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With Tom Hanks’ recent film A Man Called Otto continuing to pull in solid numbers at the box office, we wanted to know what your favorite film by the legendary actor is. We have compiled a pretty comprehensive list, but if by chance you don’t see your favorite listed, please let us know in the comments.

Favorite Tom Hanks MovieA Man Called Otto (2022)Pinocchio (2022)Elvis (2022)Finch (2021)News of the World (2020)Greyhound (2020)A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)Toy Story 4 (2019)The Post (2017)The Circle (2017)Inferno (2016)Sully (2016)A Hologram for the King (2016)Bridge of Spies (2015)Saving Mr. Banks (2013)Captain Phillips (2013)Cloud Atlas (2012)Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)Larry Crowne (2011)Toy Story 3 (2010)Angels & Demons (2009)The Great Buck Howard (2009)The Simpsons Movie (2007)Charlie Wilson's War (2007)The Da Vinci Code (2006)The Polar Express (2004)The Terminal (2004)The Ladykillers (2004)Catch Me if You Can (2002)Road to Perdition (2002)Cast Away (2000)The Green Mile (1999)Toy Story 2...

Silicon Valley actor Martin Starr and Daredevil's Deborah Ann Woll will star in Silver Lake, written and directed by Sean McGinly (The Great Buck Howard).

The ensemble cast also includes Rusty Joiner (Stuck in Love) and Justine Wachsberger (Divergent), with Starr producing the indie along with McGinly and Pace Pictures’ Heath Ryan.

The story centers on Nathan (Starr) as he examines his life and relationships with friends, his girlfriend Mary (Woll) and her young daughters, plus his larger-than-life mentor (Fred Melamed).

Starr is known for playing Gilfoyle on the HBO series Silicon Valley. His film credits include the recent hit...

Exclusive: Home entertainment distributor will release the modern western, which features Kris Kristofferson and Beau Bridges.

London-based Precision Pictures has inked a deal with sales agent Starline Entertainment for Sean McGinly’s Texas-set, modern-day western Lawless Range.

Starring Austin Nichols (The Walking Dead) and Patrick John Flueger (Chicago Fire) alongside veterans Kris Kristofferson and Beau Bridges, the thriller focuses on two brothers who find themselves facing off against a dangerous group of criminals.

The Great Buck Howard’s McGinly directed the film from an Adair Cole script. Heath Ryan produced for his La-based outfit Pace Pictures. Beau Bridges exec produced.

Home entertainment label Precision Pictures, launched in December 2015 by UK distributor Signature Entertainment, is planning a Q1 2017 release for the film.

Starline’s director of worldwide distribution Julie Delaney commented: “We are absolutely delighted to see Signature’s Precision Pictures lassoing UK rights for Lawless Range; it’s a great team and wonderful to know Sean McGinly’s excellent...

Exclusive: UK sales outfit has picked up a Croatian comedy and a Us western featuring Kris Kristofferson.

London-based Starline Entertainment has picked up two titles for international sales ahead of Cannes.

The first is Croatia-set comedy Ministry Of Love, which opens in Croatia later this year through local distributor Blitz.

The film was produced by Stanislav Babic of Zagreb based Telefilm and co-produced by Julietta Sichel for Czech Republic company 8Heads Productions.

Directed by Pavo Marinković, the project was originally developed through the Eastern European development lab ScripTeast, organised by the Independent Film Foundation.

Starring Stjepan Perić, the plot follows a disillusioned drifter who is hired by the government to help enforce a deeply unpopular money saving scheme targeting war widows.

The second title is contemporary western Lawless Range, featuring Kris Kristofferson and Beau Bridges alongside Patrick John Flueger and Austin Nichols. The latter play Texan brothers whose family loyalties are tested when one finds himself indebted...

If Emily Blunt's track record is anything to go by, the British star excels at playing assistants to eccentric bosses. She stole scenes from Anne Hathaway as assistant to Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada,” charmed as a reluctant publicist to a zany John Malkovich in “The Great Buck Howard” and took crap from Miss Piggy in “The Muppets.” In her latest film, “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,” Blunt plays Harriet, assistant to a sheik who wants to bring salmon fishing to the desert. In the romantic comedy, directed by Lasse Hallstrom (“Chocolat”) and penned by Simon Beaufoy ("Slumdog Millionaire"), Harriet is paired with Britain’s leading fisheries expert, Fred (Ewan McGregor), to make the sheik’s dream a reality. Complications ensue when Fred, a married man, falls for Harriet. Blunt sat down with Indiewire during a short stop in Manhattan to talk about working with her co-star,...

