big town ( film )
bigger is better: the title promises
big fun
in the
big town
.
big electric switch: the electric chair used to execute marv is activated by a big electric switch .
, might eventually direct the film, but i’m being told right now that is premature. the film is based on
gail is naked when manute kidnaps her in the big fat kill, but is merely in her underwear in the film .
alan moore, eccentric genius behind graphic - novel classics v for vendetta and watchmen, rejected big - movie riches. now he has made a low - budget film in his beloved home town, northampton
dwight appears naked at the start of the original comic the big fat kill, while he' s practically fully clothed in the film .
it sounds like the film itself will be the main inspiration for the show .
alan moore:' every hollywood film is a remake of a previous film… or a tv series everyone hated in the 1960s.' photograph: phil fisk for the observer
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with a limited theatrical release nationwide back in june 2001, the indie flick garnered widespread critical praise by film critics and went on to win numerous awards on the festival circuit. it closed the los angeles independent film festival and won both the audience award for best feature and best american independent film at the prestigious 2001 cleveland international film festival. “big eden” has recently been released on dvd and vhs format. check it out !
a still from moore' s new film, jimmy' s end. photograph: observer
the new europacorp pact represents the first big film distribution deal for stx, which was founded in 2014 by movie producer robert simonds with ambitions of creating the next major hollywood studio .
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a skilled london police officer is transferred to a small town that' s harbouring a dark secret .
one of the prostitutes of old town dresses like a sexy zorro. another dresses like wonder woman .
nancy does not dance topless in the film due to a no - nudity clause from jessica alba .
) arrives from phoenix (texas in the film) on a train driven by a steam engine .
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thirty - three films are scheduled to run at four venues and lancaster is hoping for a big turnout .
marv did this while being tortured by the girls of old town and managed to not let anyone see it .
an interview with writer / director boots riley about his incendiary new film ,
sorry to bother you .
mike and dave' s scavenger hunt, vol. 2! the spawning # 4: a film about gambling
the failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film' s copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a vhs / dvd copy of the film. therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and / or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second - or third - generation (or more) copies of the film .
the three - hour film took three years to create and features more than 2, 000 people from different countries .
extra half - star for the entire cast being ridiculously beautiful (though they couldn' t save the film) .
. if he hadn' t, not only would jack be alive but old town would' ve been much safer .
big little lies was alluring, but sharp objects is intoxicating, thanks in large part to its direction and editing .
door stopper :
big damn sin city
, a compilation of every sin city yarn published to - date .
the sin city film comprised the hard goodbye, the big fat kill and that yellow bastard and was bookended by an adaptation of
the customer is always right
, a short story featured in the booze, broads and bullets collection .
since the film is such a direct adaptation of the comicbooks, listing the tropes separately probably won' t be necessary .
the yellow bastard is naked when torturing nancy near the end of his story. he was given shorts in the film .
anachronic order: the comics were published in anachronic order, and the segments of the film are shown anachronically as well .
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season 2 of home town premieres january 8, and ben and erin have some surprises in store. watch a video preview now
home town returns in second season filled with more imaginative renovations and vintage southern charm. and there are some revelations in store .
hear how home town stars ben and erin napier welcomed their baby girl home with music. (get the tissues ready. )
dwight and the old town girls unload on manute and his men until they' re just
wet chunks of meat .
mad bomber: the psychopathic irish henchman in the big fat kill who only uses bombs and grenades to kill his enemies .
the big fat kill takes place after hell and back, but dwight is seen driving the 1953 cadillac eldorado he took from vito at the end of family values, a story that takes place well after both the big fat kill and hell and back .
it' s the great american theme: a small - town boy seeks his fortune in the big city. in this case he' s the best crapshooter at the local garage and he heads off to'' the big town'' of chicago in 1957, where he makes a pile of money and has to choose between two women: a married stripper and an unmarried mother with a heart of gold. so it' s not horatio alger. more to the point, this huge cliche of a movie isn' t even a distant relation of films like'' the color of money,'' which can actually make you root for hustlers.'' the big town'' only proves we' ve gone back to the 1950' s one time too many .
