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Aug 22, 2017 - 9:47 AM
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 22
BLADE RUNNER 2049---new international trailer released.
Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRcZ6yc1IMI
LITTLE EVIL---trailer released for the Netflix comedy horror movie.
Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRLHZxaYeNY
HOSTILES---photo released from the Western movie shows Christian Bale as an Army captain who agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne chief and his family from New Mexico to Montana and encounters a young widow who joins the dangerous journey. Rosamund Pike and Stephen Lang also star.
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS---photo released of Margot Robbie as Queen Elizabeth I in the Mary Queen of Scots biomovie.
THE ORVILLE---Rob Lowe may appear on the STAR TREK parody series after he posted a photo of himself in blue alien makeup which resembles an alien featured in the new Seth McFarlane series. The photo's caption was "I believe it is important to have a few surprises coming in the pipeline. Here's one. #WTF ??"
STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN---William Shatner said he originally opposed the sequel should be about villain Khan from the original tv series, “And I kept saying, ‘Why do we want to go to a segment? Why don’t we invent something absolutely new?’ And the people in charge were much more aware than I was that the fans would be more sympathetic to… [it] would be a better vibration if it echoed a popular hour from the series, and make that, and then further the story as a film.” Shatner said the producers were "absolutely right" in bringing Khan back.
The 100 GREATEST COMEDY MOVIES---BBC Culture polled 253 movie critics for the top 100 comedy movies of all time. The top 10 were:
1. SOME LIKE IT HOT (Billy Wilder, 1959)
2. DR. STRANGELOVE (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
3. ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen, 1977)
4. GROUNDHOG DAY (Harold Ramis, 1993)
5. DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey, 1933)
6. LIFE OF BRIAN (Terry Jones, 1979)
7. AIRPLANE! (Jim Abrahams, David & Jerry Zucker, 1980)
8. PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati, 1967)
9. THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Rob Reiner, 1984)
10. THE GENERAL (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1926)
LARRY COHEN---cult film director Larry Cohen (Q: THE WINGED SERPENT) is developing an anthology series with JJ Abrams, “We’re working on a series now for cable with J.J. Abrams, who is a big fan of mine, and his company, Bad Robot. Each season would be 10 original one-hour Larry Cohen thrillers. We’ve got about two seasons already written, ready to be shot. If that happens, it’ll be a whole new renaissance, and there will be a lot of my material out in the world, and I’ll direct some of them.”
He added, “That’s what it’s going to be, a thriller anthology. I’m hoping to get somebody like Christopher Walken to be the host and introduce them in a comedic way.”
DOCTOR WHO---a rumor claims Bradley Walsh (CORONATION STREET) will be the new Companion.
THE EQUALIZER 2---Pedro Pascal (GAME OF THRONES) will play the villain in the sequel.
STRANGER THINGS---co-creator Ross Duffer said Season 3 is underway, and the series will probably end with Season 4, “We’re thinking it will be a four-season thing and then out. They’re going to have to get the f*ck out of this town! It’s ridiculous!”
HELLBOY---Ed Skrein (DEADPOOL) is in negotiations to play Major Ben Daimio, a BPRD member who turns into a jaguar when angered.
ANDERS BEHRING BREIVIK---Paul Greengrass (THE BOURNE SUPREMACY) will direct this untitled Netflix movie about the Norwegian extremist who killed 77 people in 2011.
INTELLIGENT LIFE---sci fi movie about a UN staffer makes contact with a beautiful woman who may be an alien from another planet. Rebecca Thomas (STRANGER THINGS) is the director.
XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS---NBC cancelled the proposed reboot series.
A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES---Teresa Palmer and Matthew Goode star in this tv miniseries based on the novel about a woman who is a descendant of the Salem witches who falls in love with a 1,500 year-old vampire.
FRIENDS FROM COLLEGE---Netflix renewed the series for Season 2.
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Aug 22, 2017 - 10:27 AM
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Jim Phelps
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100 GREATEST COMEDY MOVIES---BBC Culture polled 253 movie critics for the top 100 comedy movies of all time. The top 10 were:
1. SOME LIKE IT HOT (Billy Wilder, 1959)
2. DR. STRANGELOVE (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
3. ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen, 1977)
4. GROUNDHOG DAY (Harold Ramis, 1993)
5. DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey, 1933)
6. LIFE OF BRIAN (Terry Jones, 1979)
7. AIRPLANE! (Jim Abrahams, David & Jerry Zucker, 1980)
8. PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati, 1967)
9. THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Rob Reiner, 1984)
10. THE GENERAL (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1926)
Charles Chaplin doesn't make their exhalted list? Now THAT'S "funny"! Life of Brian and not "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"?