Park City - Over the past few years, there have been an increasing number of pictures that were questionable inclusions to Sundance's premieres slate.  A few them were actually good films ("The Company Men," "Smart People," "Cedar Rapids," ), but many were star-filled pseudo indies seemingly intended to satisfy sponsor attendees and the affluent contributors looking for a little bit of Hollywood during their Park City festival vacation ("The Great Buck Howard," "Brooklyn's Finest," "Motherhood," "The Butterfly Effect," "My Idiot Brother" and "The Son of No One" come to mind).  A good deal of these films would have been more appropriate at...

No. Just... no. I didn’t totally hate the first two Alvin and the Chipmunk movies, but even the modicum of charm and humor they managed to scare up is entirely missing here. It starts out as not so much a movie as a commercial for Carnival Cruise Lines -- which perhaps shouldn’t be a surprising turn for a strictly cash-in threequel -- as Dave Seville (Jason Lee: Cop Out) takes his three chipmunk children/musical talent clients on vacation along with their little Chipette girlfriends... except the rat triplets haven’t even hooked up yet, so should we consider Dave a pimp? And, anyway, can you bring rats on a cruise ship? Hey, actually, that could be a funny movie, if all six chipmunks got a cultural wakeup call from the shipboard rats who could tell them what life was really like down on the scavenger level. Hey,...

Chicago – In this edition of the HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: DVD, two lucky winners will win three DVDs each from Magnolia Pictures for the movies “Ira & Abby,” “The Great Buck Howard” and “The Answer Man”! This Hookup is in support of the new video-on-demand release of “Main Street” starring Colin Firth, Orlando Bloom and Patricia Clarkson!

“Main Street” also stars Amber Tamblyn, Ellen Burstyn, Andrew McCarthy, Margo Martindale and Tom Wopat from director John Doyle and writer Horton Foote. “Ira & Abby” stars Jennifer Westfeldt, Chris Messina and Jason Alexander. “The Great Buck Howard” stars Colin Hanks, John Malkovich and Tom Hanks. “The Answer Man” stars Jeff Daniels, Lauren Graham and Lou Taylor Pucci.

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Think of it as The Killer Inside Me, funny style. A new trailer has been released for the indie comedy, Lucky, from director Gil Cates, Jr.(A Midsummer Night's Rave). Colin Hanks(The Great Buck Howard) stars as Ben Keller, a regular guy who hits it big time by winning the lottery. Flushed with cash, he goes after and wins the girl of his dreams, played by that scene stealing Ari Graynor(Holy...

Some of you might know Colin Hanks as the son of actor Tom Hanks, but most of you probably know the young actor from his roles in such films as Orange County, Peter Jackson's King Kong, The Great Buck Howard, Oliver Stone's W., Band of Brothers and tv shows like Roswell and The Good Guys. I personally loved Colin's fantastic stint as Father John Gill on Mad Men and am very much looking forward to seeing him on the next season of Dexter. Recently, Colin has been working hard on an interesting documentary film, All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records. Colin hopes to raise $50,000 by July 15th to help finish production of the film. Hanks has set up a Kickstarter page [1] to do it. For your help, Colin is offering a variety of incentive gifts: starting at a mere $5 for a “Thank You” mention in the film's credits,...

It can't be easy being the son of Tom Hanks, just ask this guy. But for Colin Hanks, he's done a pretty solid job so far of moving up the ranks of Hollywood. Sure, he teamed with Papa Hanks for "The Great Buck Howard," but no one saw that movie anyway, and he's been quietly amassing screen credits (and when he's not in meetings, he's been hitting Twitter pretty hard) featuring most prominently in "Orange County" and "King Kong." But 2011 seems to be the year we'll he'll finally start getting a much higher profile. He recently scored a prominent,…...

"Emily Blunt drank so much grape juice in the dinner scene that she threw up. Fun Fact. But not so much fun for her." Colin Hanks reveals set secrets from 2008 movie The Great Buck Howard.

Will and Jaden Smith are already on pace to become the biggest father-son box-office draw in history, and now that they’re set to reunite for M. Night Shyamalan’s futuristic sci-fi film, it’s not ridiculous to think that the superstar duo could potentially star in their own buddy-movie franchise. We already know they have great chemistry, from their heartfelt turns in 2006′s The Pursuit of Happyness.

