Sundance 2010: 5 Clips from ANIMAL KINGDOM Starring Guy Pearce, Joel...
Tonight we have five clips from David Michôd's upcoming crime drama Animal Kingdom, starring Guy Pearce, Joel Edgerton, and James Frecheville. Set to debut at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the...
View ArticleSundance Announces 2010 Award Winners: ANIMAL KINGDOM, THE RED CHAPEL,...
Sundance has announced the 2010 Award Winning films and Animal Kingdom, The Red Chapel, Restrepo, and Winter's Bone earned Grand Jury Prizes while Contracorriente, happythankyoumoreplease, Waiting For...
View ArticleANIMAL KINGDOM Trailer
Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Animal Kingdom, now has a full-length trailer. The trailer combines great music, plenty of credible critic quotes and...
View ArticleJoel Edgerton on THE THING Prequel; Plus Nash Edgerton on HESHER and Future...
We sat down with Nash and Joel Edgerton today at a roundtable interview for their new movie, The Square, a stylish twist-filled film noir which centers on an adulterous couple whose scheming leads to...
View ArticleLAFF 2010 – The Final 2 Days: The winners are Announced and Reviews of ANIMAL...
After running for 10 days and showing over 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival finally came to a close on Sunday. In my final write up you can read which...
View ArticlePosters for Indies GET LOW and ANIMAL KINGDOM
We have posters for the independent films Get Low and Animal Kingdom for your viewing pleasure. Get Low is "equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee...
View ArticleWriter/Director David Michod Interview ANIMAL KINGDOM
Animal Kingdom evolved over a nine-year period inspired by writer/director David Michod’s fascination with the colorful, criminal landscape of Melbourne and a strong desire to film the city in a way...
View ArticleJames Frecheville and Sullivan Stapleton Interview ANIMAL KINGDOM
Welcome to the Melbourne underworld, where tensions are building between dangerous criminals and equally dangerous police. In Animal Kingdom, a menacing character-driven crime drama written and...
View ArticleJacki Weaver Interview ANIMAL KINGDOM
Animal Kingdom features an outstanding ensemble cast portraying characters that run the gamut of the moral compass from Australian acting icon, Jacki Weaver, who plays Smurf, the deceptively sunny...
View ArticleTHE SOCIAL NETWORK Takes Top Prize from the National Board of Review
While different folks have their own dates for when awards season has officially "begun", I set it at the date the National Board of Review announces their picks for the year. In two of the past three...
View ArticleTHE SOCIAL NETWORK Takes Top Prize at the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards
The critics’ lists just keep on coming. We already brought you the American Film Institute and the Boston Society of Film Critics' awards for the best in film of 2010 earlier today, and now the Los...
View ArticleTHE SOCIAL NETWORK Named Best Picture by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle
The San Francisco Film Critics Circle have announced their 2010 award winners and -- you're not gonna believe it -- The Social Network took home Best Picture. And Best Director. And Best Adapted...
View ArticleBest Performances, Directors, and Other Miscellany of 2010
In my profession, there are two very important things you must do: watch movies and keep notes. I did an alright job with the first one, but admittedly fell short on the latter. While last year I was...
View ArticleQuentin Tarantino’s Top 20 Films of 2010
As we enter 2011, Quentin Tarantino has revealed his top ten films of 2010. The list includes the usual suspects (Toy Story 3, The Social Network) along with some fun surprises like Tangled and, shall...
View ArticleShowtime Turning ANIMAL KINGDOM Into a TV Series
Though Showtime already has a fantastic crime drama in the form of Dexter and a great family drama with a bit of criminal mischief with Shameless, another felonious family will be heading to the cable...
View ArticleNBC Pilot Orders Include a Roseanne Barr Comedy and Dramas from Jason Katims...
Currently ranked fourth among major television networks, NBC is hoping to find ratings gold in a new batch of pilots they recently ordered. Among them are the comedy Downwardly Mobile, which will mark...
View ArticleNBC Comedy Outlook: 30 ROCK Gets 13-14 Episodes for Final Season; COMMUNITY...
NBC already ordered three new half-hour sitcoms: The New Normal, Go On, and Save Me. The network just added two more---1600 Penn and Animal Kingdom---which leaves little room for the many comedies...
View ArticleJacki Weaver Talks MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT, Working with Woody Allen, Psychic...
