http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hollywood/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 21:57:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419167/posts So sad to hear him say this but he is a classless leftist dirtbag. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR3eUjD6y6o How do you defend Biden's speaking abilities? Jackass. Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419167/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 21:57:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418997/posts The Academy Awards have expanded the number of best picture nominations to 10, and the buzz on Planet Earth is all about "Avatar." Conservatives are enraged at the movie's anti-American, anti-military, pro-primitive themes, but they should understand that most spectators won't care what the movie has to say. They'll just enjoy the 3-D spectacle, fun in spite of politics. Adults ought to see it with a teenager. It's an expensive ticket that will be appreciated, and you can shape the discussion afterward. watched it with a precocious 14-year-old who has managed to escape the politically correct didacticism of education today.... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418997/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:43:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418819/posts Just had folks over...watching the New Years Eve countdown. Heard Carson Daly talking about great things happening including historic health care reform? Anyone else hear this? Turned channel after that... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418819/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 05:20:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418509/posts ctor Sam Elliott claims that the Catholic Church prevented Hollywood from proceeding with the next two film’s in the His Dark Materials trilogy based on Philip Pullman’s books. “The Catholic Church ... lambasted them,” said Elliott. “I think it scared New Line off.” The film...angered Catholics who accused it of promoting atheism. In the book trilogy, set in a series of parallel worlds, heroine Lyra fights the Magisterium, an evil organisation some have interpreted as being based on the Catholic Church. Pullman, 63, told the Western Mail: "If Sam is right then I am very disappointed because it obviously would... The Church Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418509/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:39:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418132/posts It gained early success on the awards circuit, but the star-studded musical "Nine" will likely be pulled back from hundreds of smaller U.S. cities, after disappointing box office and lackluster reviews. After playing in 1,400 screens last weekend, the Weinstein Company, which is behind "Nine", said on Tuesday it expects the movie to play in 800-900 screens in big U.S. cities in coming weeks. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418132/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:55:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417976/posts Did you hear about “Did You Hear About The Morgans?”? I'll bet if you haven't that you soon will. Let me see if I can sum it up for you in two words, "monumentally bad". Wait, let me see if I can sum it up for you in one word, "Ishtar". Columbia Pictures and Director Marc Lawrence offer up the romantic comedy, “Did You Hear About The Morgans?”, which promise to be the kind of bad which continues being discussed years after its DVD copies have been moved from the discount bin to the ash bin. We're talking epic... Hollywood, STFU. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417976/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:30:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417375/posts In 1988, the film “Rain Man,” about an autistic savant played by Dustin Hoffman, shed a humane light on the travails of autism while revealing the extraordinary powers of memory that a small number of otherwise mentally disabled people possess, ostensibly as a side effect of their disability. The film won four Oscars, including best picture, best actor and, for Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass, best original screenplay. But it never would have been made if Mr. Morrow had not had a chance meeting with Kim Peek, who inspired him to write the film. New York Time http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417375/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:51:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417240/posts Commenter Other Stories saw what I did this weekend and put it best: Love TMC! But did anyone catch the weekend host Ben Mankiewicz (had to Google to find his name) snide comments regarding “A Face in the Crowd”? If you’re not familiar with the film, it starred Andy Griffith and he portrayed an evil media personality who fools the public by coming across as a likable down to earth kind a fella. Host Mankiewicz openly wondered if the producers had been able to see 50 years into the future and witnessed how people in this country were being manipulated... bighollywood.breitbart.