Which isn’t always the case, by the way, when dads and sons try to translate their relationship to the screen. Maybe they’re trying too hard, or maybe it’s difficult...

Following in his father George's footsteps, director Cameron Romero is a filmmaker with something to say; and in the new trailer for his latest film, Radical, that he sent exclusively our way, his message is loud and frighteningly clear.

Radical centers on the story of three members of the American press being held captive by a calculating terrorist who taunts the Us government with his arrogance and technological savvy.

The isolation piece stars Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan, Heat), Ford Austin (Dahmer vs. Gacy, The Auctioneers), Josh Carmichael, Shahe Assilian and Bj Hendricks (The Great Buck Howard, Staunton Hill) and marks a reunion for many cast members who have worked with Romero in the past.

"This is the real horror that people go through every day around the world, and the media always seem to cover it from a higher place or a conceptual level," Romero told us. "I think...

By Scott Mendelson

HollywoodNews.com: Paramount released its first non-Dreamworks cartoon in nearly five years this weekend. And indeed, the number one film by a long shot was Gore Verbinski’s Rango (teaser). The critically-acclaimed and nearly-existential Johnny Depp vehicle grossed $38 million over the three-day weekend. That’s the biggest opening for a Paramount animated feature not from Dreamworks, although it’s slightly behind in attendance compared to the $32 million opening of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie back in November of 2004. Paramount’s animated fare has been exclusively Dreamworks since the August 2006 release of Barnyard: The Original Party Animals. Since they acquired Dreamworks in early 2006, they’ve basically been just releasing the Katzenberg cartoons. But prior to that, they actually had a good thing going with Nickelodeon, although they have released a few Nickelodeon live-action co-ventures over the last few years (Charlotte’s Web, Hotel For Dogs, etc). This will hopefully...

Don't ever say we don't work quickly when a new project hits our radar that we think is cool enough to warrant a follow-up! That's right, kids! Get ready for the first official details and artwork for Cameron Romero's Radical.

Radical centers on the story of three members of the American press being held captive by a calculating terrorist who taunts the Us government with his arrogance and technological savvy.

The isolation piece stars Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan, Heat), Ford Austin (Dahmer vs. Gacy, The Auctioneers), Josh Carmichael, Shahe Assilian and Bj Hendricks (The Great Buck Howard, Staunton Hill) and marks a reunion for many cast members who have worked with Romero in the past.

When asked about the content of the film, Romero is quoted as saying, “Radical is a film that is just that. We [Romero, Hendricks and Austin] had been talking about pulling the trigger on a project for some time,...

Chicago – In this edition of the HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: DVD, two lucky winners will clean up with two DVDs from Magnolia Pictures for the movies “The Great Buck Howard” and “The Answer Man” plus a full-size poster for “Barry Munday” signed by Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer and director Chris D’Arienzo!

“Barry Munday” stars Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer, Chloë Sevigny and Mae Whitman and opened in theaters on Oct. 1, 2010. “The Great Buck Howard” stars Tom Hanks, John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt and Steve Zahn. “The Answer Man” stars Jeff Daniels, Lauren Graham, Olivia Thirlby and Kat Dennings.

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The movie poster for “Barry Munday” with Patrick Wilson,...

TV Mentalist and staple of late night chat shows, the Amazing Kreskin has revealed to Monsters and Critics he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and has successfully defeated it according to his doctors. On August 15, The Amazing Kreskin announced what he considered the most dramatic statement of his entire career. According to Kreskin, he wanted to begin by referencing the Tom Hanks. movie, The Great Buck Howard, (2009). The movie was based on Kreskin, having been written by Sean McGinly, who was his Road Manager in the 1990.s. Kreskin tells M&C: "The morning after the opening, I had an appointment with my doctor regarding an earlier check-up. It was at this meeting I was told...

Chicago – In this edition of the HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: DVD, one lucky winner will clean up with three DVDs from Magnolia Pictures for the movies “The Great Buck Howard,” “What Just Happened” and “Finding Amanda” plus a full-size poster for “The Extra Man” signed by filmmaker Shari Springer Berman and stars Kevin Kline and Paul Dano!

“The Extra Man” stars Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, Katie Holmes and John C. Reilly. “The Great Buck Howard” stars John Malkovich, Tom Hanks, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt and Steve Zahn. “What Just Happened” stars Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Kristen Stewart, Bruce Willis, Catherine Keener, John Turturro, Robin Wright and Stanley Tucci. “Finding Amanda” stars Matthew Broderick, Brittany Snow, Maura Tierney and Steve Coogan.

