Big news from Apple TV+ — big as in 6-foot-11. The streamer has ordered Big Man on Campus, a docuseries focusing on 20-year-old basketball phenom Makur Maker of Howard University.
Directed and executive produced by Seth Gordon (Undefeated), the series will tell Maker’s coming-of-age story as he navigates the highs and lows of his freshman year in college against the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter movement and the global pandemic. Exhibit A, Boardwalk Pictures and Sony Pictures Television are producing.
Big Man on Campus is the story of a historic moment in America told through the lens of a young athlete with the power to create change. In a year marked by social unrest, five-star NCAA recruit and NBA prospect Maker made the groundbreaking decision to play college basketball for Howard University in support of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, rather than join one of the many top-tier programs offering him a full ride.
Directed and executive produced by Seth Gordon (Undefeated), the series will tell Maker’s coming-of-age story as he navigates the highs and lows of his freshman year in college against the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter movement and the global pandemic. Exhibit A, Boardwalk Pictures and Sony Pictures Television are producing.
Big Man on Campus is the story of a historic moment in America told through the lens of a young athlete with the power to create change. In a year marked by social unrest, five-star NCAA recruit and NBA prospect Maker made the groundbreaking decision to play college basketball for Howard University in support of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, rather than join one of the many top-tier programs offering him a full ride.
- 5/4/2021
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
HBO Max released a trailer for Season 4 of “Gomorrah,” which launches on May 20.
The new season focuses on Genny, who, in order to protect his family, commits to legit business and tries to escape the world in which his father raised him.
“Gomorrah” stars Salvatore Esposito, Ivana Lotito, Cristiana Dell’Anna, Arturo Muselli and Loris De Luna.
Based on the book by Roberto Saviano, “Gomorrah” is executive produced by Riccardo Tozzi, Gina Gardini, Giovanni Stabilini, Marco Chimenz, Nils Hartman and Sonia Rovai. The series is developed by Saviano and Stefano Bises, alongside Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravagli, who also serve as writers with Enrico Audenino and Monica Zapelli. The fourth season is directed by Claudio Cupellini, Marco D’Amore, Enrico Rosati, Ciro Visco and Francesca Comencini, who is also the artistic supervisor.
Also in today’s TV news roundup:
First Looks
PBS released a trailer for “Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten,...
The new season focuses on Genny, who, in order to protect his family, commits to legit business and tries to escape the world in which his father raised him.
“Gomorrah” stars Salvatore Esposito, Ivana Lotito, Cristiana Dell’Anna, Arturo Muselli and Loris De Luna.
Based on the book by Roberto Saviano, “Gomorrah” is executive produced by Riccardo Tozzi, Gina Gardini, Giovanni Stabilini, Marco Chimenz, Nils Hartman and Sonia Rovai. The series is developed by Saviano and Stefano Bises, alongside Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravagli, who also serve as writers with Enrico Audenino and Monica Zapelli. The fourth season is directed by Claudio Cupellini, Marco D’Amore, Enrico Rosati, Ciro Visco and Francesca Comencini, who is also the artistic supervisor.
Also in today’s TV news roundup:
First Looks
PBS released a trailer for “Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten,...
- 5/4/2021
- by Antonio Ferme and Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
On the heels of “Parasite’s” history-making Oscar win, it’s hard to imagine that just 18 months earlier, Hollywood had a crazy rich awakening. Although Asians had long been present in American movies, they were rarely treated as central characters — and even less often as romantic leads. And then suddenly that summer, 2018’s Singapore-set “Crazy Rich Asians” showed that audiences weren’t as hung up on race as the studios seem to have thought.
The first movie to benefit from this overdue eureka moment was Netflix’s already-in-the-can “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” a more-honest-than-not look at the awkward missteps of adolescent love, as seen from a shy girl’s point of view. When it came to casting Vietnam-born America-raised actor Lana Condor as the film’s endearingly inexperienced heroine, the producers took their cues from Jenny Han’s novel — the first in a popular trilogy about...