in the movie, the salesman from
the customer is always right
, which opens the film, reappears in the final scene .
erin and ben help a returning resident transition from big - city lights to small - town living. and a 1955 bungalow is brought back from disrepair and given a fresh, vibrant look. take the full photo tour read more on our blog homeower profile: the walker family
ben and erin welcomed their first child just a week before the kickoff of home town season 2! read the details from erin, here .
the antigonish international film festival was started back in 2007 by dr. carole roy, who has also launched community - based documentary film festivals in sydney, inverness and peterborough, ont. the very first festival had about 900 viewings — i. e. 900 bums in seats — and now they average 14, 000 viewings each year. that’s quite a feat for a town with a population of about 5, 000 .
: one of the most significant - if subtle - differences between the comics and film is that dialogue that was shouted in the comic is usually spoken quietly in the film. for example, senator roark never yells at hartigan, and jackie - boy never raises his voice despite his
it is 1957. j. c. cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. while there, he breaks the bank... see full summary »
the film adaptation of marv and manute' s fight actually shows marv ripping out his eye, while the book just showed marv beating him .
lightning bruiser: marv is big and tough but he proves to be very fast and agile, as evident in his fights with the cops .
ryan condal, who wrote 2014' s hercules film, will pen the script. there' s no word on casting or timelines, yet .
several of the sin city comics were turned into an anthology film by director robert rodriguez, simply called sin city, which was released in 2005 .
in the the second film, liebowitz goes out of his way to warn johnny to leave the city after he beats roark in a poker game .
the short film moore scripted, premiered online last month, is called jimmy' s end, an unsettling and richly realised story about the underworld that' s directed by fellow northamptonian mitch jenkins. it was shot in a working men' s club in town, and features moore in a brief cameo .
the big difference between preacher the television show and preacher the comic is that on the television show, the protagonist doesn' t walk with god .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
when corinne dunphy slips into a seat at the antigonish international film festival, most of the audience won’t realize they’re in the presence of the movie’s director .
hartigan uses a smith & wesson model 29 in the beginning of the film. later on he uses a ruger blackhawk, also a. 44 magnum .
stx will market and provide theatrical distribution for upcoming u. s. releases from europacorp, the companies said, including four 2017 releases, among them the big - budget comic book adaptation
valerian and the city of a thousand planets
and the tom hanks - emma watson film
the circle .
with a keen sense of style and a background in graphic design, erin brings the vision to the renovations in hgtv' s home town. all about erin
because the hitman shot a stray dog for fun, unknowingly killing an old town girl who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time .
this bed of rose' s: when dwight mccarthy is on the run from the cops, the girls from old town heal him and let him stay .
the big town, directed by ben bolt; screenplay by robert roy pool, based on the novel'' the arm'' by clark howard; director of photography, ralf d. bode; film editor, stuart pappe; music by michael melvoin; production designer, bill kenney; produced by martin ransohoff; released by columbia pictures. at embassy 1, broadway and 46th street; sutton, 57th street and third avenue; 86th street twin, near lexington avenue; 23d street west, at eighth avenue; metro twin, 99th street and broadway. running time: 110 minutes. this film is rated r .
local hangout: every main character hangs out at kadie' s these days. even roark, the big bad goes there for his weekly poker game !
manute and his men are machine gunned to death with an endless hail of bullets. the story' s called the big fat kill for a reason .
” mystery book series. richard wernham has been tapped to pen a screenplay for the film adaptation, which will center on the events on the first book ,
why am i persisting in describing so much of the plot? so you can see that the story has little to do with the brilliance of this film .
the big town
is compulsively watchable, not because of its plot, which is predictable down to the smallest detail, but because of its acting, its direction and its style. this is a great - looking movie that never steps wrong, and dillon uses it to demonstrate once again that he is a master of unforced, natural acting. in a 1950s period film that' s wall - to - wall with cliches, he never seems less than absolutely at home .
her 25 - minute film, listening to our neighbours, features antigonish residents talking about how they’re affected by climate change and what they’re doing to reduce its impact .
