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Goggins' net worth sits at $12 million, amassed over a career full of impressive acting roles. The actor's journey includes tragic loss, marriage to filmmaker Nadia Conners, and fatherhood. Known for his Scorpio passion and charm, Goggins' unique look and acting talent have earned him success.

Walton Goggins has been having a fantastic second half of his career, and he's got the net worth to prove it. Walton Goggins began acting in TV and movies in 1989, when he appeared four times in the police procedural, In the Heat of the Night, each time as a different character. This led to a long run of Walton appearing frequently in movies and TV shows, but always as a one-episode character or supporting cast member. Then in 2002, Goggins starred as Shane Vendrell in The Shield, which led to Justified, where he played the intimidating Boyd Crowder.

Since the series ended in 2015, the list of...

Carrie Preston is an acclaimed actress, producer, and director. She has a long list of roles and projects but is most known for her roles as Arlene Fowler in the HBO drama True Blood and Elsbeth Tascioni in the CBS drama The Good Wife. 

She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her work on The Good Wife.

After The Good Wife, she played the same character in the Paramount+ spinoff, The Good Flight.

Now, with the expanding multiverse of The Good Wife, Preston has gone from an accessory to the main event with her role on CBS's Elsbeth as Elsbeth Tascioni.

It is about time Preston is front and center, and we are here to celebrate her long and delightful road to lead lady!

Early Career

Preston started acting in 1985 as Mint Jennifer in the movie Just a Friend. She was also part...

Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins are set to share the screen in the upcoming post-apocalyptic series Fallout. However, beyond their on-screen talents lies a curiosity about their real-world standings, particularly regarding wealth and who reigns supreme in the wealth stakes among the leading stars of the series.

Fallout

Hailing from the visionary minds behind Westworld, Lisa Joy, and Jonathan Nolan, the series unfolds in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear exchange in an alternate history. It follows Lucy MacLean’s journey as she ventures into the perilous wasteland of a decimated Los Angeles, over two centuries after the cataclysmic event.

Based on the beloved game franchise of the same name, it has garnered rave reviews from critics, who have applauded the series for its thrilling action sequences and an array of surprising twists, all unfolding within the backdrop of a dystopian future.

What is the Fallout Star Ella Purnell’s Net Worth?...

Hal Holbrook, the five-time Emmy-winning actor who was famed for portraying Mark Twain, has died at 95. Holbrook died on January 23 at his home in Beverly Hills, his assistant told The New York Times.

Born on February 17, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, he went on to have a highly decorated screen and stage career that spanned more than six decades.

Holbrook perhaps was best known for playing Mark Twain in his one-man stage show Mark Twain Tonight!, which first played on Broadway in 1966 and earned Holbrook a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play. A television showing of the stage show secured him an Emmy nomination a year later, he reprised the role on the Main Stem in 1977 and again in 2005.

Holbrook played former U.S. president Abraham Lincoln on television in Carl Sandburg’s 1974 mini-series Lincoln, which earned him one of five Emmy statuettes. His four other...

It’s the kind of West Texas town you’ve seen in a thousand movies — not just tranquil but barren, stock-still, a real desolation row, like a postcard that may or may not contain living things. Michael Shannon, as a local police chief, explains that it’s the sort of small town that people once thought of as quaint: one bank, one pizza place, and so on. Except that Why is it that only five people seem to live there, and that they happen to be the only five characters in the movie? “The Quarry” is so diagrammed that it uses its undernourished dark-side-of-the-heartland atmosphere to excuse the fact that nothing of note is really taking place.

Shea Whigham, who can be a zesty character actor, here hollows himself into a walking existential husk to play a man who is never named: some vague criminal on the run, who at...

This time last year, audiences were buying tickets to see “Avengers: Endgame.” Now, pretty much the biggest new release — bypassing theaters and going straight to streaming, amid the turmoil caused by the coronavirus — is a movie called “Butt Boy.”

But don’t worry. Governmental leaders are starting to share plans about a reopening of movie theaters, and there are still lots of quality new releases making themselves available by streaming. So, while no new studio movies bowed this week, you can find treasures from festivals such as Sundance and Cannes, plus fresh fare for Amazon Prime and Netflix subscribers.

Here are all the new releases, with excerpts from reviews and links to where you can watch them.

Independent films, directly on demand:

A White, White Day (Hlynur Palmason) Critic’S Pick

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A muscular study of toxic masculinity...