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Sean McGinly's feature directing debut The Great Buck Howard was about a man a bit past his prime in his chosen profession (magic) but still doggedly pursuing his trade. For his next act, McGinly will be telling a similar story, just with a bit of grand larceny thrown in. According to Variety he'll be adapting and directing The Old Man and the Gun, based on the New Yorker article about a bank robber who kept his career going until he was nearly 80. An archived version of the article is available here, and it starts with a captivating description of Forrest Tucker's last bank robbery, for which he dressed in all white and after which he thanked the tellers for handing over more than $5,000. Tucker said of his life story, "I've been in prison all my life, except for the times I've broken out," and walks around with shrapnel...

To celebrate the release of The Extra Man, we’ve teamed up with the nice folks over at Magnolia Pictures to give our readers a chance at winning some awesome swag. Here’s what we have: a full-size poster signed by filmmaker Shari Springer Berman and stars Kevin Kline and Paul Danoand; a DVD bundle including the following Magnolia DVD titles: Finding Amanda, What Just Happened and The Great Buck Howard.

Read more on Giveaway: Win an autographed The Extra Man poster and DVDs from @MagnoliaPics…...

Though the actor still be a hot commodity and someone to watch, he’s watching himself more closely these days, thanks to the underwhelming numbers behind The A-Team. What should’ve been a lauching pad for Bradley Cooper is now a cautionary tale, and it seems M. Night Shyamalan’s secret super-powers project will suffer a loss.

Cooper has dropped out of the Last Airbender director’s next film due to apparent shooting conflicts with The Hangover 2. On the flip side of this, Cooper has been offered the lead against Anna Faris in Tmi, a rom-com about two friends who, after a “crazy night,” realize they may be more than friends. Original, yes it is. [Pajiba]

Ryan Reynolds was set to star in the film, which most likely is no longer the case if Cooper’s getting offered the film. Reynolds made that movie already. It was called Just Friends...

With Father's Day approaching, framescourer chooses the cathartic cameos and double-takes that capture dads and their offspring in the same frame

Many of the most intriguing father and son partnerships are divided by the camera: as a director, Clint Eastwood has used his son Kyle's music in a number of his later films; sadly, tantalisingly, John Huston was too ill to participate in Mr North, his son Danny's directorial debut. There are some near misses too: it might perhaps have been a relief to both Brawley Nolte and his father, Nick, that, playing the same character at different ages in the violently semi-Oedipal Affliction, they were safely separated by the buffer of flashback.

Yet it's having father and son in the same frame that really intrigues. To what extent is it representative of the off-camera dynamic? Will either party take the chance to get something off his chest, overstepping some...

Tom Hanks' son has got married. Colin Hanks - who recently starred alongside his father in 'The Great Buck Howard' - tied the knot with publicist Samantha Bryant at the London West Hollywood hotel in Los Angeles on Saturday (08.05.10). According to website E! Online, around 300 guests - including director Steven Spielberg - were in attendance for the nuptials at the rooftop pool area of the hotel. Guests staying at the complex had been asked to leave the pool at 3pm on Friday (07.05.10), but were offered free drinks to make up for the inconvenience. Colin - whose mother Susan Lewes, Tom's first wife, died of cancer in 2002 - got engaged to Samantha last June after several years...

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Directed by: Thor Freudenthal

Cast: Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Rachael Harris, Steve Zahn

Running Time: 1 hr 30 min

Rating: PG

Release Date: March 19, 2010

Plot: Based on the best-selling illustrated novel by Jeff Kinney, this film chronicles the adventures of a smart-mouthed middle school student named Greg Heffley (Gordon), who must survive his new environment.

Who’S It For? Darned good question. It’s supposed to be a family comedy.

Expectations: I’ve seen the book around bookstores and thought it looked very cute. I thought maybe it would translate nicely into a movie. Cue dramatic music as I stroll blindly, cheerfully, toward the big pothole.

Scorecard (0-10)

Actors:

Zachary Gordon as Greg Heffley: What you have here is an unextraordinary actor playing an unlikable character. It’s difficult to graph how uninteresting this is without going into specifics like 1/1,000,000 of a point or .00000000009 to the nth degree.

I have to say that I’m always interested in and surprised by what entertains filmmakers and Moore’s list does not disappoint. There are, as should be expected, quite a few films on this list that I have not seen but of those I have seen I agree with his #’s 6, 7, 17, & 20 picks. Here ripped from an e-mail that was posted on another website are Michael Moore’s list of the 20 “best pictures” he saw in the year 2009:

1. “Troubled Water” (see above)

2. “Everlasting Moments” – A wife in the early 20th century wins a camera and it changes her life (from Sweden).

