing storylines A Dame to Kill For and Just Another Saturday Night plus brand-new original stories The Big Fat Kill and The Long, Bad Night. Favorite characters seen in the first film are back (with a vengeance,...

It's been nearly a decade since "Sin City" hit theaters, but fans will soon be able to return to the seedy, crime-ridden cesspool known as Basin City in the upcoming "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For."  Dimension held a press conference earlier today with stars Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Eva Green and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, where they discussed the sequel's original storylines, green screen technique, the possibility of further "Sin City" yarns and Alba's dance moves.  Based on Miller's Dark Horse Comics series, the sequel includes two chapters based on existing storylines -- "A Dame to Kill For" and the brief "Just Another Saturday Night" -- plus the original stories "The Fat Loss" (originally titled "Nancy's Last Dance") and "The Long, Bad Night."  It brings together characters seen in the first film -- Alba as Nancy, Bruce Willis as Hartigan, Mickey Rouke as Marv,...

Score one for equality! Well, kind of. Fresh out of Comic-Con comes a brand new red band trailer for Robert Rodriguez’ and Frank Miller‘s Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (does this call for a “Dotpota” style acronym? “Fmscadtkf”? sounds like a bad governmental agency), one that applies just a smidge of the same lascivious behavior normally heaped on the ladies of the franchise to one of its (new) leading men. That’s right, folks, we’ve still got tons of brazen babes bounding around (most of them on a literal stripper walk, because), but now we’ve also got Josh Brolin‘s bare ass to ogle. And, no, we still have zero idea what this film is about, at least going by the trailers alone, which seem to exist just to remind us that some dames are worth…wait for it…killing for. Let’s figure this thing out, okay...

The crime and grime came to San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H this weekend, as Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller and a selection of their cast brought footage from Sin City: A Dame To Kill for to show to those in attendance. Now the new trailer for the film, full of the monochrome style and splashes of colour you’ve come to expect, has hit the web. You’d best be warned, though – this sucker is Red Band, so no punches are pulled.A Dame To Kill For spins several tales, including The Long Bad Night, in which Johnny (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) loses more than he gambles for against the wrong opponent. Just Another Saturday Night and the titular A Dame To Kill For, both set before the original film’s tale find Marv (Mickey Rourke) pitted against femme fatale Ava Lord (Eva Green) and teamed up with private eye Dwight McCarthy (Clive Owen and Josh Brolin.

I’m beyond excited for August’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, in which Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez return to the seedy locale of their stylized 2006 noir hit. The flick looks completely awesome, with the addition of talented actors like Eva Green and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, along with returning faves like Jessica Alba and Mickey Rourke. One thing that has been a little tricky for the film’s marketing department to nail down, however, is exactly how Sin City: A Dame To Kill For is going to feel.

In the second clip from the movie, we see Alba’s stripper Nancy Callahan seething after the death of her longtime mentor and protector John Hartigan (Bruce Willis). There’s definitely a lot of style going on in the clip, but it feels oddly slight. Perhaps we’ll need to wait until the R-rated version hits screens to see whether the pulpy,...

Google "Sin City 2 poster" and you'll see something that the American authorities deemed too saucy for billboards, so it makes sense that there's new, alternate quad here that is a little less family-unfriendly and a little more likely to be displayed in public.Joseph Gordon-Levitt is among the newcomers to the City this time, starring in The Long Bad Night as Johnny, a gambler who loses more than he expects when he wins against the wrong opponent. Once again we have Mickey Rourke as Marv, whose stories (Just Another Saturday Night and the titular A Dame To Kill For) are set before the first film’s The Hard Goodbye. The title story will see him pitted against femme fatale Ava Lord (Eva Green) and teamed up with private eye Dwight McCarthy (Clive Owen and Josh Brolin play the troubled antihero before and after some facial tinkering.)Miller once more adapted...

Finally, this summer will see the arrival of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, a follow-up to Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s 2005 insta-classic film noir Sin City. Genre fans have been patiently biding their time until the sequel’s August release, but it’s hard not to get excited when the marketing department is unveiling posters like this and trailers as crazily awesome as this. Now, the first clip for the movie has landed online.