Jacki Weaver is killing it. She already had a prolific career in Australia, but when Animal Kingdom came out and earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, she quickly became...
View Article‘Animal Kingdom’ Review: TNT’s New Crime Drama Keeps It All in the Family
Summer used to be TV’s dead zone, a time to for viewers to relax and catch up on re-runs of fall or winter shows they missed, or for networks to dump series they didn’t really believe in. That’s...
View Article‘Animal Kingdom’: Scott Speedman on Exploring Edgier Material with the TNT...
The bold and intense new TNT drama series Animal Kingdom, inspired by the critically acclaimed Australian film starring Jacki Weaver, centers on 17-year-old Joshua “J” Cody (Finn Cole), who moves in...
View Article‘Animal Kingdom’: Shawn Hatosy on Pope’s Appeal and Unpredictability
The bold and intense TNT drama series Animal Kingdom, inspired by the critically acclaimed Australian film of the same name, centers on 17-year-old Joshua “J” Cody (Finn Cole), who moves in with his...
View Article‘Animal Kingdom’ Season 2 Review: TNT’s Sun-Soaked Crime Family Returns
Just because a TV drama is tonally dark doesn’t mean it has to be visually so, and TNT’s family drama Animal Kingdom (based loosely on the Australian film) is the perfect antidote to grim television....
View Article‘Animal Kingdom’: Shawn Hatosy on Season 2 and Pope’s Attempts to Be Normal
The Codys are back for Season 2 of the TNT series Animal Kingdom, and the tension between Smurf (Ellen Barkin), the matriarch of this volatile clan of criminals, and her sons is higher than ever. As...
View Article‘Animal Kingdom’ Season 2 Finale: The Truth Comes Out in “Betrayal”
Warning: Spoilers for the finale follow. In its second season, Animal Kingdom became more than just a fun, eye-candy-filled summer series. The show has always been a compelling family drama, but those...
View ArticleWatch the New Cast of ‘The Avatar Sequels’ Visit Pandora at Animal Kingdom
With the announcement that filming was finally starting on The Avatar Sequels (official title, for now) also came the news that a number of new cast additions were being made to the next four Avatar...
View ArticleThe Best TV Episodes of 2017
For TV fans, the Peak TV era is both a blessing and curse. There is so much great television out there, and yet there is also too much to keep up with. Halfway through the year, Chris Cabin and I pause...
View ArticleJake Weary on TNT’s ‘Animal Kingdom’ and the New Revelations of Season 3
On Season 3 of the TNT series Animal Kingdom, Smurf (Ellen Barkin) is in jail and she’s left her grandson J (Finn Cole) in charge of the family crime business, which isn’t going over well with the rest...
View Article‘Animal Kingdom’: Shawn Hatosy Teases Season 3 Finale & Pope’s State of Mind
Throughout Season 3, on the TNT drama series Animal Kingdom, the Cody boys – Pope (Shawn Hatosy), Craig (Ben Robson), Deran (Jake Weary) and J (Finn Cole) – have been faced with a series of tough...
View ArticleEmily Deschanel on What Her ‘Bones’ Character Would Think of Her ‘Animal...
The TNT drama series Animal Kingdom, currently in its fourth season, sees Smurf (Ellen Barkin) back in charge and trying to keep the Cody family in line. But with Pope (Shawn Hatosy) becoming more...
View ArticleBen Robson on ‘Animal Kingdom’ and Why This Has Been a Defining Season for...
With the Season 4 finale not too far off on the horizon, things are really heating up on Animal Kingdom, with the cops always thinking they’re getting closer to finally bringing the Cody family down....
View ArticleJacki Weaver on the LGBTQ-Inclusive Message of ‘Stage Mother’
From director Thom Fitzgerald and screenwriter Brad Hennig, the indie dramedy Stage Mother follows conservative Texas church choir director Maybelline (Jacki Weaver), a grieving mother who learns that...
View ArticleDisney Imagineering Legend Joe Rohde on Why Disney’s Animal Kingdom Is Always...
Produced by National Geographic and narrated by Josh Gad, the eight-episode docu-series Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom provides a backstage glimpse into the animals that live at Disney’s Animal...
View ArticleTwo Disney World Experts Explain the ‘Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom’
Produced by National Geographic and narrated by Josh Gad, the eight-episode docu-series Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom provides a backstage glimpse into the animals that live at Disney’s Animal...
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