Steeple People: Teems Gets Spiritual in Rough-hewn Sophomore Film

It’s been over a decade since director Scott Teems delivered his warmly received debut, That Evening Sun (2009) an odyssey of Southern dysfunction which featured a stellar Hal Holbrook and took home major prizes at the SXSW Film Festival. Teems was set to return there with his sophomore film The Quarry before the cancellation of the 2020 festival. Perhaps this was a stroke of providence for Teems, whose long-awaited return falters precariously on familiarity and poorly conceived Mexican American composites with this adaptation of a 1995 novel by Damon Galgut.

Teems and co-writer Andrew Brotzman relocate the setting from post-apartheid South Africa to contemporary rural Texas in an effort to universalize Galgut’s specific racial divides.…...

Writer/director Scott Teems is clearly interested in stories redemption. His feature film debut That Evening Sun focused on a farmer returning home to deal with a family secret. He spent a season on TV's "Rectify" which focuses on the drama of a man putting his life back together after spending nearly 20 years on death row.

For his latest, a thriller titled The Quarry, Teems has adapted Damon Galgut's novel of the same name which tells the story of a drifter whose chance road-side encounter with a troubled preacher changes his life completely and forces the man to come to terms with his actions.

The Quarry is a very introspective film that relies heavily on the actors to provide much of the internalized drama. Thankfully, Teems has Shea Whigham and Michael Sh...

The Quarry is a slow burn crime drama that never reaches ignition. Good performances from a veteran lead cast can't rescue the sluggish pacing. Adapted from the South African novel by Damon Galgut, The Quarry's serious tone and stark delivery initially held my interest. The film then becomes progressively stale as the plot crawls to a resolve. There are also issues with the premise. The deception at the heart of the story doesn't hold up to scrutiny; especially with the religious and racial themes involved.

An unconscious man (Shea Whigham) is found lying on the side of a remote Texas road. His rescuer is David Martin (Bruno Bichir), a preacher traveling to a new post in a small border town. The man devours a meal bought by the preacher, but says nothing about himself or his situation. The preacher drives to a rock quarry to sober up before meeting his new flock.

Scott Teems is not a name many people may know off-hand, but he is an up-and-coming filmmaker to pay attention to. The man is the co-writer of the upcoming Halloween Kills and has also been tapped to write a new adaptation of Stephen King's Firestarter. Teems' latest movie, The Quarry, which stars Shea Whigham and Michael Shannon, is arriving on digital platforms soon and offers viewers stuck at home something new to enjoy. This is one of the many movies that had been set to screen at SXSW before the festival was canceled due to current events.

The Quarry is based on the novel of the same name by Damon Galgut. It centers on a fugitive who, after murdering a traveling preacher, travels to a small town and poses as the man he killed. The small-town congregation loves the drifter's sermons of forgiveness, but the local police chief (Michael...

Scott Teems’ The Quarry starring Michael Shannon and Shea Whigham has commenced production down in New Orleans, La.

The two actors have worked together numerous times before including the HBO TV series Boardwalk Empire and Paramount Network’s Waco last year, but also such movies as Take Shelter, Tigerland, and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.

Laura D. Smith and Kristin Mann produced The Quarry in partnership with Rockhill Studios, Metalwork Pictures and Gold Star Films. Film follows Whigham (The Man) who is on the run from his own sins, and finds himself in a small border town in Texas, impersonating a reverend. The town are quickly drawn to the man’s unorthodox sermons, but so is police Chief Moore (Shannon) who has his suspicions. Scott Teems directs, and co-wrote The Quarry with Andrew Brotzman. Teems, who is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Paradigm, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern,...

“It was both exciting and daunting at the same time,” admits production designer Mara LePere-Schloop about her work on “The Alienist.” Produced by Cary Joji Fukunaga (“True Detective”), this TNT limited series focuses on a newspaper illustrator (Luke Evans) who teams up with a criminal psychologist (Daniel Brühl) and a headstrong NYPD secretary (Dakota Fanning) to investigate a serial killer in 19th century New York City. On one hand, LePere-Schloop was mesmerized by “this amazing world that we were going to have the potential to build.” But on the other hand, “it was also extremely horrifying because it’s this massive, sprawling story of 1890s New York” and “a showcase of the architecture of the city, both then and now.” Watch our exclusive video interview with LePere-Schloop above.

See Dakota Fanning (‘The Alienist’): ‘I tend to be drawn to darker subject matter’ [Exclusive Video Interview]

Historical accuracy was important to LePere-Schloop, and...

