I’m still hoping a hybrid robot ninja will randomly appear half way through the movie and kill everyone who isn’t in the RSC, but for everyone who doesn’t have these cravings I am sure you will find the new trailer as exciting as it is predictable. Imagine Danny Boyle directing Harry Potter…?
Congratulations to Bryan Cranston, for winning at Emmy last night for his leading role in Breaking Bad. Not long ago we sat down with the humorous and recently dark Bryan Cranston to talk about his latest show Breaking Bad, his 7 season run as Hal on Malcolm in the Middle, his experiences with directing and much more.
His feature film credits include “Little Miss Sunshine”, “Seeing Other People,” “That Thing You Do”, “Clean Slate”, “Kissing Miranda”, “Dead Space”, “Private Offerings”, “Terror Tract”, to name but a few. Cranston is currently filming “Love Ranch” based on real events, it is a drama centered on a married couple that open the first legal brothel in Nevada. Cranston plays James Pettis, a corrupt senator that butts head with Joe Pesci who plays the brothel owner alongside Helen Mirren as the madam.
So without further ado! We give you Bryan Cranston.
Were you consciously looking for a dramatic role after your character Hal in Malcolm in the Middle?
I was looking for either something comedic that was different or dramatic yes. I was offered similar characters to Hal and would turn them down. That would just be death to my career. I wanted to do other things, but I honestly couldn’t have anticipated another extremely well written show and a great, well defined character, as Hal on Malcolm in the Middle.
Jackie Chan is in Los Angeles promoting his latest movie, Forbidden Kingdom, which will be released nationwide on the 18th of April. For the first time ever, Jackie Chan and Jet Li can be seen on screen together in this action adventure tale of a teenage boy traveling back in time to ancient China to learn Kung-Fu from Lu Yan (Jackie Chan) and the silent Monk (Jet Li).
Forbidden Kingdom and it’s writer John Fusco, clearly have a genuine admiration for the history of the cinema of martial arts, Kung Fu and Chinese folk lore. The pacing seemed disjointed and lethargic at times overly relying on self conscious high end production values, BUT (and it is a big but) it does have Jet Li and Jackie Chan busting heads, which buys a lot of leeway with any fight fan.
Anyway, enough of us and a little more of Jackie…
Here is some news coverage and a list of winners of 2008’s Golden Globe awards.
La times talks about the impact of the strike
Apparently the cancellation of the globes cost LA 80 Millions dollars
Defamer coverage here, here and here.
Slashfilm on why the goldenglobes are wrong
The telegraph tells us why the Brits triumphed
Time asks if anyone cares about the Globes
CBS are wondering if the Oscars are going to go the same way…
The Guardian talks about Longfords success
Here are the winners along with links to IMDB profiles and trailer clips.
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Here in Los Angeles the whole writers strike thing is starting to make a lack of new TV entertainment a real possibility, so to compliment the impending deluge of re-runs here is some entertainment.
Our top five second movie summaries
5. Star wars in 5 seconds
4. Braveheart
3. Godfather
2. Big Lewbowski
1. Rocky I,II,III,IV,V & VI in 5 seconds
There were plenty of other contenders so leave a comment and let me know which clips I over looked and should have included instead.