The first movie to benefit from this overdue eureka moment was Netflix’s already-in-the-can “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” a more-honest-than-not look at the awkward missteps of adolescent love, as seen from a shy girl’s point of view. When it came to casting Vietnam-born America-raised actor Lana Condor as the film’s endearingly inexperienced heroine, the producers took their cues from Jenny Han’s novel — the first in a popular trilogy about...
- 2/10/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
The Marvel Entertainment, TinyCo mobile game title "Marvel Avengers Academy" reimagines the "Avengers" as teenage high school students including 'Black Widow' who turns into a 'symbiote' to battle 'Venom':
Captain America – "...The living legend and natural born leader just might be the only mature person at the Academy, so he’s a perfect fit to lead away missions and serve as Class President. But that doesn’t mean he relates to his classmates. The guys respect him, the girls adore him, and Hydra hates him, but he’s still trying to find his place in this crazy world, and even crazier campus.
The Hulk – "He's the ultimate 'Big Man on Campus', a gentle giant who just happens to be 'the strongest there is.' He does his best to learn and fit in, but this Academy wasn't made for invulnerable behemoths, so his anxiety...
Captain America – "...The living legend and natural born leader just might be the only mature person at the Academy, so he’s a perfect fit to lead away missions and serve as Class President. But that doesn’t mean he relates to his classmates. The guys respect him, the girls adore him, and Hydra hates him, but he’s still trying to find his place in this crazy world, and even crazier campus.
The Hulk – "He's the ultimate 'Big Man on Campus', a gentle giant who just happens to be 'the strongest there is.' He does his best to learn and fit in, but this Academy wasn't made for invulnerable behemoths, so his anxiety...
- 6/25/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
This is the first trailer for a new film starring Noah Wyle (ER) called Shot. The story is set in Los Angeles and it follows a sound designer, who is struck by a stray bullet. This event will forever affect the lives of three individuals. I like what I'm seeing in this trailer. It looks like an intense film with an interesting story that's worth checking out.
Shot begins as sound mixer Mark Newman (Wyle), is pumping up the volume on a bloody shootout scene in an action film. Hours later, after an argument with his wife Phoebe (Leal), Mark is suddenly felled by a real random bullet, and lies bleeding on the pavement with a chest wound. With Phoebe desperately trying to stop the bleeding, they both agonizingly wait for an ambulance to arrive as Mark fights for his life. Meanwhile, hidden behind a fence across the street, a teenager,...
Shot begins as sound mixer Mark Newman (Wyle), is pumping up the volume on a bloody shootout scene in an action film. Hours later, after an argument with his wife Phoebe (Leal), Mark is suddenly felled by a real random bullet, and lies bleeding on the pavement with a chest wound. With Phoebe desperately trying to stop the bleeding, they both agonizingly wait for an ambulance to arrive as Mark fights for his life. Meanwhile, hidden behind a fence across the street, a teenager,...
- 8/6/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
This classy Fox production was considered the epitome of sick film subject matter in the pre- Psycho year of 1959, the true story of jazz-age thrill killers Leopold & Loeb. Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman are the nihilistic child murderers; Orson Welles stops the show with his portrayal of Clarence Darrow, going under a different name.
Compulsion
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1959 / B&W / 2:35 widescreen / 103 min. / Street Date March 7, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall, Richard Anderson, Robert F. Simon, Edward Binns, Gavid McLeod, Russ Bender, Peter Brocco.
Cinematography: William C. Mellor
Film Editor: William Reynolds
Original Music: Lionel Newman
Written by Richard Murphy from a novel by Meyer Levin
Produced by Richard D. Zanuck
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Movies about serial killers and psychos with exotic agendas were much different before Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, which hit America in 1960 like a thrown brick.
Compulsion
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1959 / B&W / 2:35 widescreen / 103 min. / Street Date March 7, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall, Richard Anderson, Robert F. Simon, Edward Binns, Gavid McLeod, Russ Bender, Peter Brocco.
Cinematography: William C. Mellor
Film Editor: William Reynolds
Original Music: Lionel Newman
Written by Richard Murphy from a novel by Meyer Levin
Produced by Richard D. Zanuck
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Movies about serial killers and psychos with exotic agendas were much different before Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, which hit America in 1960 like a thrown brick.
