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Friday Jun 26 | Pop Syndicate

Cheri

Filled with drama, intrigue and personal vulnerability. With movies like Dangerous Liaisons , The Grifters and The Queen under his belt, you'd think this was a perfect fit for Stephen Frears.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Dangerous Liaisons, Crime Movies, The Grifters, Alternative, Thriller

Wed Jun 24, 2009

The Toronto Star

Man for all countries

But he produces movies everywhere except L.A., where he has lived for two decades after starting his career in Toronto.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Dangerous Liaisons, Crime Movies, The Grifters, Thriller, My Beautiful Laundrette, Alternative, Michelle Pfeiffer

Thu Jun 18, 2009

The Hook

Conned: Brothers Bloom doesn't quite pull it off

The more movies you see about con artists , the harder it should be for the next one to fool you.

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Related Topix: The Brothers Bloom, Alternative, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, House of Games

Sun May 31, 2009

CiteULike

Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s: The Killer Inside Me / The...

Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s: The Killer Inside Me / The Talented Mr.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, The Killer Inside Me, Drama Movies, Arts, Literature, Film Noir, The Killing, Thriller, Alternative

Thu May 28, 2009

TulsaWorld.com - Lifestyle

'Killer' begins shooting in Guthrie

Filmmakers wound up their first week of shooting "The Killer Inside Me" in Guthrie last weekend with stars Casey Affleck and Kate Hudson.

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Related Topix: Guthrie, OK, Alternative

Wed May 27, 2009

The Orlando Sentinel

Movie review: The Brothers Bloom -- 4 out of 5 stars

Bloom , left, is tiring of the work he does with brother Stephen . The Brothers Bloom is a dark "big con" comedy in The Grifters tradition.

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Related Topix: The Brothers Bloom, Alternative, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, Ricky Jay, Entertainment

Thu Apr 30, 2009

CNN

And God created Stephen Frears -- for women

In the 40 years since Stephen Frears fell into filmmaking -- "it wasn't my masterplan" -- the twice Oscar-nominated veteran director has defied genre to direct a clutch of movies that inspire a special kind of devotion from audiences.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Dangerous Liaisons, Horror Movies, Mary Reilly, Thriller, Crime Movies, The Grifters, My Beautiful Laundrette, Alternative, Theater, Arts, Movies, Entertainment

Sun Apr 26, 2009

The Boston Globe

DVD Report: This week's new releases

Director Stephen Frears knows how to show crooks meting out their own brand of justice - hence our permanent inability to ever look at oranges quite the same way after "The Grifters." But Frears also gave us "The Queen." It's hardly surprising, then, to see him and his cast handle the threat of imminent mob retribution with the sort of unflashy ...

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Related Topix: Thriller, Crime Movies, The Grifters, Drama Movies, Alternative, Terence Stamp, John Hurt, Tim Roth, War Movies, Johnny Got His Gun, Movies, Entertainment

Fri Apr 10, 2009

Ask MetaFilter

If You Can't Get a Woman Get a Clean Old Man

Ia m curious about the origin and usage of the term, a oeClean old man.a Ia ve run across it reading on a few occasions.

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Related Topix: Alternative

Star-telegram.com

Julie Hewett's long and successful career in TV and movies proves that beauty is in her makeup

By STEPHANIE ALLMON Julie Hewett made her mark on Hollywood with red lipstick.When the Los Angeles makeup artist was tapped to design makeup for the 2001 film Pearl Harbor , she decided to create a line of long-lasting red lipsticks for the women in the film and to make the cases look like mini-torpedoes. Hewett's cosmetics line was born, and she ...

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Related Topix: Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, The Women, Alternative, The Starter Wife, Comedy, Fort Worth, TX

Wed Mar 18, 2009

FreakyTrigger

Crime Writers: Jim Thompson

I like a writer who defies real comparison with anyone else in their genre. The closest to Jim Thompson would be Dostoyevsky, I think, except Thompson is far bleaker, far more negative about human nature.

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Related Topix: Alternative

Fri Mar 13, 2009

Tulsa World

Glamour stars get gritty roles

It's an indelible film image, that of Angelica Huston's tough-gal character in "The Grifters" trembling as she talks of being beaten with a bag of oranges.

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Related Topix: Alternative, Bride Wars, The Getaway, Crime Movies, Drama, Action, Thriller

Thu Mar 05, 2009

NewsOn6 Tulsa

Part Of Major Motion Picture To Be Filmed In Tulsa

Scenes of a major motion picture starring Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba and Casey Affleck will be filmed in Tulsa.

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Related Topix: Tulsa Metro, Tulsa, OK, Anadarko, OK, Alternative, Oklahoma, Guthrie, OK

Wed Mar 04, 2009

KOKI

Oklahoma Lands Major Film Deal

The Oklahoma Film and Music Office, along with Killer Inside Me Productions LLC in conjunction with Muse Productions, Los Angeles and Revolution Films, London, U.K., recently announced that a new movie project ...

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Related Topix: Oklahoma, Anadarko, OK, Alternative, Guthrie, OK, Tulsa Metro, Tulsa, OK

Fri Feb 27, 2009

Las Vegas Review Journal

Movie Review: 'Yonkers Joe'

Two minds are better than one. Unless, of course, they both belong to the same filmmaker -- who can't quite decide what kind of movie he wants to make.

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Related Topix: Yonkers Joe, Alternative, Crime Movies, The Grifters, Drama, Thriller, Las Vegas, NV, Comedy Movies, Bullets Over Broadway, Chazz Palminteri

Sat Feb 21, 2009

Glodderby

Continue reading "Watch out, Mickey Rourke: Indie Spirit is Oscar's consolation prize"

The Independent Spirit award is supposed to salute what past ceremony host Samuel L. Jackson once called "the strange, the weird, the eclectic, the visionary, the new blood." Ideally, its purpose is to help ...

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama, Action, The Wrestler, The Spirit, Pulp Fiction, Samuel L. Jackson, Black Entertainment, Alternative, Comedy Movies, Thriller, The Player

Tue Feb 10, 2009

Lahonton Valley News

CAC's neo-noir film series continues with 'Body Heat'

The Churchill Arts Council will continue its neo-noir film series with a screening of the classic 1981 film, 'Body Heat,' on Thursday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $7 for CAC members and $10 for nonmembers and will be ...

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Related Topix: Thriller, Body Heat, Crime Movies, Drama, Thursday, Action, Alternative

Mon Feb 09, 2009

Hollywood Reporter

Q&A: Stephen Frears

Stephen Frears Vital stats Name: Stephen Frears Film in Berlin: "Cheri" In Competition Date of birth: June 20, 1941 Nationality: British Filmography: "My Beautiful Laundrette," "Dangerous Liaisons," "The Hi-Lo ...

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Related Topix: Drama, Dangerous Liaisons, Alternative, Michelle Pfeiffer, Theater, Arts

Wed Jan 21, 2009

Kirkus Reviews

Trust Me On This

It's hard to remember a death so universally mourned throughout the mystery community than that of Donald E. Westlake , who suffered a fatal heart attack on his way to a New Year's Eve party during a vacation ...

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Related Topix: Alternative

Mon Jan 12, 2009

Telegraph Herald

A busy portable typewriter falls silent

Suspects in a Murder Mystery Weekend staged at the Mohonk Mountain House in New York in 1987.A Left to right: David Morrell, creator of Rambo, prolific novelist Don Westlake, novelist Justin Scott, Playboy ...

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Related Topix: New York, Alternative

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