Though it does suffer from a lack of context, the clip finds Rosario Dawson’s Gail, a slinky femme fatale who led the prostitutes of Old Town in a fight against corrupt police in the first Sin City, living dangerously. She seductively presses herself against the hood of a car, much to the glee of a nameless henchman. It’s only when she baits him enough to be nearby when she opens the trunk,...

2013 has come and gone and my thoughts on the best movies of last year can be seen here. Now it’s 2014 it’s another year for great movies; here is a list of movies I’m most looking forward to seeing and can only hope they don’t let me down. I didn’t forget the big ones that may appear on a lot of lists (X-men: Days of Future Past, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Hobbit: There and Back Again, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America), I might even watch them; they just didn’t end up on my radar.

What are you warming up to see? Shout out in the comments below.

Update: I’ve gone ahead and added the trailers for the unreleased movies and shared my thoughts on the movies that have come and gone already. Was I right to anticipate these titles? Let me know in the comments.

Some cities are known for their beautiful architecture; others for their vibrant cultural scene. Basin City, on the other hand, has a reputation for being a pit of despair, crime, death and lust. Still, it’s probably better than Nag End On Sea. So there's good news for fans of that sort of thing, as the new trailer for Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s neo noir graphic novel-sourced sequel Sin City: A Dame To Kill For has arrived below. brightcove.createExperiences();Joseph Gordon-Levitt is among the newcomers to the City this time, starring in The Long Bad Night as Johnny, a gambler who loses more than he expects when he wins against the wrong opponent. Once again we have Mickey Rourke as Marv, whose stories (Just Another Saturday Night and the titular A Dame To Kill For) are set before the first film’s The Hard Goodbye. The title...

Anyone who saw this year’s 300: Rise of an Empire would probably agree that the film wouldn’t have been nearly as fun without Eva Green’s voluptuous, promiscuous femme fatale Artemisia. Luckily for filmgoers, Rise of an Empire wasn’t a one-off; Green has made a name for herself playing similarly sultry seductresses, appearing as sorceress Morgan le Fay in Starz’s short-lived Camelot series and as sexy spellcaster Angelique in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows. However, she’ll be taking on her biggest bombshell role yet this summer, when she appears as the titular character in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Now, the most risqué tease we’ve seen for the sequel thus far has set off some alarms over at the MPAA… which is why I imagine the marketing team submitted it in the first place.

The image in question, which you can check out in its full,...

Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez are going all out to make sure no one forgets that Sin City follow-up A Dame To Kill For will be hitting our cinemas hard later this year. The latest front in the film’s visual assault is a series of character posters spread among IGN, EW, IMDb, MTV and Fandango.Front and centre this time are the returning cast, including Mickey Rourke as leather-faced tough nut Marv, Jessica Alba as slinky, deadly stripper Nancy and Rosario Dawson as ruthless Gail. They're joined by new arrivals Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the unlucky gambler Johnny and, though he’s played by Josh Brolin this time, the brutal Dwight.A Dame To Kill For spins several tales, including The Long Bad Night, in which Johnny loses more than he gambles for against the wrong opponent. Just Another Saturday Night and the titular A Dame To Kill For, both...

We saw the first trailer for Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’ hard-boiled noir sequel Sin City: A Dame To Kill For early last month. Here comes the new, shorter promo, which features a batch of new footage and more slinky hyper-sexuality and violence. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is among the newcomers to the City this time, starring in The Long Bad Night as Johnny, a gambler who loses more than he expects when he wins against the wrong opponent. Once again we have Mickey Rourke as Marv, whose stories (Just Another Saturday Night and the titular A Dame To Kill For) are set before the first film’s The Hard Goodbye. The title story will see him pitted against femme fatale Ava Lord (Eva Green) and teamed up with private eye Dwight McCarthy (Clive Owen and Josh Brolin; who play the troubled antihero before and after some facial tinkering.) Miller once more...