- 3/12/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The death of Jason Blossom doesn't look like it's stopping Archie and friends from living their lives on Riverdale Season 1 Episode 2.
Friendships still need to be repaired, hookups are bound to happen, and the team is gearing up for the big game. It's never a quiet day at Riverdale High. And yet, there's still a murder investigation going on.
After the drama of last week's season premiere, it looks like Archie and friends are getting along this episode. But is everything as it seems? Why does Cheryl look like she's ready to kill? And what is being planned at the big game?
Check out the photos below for "Chapter Two: A Touch of Evil", which airs Thursday, February 2 on The CW.
And don't forget, you can watch Riverdale online via TV Fanatic to get caught up on all the drama!
1. The Big Game - Riverdale Season 1 Episode 2 Archie is...
Friendships still need to be repaired, hookups are bound to happen, and the team is gearing up for the big game. It's never a quiet day at Riverdale High. And yet, there's still a murder investigation going on.
After the drama of last week's season premiere, it looks like Archie and friends are getting along this episode. But is everything as it seems? Why does Cheryl look like she's ready to kill? And what is being planned at the big game?
Check out the photos below for "Chapter Two: A Touch of Evil", which airs Thursday, February 2 on The CW.
And don't forget, you can watch Riverdale online via TV Fanatic to get caught up on all the drama!
1. The Big Game - Riverdale Season 1 Episode 2 Archie is...
- 2/1/2017
- by Justin Carreiro
- TVfanatic
The Marvel Entertainment, TinyCo mobile game title "Marvel Avengers Academy" reimagines the "Avengers" as teenage high school students:
Captain America – The living legend and natural born leader just might be the only mature person at the Academy, so he’s a perfect fit to lead away missions and serve as Class President. But that doesn’t mean he relates to his classmates. The guys respect him, the girls adore him, and Hydra hates him, but he’s still trying to find his place in this crazy world, and even crazier campus.
The Hulk – He's the ultimate Big Man on Campus, a gentle giant who just happens to be "the strongest there is." He does his best to learn and fit in, but this Academy wasn't made for invulnerable behemoths, so his anxiety and frustrations inevitably turn to anger and that’s not good for anyone.
Iron Man – Tony Stark is a billionaire.
Captain America – The living legend and natural born leader just might be the only mature person at the Academy, so he’s a perfect fit to lead away missions and serve as Class President. But that doesn’t mean he relates to his classmates. The guys respect him, the girls adore him, and Hydra hates him, but he’s still trying to find his place in this crazy world, and even crazier campus.
The Hulk – He's the ultimate Big Man on Campus, a gentle giant who just happens to be "the strongest there is." He does his best to learn and fit in, but this Academy wasn't made for invulnerable behemoths, so his anxiety and frustrations inevitably turn to anger and that’s not good for anyone.
Iron Man – Tony Stark is a billionaire.
- 6/5/2016
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Sneak Peek new images plus footage from the Marvel Entertainment, TinyCo mobile game title "Marvel Avengers Academy" reimagining the "Avengers" as high school students:
Captain America – The living legend and natural born leader just might be the only mature person at the Academy, so he’s a perfect fit to lead away missions and serve as Class President. But that doesn’t mean he relates to his classmates. The guys respect him, the girls adore him, and Hydra hates him, but he’s still trying to find his place in this crazy world, and even crazier campus.
The Hulk – He's the ultimate Big Man on Campus, a gentle giant who just happens to be "the strongest there is." He does his best to learn and fit in, but this Academy wasn't made for invulnerable behemoths, so his anxiety and frustrations inevitably turn to anger and that’s not good for anyone.
Captain America – The living legend and natural born leader just might be the only mature person at the Academy, so he’s a perfect fit to lead away missions and serve as Class President. But that doesn’t mean he relates to his classmates. The guys respect him, the girls adore him, and Hydra hates him, but he’s still trying to find his place in this crazy world, and even crazier campus.