why make a film now, after so many years of squirming resistance ?
my main experiences in the past had been of the hollywood variety, which was on many levels repulsive to me. every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. or it' s a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots .
multiple gunshot death: in
the big fat kill
, the kill of the title is the climactic showdown when dwight and the old town girls take out the wallenquist gang members by raining down a hail of bullets on them from every hooker with a gun until even a made of iron monster such as manute has to succumb .
after making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers schmidt and jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college .
big bad: most stories have their own one such as cardinal roark in
the hard goodbye
and ava lord in
a dame to kill for
.
drunk driver: jack rafferty drives drunk in
the big fat kill
. he dies that night but it had nothing to do with his state, surprisingly .
in the film of a dame to kill for, the way hartigan' s ghost talks to nancy is very reminiscent of bruce willis' s role in the sixth sense .
hartigan' s concluding speeches in the film' s second and penultimate chapters are especially notable, as both close with hartigan getting shot and losing everything so nancy can live .
into old town end up with their car riddled with bullets, but manage to run off on foot and avoid being killed. in the film, however, one of the girls flat out torches them with a flamethrower before they can get away. this... doesn' t even begin to match up with the logic and rules set up in
home town' s erin and ben napier help a singer - songwriter update a vintage home, creating a vibrant, bohemian vibe — and something extra - special in the backyard .
“a surprising and subversive take on archie, betty, veronica and their friends, exploring the surrealism of small town life — the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath riverdale’s wholesome façade. ”
there is also davis, the torture expert in the big fat kill, who can inflict pain just by touching people. this character was changed to manute in the movie .
it was long touted for the big screen treatment, but now the rights to y: the last man have reverted to the comic book' s creators, brian k. vaughan and artist pia guerra. instead of pushing for another attempt at a film, mr vaughan is said to be working on a tv version for fox - owned network fx .
ben is passionate about preserving and celebrating the history of old homes, and his building and woodworking skills help form the foundation of the husband - wife home town team. all about ben
ayre gross stars as henry, a successful new york painter, who unexpectedly gets called back home to big eden, a fictitious small town in montana, to care for his ailing grandfather sam (george coe) who has suffered a stroke. no sooner does henry pull into town when he learns that his high school buddy, dean (tim dekay) has moved back, now newly divorced and with two sons in tow. henry confronts his own loneliness and unrequited love for dean head - on but not without a few bumps and bruises along the way. as henry comes to terms with dean’s straightness, pike dexter (eric schweig), the proprietor of big eden’s general store finds himself love - struck with henry .
who will they be fighting? when will it be on? will it tie into any big screen movies? we know the answers to precisely zero of those questions, sorry .
hartigan' s former partner bob is also quite cowardly since he is more willing to turn on his partner and threaten a child than he is about catching the real big bad .
narrative profanity filter: not usually, but in
the big fat kill
dwight says that gail
lets out with a string of curses that' d kill the pope
.
being the only director' s film and boasting a prolific cast of matt dillon' s battle with his unibrow, bruce dern, tommy lee jones, tom skerritt, lee grant, and diane lane, this film piqued my interest after two people recommended it. it is definitely a partial noir homage, bearing some similarities to' after dark my sweet' in taking its sweet time to set up the main character. going from a small hick town to a well - set up period 50' s chicago, he quickly gets over his head working underground craps games .
heads up, home town fans. season 2 is in full swing with new episodes every monday. plus, maybe you' ve heard, there are some other announcements of note, too .
concert film: many rappers perform a cappella versions of their songs on the street, but there are also actual concerts featured. one by roxanne shante and biz markie and one featuring schoolly d .
rodriguez quit the director' s guild to let frank miller take co - director status. even his friend quentin tarantino was given a co - director credit, since he came over on a day of shooting to film a scene. rodriguez shot the film panel - for - panel from the comics, using black and white footage and green screen backgrounds to get the perfect sin city feel .
casual high drop :
the big fat kill
. dwight mccarthy jumps from the window of his girlfriend' s apartment and falls several floors to the ground, landing on his feet .