Daily Dead Editor-in-Chief Jonathan James is attending The Overlook Film Festival in Oregon, where they have announced that a new version of Firestarter is in development.

Following the screening of Akiva Goldsman's new supernatural horror film, Stephanie, Goldsman and Jason Blum stepped on stage for a Q&A, where they announced that Goldsman will direct a new version of Stephen King's 1980 novel, Firestarter.

Goldsman will direct the new take on the story about a girl with pyrokinetic abilities who is hunted by a sinister organization known as The Shop. The new Firestarter movie will be co-written by Goldsman (who also co-wrote The Dark Tower movie, based on King's epic fantasy book series) and Scott Teems (Rectify, That Evening Sun), and Goldsman mentioned that they are looking to the book for inspiration.

Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions will support the new Firestarter film, and Universal is taking part in its development,...

There's no word that suits Hal Holbrook better than 'legend.' The 89-year-old actor and veteran has a career stretching back sixty years, with a long history of movie roles (most famously playing Deep Throat in "All The President's Men"), and continues to work regularly today, winning an Oscar nomination for his part in "Into The Wild," and currently appearing on acclaimed TV series "Rectify." But perhaps more than anything, he's known for playing the great American writer Mark Twain: he's been playing the "Tom Sawyer" author for sixty years in one-man show "Mark Twain Tonight!," winning a Tony and an Emmy for his trouble. And now it's coming to the big screen, with Scott Teems (who directed Holbrook in the underseen and way underrated "That Evening Sun") helming a documentary "Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey" which was snuck in at the Laff last night before premiering officially at AFI Docs on Wednesday.

Jeff Nichols’ ‘Mud’ is ‘no ordinary movie’ (photo: Matthew McConaughey in ‘Mud’) Ostensibly, writer-director Jeff Nichols’ Mud is about the titular character, played by Matthew McConaughey, who’s on the run from the law and the family of a man he killed for love of a woman, Juniper, played by a bedraggled Reese Witherspoon. That’s a fine, if ordinary, foundation for a thriller — though this is no ordinary movie by any stretch. In fact, Mud isn’t even about the character Mud; instead, it’s a coming-of-age story that’s part mystery, fable, and thriller. Beneath it all lies a love story — indeed, several love stories, all tied together through the heart of a young boy called Ellis (The Tree of Life‘s Tye Sheridan in an accomplished performance): a witness to the death of love in his family, Ellis feels it in his heart and is willing to do anything,...

Though Ray McKinnon won an Oscar for his 2001 short "The Accountant" and went to Sundance with his 2004 film "Chrystal," starring his late wife Lisa Blount and Billy Bob Thornton, he's best known for his work as an actor. He's a familiar face from features like "That Evening Sun" and the upcoming "Mud," and shows like "Sons of Anarchy" and "Deadwood," in which he played a pivotal first season role as the kind-hearted but slowly deteriorating Reverend Smith. Sundance Channel's meditative, lovely new series "Rectify," which is created, written and executive produced by McKinnon, seems clearly shaped by those experiences on both sides of the camera. A drama about a man named Daniel Holden (Aden Young) who's released from death row after 19 years when DNA evidence leads to his sentence being vacated (without clearing him of the crime), the six-episode show is emphatically intimate, closing in on the first week in Daniel's life back home,...

Walton Goggins just has one of those faces that audiences remember. From his work on television shows like The Shield and Justified to his big screen supporting roles in films like The Apostle, Predators, and That Evening Sun, he has long been recognized as one of Hollywood's finest character actors. In 2012, he had notable roles in both Lincoln and Django Unchained, joining casts that included James Spader, Tommy Lee Jones, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jamie Foxx, and Leonardo DiCaprio (just to name a few). Both films are sure to be Oscar contenders, and both feature Goggins in very different roles. In Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, he plays a conflicted Congressman who casts one of the deciding votes in support of the passage of the the 13th amendment. In Django Unchained, he plays the terrifying villain Billy Crash who embodies of the cruelty of racism. One of Crash's more gut-wrenching atrocities is reminiscent...

After Sinister made a solid $18 million haul in its first weekend, Blumhouse Productions is understandably pleased with director Scott Derrickson and his efforts. So pleased, in fact, that Deadline reports the company is teaming with Derrickson for a new project, a film adaptation of Stephen King's short story The Breathing Method. It follows a young woman, determined to give birth to her illegitimate child in the 1930s, who comes to a doctor that wrote a book about breathing methods for childbirth. But the eerie part comes when the woman refuses to give up the method, even after enduring a terrifying accident. Read on! Scott Teems will write the screenplay, and he has experience adapting other people's work since his one produced feature That Evening Sun was an adaptation of William Gay's short story, "I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down." Financing isn't in place yet for this one,...