3. “Captain Abu Raed” – This first feature from Jordan tells the story of an airport janitor who the neighborhood kids believe is a pilot.

4. “Che” – A brilliant, unexpected mega-film about Che Guevara by Steven Soderbergh.

5. “Dead Snow” – The scariest film I’ve seen in a while about zombie Nazis...

British actress Emily Blunt has defended her decision to swap independent movies for big budget blockbusters - insisting she doesn't need to "atone" for her career choices. After a supporting role in hit fashion film "The Devil Wears Prada", Blunt has made her name with a string of smaller films, including "The Young Victoria", "Sunshine Cleaning" and "The Great Buck Howard".

She's now set to hit cinemas with blockbusters including "The Wolfman" and "Gulliver's Travels", but insists she's not chasing big money movies. Blunt says, "I knew what I was signing up for. Really I did. People were, like, 'Why have you strayed away from independent films?'. I thought, 'Give us a break! I've hardly done anything but independent films.'"

And Blunt praises her "The Wolfman" co-star Benicio Del Toro for offering her some good advice. She adds, "I think Benicio put it best. He said, 'C'mon, man.

British actress Emily Blunt has defended her decision to swap independent movies for big budget blockbusters - insisting she doesn't need to "atone" for her career choices.

After a supporting role in hit fashion film The Devil Wears Prada, Blunt has made her name with a string of smaller films, including The Young Victoria, Sunshine Cleaning and The Great Buck Howard.

She's now set to hit cinemas with blockbusters including The Wolfman and Gulliver's Travels, but insists she's not chasing big money movies.

Blunt says, "I knew what I was signing up for. Really I did. People were, like, 'Why have you strayed away from independent films?'. I thought, 'Give us a break! I've hardly done anything but independent films.'"

And Blunt praises her The Wolfman co-star Benicio Del Toro for offering her some good advice.

She adds, "I think Benicio put it best. He said, 'C'mon, man. I like candy too, y'know?'. That's how I feel. Why should you have to atone for making big movies?"...

Joe R. Lansdale has been called a Mojo storyteller, a cult figure, a gifted storyteller, a folklorist, and an American original. I prefer to think of him as a purveyor of the Southern Gothic genre with stops to deliver some of the best crime stories through his recurring characters Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. (If you haven’t read a Hap and Leonard story, you need to get with the program and pick up a copy of Savage Season, their first adventure.)

Joe has also delighted horror fans with film versions of his short stories Bubba Ho-Tep and Incident On and Off a Mountain Road.

Dread Central recently spoke with the laconic Texan about how he feels being a cult icon as well as what’s up next.

DC: Thank you so much for taking time to speak with Dread Central, Joe. With your prolific writing schedule, I’m surprised you had the time.

The festival's return to its indie roots bore fruit in a crop of good movies, although few of them show commercial promise

Heading into Sundance there was a lot of talk about how this year the festival was returning to its independent roots. Recent editions had begun to shift away from the festival of discovery originally conceived by Robert Redford, who like an endangered species of mountain goat still draws coos, cameras and elbow nudges when Park City passersby spot him squinting wistfully at a distant pine tree.

Over the years Sundance had courted bigger and bigger films with A-list talent. The problem was entries such as What Just Happened? (starring Robert De Niro) or The Great Buck Howard (featuring John Malkovich) weren't very good. They took ages to sell, and when they came out they hardly made any money. The financial collapse and the challenges of an overcrowded film-releasing...

Emily Blunt, who was sensational in The Devil Wears Prada, is not mincing her words when it comes to British film critics lambasting her new film, The Young Victoria.

Says the actress:

"Over here, people accept it as being a love story, allowing themselves to be swept away by it, rather than getting too caught up in the details." Okay, American are easy I guess, but then the film didn't exactly skimp on the historical details either."

Reports Roger Moore (not the actor): Of late, Blunt, 26, has made a specialty of playing Americans -- in "Sunshine Cleaning," "The Great Buck Howard" and "Dan in Real Life."

"But you can't get more British than playing the queen, this queen," she says. "I learned very little about Victoria in school. We've had so many kings and queens that I think the schools find it quite hard to focus on one. I...

Emily Blunt, who was sensational in The Devil Wears Prada, is not mincing her words when it comes to British film critics lambasting her new film, The Young Victoria.