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417240/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:01:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416880/posts Charlie Sheen, the highest-paid television actor in America, spent Christmas Day behind bars after his wife made an emergency, early-morning phone call to the police complaining that she had been assaulted. The star of America's favourite sitcom, Two and a Half Men, was arrested and charged with the second-degree crimes of assault and menacing, which can carry a 12-month prison sentence. The 44-year-old actor was also charged with criminal mischief. Sheen is thought to have become angry after he and his wife, Brooke Mueller Sheen, also known as Brooke Allen, began drinking on Christmas morning. The row escalated at their... The Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416880/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:40:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416817/posts         I remember The 80's. The Cold War was coming to a head. The Soviet Union saber-rattled and postured (in between swearing in new head's of state). America, helmed by a capable and unapologetic leader, was finding her feet after a season of malaise. The United Kingdom, itself helmed by 'The Iron Lady', stood a fast ally by our side. And the American and Worldwide Left, as usual, sniped at our heels with any undermining tactic which they could muster. The most memorable of these was the Post-Nuclear-War-Apocalypse movie. This Hollywood classic was The Left's attempt to convince the collective conscience... Hollywood, STFU http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416817/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:55:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416649/posts Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated over $100,000 to an orphan children charity on Christmas. Called the SOS Children's Villages charity in the US, it is a foster care facility, which enables siblings to stay together during the adoption process, reports contactmusic.com. "We have seen first-hand the remarkable job SOS does to raise orphaned and abandoned children and keep families together," Jolie said in a statement. Her partner Pitt said: "In this holiday season, many of us take for granted that we are surrounded by loving family members. The poor outcomes for foster children indicate that we must do... http://movies.indiatimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416649/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:32:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416812/posts It is a children’s film dragged out to 162 minutes Cinema history has been made in America. Box-office takings hit a new record of $275 million over the Christmas weekend, largely because of Avatar. Unless you have been living in a small cave, or perhaps on Pandora, the planet where the film is set, you cannot have missed the Avatar marketing campaign. Every billboard and bus is sporting a picture of a blue fella with a yellow eye. Every newspaper has run a story on how this is the film that will finally revolutionise 3-D cinema (a full 55 years... London Times Online (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416812/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:37:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416561/posts ASPEN, Colo. -- A woman who identified herself as the wife of Charlie Sheen said in a 911 call to Aspen police that the actor threatened her with a knife and that she feared for her life. thestate.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416561/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:48:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416457/posts Charlie Sheen used a knife to threaten his wife, Brooke Mueller, in their altercation on Christmas Day. Claims and counterclaims are swirling about in the strange case of Charlie Sheen and his wife, Brooke Mueller. Firstly, cops were called on Christmas morning to hte rented house in Aspen where they were staying over an alleged domestic assault. Charlie Sheen was hauled off to jail and he paid $8,500 bail and signed off on the necessary paperwork and was out again. Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416457/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:47:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416430/posts Dan O'Bannon, the screenwriter behind Alien and Total Recall, has died at the age of 63. He passed away in Los Angeles following a short illness, reports website Ain't It Cool News. O'Bannon attended USC film school in the early '70s where he met director John Carpenter. The pair worked together on Carpenter's debut feature Dark Star, which O'Bannon co-wrote, edited, served as special effects supervisor and acted in the role of Sgt Pinback. He worked on the visual effects team on Star Wars before switching his efforts to screenwriting full time with the initial script for Alien, titled Star... Digital Spy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416430/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:09:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416309/posts The nation's top 100 media companies eked out 0.8% revenue growth in 2008, but reported revenue for top media firms in the first half of 2009 fell 4.3% from a year ago, according to Ad Age's analysis. For the nation's 100 Leading Media Companies, revenue growth in 2008 was the lowest since 1991, and 2009 is set to show the first decline since Ad Age began ranking media firms in 1981. Remarkably, 11 of 2008's Media 100 firms filed for bankruptcy over the past year, crushed in most cases by shrinking revenue and debt loads taken on during the blind... Advertising Age http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416309/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:17:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415862/posts Recent episodes of the popular show have inverted reality with Christian terrorists and honor murders. Like most people, I have my favorite TV programs which I try not to skip, and occasionally even set aside certain pressing obligations so I can channel in. And like many people, I ask only two things of a TV show, as criteria of admissibility into a crowded personal schedule: (1) if it reflects the world beyond the screen, it should strive to do so truthfully; and (2) if it creates its own autonomous realm, it should seek to render it interesting, coherent, and diverting,... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415862/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:46:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415821/posts Mueller Claimed Sheen Threatened Her with Knife Dec 27th 2009 Brooke Mueller told cops Charlie Sheen threatened her with a knife ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ. As we have already reported, one of the two felonies for which Charlie Sheen was arrested is felony menacing -- a threat involving a deadly weapon. Our law enforcement sources say Mueller told cops Charlie was in possession of a knife and threatened her with it. As we first reported, Mueller has recanted much of her story ... so her credibility has clearly come into serious question. In addition, as we also first... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415821/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:29:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415800/posts         Part big budget Hollywood Action/Adventure, part Victorian Period Piece, part Buddy Movie, there is one thing which “Sherlock Holmes” is not, a screed. The absence of any “message” beyond the story stood out to me as more memorable than even the fantastic interplay between Downey and Law as Holmes and Watson. While some might argue that the pervasive atmosphere of decay and filth portrayed in “Sherlock Holmes” might be a negative statement on industrialization, I would argue back that “The Good Old Days” had manure in the streets. Hollywood, STFU http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415800/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:49:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415468/posts What does Avatar have to say about race? That’s what the blogosphere is asking this week. Annalee Newitz got things going this weekend with an essay on io9.com, Gawker’s sci-fi blog, about how the film is essentially “a fantasy about race told from the point of view of white people.” (Read responses here, here, here, and here.) The racial themes in Avatar are pretty hard to ignore. We’ve really got it all here: colonialism, passing, “going native,” (literal!) jungle fever. And director James Cameron isn’t exactly subtle about linking the alien Na’vi with minorities here at home. It’s no accident... doublex.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415468/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:42:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414889/posts A bunch of little guys fight to save the ranch from an evil baron. One hired hand rises up, leaves the baron, befriends the little guys, learns their simple ways, finds love and the meaning of life, and kills the baron. And then rides off into the planetset. Same plot you’ve seen more times than John Wayne has pink shirts, but you’ve never seen it in multi-colored 3D. It was real pretty. There wasn’t one turn that you didn’t see coming from ten klicks away. A “klick”, incidentally, is a military-speak for “kilometer”, a jargon they had the jarhead hero... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414889/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:18:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415066/posts There is no denying the breathtaking visual beauty of the $400 million 3-D sci-fi epic Avatar. It is already a global box office smash, taking in more than $200 million worldwide in its opening weekend. The special effects are simply stunning, and some of the action sequences are spectacular. But Avatar is also a distinctly political work of art, with a strong anti-American and anti-Western message. It can be read on several levels – a critique of the Iraq War, an assault on the US-led War on Terror, a slick morality tale about the ‘evils’ of Western imperialism, a futuristic... Telegraph Blogs (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415066/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:41:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414919/posts Since it opened last week, James Cameron's much-anticipated film "Avatar" has won praise from movie critics and been a juggernaut at the box office. But some who have seen the film say that it contains hidden messages that are anti-war, pro-environment, and perhaps even racist. For the benefit of those who haven't seen the film, a little nonspoiler background might be useful. The story is set in the year 2154 when Earth's inhabitants, having used up most of their natural resources through decades of living in excess, plan to use military force to conquer Pandora, a moon roughly the same... Yahoo Movies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414919/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:17:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414840/posts A private funeral was held on Christmas Eve for actress Brittany Murphy, who died suddenly Dec. 20 at the age of 32. A small group of close friends and family members - including her mother, Sharon, and husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack - gathered at the Church of the Hills at the Forrest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles to pay their respects. It is the same cemetery where singer Michael Jackson was buried earlier this year. The actress was interred in the Bright Eternity section; "Amazing Grace" was sung at the graveside, according to RadarOnline.com. Actor Eric Balfour was... US Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414840/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:30:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2414718/posts Perhaps no area of discernment is more difficult and more controversial than the Christian’s engagement with culture. Are we to be cultural gluttons, immersing ourselves in the culture around us so we can speak to it from the perspective of first-hand experience? Are we to be cultural anorexics, avoiding culture altogether lest it corrupt us? Or are we to take some middle ground where we appreciate aspects of it while rejecting others? In Hollywood Worldviews, filmmaker and screenwriter Brian Godawa (To End All Wars) weighs in on the task of “Watching Films with Wisdom & Discernment.” While looking at movies... challies.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2414718/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:57:47 GMT