if you' re unfamiliar essex county comprises of three graphic novels - tales from the farm, ghost stories and the country nurse - which examine life and death in a small - town ontario community .
ramona' s weapon, a giant sledgehammer, may be a nod to the term' hammer - space'. when a character stores an item too big to fit into a bag, the item is said to be located in the hammer - space within that bag. this is very commonly done in video games. ramona actually wields a giant hammer from hammer - space in the film .
iron fist never quite made it to the big leagues of the superhero world. instead, he hangs around with the likes of daredevil and luke cage in the grittier side of the marvel universe .
where: cineplex cinema (291 main street), people’s place library (283 main street), st. fx nicholson hall (2329 notre dame avenue) and town council chambers (274 main street )
it is 1957. j. c. cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. while there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the gem club, owned by george cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them cole' s wife .
top cow productions' postal series is lined up for a tv adaptation at hulu. the walking dead' s seth hoffman attached to write the series, which is set in the creepy and criminal - controlled town of eden, wyoming. the comics run kicks off with the first reported murder in the town in 25 years, which awakens the criminal community who' d previously seen the area as their safe haven .
male gaze: the big fat kill has a deliberate closeup shot of becky' s butt—in skintight leather pants, natch —that takes up a panel, when jackie boy is scoping her in his car .
but perhaps it' s a little too straight. . i wasn' t on the edge of my seat. the film never really raised the stakes high enough, it sort of fizzled in the end .
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: when dwight realizes that jackie boy is a cop, and later, manute and his men when they realize dwight tricked them into an ambush. also becky in the film, when the salesman tracks her down .
red eyes, take warning: dwight describes marv' s eyes as going
killer red
when he recruits him in a dame to kill for. the film version has them turning red in the same scene .
the napiers help a military family with three kids transition to small - town life, renovating a 1917 craftsman cottage to create a family friendly home. take the full photo tour read more on our blog read the homeowner profile
in the short story behind door number three there' s such a killer who likes to go after prostitutes. the girls from old town give him a very karmic punishment when they introduce him to their private assassin miho .
( 6 / 8 is
good
) a straight down the middle gambling pro film - elevated by decent characters, a good central performance, a neon lit 60s chicago and a shakin' rhythm and blues soundtrack .
stx' s growing film business, led by adam fogelson, has so far trafficked in mid - budget movies such as the 2016 sleeper hit
bad moms
and the recent critical darling
edge of seventeen .
dunphy was born and raised in antigonish and returned home from toronto to work as a freelance filmmaker. she says the town has changed a lot over the last 10 years and she’s proud to be part of the progressive community .
check out erin' s favorite go - to colors - - as seen in this season' s home town projects, and as featured in hgtv' s latest
color vs. color
design showcase. see the gallery
well now where has this movie been hiding for 29 years? never even heard of it till i went scavenging for options on this task. normally if something domestic and star - studded flies beneath my radar at this point, after decades of browsing movie history and especially if we' re talking within my personal favorite decade, i have to assume it' s someone' s unwatchable home movies or an embarrassment that someone' s trying to keep buried. but
the big town
is nobody' s mistake - it' s a satisfactory if simply not very ambitious work, an earnest, somewhat sanitized but smartly played film noir throwback that takes pride in its tropes and…
the big rotten apple: the crew filmed in the black ghetto neighbourhoods and the more crime infested parts of the city, like the bronx and harlem. to avoid problems they hired a bunch of bodyguards to protect them .
in the original comic (though not in the film), marv actually criticises wendy' s technique while she' s pistol - whipping him in case she harms the gun! but then, he is crazy. and unkillable .
erin and ben create a quaint and colorful home, restoring an 1901 cottage - style house for a couple returning to small - town life. take the full photo tour read more on our blog read the homeowner profile: kenya and coy
this story has been told a hundred times, and yet when it is told well it is always fun to watch it being told again. the kid comes from the small town to the big city. he has a gift. he signs up as a professional, working for some pretty tough people. he meets a good girl. he meets a bad girl. he meets a villain. he wants more independence than his employers will give him. at the end of the story, we don' t have to be movie producers to know that he will reject the bad girl, embrace the good girl, defeat the villain, triumph in his big test and win his independence .