Says the actress:

"Over here, people accept it as being a love story, allowing themselves to be swept away by it, rather than getting too caught up in the details." Okay, American are easy I guess, but then the film didn't exactly skimp on the historical details either."

Reports Roger Moore (not the actor): Of late, Blunt, 26, has made a specialty of playing Americans -- in "Sunshine Cleaning," "The Great Buck Howard" and "Dan in Real Life."

"But you can't get more British than playing the queen, this queen," she says. "I learned very little about Victoria in school. We've had so many kings and queens that I think the schools find it quite hard to focus on one. I...

Emily Blunt, who was sensational in The Devil Wears Prada, is not mincing her words when it comes to British film critics lambasting her new film, The Young Victoria.

Says the actress:

"Over here, people accept it as being a love story, allowing themselves to be swept away by it, rather than getting too caught up in the details." Okay, American are easy I guess, but then the film didn't exactly skimp on the historical details either."

Reports Roger Moore (not the actor): Of late, Blunt, 26, has made a specialty of playing Americans -- in "Sunshine Cleaning," "The Great Buck Howard" and "Dan in Real Life."

"But you can't get more British than playing the queen, this queen," she says. "I learned very little about Victoria in school. We've had so many kings and queens that I think the schools find it quite hard to focus on one. I...

Emily Blunt, who was sensational in The Devil Wears Prada, is not mincing her words when it comes to British film critics lambasting her new film, The Young Victoria.

Says the actress:

"Over here, people accept it as being a love story, allowing themselves to be swept away by it, rather than getting too caught up in the details." Okay, American are easy I guess, but then the film didn't exactly skimp on the historical details either."

Reports Roger Moore (not the actor): Of late, Blunt, 26, has made a specialty of playing Americans -- in "Sunshine Cleaning," "The Great Buck Howard" and "Dan in Real Life."

"But you can't get more British than playing the queen, this queen," she says. "I learned very little about Victoria in school. We've had so many kings and queens that I think the schools find it quite hard to focus on one. I...

Emily Blunt, who was sensational in The Devil Wears Prada, is not mincing her words when it comes to British film critics lambasting her new film, The Young Victoria.

Says the actress:

"Over here, people accept it as being a love story, allowing themselves to be swept away by it, rather than getting too caught up in the details." Okay, American are easy I guess, but then the film didn't exactly skimp on the historical details either."

Reports Roger Moore (not the actor): Of late, Blunt, 26, has made a specialty of playing Americans -- in "Sunshine Cleaning," "The Great Buck Howard" and "Dan in Real Life."

"But you can't get more British than playing the queen, this queen," she says. "I learned very little about Victoria in school. We've had so many kings and queens that I think the schools find it quite hard to focus on one. I...

I say it’s about time, as we enter the second decade of the 21st century, to put behind us all that nonsense about “feminism” and undignified female self-determination. Yes, we ladies must at last put down our feet daintily clad in $600 shoes and say: No more. It’s wonderfully refreshing, therefore, to see the new decade starting off right with an appropriately traditionally minded film like Leap Year. Oh, the hairy-legged among the fairer sex will howl their indignation -- they care not whether they behave in a ladylike manner -- which means that the movie is doing its job. Amy Adams (Julie & Julia, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian) is absolutely delightful as everything a lady should be in today’s modern-but-conservative world. Her Anna, a 30something Bostonian, has a job, which is very important for keeping a lady in the gowns, shoes, jewelry, and makeup...

Colin Hanks is set to star in Fox's thirteen-episode series "Jack and Dan" created by Matt Nix. This also stars Bradley Whitford and is produced by Fox TV Studios. Story focuses on Jack (Hanks), an ambitious, by-the-book detective who undermines himself with the result of winding up in a dead-end job at the Los Angeles Police Department. On top of that, he's been partnered with Dan (played by Whitford) who is a wild-card cop as well as a drunk. The only thing keeping Dan in the job is a heroic act years ago. Filming on the action comedy is slated to begin early next year. Hanks recently did an arc on AMC's "Mad Men" and was also in the recent successful comedy "The House Bunny" as well as the Diane Lane thriller "Untraceable" and "The Great Buck Howard" with John Malkovich.

Colin Hanks is set to topline "Jack and Dan," Matt Nix's new 13-episode hourlong series for Fox.

The straight-to-series project, which also stars Bradley Whitford, is produced by Fox TV Studios under the company's international co-production model.

