‘Stoning’ Actress Gets It Wrong
Robert Spencer of American Thinker calls out Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo (pictured here) for statements she made when publicizing her new film, The Stoning of Soraya M . Spencer cites of few of Aghdashloo’s comments in an interview with the Staten Island Advance , in which she says that stoning “has been happening since the Stone Age, in Judaism, Christianity, Islam.” Spencer replies, “In fact, no,” and goes on to state his case, showing where Aghdashloo gets it wrong. Continue reading …
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Shia Seeking Something?
Right now, Shia LaBeouf has an eye on the box office stats, where monster numbers are already piling up for the Transformers sequel, which opened everywhere at midnight last night and in which the young actor plays a starring role.
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Shia Seeking Something?
Stephen McEveety — the "deleted quotes"
My interview with Steve McEveety and Jim Caviezel, the producer and co-star respectively of The Stoning of Soraya M. , went up at CT Movies yesterday. The article focuses pretty narrowly on that one film, but I also asked McEveety about a couple other films that his company, Mpower Pictures , is working on — so here are a few “deleted quotes” from the interview.
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Stephen McEveety — the "deleted quotes"
Jesus, Spartacus, and Monty Python
Peter Bradshaw makes a very interesting point about Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus (1960), which recently returned to British movie screens for one day only : The story of Spartacus reverses the Jesus myth: instead of getting sold out by his followers and dying a terrible death on the cross, Spartacus is protected by his troops, who are prepared to endure crucifixion rather than reveal the leader hidden in their ranks. And then Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979) came along and put the two stories together.
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Go Ask Alice
USA Today gives readers a “first look” at some images from Tim Burton’s upcoming Alice in Wonderland , including the image at right of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. Could be Depp’s most eccentric character since . . .
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Go Ask Alice
Fighting Robots Are Cool
While I wasn’t a big fan of Michael Bay’s Transformers , the 12-year-old robot geek inside me loved the bots he and his team created. I’m expecting the new movie to have the same frustrating mix of weak plot, frustrating side tangents, needless side plots and annoyingly lowest-common denominator “comic” relief
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Fighting Robots Are Cool
Read. And. Weep.
Ten-year-old Colby Curtin was dying of a rare form of cancer, but she had one last wish before her death: To see the new Pixar/Disney movie Up . But she was too ill for a trip to the theater, so when Pixar heard about it, they flew a rep to Colby’s house in Huntington Beach, CA, for a private screening in her home. Colby died seven hours later.
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Miley to Play the Teen Rebel Role
For the most part, Miley Cyrus — aka “Hannah Montana” — has been an upstanding and outstanding role model for young girls, with only hints of “scandal” here and there. Cyrus attributes her good behavior to her Christian faith, as she discussed in our recent interview . Now Cyrus really gets to play the teen rebel role in her next film, The Last Song , a coming-of-age-drama based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks ( The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, Nights in Rodanthe )
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Miley to Play the Teen Rebel Role
Fresh, Rotten, and Everything in Between
When Star Trek hit theaters last month, I wrote that the film was getting “pretty good, though not great” reviews across the board. One of our critics dashed off an e-mail asking, “Do you and I have a different definition of 90-plus percent at Rotten Tomatoes?!” Well, yes we did. All Rotten Tomatoes tells us is that 90-plus percent of critics liked the movie, but didn’t necessarily love it
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Fresh, Rotten, and Everything in Between
Genesis at the movies
Year One — the “biblical comedy” in which a couple of prehistoric dudes stumble across several characters from the Book of Genesis — opens this Friday, so now is as good a time as any to take a look at how other films have treated the first book of the Bible. Alas, time does not permit any deep analysis here
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