Director/co-writer Scott Derrickson’s horror film Sinister scored big at the box office this past weekend, and now he’s teaming back up with Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Pictures (the studio behind the Paranormal Activity films) to tackle a Stephen King adaptation. Deadline reports that Derrickson will direct an adaptation of The Breathing Method, a story found in King’s collection Different Seasons. The story opens in an exclusive gentleman’s club where the only price for membership is the telling of stories. One man begins to recount the tale of a woman in the 1930s who was determined to give birth to her illegitimate child, no matter the cost. She seeks out the physician author of a book on the Breathing Method of childbirth, and grows close with the doctor as her determination fails to wane. Scott Teems (That Evening Sun) will write the script, and the film...

Dry-Eyed Narrative: Jared Moshe’s Western Exercise An Intriguing Effort

Producer Jared Moshe’s directorial debut, Dead Man’s Burden, is a mostly winsome procedure as an homage to the bare bones Western efforts of yore. While drawing easy comparisons to the output of John Ford, there’s definitely a touch of Anthony Mann in Moshe’s work, employing a slim film noir framework with a femme fatale that proves hell hath no fury like a dusty, blue-eyed lady whose lamps are fixated on greener pastures.

Set in 1870 New Mexico, immediately after the end of the Civil War, a young woman named Martha (Claire Bowen) blasts a man in the face with a rifle, who had been in the midst of fleeing on horseback. We come to learn that this man was her father when her prodigal brother, Wade (Barlow Jacobs), returns home, leery of facing the parent that vowed...

Although he’s just wrapped Steven Stpielberg‘s Lincoln and is very, very old, Hal Holbrook has set his sights on an upcoming Gus Van Sant drama as his next project. Variety has reported that the seasoned actor is in negotiations to join Promised Land, which is written by Matt Damon and John Krasinski.

Originally, this project was meant to be Damon‘s directorial debut, but has since stepped down to the starring role, being that of a rival corporate executive to Krasinski‘s character, “whose life is thrown into disarray after he arrives in a small town.” Frances McDormand is also set to star as Damon‘s sales partner, “who prefers to follow the rules as opposed to breaking protocol.” Rosemarie DeWitt will also play “a schoolteacher caught between Damon and Krasinski‘s characters.”

Holbrook would join them as “an engineer who lives in the town and opposes a...

While Hal Holbrook hasn't lacked for work in his career on both the big and small screen reaching back to the '60s, his late-stage jobs have earned him the most notice. He nabbed an Academy Award nomination in 2007 for "Into The Wild" and since then, did an arc on "Sons Of Anarchy," led the critically acclaimed but somewhat overlooked "That Evening Sun" and recently wrapped "Lincoln" with Steven Spielberg. Now he's going to spend his spring with another acclaimed director, Gus Van Sant, and his casting has also led to some plot details finally emerging.

Holbrook has come on board "Promised Land," the project from writers and stars Matt Damon and John Krasinski, that also features Rosemarie DeWitt and Frances McDormand. Initially birthed from an idea by Dave Eggers, Variety reveals that the story will center on two rival executives, with Damon arriving in a small town and having...

Noted Southern writer and occasional Paste contributor William Gay was reportedly found dead last night at the age of 68, reports The Nashville Scene. Suspected cause of death is heart failure. Gay, a naval veteran of the Vietnam War, didn’t publish his first novel until 1999, when The Long Home won a James A. Michener Memorial Prize and started a bidding war among publishers for the follow-up, Provinces of Night. His 2002 novel I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down was adapted by director Scott Teems. That Evening Sun was one of Paste’s best movies of 2009. In...

Turning a novel into a movie is challenge enough, but when that novel happens to be more than 600 pages long, you've got a real uphill climb — which is why Susanne Bier, who directed the 2011 Best Foreign Language Oscar winner, "In A Better World," has her work cut out for her as the recently appointed director of the film adaptation of "Cutting for Stone."

The best-selling tale, penned by Abraham Verghese, has sold more than a million copies worldwide and has the powers-that-be in Hollywood licking their chops. (Hey, those suits know a sure thing when they see it.)