6: booze, broads and bullets - a collection of short stories from various sources, including back - up strips from the early issues of the big fat kill and stories from the various sin city one - shot specials .
dead person conversation: in the big, fat kill, dwight hallucinates jackie boy is talking to him. he' s fully aware jackie boy is dead and not really talking, but begrudgingly admits he makes some valid points .
a sequel, sin city: a dame to kill for, was released in august 2014, and at least one more sin city film is planned. originally, the first sequel was planned to include the titular story, along with a brand - new sequel to that yellow bastard and the three blue eyes short stories. the final film drops the blue eyes stories for a second original story and another booze, broads and bullets yarn ,
just another saturday night
.
in the second film. this is an odd case in that while he' s (apparently) still alive in the comics, this story was written specifically for the movie and doesn' t really contradict the canon of the comics .
the look of the movie is effective in its studied artificiality. it' s set in chicago' s south loop, under the l tracks, in a series of exteriors and sets that are only supposed to represent both sides of a block or two. this is the 1950s back - lot look, brought to a location. the photography and the wall - to - wall period music on the soundtrack (ivory joe hunter, big joe turner, little willie john, ray charles, red sovine) get the right balance between the wickedness of the big city and the dreams of the small - town kid. the story is predictable, but the style had me on the edge of my seat .
in
the hard goodbye
, marv says that he loves the rain, because it helps him think. in
the big fat kill
, dwight says he hates the rain, because it makes it hard to think .
interestingly enough big fun in the big town was one of two documentaries about popular music the crew shot in new york city. the production company actually had more interest in the director' s documentary about iggy pop, who was already a huge star worldwide. seeing that the footage with and about iggy was shot quickly and efficient director van splunteren decided to use the remaining time in the usa to shoot more footage and interviews about the local hiphop scene, a genre that was dear to him but hadn' t quite caught on in his home country. ironically enough the hiphop documentary would become a cult classic in the netherlands, while the iggy pop contribution was met with a lacklustre reception and is nowadays completely forgotten .
cut himself shaving: marv tells his mother this. (the scene was filmed for the film, but it was deleted from the theatrical shot and can be viewed on the recut edition dvd). the scene was also in the comic .
erin and ben welcome a new family to town and help them transform a drab box of a house into a home with loads of charm and a european soul. take the full photo tour read more on our blog homeowner profile: linda and scott
apart from interviewing a veritable
who is who
in early hiphop
big fun in the big town
also features a lot of footage of rap acts recording in the studio or performing on stage or even in the streets, with a memorable bit where doug e. fresh beatboxes in front of the camera. seeing that hiphop would finally reach a global audience and crossover to the white suburban market soon afterwards the episode is quite an interesting unintentional period piece and sometimes hilarious in hindsight for that matter. in a case of what could have been beastie boys were also considered for an interview, but despite the crew talking to them at the phone, they had a too busy schedule and thus weren' t included .
relativity media and europacorp' s film - distribution joint venture, known as red, is laying off most of its 40 - person staff, according to a person familiar with the matter, representing another blow to ryan kavanaugh' s relativity media .
young and good looking katya, a window dresser for a big department store in pittsburgh, begins a love story with a journalist, mac odell. she is however stalked by jack, a married man who... see full summary »
averted when dallas rams the ira members' car in big fat kill. dwight remarks that she is too excited and careless. this leads to dallas getting shot to death, miho getting caught by a grenade, and dwight almost getting killed .
looks like they succeeded. “when a big - budget television show or film is shot on location here in monterey county, it not only has a positive impact on the local businesses and economy, but it also inspires people to want to visit, ” confirms tammy blount, president and ceo of the monterey county convention and visitors bureau. “we hope that travelers will want to come to our destination and visit the sites where scenes were filmed as well as everything our region has to offer. ”
the young antigonish filmmaker is showcasing two of her films at this year’s festival, which runs friday through sunday at various venues around the town. her work has been part of the festival before, but this is the first year she’ll be able to attend .
