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Monday, November 21st, 2011
The trailer for Rampart has Woody Harrelson playing “the most corrupt cop you’ve ever seen on screen” – that’s if you never saw Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant or Nicolas Cage in The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans. Still, this movie looks intense and Harrelson as always place a menace like no other (see Natural Born Killers). There is Oscar buzz for his roll, which looking at the trailer below, is very exciting and possibly deserved.
The film also stars Ned Beatty, Ice Cube, Ben Foster, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright and Steve Buscemi.
Los Angeles, 1999. Officer Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing “the people’s dirty work” and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate. Brown internalizes his fear, anguish and paranoia as his world, complete with two ex-wives who are sisters, two daughters, an aging mentor dispensing bad advice, investigators galore, and a series of seemingly random women, starts making less and less sense. In the end, what is left is a human being stripped of all his pretense, machismo, chauvinism, arrogance, sexism, homophobia, racism, aggression, misanthropy; but is it enough to redeem him as a man?
Watch the trailer below, and look for a release in 2012:
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Tags: Anne Heche, ben foster, Cynthia Nixon, Ice Cube, James-Ellroy, Ned-Beatty, Oren Moverman, Rampart, Robin Wright, sigourney weaver, steve buscemi, trailer, woody harrelson
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
Boardwalk Empire will return for a third season reports Deadline. The second season still holds strong on Sunday nights for HBO and has become required viewing in my TV line-up. The show performed well at the recent Emmy Awards winning eight awards. It has one of the best cast and crews on any TV show today with Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Pitt, Terence Winter, Martin Scorsese, Tim Van Patten, Stephen Levinson and Mark Wahlberg.
I can’t wait to see where the show is going to go as the 1920′s progresses; talking movies were invented in 1923, J. Edgar Hoover was appointed FBI director in 1924, and Hitler publishes Mein Kampf in 1925. Needless to say, as long as the show keeps going, it’s got nothing to worry about for historical material.
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Monday, August 29th, 2011
We’ve already had a few teaser trailers for season 2 of Boardwalk Empire, see them here and here. Now we have an actual trailer that further proves the upcoming season is going be to awesome, but we already knew that didn’t we? You get booze, guns, and the KKK – you won’t find those elements on the Disney Channel.
Catch the Season 2 premiere of Boardwalk Empire, on September 25th. Watch the trailer below:
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
It’s a slow news day, can you tell? Yesterday we shows you the 25 Greatest Unscripted Scenes in Film, today we have 25 Actors Before They Were Famous. I didn’t know Daniel Craig was in A Kid in King Arthur’s Court, I did however know that Joseph Gordon-Levitt was on Roseanne because I’ve watched the series enough times. Leonardo DiCaprio was on an episode in a non speaking role too [see].
Hit the jump to watch the compilation courtesy of YouTube user pleatedjeans:
Tags: angelina jolie, arnold schwarzenegger, Before They Were Famous, ben stiller, compilation, Courteney Cox, daniel craig, denzel washington, harrison ford, jack black, jack nicholson, jackie chan, jake gyllenhaal, jennifer aniston, jim carrey, john cusack, joseph gordon-levitt, keanu reeves, natalie portman, Nicole Kidman, reel, ryan gosling, sandra bullock, Sarah Jessica Parker, scarlett johansson, sean connery, seth rogen, steve buscemi
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Boardwalk Empire Season 2 has been scheduled to air in fall 2011, in the mean time we can look forward to awesome trailers like the one below. Boardwalk Empire had a very impressive first season, following resounding critical acclaim and high viewer numbers for the series, HBO has renewed Boardwalk Empire for a second season. A show that has contributions from the likes of Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas) and Terence Winter (The Sopranos), and a cast that includes Steve Buscemi and Michael Shannon, you just know it’s going to succeed. This show was nothing short of amazing, I can’t wait for season 2.
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HBO is the best. FX comes in a close second with shows like Rescue Me (returns in July by the way) and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Even after The Sopranos , The Wire and Six Feet Under have long been gone – True Blood, Eastbound and Down, Treme, Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Ricky Gervais Show now mark yet another landmark line up in what has to be some of the strongest TV programming in any year. Note: Ignore the fact that they also produced the likes of Entourage and Sex And The City.
HBO’s forthcoming prohibition gangster series Boardwalk Empire has the look and feel that I have come to expect from the high standards HBO demands. It is sure to be a TV event when it premiers this fall. Here is the third promo for the Martin Scorsese‘s directed and Terence Winter (Sopranos) written pilot which gives us a great look at lead Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson. He is the ruler of Atlantic City as a politician and gangster – making his city the center for booze, gambling and prostitution during prohibition. It’s like a dream come true. (more…)
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
The new HBO series Boardwalk Empire has a pilot directed by Martin Scorsese (also producer) and we have the teaser after the jump It’s short but sweet, showing off some of the cast and costumes of the era. No beer? Kill me now. The show is scripted by Terence Winter (The Sopranos) based on Nelson Johnson’s book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City. The whole thing takes place in Atlantic City during Prohibition, and primarily hinges on Steve Buscemi’s character Nucky Johnson. He’s based on a real power figure who reigned over Atlantic City for three decades. Some more on that:
The series will detail the life and exploits of Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) who is based on the real life person Enoch “Nucky” Johnson, the “boss” of the Republican political machine that controlled Atlantic City from 1911 to 1941. The cast is rounded out by Gretchen Mol, who plays a showgirl involved with Nucky; Dabney Coleman who plays his mentor and Omar Little from “The Wire” (Michael K. Williams) playing somebody named Chalky White. And as some readers have pointed out, Michael Pitt and Michael Shannon appear in the teaser as well. Jump for the teaser.
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
One of these things is not like the others.
What can you say about a new Adam Sandler movies that already hasn’t been said about the war in Iraq? The trailer for the coming-of-age comedy Grown Ups is here and with most “comedies” coming out, the trailers are of course riddled with pros and cons.
Pros: Kevin James is actually pretty awesome in most things he does, so he being in this movie just might save it. Bob Seger in your soundtrack, epic win.
Cons: Really? Physical comedy with the tree? OK. Rob Schneider only gets work when Sandler does, we know this, but really the man walks around day to day knowing that everyone hates him; derp! Take the horse to pasture already. Chris Rock say anything in this trailer? Norm Macdonald And finally, you just know it’s going to be PG.
The movie is about five high school friends who reunite on the Fourth of July weekend following the passing of their basketball coach. They have not seen each other in thirty years so there’s a lot of catching up to do. The cast includes Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Maria Bello, Maya Rudolph and Gary Busy. Grown Ups will be in theaters on June 25, 2010.
Check out the trailer after the jump.
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Hi there...Scorsese on coke.
You already know it’s going to be great and win many awards. HBO, check. Martin Scorsese, check. Steve Buscemi check. HBO has ordered a full season of Boardwalk Empire, starring Steve Buscemi and produced by Martin Scorsese, who will also direct the pilot and stay on as an executive producer.
Written by Terence Winter (he wrote many Sopranos eps), Empire is set in 1920 at the dawn of Prohibition and chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson (Buscemi), the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster. Also cast are Michael Shannon, Michael Kenneth Williams, Dabney Coleman, Kelly McDonald and Michael Pitt. [THR]
The series is set for next year see, and episodes will shoot this fall in New York City see. Everybody wins see. Eh? 20′s talk.
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