The story follows twin brothers, the product of a forbidden relationship between an Indian nun and British surgeon, who are born in an Ethiopian mission hospital. Orphaned after the death of their mother, both boys follow in their father's footsteps and become doctors as well — continuing to work at the mission hospital...

Susanne Bier ("In a Better World") has been set to direct the feature adaptation of Abraham Verghese's novel "Cutting for Stone" for Anonymous Content says Variety.

The story centers on twin brothers born of a forbidden union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon in an Ethiopian mission hospital.

Orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance, and bound together by a preternatural connection as well as a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of the modern world.

Scott Teems ("That Evening Sun") penned the script while Rosalie Swedlin and Steve Golin will produce. Bier's recent romantic drama "All You Need Is Love" is currently being shopped around at Berlinale where deals have already been closed for over three dozen territories.

Danish director Susanne Bier – whose In A Better World won last year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar – will direct an adaption of Abraham Verghese‘s best-seller Cutting For Stone for Anonymous Content. [Variety]

The film, scripted by That Evening Sun writer-director Scott Teems, will be “a riveting saga of twin brothers, Marion and Shiva Stone, born of a tragic union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.” Synopsis courtesy of the novel’s website. This Sunday marks the novel’s impressive 105th consecutive New York Times’ trade paperback bestseller list, indicating a high level of public interest in this story.

Bier...

Sarah Palin cutout, filmmaker Nick Broomfield, Sarah Palin – You Betcha! Anna Faris-Chris Evans-Zachary Quinto/What's Your Number?: One of Worst Box-Office Openings Ever Sarah Palin – You Betcha! is the second Sarah Palin movie to bomb this year. Directed by sometime collaborators Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill, Palin's You Betcha! movie collected an estimated $7,400 at 6 locations in North America this weekend, averaging a disastrous $1,233 per theater. Back in July, Stephen K. Bannon's strong 2012 Razzie contender The Undefeated earned $65,132 at 10 theaters, averaging $6,513 per site. Even though that wasn't too bad for starters — thanks to some strong Tea Party marketing — Palin's The Undefeated movie went on to cume at a dismal $116,381 domestically. Needless to say, outside the United States no one gives a damn about the widely derided hagiography. In sum, Sarah Palin is what back in the days of the studio system, exhibitors would have called Box-Office Poison.

One of the actors to really start to break from TV into consistent film acting in the past couple years is Walton Goggins. His work on The Shield lead to a handful of notable film roles. (He was fun in Predators and had a good, if brief turn in the excellent and under-seen That Evening Sun.) His more recent gig on Justified and body of work in general has led to Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. Being cast in G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation may not seem like as big a deal as being in Lincoln, but it might ensure that Goggins is in front of a few people who won't see Lincoln. Variety [1] announces that he'll play Warden Nigel James in Jon Chu's sequel to the 2007 screen outing for the Joes. All told, Chu has lined up Dwayne Johnson as Roadblock, Ray Stevenson as Firefly, RZA as Blind Master, and Adrianne Palicki as Lady Jaye,...

Chicago – According to IMDb, there are over 20 film and TV versions of the Charlotte Bronte novel, “Jane Eyre.” Director Cary Fukunaga (”Sin Nombre”) and lead actress Mia Wasikowska (”Alice in Wonderland”) take on the latest remake of the literary legend.

There is a nice twist in this one, as it is told in flashback from a point deep in the original novel. The screenplay by Moira Buffini gives director Cary Fukunaga ample room to create a reflective Jane Eyre, led by the performance of the by Mia Waskiowska as title character. The film has terrific performances and an unexpected scope that fleshes out the conflicts of the famous character.

The Arrival: Mia Wasikowska in ‘Jane Eyre’

Photo credit: Laurie Sparham for Focus Features

HollywoodChicago.com got the opportunity to speak with both Mia Wasikowska and Cary Fununaga when they were in Chicago promoting the film.

Mia Wasikowska, the Title Character...

Hal Holbrook recently spoke with Paste about Mark Twain when we named the great American author our 2010 Man of the Year in Nonfiction. Holbrook, of course, has portayed Twain in the one man show Mark Twain Tonight! for over half a century, and currently, That Evening Sun director Scott Teems is in production on a documentary, Holbrook/Twain, that explores the cultural touchstone. At one point, the conversation turned to Holbrook’s late wife, actress Dixie Carter. His reminiscences were so sweet that we pulled them out for a short Valentine’s Day special....