The Hulk – He's the ultimate Big Man on Campus, a gentle giant who just happens to be "the strongest there is." He does his best to learn and fit in, but this Academy wasn't made for invulnerable behemoths, so his anxiety and frustrations inevitably turn to anger and that’s not good for anyone.
- 12/10/2015
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Reynolds knocks one out of the park in this kitschy comic horror, but marquee-topping stardom still seems to elude him
I’ve been a big fan of Ryan Reynolds since Van Wilder: Party Liaison in 2002, when he played a role not unlike Otter, Tim Matheson’s suavely degenerate Big Man On Campus in Animal House (the link was intentional: Matheson played Van’s dad). I’ve enjoyed him, if not his work, intermittently ever since. I like his blandly cheesy mall-rat good looks, which can be wimped down for comedy or buffed up for action, and his willingness to be serious and very silly. And now he has given us what may be the performance of his career, as a kindly serial killer in the bracingly dark and violent black comedy The Voices – and over here in the Us the thing gets a simultaneous VOD and limited theatrical release.
I’ve been a big fan of Ryan Reynolds since Van Wilder: Party Liaison in 2002, when he played a role not unlike Otter, Tim Matheson’s suavely degenerate Big Man On Campus in Animal House (the link was intentional: Matheson played Van’s dad). I’ve enjoyed him, if not his work, intermittently ever since. I like his blandly cheesy mall-rat good looks, which can be wimped down for comedy or buffed up for action, and his willingness to be serious and very silly. And now he has given us what may be the performance of his career, as a kindly serial killer in the bracingly dark and violent black comedy The Voices – and over here in the Us the thing gets a simultaneous VOD and limited theatrical release.
- 3/16/2015
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
I am at my second Sundance Film Festival.
These are my reviews.
Sundance Film Festival 2015 Reviews
The D Train
Directors/Screenwriters: Jarrad Paul, Andrew Mogel
Principal Cast: Jack Black, James Marsden, Kathryn Hahn, Jeffrey Tambor, Mike White, Kyle Bornheimer
Plot (courtesy of Sundance): With his twentieth reunion looming, Dan can’t shake his high school insecurities. In a misguided mission to prove he’s changed, Dan rekindles a friendship with the popular guy from his class and is left scrambling to protect more than just his reputation when a wild night
takes an unexpected turn.
Review: I liked the pain. It’s like I finally understood the phrase, “misery loves company.” I’m the company. Black says the sad sack Dan. He isn’t liked by his peers on the 20-year reunion committee. On some levels, I identify with Dan. There is a moment when he is trying to...
These are my reviews.
Sundance Film Festival 2015 Reviews
The D Train
Directors/Screenwriters: Jarrad Paul, Andrew Mogel
Principal Cast: Jack Black, James Marsden, Kathryn Hahn, Jeffrey Tambor, Mike White, Kyle Bornheimer
Plot (courtesy of Sundance): With his twentieth reunion looming, Dan can’t shake his high school insecurities. In a misguided mission to prove he’s changed, Dan rekindles a friendship with the popular guy from his class and is left scrambling to protect more than just his reputation when a wild night
takes an unexpected turn.
Review: I liked the pain. It’s like I finally understood the phrase, “misery loves company.” I’m the company. Black says the sad sack Dan. He isn’t liked by his peers on the 20-year reunion committee. On some levels, I identify with Dan. There is a moment when he is trying to...
- 1/28/2015
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
Reynolds knocks one out of the park in this kitschy comic horror, but marquee-topping stardom still seems to elude him
I’ve been a big fan of Ryan Reynolds since Van Wilder: Party Liaison in 2002, when he played a role not unlike Otter, Tim Matheson’s suavely degenerate Big Man On Campus in Animal House (the link was intentional: Matheson played Van’s dad). I’ve enjoyed him, if not his work, intermittently ever since. I like his blandly cheesy mall-rat good looks, which can be wimped down for comedy or buffed up for action, and his willingness to be serious and very silly. And now he has given us what may be the performance of his career, as a kindly serial killer in the bracingly dark and violent black comedy The Voices – and over here in the Us the thing gets a simultaneous VOD and limited theatrical release.