3: the big fat kill - dwight gets into more trouble when his new girlfriend, shelly, is harassed by her abusive ex - boyfriend, jackie - boy. dwight chases after him, but can only watch as jackie and his pals are killed by prostitutes for threatening to rape one of their number. ordinarily this wouldn' t be a problem — the prostitutes of old town are given free rein by the police — but jackie has a dangerous secret, one that might tear sin city apart .
nightwing is a central character here – that being the crime - fighting alias of former boy wonder dick grayson, last seen on the big screen in batman and robin or, if you can overlook a name - change, the dark knight rises .
tim daniel and mehdi cheggour' s enormous was born as a one - off graphic novella in 2012. since then it has spawned a short film (see here) and an ongoing comic series. now, a telly version is on the way too .
nancy does it the second film. she cuts her own face and then tells marv the roarks did it, knowing that marv will be so enraged he' ll help her attack them. knowing marv, he probably would have helped if she just asked .
kevin, the cannibalistic serial killer from the first story (later renamed
the hard goodbye
), is seen listening to lucille scream in horror from her cell after he hacked off and ate her hand with a big satisfied grin on his face .
like the actors, the music and other 1950' s trappings resemble tacky artificial decorations hung on the story. they don' t do much to convince us this is another time and place. in fact,'' the big town,'' which opens today at the sutton and other theaters, seems full of 1980' s people crazily caught up in 1950' s nostalgia, as if they' ve dropped by some we - love - elvis costume party and can' t wait to get back home .
infamous for its absurdly macho writing, sin city reads like an affectionate parody of film noir turned up to eleven: every hero is a mentally or physically scarred bruiser and every woman is a beautiful dame with a heaving bosom. black and gray morality is predominant .
ben and erin help ross and laura find their small town dream home with a friendly porch and a space for laura' s growing pottery business. ben and erin restore the couple' s chosen home full of family treasures to look like it was decorated over time .
: the movie has this with
the hard goodbye
and
the big fat kill
, as both take place on the same night, both protagonists pass at the same bar, and several characters (such as the prostitutes) appear in both .
it is 1957. j. c. cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. while there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the gem club, owned by george cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them cole' s wife. infuriated, cole wagers everything on the craps table, including the gem club itself, and he and cullen have it out .
christianity is catholic: the catholic church seems to be a big power player in the city, and crucifixes are a motif throughout the series. the babe wore red also features a nun who is shown in a much more positive light than usual for sin city .
title drop: sin city is mentioned in every story for obvious reasons but even then, the secondary titles are always dropped as well (i. e .
the big fat kill
that yellow bastard
,
blue eyes
, etc. )
a stray bullet accidentally kills an old town girl. the girl' s lover, also an old town girl, has dwight and miho systematically bring down the entire crime family, even going so far as to force the hitman to kill his own brother and betray the don. the girl' s lover comes in during the last act and guns down the mafia heads, including the hitman who killed her girl. to cover their tracks, the heroes frame the wallenquist crime family, inciting a mob war which would surely result in even more deaths .
ben and erin help newcomers mackenzie and jim in their transition from virginia to their new home in laurel. the couple is road - weary, homesick and eager to regain a sense of place in a new home and a welcoming town. see the transformation + read more about it
relativity emerged from chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last spring and has since suffered from a pair of big flops and struggled to raise funds. relativity studios president dana brunetti stepped down last month amid ongoing box office misfires such as
masterminds
and
the disappointments room .
ass shove: jackie boy falls on miho' s swastika shuriken and gets it stuck in his ass. in the big fat kill, miho apparently shoves her katana up a merc' s ass (in the movie, she just stabs him through the back) .