It centers on Jack (Hanks), an ambitious, by-the-book detective whose habit of undermining himself has resulted in a dead-end position at the Los Angeles Police Department. Worse, he has been partnered with Dan (Whitford), a drunken, lecherous, wild-card cop who hangs onto his job only because of a heroic act years before.

Filming on the show, an action comedy in the tone of Nix's USA Network series "Burn Notice," is slated to begin early next year.

Hanks, who began as a regular on WB Network's sci-fi drama "Roswell," recently did an arc on AMC's "Mad Men." His feature credits include comedy "The House Bunny," "Untraceable" and "The Great Buck Howard."

He is repped by CAA and BenderSpink.

DVD Playhouse—August 2009

By

Allen Gardner

Watchmen—Director’S Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday...

If there’s one phrase I would use to describe The Great Buck Howard, it would be “low key.” This is a PG-rated, harmless and rather toothless look at a has-been whose days of fame have long since passed him by. Written and directed by Sean McGinly but driven by an appealing performance from John Malkovich, Buck Howard is watchable but neither particularly engaging nor emotionally effecting.

Malkovich plays Buck Howard, whose glory days (and 61, count it, 61 appearances on Late Night with Johnny Carson) are behind him. Howard is equal parts eccentric and manic, a drama queen with a tendency to go off on the poor unfortunate soul who happens to be his assistant at the time. Enter Troy Gable (Colin Hanks), fresh out of law school (which he quits, walking out in the middle of a class) and with aspirations to find his calling (could it be writing?).

Avoiding...

The Great Buck Howard has all the elements necessary to make a movie worth watching. The story is decent, offering a smattering of both comedy and drama and the acting is superb. Despite it's heavily limited release, Howard has made it to DVD where a larger fan base will certainly ensue. Based on the life of the Amazing Kreskin, Howard is charming, if not sappy, from beginning to end.

Chicago – The Round-Up is back with a quintet of standard DVDs that may have gone unnoticed in your latest Best Buy circular. There’s at least one very good movie in here and a few unique independent offerings that you might want to take a peek at. We wish we had time to cover these titles in more depth, but here are the details - synopsis, cast, features - that you really need to know.

“Horsemen” was released on July 14th, 2009.

“Bad Lieutenant,” “Bart Got a Room,” “Big Man Japan,” and “The Great Buck Howard” will be released on July 28th, 2009.

“Bad Lieutenant: Special Edition”

Photo credit: Lionsgate Synopsis: “Harvey Keitel is a nameless New York cop, hopelessly addicted to drugs, gambling, and sex. As he makes his way to various crime scenes, he is concerned only with taking bets from his fellow cops on the outcome of the ongoing National League playoffs.

.I love this town!. Buck Howard has seen better days, but he still thinks of himself as a star. Who is Buck Howard you say? Didn.t you see one of the 61 appearances he had on the Carson show? In any event, he.s coming to a community center near you. Troy Gable (Colin Hanks) is in law school thanks to the wishes of his father (real life dad Tom Hanks). One day he realizes that he just doesn.t want to be a lawyer, but wants to be a writer, and drops out of school - not telling his father, of course. He decides that it might be nice to be able to eat, pay the...

Here’s a list of some of the new DVD and Blu-ray releases this week we’re particularly interested in. Plus, some old favorites (and not so favorites) coming out this week for the first time on Blu-Ray.

Movies:

• Watchmen (Director’s Cut) ~ Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson, Malin Ackerman, Jackie Earle Hailey (DVD and Blu-ray)

• Coraline ~ Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, and Jennifer Saunders (DVD and Blu-ray)

• 300: The Complete Experience ~ Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West (Blu-ray)

• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow ~ Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, and Giovanni Ribisi (DVD and Blu-ray)

• Made in U.S.A. (Criterion Collection) ~ Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó, and Marianne Faithfull (DVD)

• The Great Buck Howard ~ John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, and Tom Hanks (DVD)

• Wolverine and the X-Men: Deadly Enemies ~ (DVD)

• Midnight Express ~ Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, and Paolo Bonacelli (Blu-ray)

• Echelon Conspiracy ~ Edward Burns,...