I’ve been a big fan of Ryan Reynolds since Van Wilder: Party Liaison in 2002, when he played a role not unlike Otter, Tim Matheson’s suavely degenerate Big Man On Campus in Animal House (the link was intentional: Matheson played Van’s dad). I’ve enjoyed him, if not his work, intermittently ever since. I like his blandly cheesy mall-rat good looks, which can be wimped down for comedy or buffed up for action, and his willingness to be serious and very silly. And now he has given us what may be the performance of his career, as a kindly serial killer in the bracingly dark and violent black comedy The Voices – and over here in the Us the thing gets a simultaneous VOD and limited theatrical release.
- 1/12/2015
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 25, 2014
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Harold Lloyd gets kittenish in The Freshman.
Harold Lloyd’s (Safety Last!) biggest box-office hit was the 1925 silent comedy classic The Freshman, featuring the befuddled everyman at his eager best as a new college student.
Though he dreams of being a big man on campus, the freshman’s careful plans inevitably go hilariously awry, be it on the football field or at the Fall Frolic. But he gets a climactic chance to prove his mettle—and impress the sweet girl he loves—in one of the most famous sports sequences ever filmed.
The popular, crowd-pleasing movie directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor is a gleeful showcase for Lloyd’s slapstick brilliance and incandescent charm, and it’s accompanied here by a new orchestral score by Carl Davis (Napoleon).
Criterion’s Blu-ray/DVD Combo of The Freshman includes...
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Harold Lloyd gets kittenish in The Freshman.
Harold Lloyd’s (Safety Last!) biggest box-office hit was the 1925 silent comedy classic The Freshman, featuring the befuddled everyman at his eager best as a new college student.
Though he dreams of being a big man on campus, the freshman’s careful plans inevitably go hilariously awry, be it on the football field or at the Fall Frolic. But he gets a climactic chance to prove his mettle—and impress the sweet girl he loves—in one of the most famous sports sequences ever filmed.
The popular, crowd-pleasing movie directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor is a gleeful showcase for Lloyd’s slapstick brilliance and incandescent charm, and it’s accompanied here by a new orchestral score by Carl Davis (Napoleon).
Criterion’s Blu-ray/DVD Combo of The Freshman includes...
- 12/30/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
It is entirely possible, wholly feasible, and ridiculously strange that chubby-cheeked tweens who first became aware of Vanessa Hudgens thanks to the wholesome charms of the High School Musical franchise are now able to catch her burning up the big screen in any one of her numerous wannabe-gritty new roles. Children (children! Actual children!) that first saw her dancing across their television screens as a fresh-faced Disney high schooler can now purchase tickets to see her going gritty in a big way at their local multiplex. (This, of course, assumes that your local multiplex is playing Harmony Korine films, which does sound sort of cool.) The first High School Musical hit the small screen back in 2006, a Disney Channel production filled with new talents (Zac Efron), poppy songs, and a saccarhine love story. Hudgens starred as new girl in school Gabriella Montez, a smarty pants sweetheart who had spent her entire childhood moving around and was thrilled...
- 11/26/2013
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Marvel Studios made quite the splash in 2008 with the release of Iron Man, a second-tier character in their catalog that has, in the last five years, become one of the most popular superheroes on the planet. The film successfully launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is currently the Big Man on Campus of the superhero film genre. Whether you’re a Marvel fan or not, they’re here to stay and that arguably wouldn’t be possible without the success of Iron Man.
We’ve seen Tony Stark suit up four times now on the big screen, in three solo films and alongside Earth’s Mightiest Heroes last summer in The Avengers. One of the most distinctive, and coolest things, about Iron Man is of course his armor. We’ve seen 42 models of the armor on screen. The Marks I, II, III, and IV in Iron Man, Marks IV, V...
We’ve seen Tony Stark suit up four times now on the big screen, in three solo films and alongside Earth’s Mightiest Heroes last summer in The Avengers. One of the most distinctive, and coolest things, about Iron Man is of course his armor. We’ve seen 42 models of the armor on screen. The Marks I, II, III, and IV in Iron Man, Marks IV, V...