(Cbr) "Booze, Broads and Bullets" isn’t just the title of a "Sin City" collection, but also a good description of the three new images from Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s movie sequel "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For": Jessica Alba as Nancy Callahan, Eva Green as Ava and Josh Brolin as Dwight. Opening Aug. 22, the new film combines two existing stories, “A Dame to Kill For” and “Another Saturday Night,” with two new ones, “The Long Bad Night” and “The Fat Loss.” "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" also stars, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson, Jaime King, Powers Booth and Ray Liota, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dennis Haysbert and Jeremy Piven.

One of my favorite movies is 2005′s Sin City, a gorgeously shot film noir (adapted from Frank Miller’s iconic graphic novel) with brilliant acting, gleefully graphic violence and glorious eye candy in Jessica Alba, Jaime King, Carla Gugino and Rosario Dawson. Pulpy and imaginative, it still dazzles nine years later. So, to say I’m looking forward to the long-in-the-works follow-up, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For would be an understatement. Even with Inherent Vice, Interstellar and Godzilla on the way, it’s the film I’m most eagerly anticipating this year.

Now, three new images have hit the web, highlighting actors Eva Green, Josh Brolin and Jessica Alba. Of those, Green and Brolin are both newcomers to the Sin City universe, while Alba is reprising her role as exotic dancer Nancy Callahan, who struggles to cope with the suicide of her protector John Hartigan (Bruce Willis) in...

So here we are again. Trawling the filthy, crime-ridden streets of Sin City, looking for cheap thrillers and new imagery. This time, the city, it delivered, spewing up a trio of new pictures we put straight into the gallery. You’re welcome. But you may not always feel it in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. The marketing blitz is well and truly under way for Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s latest film, torn from the pages of Miller’s work and shot once more in that authentic, graphic novel-feeling noir style.Joseph Gordon-Levitt is part of the cast this time, appearing in The Long Bad Night as Johnny, a gambler who loses more than he expects when he wins against the wrong opponent. And once again we have Mickey Rourke as Marv, whose stories this time (Just Another Saturday Night and the titular A Dame To Kill...

The pictures? They were just the initial lure, the eye candy to distract your peepers and get the interest bubbling in your gut like so much cheap soup. Now comes the first real punch: the trailer, full of noir and narration and the lingering promise of rain-soaked vistas all brought to life in vibrant monochrome with just the occasional colour highlight splashed or stabbed or thrown upon the screen. Sin City’s here, people, and you’d best be ready. brightcove.createExperiences();Those two filmmaking fellas, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller are back, see? Set their studio up to bring us the linked tales of A Dame To Kill For, once more letting a little light shine upon the dark urban sprawl (not too much, mind).Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s trying his luck this time, appearing in The Long Bad Night as Johnny, a gambler who loses more than he expects...

Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For has released a trio of first look pictures ahead of the film's release this summer.

Jessica Alba's stripper Nancy Callahan and Mickey Rourke's Marv - who both appeared in the 2005 original - are showcased in the images alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt, a new cast addition as gambler Johnny.

Sin City 2 cast also features Eva Green as Ava Lord, Juno Temple as Sally and returning stars Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson and Jaime King.

Josh Brolin will replace Clive Owen as Dwight McCarthy, while Lady Gaga is also set to appear as a character dubbed 'The Waitress'.

The sequel will be based on Frank Miller's comic short Just Another Saturday Night and two freshly-created storylines.

Miller is also returning to co-direct the film with Robert Rodriguez.

Gordon-Levitt last year said that he was "stoked" about seeing the finished movie, which...

Almost a decade after Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's original Sin City, and with so many rumours in the meantime that came to nothing, you'd have been forgiven for thinking a sequel would never materialise. But Sin City: A Dame To Kill For will finally be upon us this year, and to prove it's really happening, here are three noirish new stills. Is that all you've got? Yup.Two familiar faces and one newbie there. Jessica Alba is back as "exotic dancer" Nancy Callahan, who on this evidence is still "exotic dancing" at Kadie's Bar. She'll appear in the episode The Fat Loss, set after the last film's That Yellow Bastard.New to the madness and to the monochrome digital backlot cartoonification process is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He'll appear in the segment The Long Bad Night (original to this film and not one of Miller's comics... yet) playing Johnny, a...