We’ve been bringing you the first images from films that will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival later this month, and today we’ve got images from a film that will be featured as a part of Park City at Midnight. The Oregonian stars Lindsay Pulsipher (True Blood), Robert Longstreet (Pineapple Express), Barlow Jacobs (That Evening Sun), and Chadwick Brown (Little Children). Written and directed by Calvin Lee Reeder, the film follows the story of a simple woman who survives a brutal car accident only to be thrust into the nightmarish unknown. Hit the jump to check out the images, as well as a brief synopsis for the film. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs from January 20 – 30th. The Oregonian (Director and screenwriter: Calvin Lee Reeder) — After surviving a brutal car accident, a simple farm woman limps down the road into the nightmarish unknown. Cast: Lindsay Pulsipher, Robert Longstreet, Matt Olsen,...

Oregon looks like a beautiful place...the trees, the lakes and rivers, gorgeous coastline and open spaces. I imagine it's the kind of place you just stand, looking at your surroundings and breathing in nature. Peaceful.

Then I watched this freakyass, Lynchian trailer for Calvin Reeder's (The Rambler) first feature, The Oregonian and I'm thinking, thank Godtopus I'm not a country girl. Set to premiere at Sundance 2011, the film invites us to "spend some time with a woman from Oregon (Lindsay Pulsipher, "True Blood") who is lost on the road and running away from her past. The woman survives a bad car accident, but after seeing this thing, I'm not convinced that's a good thing.

And if that wasn't enough to mess with your mind, Bloody Disgusting has a few very strange photos - here's just one:

The Oregonian also stars Robert Longstreet (Pineapple Express), Barlow Jacobs (That Evening Sun...

In our latest installment of our ongoing podcast series, Running Dialogue, Russ, Curt, and I discuss Black Swan, The Tourist, and Four Lions. All three of us talk about Black Swan and our various issues with the film. Russ and I talk The Tourist and how it fails and then Curt and I talk about Four Lions and how it succeeds. Since I was the only one of us who saw all three films, I proclaim myself the King of all Movies for all-time.

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Running Dialogue #20 – Black Swan, The Tourist, and Four Lions

Curt – Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary Matt – The Red Shoes

Russ – Videodrome

Running Dialogue #19 – Harry Potter and the...

In the latest installment of our ongoing podcast series, Russ, Curt, and I discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and The Next Three Days. Also, since it’s finally expanding to the greater Atlanta area, we talk about Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours. While all three of us liked these movies, we each had our own particular qualms. We also go into spoiler territory on Deathly Hallows at the end of the episode, so be sure you listen after you’ve seen the movie if you want to get Russ’ thoughts on particular deus ex machinas in the movie as well as my issue regarding the unclear nature of one character’s fate.

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Happy Halloween! This latest installment of our ongoing podcast is about all things zombies as Russ, Curt, and I talk about The Walking Dead. We discuss the first two episodes of AMC’s new series (the season premiere airs tonight; read Ethan’s review here), the appeal of zombies, what makes The Walking Dead shamble apart from other zombie properties, and other matters of the undead.

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Running Dialogue #18 – The Walking Dead

Curt – I Walked with a Zombie and Not Quite Hollywood Matt – Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks Russ – American Grindhouse

Running Dialogue #17 – Jackass 3D, Red, and Catfish

Curt – Topkapi Matt – Beauty and the Beast (1991) Russ – (anti-recommendation!) Paranormal Activity

Running Dialogue #16 – 2010 Fall Movies,...

In the latest installment of our ongoing podcast series, Running Dialogue, we talk about two new films and one that’s been out for a few weeks but is worth some discussion. When it comes to Jackass 3D, we had a fun conversation since I was new to the series and Russ and Curt had seen the movies and the show. We all tried to muster some enthusiasm for Red, but each had our own problems with the film. Finally, although Russ hadn’t seen it, he was cool with Curt and me discussing Catfish. We save that discussion for the end since we go into heavy spoilers and you should try going into that film knowing as little as possible (but do go into it since Curt and I agree that it’s a great movie).

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In the latest installment of our ongoing podcast series, Russ, Curt, and I take a look ahead at some of the films coming out over the rest of the year. While there’s overlap between some of the films we talk about and those on my 15 Most-Anticipated list, we also discuss David O. Russell’s The Fighter and the festival sensation The King’s Speech. Finally, we go on a bit of a tangent as Curt gives his thoughts on the first six episodes of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, and Russ talks about the incredible-sounding Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse live/undead-experience.

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Running Dialogue #16 – 2010 Fall Movies, Boardwalk Empire, and the Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse

No recommendations this week.