tricks manute and his men that gail is all he wants in exchange for jackie boys head. the head was filled with explosives, and as soon as it goes off, every girl from old town shows up on the rooftops and fires every bullet they have into manute and his men
i rewatch the first season and it’s not like i go, “that i would do differently and that i would do differently. ” i think it works really well. the first season, you have to establish some kind of authenticity with these characters before you get into angels and demons and actors playing god and things like that. now that a lot of that is established, it gives us freedom to have fun with the world, and maybe not have to tease out some ideas that are strange. i think now the audience — if they’re still watching the show — has wrapped their head around some of these big, crazy ideas. then some of the other big, crazy ideas aren’t quite as big and weird. that’s something we also talk about, like, “how much weirdness can we process at once? ”
unproblematic prostitution: partly justified in that the old town prostitutes are self - employed, unionised and heavily armed. averted with one particular character, who doesn' t want her mother to know what she does for a living and is desperate for a way to get out of the game .
fox 21 television studios are working on an' event series,' based on the comic, with the short film' s producer adrian askarieh attached as an executive producer. there' s no whiff of casting or airdate yet, but we' ll be sure to let you know .
black and gray morality no one in sin city is good. some folks are better than others, but none are good. even the best of them like dwight, hartigan, and wallace are good is not nice. granted though, this isn' t as clear in the first film adaptation .
dan stevens of the guest is set to play david (with supporting turns from aubrey plaza, jean smart and rachel keller) in pilot episode that fargo' s noah hawley is writing. nick grad (original programming big chief at fx, the network that will host legion) said this :
major injury underreaction: there are quite a few bits in both movies where people with grievous injuries don' t exactly react in a way you' d expect people to react. stuka' s reaction to being shot by an arrow through the chest in the big fat kill is downright nonchalant .
big damn reunion: in the fourth book, that yellow bastard, john hartigan tries to track down the girl he saved many years ago from the twisted pedophilic serial killer whose senator father framed him for his son' s crimes and put hartigan away for many years. it turns out that she' s grown up to become the gorgeous stripper nancy callahan when he realizes that the bad guys have been using him as bait to find her. he tries to walk out when she notices him, freezes in the middle of her performance, then runs straight into his arms with a big damn kiss .
bulletproof human shield: in the film, a federal agent is used as a shield while marv hacks up his teammates with a wood axe. this actually seems to be unintentional on marv' s part since he was busy killing one of the agents when the human shield ran into the path of the bullets .
while walking moore has been pointing out local landmarks: the guildhall where he married, and a statue that marks the town' s role in the discovery of dna, and the site of the old woolworths where he used to buy his jotters. now he pauses in northampton' s ancient market square, one of the country' s oldest. the market was granted its charter by richard i on 18 november, 1189 .
and 18 november happens to be my birthday ,
the writer says, with plain satisfaction .
so in many ways, je suis northampton. yes... i do identify with this town .
but i' d always thought i liked the idea of a really cheap, little film. if you want to be a writer or an artist, all you need is a biro and a woolworths jotter; it' s a democratic medium. i love films that are made with almost no budget .
dillon has some kind of spontaneous rapport with the camera. he never seems aware of it, never seems aware that he' s playing a character. his acting is graceful and fluid, and his scenes always seem to start before their first shot so that we see him in the middle of a motion .
the big town
requires him to spend a lot of time shooting craps, and you wouldn' t think it would be possible to bring anything new to the sight of a man throwing dice onto a table, but dillon does. he has little moves, subtle small touches of body language, that make every throw important .
hidden villain: for most of the original comic, marv has no idea who goldie' s killers are until he tracks down first kevin, then cardinal roark. in the film, they do briefly show a shot of kevin entering the room where he killed her, but he' s a complete stranger all the same .
jack bauer interrogation technique: marv is really fond of this. amusingly, when the old town prostitutes try it on marv, he takes several blows from a. 38 revolver used to pistol whip him and explains himself. then he calmly rips out of their ropes like they were tissue paper, and could have done so the whole time .
marlboro country may be the least likely setting for a gay romantic comedy, but for first - time filmmaker thomas bezucha, that’s exactly where “big eden” takes place. and the unlikely casting of eric schweig, the inuit heart - throb from inuvik, north - west territories, as one of the love triangle, works remarkably well .