Finally after weeks of lacklustre DVD releases, we've got a decent assortment of must-buy discs to gorge on including Zack Snyder's Watchmen (both the theatrical version and the director's cut) and the beautiful stop-motion animated Coraline. There are also some interesting indie releases this week including the superhero comedy Super Capers, the surreal Zach Galifianakis flick Visioneers, and Bruce McDonald's cerebral take on the zombie genre Pontypool (unfortunately, only available in Canada at the moment). In terms of TV, we've got the second and final season of Pushing Daisies, the final season of Prison Break, and all three seasons of the cult British comedy The Mighty Boosh. Is that enough for you? What will you be picking up this week? Watchmen [1] Watchmen: Director's Cut [2] (DVD, Blu-ray [3]) Coraline [4] (DVD, Blu-ray [5]) Pontypool [6] (Canada only) The Great Buck Howard [7] (DVD, Blu-ray [8]) Echelon Conspiracy [9] (DVD, Blu-ray [10]) Visioneers [11] Super Capers [12] The Mystical...

Watchmen Director's Cut

It may not have been exactly what Joel Silver was once scheming up, but Zack Snyder's adaptation is at the top of this week's new release list, with more goodness not included in the theatrical release. Blending new twists with a number of scenes straight out of the book, Watchmen is a film that Peter called "sledgehammer entertainment." Buy it. Also out on Blu-ray. (And big fans will want to also check out the Collector's Corner section for more Watchmen goodness.)

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Coraline

Coraline slips into another world and finds an alternate version of her life that quickly turns from laughs to frights. Stop-motion animation in 3D, with a kickass female star, all from the mind of Neil Gaiman. In her review, Jette said it "is gorgeously fantastic, in all senses of the word." Buy it. Also on Blu-ray.

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Rob Hunter loves movies.  He also loves serving chicken fingers and domestic beers to all the fat patrons at Chotchkie's.  These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVDs.  So join us each week as he takes a look at new DVD releases and gives his highly unqualified opinion as to which titles are worth BUYing, which are better off as RENTals, and which should be AVOIDed at all costs. Click on any of the titles below to magically head over to Amazon.com and pick up the DVD.  And don't forget to check out Neil Miller's hilariously titled This Week In Blu-ray column for reviews on the latest high definition Blu-ray releases! Nothing new worth buying this week! Coraline Pitch: Button eyes haven't been this creepy since Clive Barker's Nightbreed... Why Rent? I...

DVD Links: DVD News | Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed There are a few titles that may interest you that are releasing this week, but I guarantee there are some titles that will catch your eye in the new release date section at the end of this post as I spent all afternoon yesterday updating the DVD and Blu-ray new release titles. Hope you find something you like... Watchmen Due to its box-office letdown, fanboy defense mechanisms and the high regard held for its source material, like it or not, Watchmen is the release of the week, but it won't be the last time. I reviewed the Blu-ray director's cut, which you can read right here, and inside of it I was sure to remind you there will be yet another release of Watchmen this December. So, it's up to you. Do you double-dip or endure the wait? Midnight Express...

July 07, 2009 * The Deep (Sony) * Grumpy Old Men (Warner) * Knowing (Summit) * Push (Summit) * Torchwood: The Complete Second Season (BBC) * The Unborn (Universal) * The Universe: The Complete Season Two (A&E) July 14, 2009 * The Black Crowes: Warpaint Live (Eagle Rock) * Cheap Trick: Every Trick in the Book (Music Inc.) * Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Curse of the Golden Flower, House of Flying Daggers Trilogy (Box Set) (Sony) * The Edge of Love (Image) * Explicit Ills (Phase 4 Films) * For All Mankind (Criterion Collection) * The Haunting in Connecticut: Unrated Special Edition (Lionsgate) * I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Sony) * Mad Men: Season Two (Lionsgate) * NBA Champions 2008-2009 (Warner) * Night Train (National Ent Media) * Shark Week: Great Bites Collection (Discovery Channel) * This is Spinal Tap (MGM) * The Towering Inferno (20th Century Fox) * Wild Pacific (BBC) July 21, 2009 * 300: The Complete Experience (Warner) * Coraline (Universal) * Echelon Conspiracy (Paramount) * Google Me (Cinevolve) * The Great Buck Howard (Magnolia...

What happens to famous people when their popularity dies out? If this intrigues you I would recommend you go sit down and watch The Great Buck Howard. It stars Colin Hanks, John Malkovich, Emily Blunt, and features Tom Hanks in a comedy about just that question.

The beginning of the film almost started off exactly like Orange County, another film starring Colin Hanks. Here he plays Troy, law student who has decided that becoming a lawyer just isn’t what he was cut out to do. So he does what every young man decides at some point in his life to do: write. That’s about the extent of the comparison to Orange County. The rest of the film is nothing like it (and that’s a good thing).

Since writing doesn’t quite...

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