In this week’s installment of Running Dialogue, we discuss three movies about folks serving up healthy dishes of murder to other folks: Anton Corbijn’s The American, Neil Marshall’s Centurion, and Robert Rodriguez’ Machete. Of the three films, The American is a film that demands to be discussed due to its quiet and contemplative nature, and after talking it out with Russ and Curt, I liked the movie even more. Our discussion of Machete also led to a conversation about this summer movie season and how most of the big films disappointed but the smaller films like Exit Through the Gift Shop and Get Low were worth checking out.

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Running Dialogue #15 – The American,...

MacGruber: "It's been ten years since the release of the last film based on a "Saturday Night Live" sketch, and a lot has changed since the era of The Ladies' Man. It's not that the show's humor has become less fratty since the 1990s, the decade of Adam Sandler and Chris Farley; it's that the type of fratty-ness has changed, evolving from a beer-bong chugfest into something much sillier and more absurd. But the biggest change between then and now, and the one that makes MacGruber both better than expected and more fleeting, is the rise of the SNL Digital Short. The brief films spearheaded by cast member Andy Samberg have grown from cheaply shot goofs to videos like "I'm On a Boat" that make the most of their budget and create something that looks high-quality but still has the lurking feel of a production thrown together in an afternoon.

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A Scanner Darkly / Thx 1138 / Lost in Space / Mars Attacks! / Matrix Reloaded / Forbidden Planet We'll begin with a very cool group of films Warner Home Video is releasing on Blu-ray today. The only one of these six I have not seen is Lost in Space and that's primarily thanks to the fact I haven't heard anything good about it. Additionally, A Scanner Darkly and George Lucas's Thx 1138 did nothing for me when I first saw them, though with this Blu-ray I am certainly going to give Thx 1138 a second chance.

Despite the negativity it often receives, I personally really like Matrix Reloaded, but I am assuming most of the people that agree with me on that have already bought the complete Matrix trilogy on Blu-ray. Or, perhaps you're not a fan of Revolutions (and let's be honest,...

Now that September is here, the summer movies are slowly starting to trickle out on DVD... starting with the ones that didn't do so well in theatres, naturally. This week we get the SNL MacGruber movie and Killers starring Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl, and not a heck of a lot else. Festival sleeper Solitary Man starring Michael Douglas and Jesse Eisenberg also hits stores today, along with a new Special Edition of Wall Street and Blood Into Wine, a documentary about Maynard James Keenan's journey to becoming a winemaker. If you're a fan of Norm McDonald, the gem of the week is definitely The Norm Show: The Complete Series. Also out this week on DVD and Blu-ray: new seasons of The Office, Supernatural, and Smallville. What will you be buying or renting this week? MacGruber [1] (+ Blu-ray [2]) Killers [3] (+ Blu-ray [4]) Solitary Man [5] (+ Blu-ray [6]) That Evening Sun [7] (+ Blu-ray [8]) The Exploding Girl...

"Being Michael Madsen" (2010)

Directed by Michael Mongillo

Released by Midnight Releasing

While not as distinguished or meta as "Being John Malkovich," expect this mockumentary about the "Reservoir Dogs" star to be equally surreal as Madsen recruits sister Virginia and "Kill Bill" co-stars Daryl Hannah and the late David Carradine to co-star in this film that sees him accused of murder. Rather than sit idly by, Madsen turns the table on the paparazzi photographer fueling the allegations by hiring a trio of filmmakers to follow his every move.

"Beneath Clouds" (2002)

Directed by Ivan Sen

Released by Cinema Epoch

This Australian drama stars Dannielle Hall and the late Damian Pitt as Lena and Vaughn, a pair of strangers thrown together by circumstance to travel across the country to Sydney where Lena hopes to learn more about her long-absent father and Vaughn hope to leave behind his criminal past and see his ailing mother.

This week in our on-going podcast, Curt, Russ, and I discussed two of this weekend’s big movies, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and The Expendables. It was fun talking Scott Pilgrim because each of us came at our first viewing from a different place in relation to the books. Curt hadn’t read the books, Russ had read all but the final volume, and I had read all six. While the site has gone mad with Scott Pilgrim coverage, I think you’ll want to hear what Curt had to say since he was someone unfamiliar with the series going in. We also talked Expendables, but that was a shorter conversation since only Russ and I had seen it (Curt went to see Eat, Pray, Love instead, and you can listen to his Creative Loafing podcast about here).