a good number of attractive actresses get naked (or wear very little) in the name of art. carla gugino brandishes a gun topless and wears a thong, rosario dawson is in her underwear, brittany murphy is in nothing but panties and a button down shirt, and jessica alba is a stripper as well. in the comics, all of these characters are depicted naked at one point or another, even if their actresses weren' t nude in the movie. we can also add miho to the mix. half of ava' s total screentime in the second film is without clothes. and sally in the second film is always either topless or in lingerie. no other options .
moore is a puzzle, and one of the more startling facts about him is that he has spent his life in northampton, the uk' s 73rd biggest town, rich in terms of local history and deprived in most other senses .
so many of the shops are dying on their arse. the only people prospering are the plasterboard manufacturers .
this story could be about baseball, jazz, open - heart surgery, computer programming, tap dancing or mind reading. in
the big town ,
it' s about gambling. matt dillon plays the farm boy from iowa who keeps winning at the crap tables because he knows the odds cold and because he has amazingly good luck. suzy amis plays the good girl, a waitress supporting her small son. diane lane plays the bad girl, a stripper who is married to tommy lee jones, who is the villain. the employers are lee grant and bruce dern, a married couple who are professional gamblers with a string of dice players, or
arms ,
under contract .
have to give this one 4 stars, i just can' t believe i have never seen it till today. matt dillon plays an excellent part, and i will now read the book the arm, which this film was made from. reason i watched this is because of suzy amis, i am trying to see all films she played in, and she did a good job in this one playing the good girl role. matt is a dice roller, making his living that way in chicago, he meets suzy and diane lane, and is trying to choose between the two, of course del is the bad girl, but i would have picked her anyway. tommy lee jones was in this one and he play an excellent part. if you have passed this one up thinking its a junk film you couldn' t be more wrong i was. you can find it in the $ 5. 00 bin at wally world and the $ 3. 00 bin at big lots, pick it up and be surprised. i was .
those craving an up - close peek at the area’s quintessential crashing waves have plenty of options. garrapata state park beach is a windswept big sur beach featuring miles of hiking trails through redwood groves and along steep oceanside cliffs. at point lobos state reserve, which is known as the “gem of the california parks system, ” visitors can kayak through protected turquoise coves where elephant seals, orcas, sea lions, and sea otters are the main attraction. for a more low - key experience, head to the tucked - away locals’ beach of del monte in monterey. big little lies fans will recognize it for its long, sandy shore where many of the show’s jogging and flashback scenes occur .
more deadly than the male: this always happens when dwight teams up with deadly little miho. dwight is a brooding noir hero who can hold his own in a fight. miho is an extremely agile and deadly old town assassin, probably the most dangerous character in the books. dwight tends to stand back while she slaughters whole groups of enemies in front of him .
given jesse' s poor showing, it' s no surprise that various powers think he' s unfit to wield genesis' power. angels track him down and try to remove the creature with a chainsaw. but jesse happens to be a spectacularly effective hand - to - hand fighter, for reasons that are never adequately explained. plus, he has a vampire friend and the power of genesis itself, so he’s hard to kill, even for angels. in fact, jesse manages to steal their magic phone line to heaven, and through it, learn that god has gone missing. after that big reveal, the entire town blows up, killing all the secondary characters. cue the next chapter of the story.
big town is a 1947 american crime film directed by william c. thomas and written by daniel mainwaring and maxwell shane . the film stars phillip reed , hillary brooke , robert lowery , veda ann borg , byron barr and charles arnt . the film was released on may 23 , 1947 , by paramount pictures . 
big town is a 1947 american crime film directed by william c. thomas and written by daniel mainwaring and maxwell shane. the film stars phillip reed, hillary brooke, robert lowery, veda ann borg, byron barr and charles arnt. the film was released on may 23, 1947, by paramount pictures.
big town is a 1947 american crime film directed by william c. thomas and written by daniel mainwaring and maxwell shane. the film stars phillip reed, hillary brooke, robert lowery, veda ann borg, byron barr and charles arnt. the film was released on may 23, 1947, by paramount pictures.