- 9/5/2013
- by James Garcia
- Obsessed with Film
Well Summer’s almost over and the more serious film fare is starting to arrive at the cinemas. But it’s not quite time to give the theatres completely over to adult fare. As a matter of fact, adulthood is one of the subjects tackled in this new film. To be more specific, it concerns high school, or more specifically the end of high school, often referred to as “entering the real world”. One young man’s journey there is at the heart of this film, so I guess it could be part of the “coming of age” genre. We’re seen that with last year’s terrific The Perks Of Being A Wallflower and the very recent The Way Way Back. But at the start of those two films, the protagonists are shy, awkward, outcasts while the main focus of this new film is the opposite. In earlier years...
- 8/23/2013
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
While it might not be the definitive high school comedy (that’s a discussion for another time), 1998′s Can’t Hardly Wait is a damn good one, and a strangely enduring new classic. Sure, the nineties-set production is dipped in era-appropriate fashion, slang, and cultural nods (X-Files, anyone?) and its cast is positively peppered by awesomely nineties talents (Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Seth Green, Melissa Joan Hart, the list goes on and on, but Can’t Hardly Wait still feels applicable to teens today. Or, at the very least, it still feels like a very good approximation of the high school experience that we remember. The film turns a staggering fifteen years old this week (it was released on June 12, 1998), and in appreciation of the film that gave us a stoned Jason Segel as “Watermelon Guy,” reaffirmed the cultural relevance of Barry Manilow, and saw the wonderful Lauren Ambrose get hit in the face with a...
- 6/9/2013
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Dr. Tobias Fünke has a provocative message to film and TV directors looking to cast a cowboy, a leather fetishist or a Big Man on Campus. "Insert me anywhere," the sexually confused-former-psychiatrist-turned-aspiring-actor says in a new internet sizzle reel. The homoerotic message is part of a viral marketing campaign designed to drum up excitement for the Netflix premiere of 15 new episodes of the cult favorite this month. The streaming service also set up a Bluth Banana Stand on the streets of New York City this week. Also read: Bluth's Original Frozen-Banana Stand...
- 5/15/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
In the hit 1970s TV series Charlie's Angels, Sabrina, Jill and Kelly worked for Charlie Townsend as private investigators. The guy was mostly incognito. Yet the mysterious Pi agency owner called the shots, offering wisdom mixed with a touch of naughtiness.
Cut to 2012 and the new TBS comedy series Wedding Band. Tommy, Eddie, Barry and Stevie, otherwise known as the cool cover band Mother of the Bride, have their own "Charlie" of sorts. They work for Roxie Rutherford, CEO and founder of Seattle's top event planning firm, Rutherford Events. She gets the gigs -- she calls the shots. She offers wisdom, mixed with a touch of naughtiness. And she's played with comic prowess by Melora Hardin. (Remember Jan from the Office?)
But unlike Charlie, this boss lady is very much heard and seen. (As was apparent in a recent episode where Rutherford aptly belted "(I've Had) the Time of My Life" in a duet.
Cut to 2012 and the new TBS comedy series Wedding Band. Tommy, Eddie, Barry and Stevie, otherwise known as the cool cover band Mother of the Bride, have their own "Charlie" of sorts. They work for Roxie Rutherford, CEO and founder of Seattle's top event planning firm, Rutherford Events. She gets the gigs -- she calls the shots. She offers wisdom, mixed with a touch of naughtiness. And she's played with comic prowess by Melora Hardin. (Remember Jan from the Office?)
But unlike Charlie, this boss lady is very much heard and seen. (As was apparent in a recent episode where Rutherford aptly belted "(I've Had) the Time of My Life" in a duet.
- 12/26/2012
- by Jeryl Brunner
- Aol TV.
Where did American jobs go? Did Drake expect his album to get leaked? And how do you cope with living apart from your spouse? A look at the most interesting posts from the Wall Street Journal blogs.
Where Are the Jobs? A Look Back at Growth Drivers: What’s wrong with the American job engine? The simple answer is that the economy is growing far too slowly to employ the available work force. But there’s a deeper issue going on.