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Chicago – Get out the shoulder pads and parachute pants, as HollywoodChicago revisits the 1980s through interviews with four top stars of the era, as they made their appearance at the most recent Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show. Theresa Russell, Ernie Hudson, Barry Corbin and Ginger Lynn Allen were there.

HollywoodChicago talked with them all, and Hc ace photographer Joe Arce put them through their poses with his unique point of view.

The Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show is a twice-a-year event where attendees can meet and greet the stars, collect autographs and find cool collectibles at the memorabilia market.

Theresa Russell, “Black Widow” and “Insignificance”

Theresa Russell made a significant debut as a film actor in “The Last Tycoon” [1976], and went on to make several memorable films with then husband and director Nicholas Roeg, including “Bad Timing” [1980], “Eureka” [1983] and the infamous cult film “Insignificance” [1985]. She recently played the wife of Thomas Haden Church...

In this new episode of Running Dialogue, we discuss this week’s two big movies: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and The Last Airbender. For Twilight, we are joined by Creative Loafing Atlanta editors Debbit Michaud and Besha Rodell. We talk about the new movie being the least terrible one so far, the guilty pleasure the series provides but also its sexism, and the downright creepiness of the final book in the series, Breaking Dawn. Then Curt, Russ, and I have a discussion about M. Night Shyamalan’s wretched The Last Airbender. Curt and I advocate for the series, but we’re all forced to wrestle with the awfulness of the film adaptation.

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For fans of our podcast Running Dialogue, I would like to apologize for not posting these on time. Our fantastic producer, Alejandro Leal, has been delivering them on time, but I’ve fallen behind. With this in mind, I hope you’ll accept our two most recent episodes together in one article. In Episode 10, we discuss Splice, Get Him to the Greek, and talk about the repercussions of MGM’s financial meltdown. Episode 11 has us talking Toy Story 3, Jonah Hex, and the dearth of quality films so far this summer. As always, my partners in crime are Curt Holman of Creative Loafing Atlanta and Russ Fischer of /Film.

I’ve also included a list of all the movies we’ve recommended so far after the jump. Click here to listen to Episode 10 and click here to listen to Episode 11. Finally, click here to add Running Dialogue to your RSS feed.

If standards used in measuring a film festival's success are solely based on the fruition of its films, the Little Rock Film Festival continues to surpass those measurements. In its first three years, pre-distribution screenings like Knocked Up, That Evening Sun, Touching Home, Breaking Upwards and (500) Days of Summer have all gone on to further acclaim. This year is no exception.Having already snatched the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Winter's Bone opened the Little Rock festival and went on to win Best Narrative. Co-writer/director Debra Granik continues the high quality of recent Southern films with her gripping Appalachian tale of Ree, a...

Awards Daily has posted a few photos of Christoph Waltz on the set of Francis Lawrence’s (I Am Legend) Water for Elephants. More photos of Waltz can be seen at Accidental Sexiness and Ontd.

The film, which began shooting in Los Angeles on May 22, also stars Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, and Hal Holbrook, who recently gave an excellent performance in That Evening Sun. The film will be about a veterinary student who abandons school and joins a traveling circus after his parents are killed.

Do you think this a film to keep an eye on? Have you liked Lawrence’s other films?...

Chicago – Director Scott Teems has been working the film exhibition circuit hard for the past two years since releasing “That Evening Sun” in 2009. Featuring Hal Holbrook in one of his finest roles, the film has built an audience one city at a time.

The compelling story is about a farmer named Meecham (Holbrook) in the twilight of his life, whose son has placed him in an elder care facility. Determined to reclaim his land, Meecham escapes from the facility, only to find another family living on his farm. He finds out that his son has allowed this, not knowing that the new tenants include a man named Choat (Ray McKinnon), who Meecham despises. His run-ins with Choat comprise the rest of the narrative, with themes of aging, family, friendship, redemption and truth.

In Country: Carrie Preston as Ludie (left), Mia Wasikowska as Pamela and Hal Holbrook as Meecham in...

Scott Teems directed one of my favorite films last year—That Evening Sun, an adaptation of a William Gay short story starring Hal Holbrook, Ray McKinnon and Carrie Preston. The movie made brilliant use of an original Drive-By Truckers song (which you can watch Patterson Hood play and discuss here). Teems, McKinnon and the Truckers have joined forces once again for the new Drive-By Truckers music video for “Working This Job.” The explicit version is below or you can watch the clean version at YouTube (the only difference is in the on-screen language)....