"Nobody's perfect", indeed. 
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Aug 22, 2017 - 12:45 PM
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Solium
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100 GREATEST COMEDY MOVIES---BBC Culture polled 253 movie critics for the top 100 comedy movies of all time. The top 10 were:
1. SOME LIKE IT HOT (Billy Wilder, 1959)
2. DR. STRANGELOVE (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
3. ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen, 1977)
4. GROUNDHOG DAY (Harold Ramis, 1993)
5. DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey, 1933)
6. LIFE OF BRIAN (Terry Jones, 1979)
7. AIRPLANE! (Jim Abrahams, David & Jerry Zucker, 1980)
8. PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati, 1967)
9. THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Rob Reiner, 1984)
10. THE GENERAL (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1926)
Charles Chaplin doesn't make their exhalted list? Now THAT'S "funny"! Life of Brian and not "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"?
"Nobody's perfect", indeed.
I like Life of Brian, actually it's grown on me over the years, but Holy Grail is by far the funnier film. On the other hand I don't find Airplane! funny at all. My Favorite Year should be in the top ten. Heck I can think of many others I put on top. Alas, humor is subjective.
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Aug 22, 2017 - 1:02 PM
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Joe E.
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I love most of the movies made by the Pythons, both as the full Monty Python group and as individual members, occasionally made in collaboration with some of the others from the team (e.g., Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, A Fish Called Wanda, etc.), but there are enough of them to fill up more than ten slots with nothing but those, and I'm not sure I could justify filling the entire top ten with nothing but movies by the Pythons.
Comedy is indeed very subjective, and that will always mean folks will quibble with a list like this. Think of all the people who find It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World the absolute height of hilarity, and all those who think it's just a bloated, leaden spectacle. The approach of this list - polling hundreds of different critics - probably is the best way to get as definitive a ranking as is possible, as it surely takes a variety of conflicting tastes into account. I'm sure the critics who selected these have wildly different rankings from one another, and the final list is surely an aggregate that reflects all their disparate opinions on where everything falls.
I love Airplane!, myself.
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100 GREATEST COMEDY MOVIES---BBC Culture polled 253 movie critics for the top 100 comedy movies of all time. The top 10 were:
1. SOME LIKE IT HOT (Billy Wilder, 1959)
2. DR. STRANGELOVE (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
3. ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen, 1977)
4. GROUNDHOG DAY (Harold Ramis, 1993)
5. DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey, 1933)
6. LIFE OF BRIAN (Terry Jones, 1979)
7. AIRPLANE! (Jim Abrahams, David & Jerry Zucker, 1980)
8. PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati, 1967)
9. THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Rob Reiner, 1984)
10. THE GENERAL (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1926)
Charles Chaplin doesn't make their exhalted list? Now THAT'S "funny"! Life of Brian and not "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"?
"Nobody's perfect", indeed.
I think Holy Grail is the better film, but I think some people favor Life of Brian because they are annoyed by Holy Grail's non-ending. I love Life of Brian. The stoning and crucifixion scenes are hysterical, and as someone who suffered through two years of Latin, the scene where the centurion corrects Brian's grammar will always have a special place in my heart, but Holy Grail is on another level. It is one of my three all time favorite comedies. The other two being Caddyshack and Airplane!
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No Laurel & Hardy or Harold Lloyd either in the top?! Doh!
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Aug 23, 2017 - 1:25 PM
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Joe E.
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If one looks at the 253 individual critics' ballots, one finds a great many more esoteric and obscure works alongside all the well-known stuff, but for a movie to get any traction on the list it had to be cited by multiple people. That doesn't mean all those critics (well, most of them, anyway) know only the most mainstream fare, but it does mean the more mainstream stuff is more likely to make the list. The critics come from some fifty different countries, after all, and don't necessarily even have access to the entire bodies of cinema available to one another, but everyone knows Some Like it Hot and Monty Python and such.
That said, there certainly are some critics with very limited bodies of knowledge, from the looks of things. One person didn't manage to cite a single movie from before 1987 (!). Funnily enough, right below her ballot is one from someone who cited nothing more recent than 1987.
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