Where Are the Jobs? A Look Back at Growth Drivers: What’s wrong with the American job engine? The simple answer is that the economy is growing far too slowly to employ the available work force. But there’s a deeper issue going on.
- 11/8/2011
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Big man on campus Martin Scorsese is just about done working on his upcoming film Hugo, so it’s about time that he figures out what his next project is going to be. To that end, he’s reportedly been circling around a potential film called The Snowman, which is set to be an adaptation of a Jo Nesbo novel of the same name. Nesbo is a Norwegian author known primarily for mystery stories and children’s books whose Harry Hole series has sold more than 5 million copies. The Snowman is the seventh book in a series of them about detective Harry Hole (I definitely recommend turning on your safesearch before researching these novels). Hole is one of those drunken, self-destructive detective archetypes who is always close to be thrown off the force because of his behavior, but ultimately kept around because he gets things done. The Snowman is a serial killer story that starts off with...
- 10/27/2011
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
As of now, there are no paintball wars or zombiepocalypses to speak of in Community‘s third season (premiering this Thursday at 8/7c). But showrunner Dan Harmon and the cast of the innovative NBC comedy tell TVLine, and thus viewers, that there’s no cause for concern.
“It’s not ‘Chicken Fingers’ [a la the Season 1 episode 'Contemporary American Poultry'], but this season is the most ambitious that we’ve ever done,” Joel McHale says candidly. Adds Yvette Nicole Brown, “It’s not as big episode-wise, but more intense character-wise. It’s much more ensemble-driven.”
Speaking of the winning ensemble, we enlisted the help of the Community crew...
“It’s not ‘Chicken Fingers’ [a la the Season 1 episode 'Contemporary American Poultry'], but this season is the most ambitious that we’ve ever done,” Joel McHale says candidly. Adds Yvette Nicole Brown, “It’s not as big episode-wise, but more intense character-wise. It’s much more ensemble-driven.”
Speaking of the winning ensemble, we enlisted the help of the Community crew...
- 9/22/2011
- by Megan Masters
- TVLine.com
HollywoodNews.com: I’m both happy and sad about this bit of news about the Glee cast.
The oh-so talented and appealing Darren Criss has been promoted from recurring character to full-fledged episode meaning we will see even more of his gay character of Blaine in the show’s third season. Blaine is involved in a relationship with Kurt (Chris Colfer) and my guess is he will be transferring to McKinley High and join their Glee club.
Very smart of Glee to nab the full-time services of Criss who is a breakout star and one of the strongest singers on the show. He is a major S-t-a-r in the same way as Lea Michele is.
Sadly, the adorable Chord Overstreet, who plays the blond and beautiful singing jock Sam, has been dropped as a recurring character. For a time, it seemed that Sam was the new Big Man on Campus...
The oh-so talented and appealing Darren Criss has been promoted from recurring character to full-fledged episode meaning we will see even more of his gay character of Blaine in the show’s third season. Blaine is involved in a relationship with Kurt (Chris Colfer) and my guess is he will be transferring to McKinley High and join their Glee club.
Very smart of Glee to nab the full-time services of Criss who is a breakout star and one of the strongest singers on the show. He is a major S-t-a-r in the same way as Lea Michele is.
Sadly, the adorable Chord Overstreet, who plays the blond and beautiful singing jock Sam, has been dropped as a recurring character. For a time, it seemed that Sam was the new Big Man on Campus...
- 7/3/2011
- by Greg Hernandez
- Hollywoodnews.com
Rupert Murdoch, Big Man on Campus? Just seven months after his surprising expansion into reading, writing and arithmetic with the $360-million acquisition of Wireless Generation, News Corp.'s chairman and CEO seems intent on making the grade in what could be the future of education -- economized, customized, data-driven digitized instruction. Potentially at stake: hundreds of billions of dollars. “We have the resources to play and do what we need,” said Joel Klein, the innovative former New York City schools chief now on News Corp.'s board and CEO of Murdoch’s Education Division. And Klein...