Legendary graphic novelist Frank Miller’s super-stylized gang of strippers and scoundrels is back on the big screen for four tales of pulpy intrigue in the 3-D neo-noir sequel Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (out Aug. 22).

Jessica Alba’s Nancy Callahan is still dancing at Kadie’s, but she’s changed since John Hartigan’s (Bruce Willis) death in the original 2005 cult classic. “She’s out for revenge,” says Miller, who co-directed the film. “She is sick of being treated — as she puts it — ‘as a piece of ass.’” Robert Rodriguez, who also returns to co-helm the project,...

We talked about the likelihood (or lack thereof) for a Sin City 3 yesterday and today a new preview of the upcoming Sin City: A Dame to Kill For has arrived offering us familiar looks at Jessica Alba as Nancy (still stripping and dancing on bar tops) and Mickey Rourke as Marv (still ugly as ever), but there is at least one new character we hadn't seen yet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Johnny Johnny is a gambler character whose only mistake is beating the wrong gay in a game of poker. His story is one of three plot threads and the title of his is quite apt based on what we see here -- "The Long Bad Night". The other two are "A Dame to Kill For" featuring Josh Brolin replacing Clive Owen as Dwight who catches up with his ex (Eva Green) and then Marv's story, "Just Another Saturday Night". Sin City: A Dame to Kill For...

With a few months to go before we see the 50th Anniversary Special, there are many ways to kill time as a fan. Personally, I spend my time re-watching old episodes and having heated debates with co-workers about the role of John Hurt. I occasionally look for some good fan fiction across the web.

I have, however, recently read “The Angel’s Kiss” and “Summer Falls” and have turned my thoughts to other things that I would like to see in Who-related print. Here are my top ten. (All quotes come directly from Doctor Who itself, though I give profound thanks to the Tardis wikia and wikiquote.org for keeping my facts straight.)

10. The Doctor And The Queens Of England

“The Shakespeare Code” is certainly not the first time that the Doctor has a brush with royalty. The First Doctor went on a crusade with Richard I and enabled the...

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For was scheduled to be released on October 4th, 2013, but The Weinstein Company recently announced that they pushed the film's release date back to August 22nd, 2014. We have to wait almost another year before we see the movie. I don't see it as a big deal. I've already waited eight years for it, another year isn't going to hurt. There is a ton of other good films being released in the mean time to keep us busy while we wait. 

Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller have been in production on the film for a few months. The cast includes Josh Brolin, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson, Jaime King, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green, Dennis Haysbert, Christopher Meloni, Jeremy Piven, Jamie Chung, Ray Liotta, Juno Temple, Julia Garner, and Stacy Keach.

The plot for Sin City 2 comes from the stories A Dame To Kill For,...

"American Idol" has eliminated one of its most memorable contestants of Season 12.

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Lazaro Arbos finally made his "Idol" exit, after the judges once again decided not to use their save.

"Lazaro, we love you," Randy Jackson said. "You've been a treasure to this show, we enjoyed you, but we're not gonna use the save."

"Ok, sounds good. No problem guys," Lazaro said.

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The "American Idol" judges once again could not be swayed and another Season 12 contestant was sent home.

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Despite a performance that impressed the studio audience enough to chant, "Save! Save! Save!" at the judges, Randy Jackson, Keith Urban, Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj did not save Devin Velez from being cut from the show.

"Unfortunately, it is not unanimous. We're not gonna use it," Randy said.

"Really. Wow," a shocked Ryan Seacrest ...

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt, in attendance for Austin’s SXSW film festival, got to talking about Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. He is set to play Jonny in “The Long Bad Night,” a segment not found in the comic book upon which the film is based, the only such character/actor who can say that. He was asked about that, and more. His responses follow.

“It’s interesting. They wanted to have a movie where fans of the books would still be able to look forward to something new and unexpected, so they added a story. I remember being really intrigued by that and I was really looking forward to, ‘Oh that will be so interesting to have the actual comics to refer to as an actor’ but no I didn’t.”

“I had a ball doing that, I loved doing that…I mean,...