- 6/21/2011
- by Johnnie L. Roberts
- The Wrap
Watching people get killed could be kind of fun. Just ask Emma Roberts... In Scream 4, the young starlet plays a popular high school girl who has just broken up with her Big Man on Campus boyfriend, Trevor Sheldon (Nico Tortorella). And you better believe she witnessed a lot of bloody murders while making the movie, out April 15. "It's funny but then kind of scary," Roberts told me for today's installment of Scream 4: New Generation Week, E! Online's exclusive daily chats with the horror franchise's fresh-faced stars. "When you're in it, it gets kind of freaky. "But then you can't help but laugh when people have cuts all over them and they're...
- 3/24/2011
- E! Online
This is a recap for the Season 4 premiere of Mad Men starring Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, January Jones, and a bunch of other people whom you can learn about here. If you have not seen the episode then, yeah, this will probably spoil something for you, idiot. Enjoy! Best Cameo Bart Simpson. Trapped in Bert Cooper’s Blazer. Best Fight Over Canned Meat The Ladies Fighting Over Ham. You have to admit, Peggy’s idea to make people buy more canned ham might have been the first time anyone’s ever thought of viral marketing in the history of fake television shows about advertising. Indeed, the idea worked beautifully: Two ladies fought over ham, and the story wormed its way into the papers. But what made this scenario extra-special for us were the actresses hired. Because while most female Mad Men fans picture themselves as a “Joan”, I...
- 7/26/2010
- by Michelle Collins
- BestWeekEver
The cold winters and elite intellectual atmosphere of Phillips Academy Andover were a jarring change for George W. Bush when, as a 15-year-old, he was sent off to the prestigious Massachusetts boarding school, where his father had gone twenty years earlier. He flunked his first English paper and adopted an outsider attitude initially, banding together with fellow southerners and Texan classmates. But Bush eventually came into his own and grew to appreciate Andover, becoming Head Cheerleader, earning the nickname “the Lip” for his sharp tongue, and coming in second for the title of "Big Man on Campus.” Andover served as a stepping stone for Bush on the way to Yale and Harvard Business School, where he made life-long contacts that served him in crucial ways later on in business and politics. Now Bush is giving back to Andover. The school's latest fundraising magazine shows that Bush gave somewhere in the...
- 1/7/2010
- Vanity Fair
So despite Desperate Housewives having some hilarious gut busting moments last night, I couldn't help but mutter "filler episode" to my mother on the overall context of the episode. We did learn new things, but they were miniscule at best as other storylines contiuned on the train to Sweepsville. Oh and by the way, this week's theme was follow the rules… or else. So let's get down to it shall we?
Bree To Walk The Isle A Third Time?
When Bree finally decides to end the relationship with Karl, because she is getting too close in the heart department, he pulls out a brooch that his grandmother gave him and gives it to Bree. He then adds that his grandmother told him to give the brooch to the right woman when he finds her and that he loves Bree. She falls like puddy in his hands.
Later, Bree and Orson...
Bree To Walk The Isle A Third Time?
When Bree finally decides to end the relationship with Karl, because she is getting too close in the heart department, he pulls out a brooch that his grandmother gave him and gives it to Bree. He then adds that his grandmother told him to give the brooch to the right woman when he finds her and that he loves Bree. She falls like puddy in his hands.
Later, Bree and Orson...
- 11/2/2009
- by Mark O. Estes
- TVovermind.com
Californication Season 3 is well underway, and Hank Moody has his little finger dipping into just about every jar on campus. But, that's not the only thing going on. Showtime has recently gave the green light on Californication Season 4. That's right another season of raunchy Duchovny antics is on the way, and this one's not even done. To celebrate, Californication Season 4, BuzzFocus is giving away "God Hates Us All," a book written by none other than Hank Moody himself. So, get ready to dive into the literature and mind of Hank, the guy who loves to love. About "Californication" Season 3: Famed novelist and NYC transplant Hank Moody is heading back to school as a college professor. The truth-telling, hard-living scribe struggles to balance his new life as the Big Man on Campus, while raising a rebellious daughter to "do as I say, not as I do." Official Rules: Entering is simple.
- 10/13/2009
- by Buzzfocus Staff
- BuzzFocus.com
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