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Trip to Bountiful
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Lifetime goes on a journey with The Trip to Bountiful!

March 4, 2014By

Trip to Bountiful

Lifetime continues to bring a diverse yet high quality lineup of original movies, and their latest is another based on an award-winning source. The Trip to Bountiful is based on the award winning play, and features most of the cast of the recent Broadway revival (though I note Cuba Gooding, Jr. is not among the cast!) If you liked the play, this is a great cast and you’ll be in for a treat. If you had no interest in the play, then this might not be up you alley. But it’s won awards for a reason, and the cast looks pretty awesome, so The Trip to Bountiful looks like a journey worth taking.

The Trip to Bountiful stars Cicely Tyson, Vanessa Williams, Blair Underwood, Clancy Brown, and Keke Palmer, and airs March 8th on Lifetime!

Based on Oscar®, Pulitzer Prize, and Emmy Award winning author Horton Foote’s Tony Award nominated play, “The Trip to Bountiful” is a courageous and moving story of liberation, as well as a humor-filled celebration of the human spirit.

In “The Trip to Bountiful,” Carrie Watts, begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house and begs her son to take her on a visit to her hometown of Bountiful. When he refuses, Mrs. Watts is undeterred and makes an escape to the local bus station, where she befriends Thelma, a young woman traveling home. When Ludie and Jessie Mae discover she is gone, they call in law enforcement to help, but Mrs. Watts is one step ahead of them and convinces the local sheriff to help her on her journey home to Bountiful.

Foote originally wrote “The Trip to Bountiful” for television in 1953 and it made its Broadway debut in 1954. The play was adapted into a motion picture in 1985, when star Geraldine Page won an Academy Award® for Best Actress and Foote was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. In the 2013 Broadway revival, the play garnered four Tony nominations, including Best Revival of a Play, Best Featured Actress in a Play, Best Sound Design and a win for Cicely Tyson for Best Actress in a Play for her role as Carrie Watts.

Produced by Ostar Productions, “The Trip to Bountiful” is executive produced by Bill Haber (“Rizzoli & Isles”), Cicely Tyson, Hallie Foote and Jeff Hayes (“A Day Late and a Dollar Short”). Michael Wilson, who directed the celebrated play, makes his television directorial debut with this project.

via Lifetime

cookie monster karate kid
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Cookie Monster is The Biscotti Kid in Sesame Street’s Karate Kid spoof!

March 4, 2014By

Cookie Monster continues his streak through the world of cinema with this take on The Karate Kid. In The Biscotti Kid, Cookie Monster must learn to listen properly in order to get the black and white cookie belt. Also there is a Karate Squid character, a whole song parody of The Glory of Love(!), and even callbacks to the chopstick scene. All in all, you can tell the writers really loved The Karate Kid and were happy to do this homage. And also take a dig at the remake! I continue to love the Sesame Street film parodies, because I am awesome and like awesome things. Don’t you want to be awesome? And you can even learn to listen, a skill far too many people have nowadays. Perhaps these parodies do just as much help on adults as they do on children…

Be the best around and watch The Biscotti Kid, and nothing’s ever gonna keep you down.*

Snacks on. Snacks off. Martial Arts Master takes on Cookie Monster as a student of Biscotti Karate. Can he train Cookie Monster to be…The Biscotti Kid? “Cookie’s Crumby Pictures,” is an all new segment on Sesame Street, teaching kids self-regulation and executive function skills.

*”nothing keeping you down” not guaranteed
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90210 Shark Attack
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90210 Shark Attack chomps zip codes for fun!

March 3, 2014By

Hide your Peach Pits, because the sharks are coming to the most famous zip code in America, and they’re hungry! The amazing director of A Talking Cat!?! and the 1313 series (or for us old school fans, Beach Babes from Beyond and Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000!) David DeCoteau is bring us 90210 Shark Attack, and it features a bunch of people like Nikkie BreAnne Wells, Donna Wilkes, Rachel Rosenstein, Stephanie Shemanski, Jeffrey Decker, Braden Bacha, and Judson Birza. I can’t help but notice none of those names are Beverly Hills 90210 cast members. Seriously, why isn’t Gabrielle Carteris on board? She could still be playing a high schooler, because why not?

90210 Shark Attack is scheduled for an October 2014 release. Until then, we just have to enjoy this cool poster, and hope DeCoteau brings his A-game.

via TeenageThunder
90210 Shark Attack

My Little Pony Minecraft
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Get crafty with the Minecraft Movie!

February 28, 2014By

My Little Pony Minecraft

The Minecraft film will just be a remake of Troy!


Minecraft is an open world game that I know mainly from playing with my young nephew and conspiring to get him to blow up hours of his hard work in game. I mean, to have fun. Yeah, that’s the ticket. And tickets to movies is what Warner Brothers wants you to buy, snatching up Minecraft and comparing it to the amazing Lego Movie. But Lego Movie‘s awesomeness comes not because it is a familiar property filled with familiar properties, but because the story has heart. The familiar properties are just like M&Ms in your McFlurry.

MineCraft doesn’t have Batman or retro Spacemen or even decades of nostalgia as an aide, so Minecraft is already coming in behind the curve. But there is potential there. Minecraft videos cloud my YouTube feeds, many with six digit views stats despite being hours long and looking very boring. It has a rabid fanbase among young kids and people who like watching Twitch streams, so there is an audience, as long as the script and story doesn’t turn out to be ridiculous and stupid. But has Hollywood ever made a bad movie? Obviously not!

via Deadline
image via PlanetMinecraft

Yasmine movie poster
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Brunei jumps into the martial arts game with Yasmine!

February 27, 2014By

Brunei is not really known in the world cinema front, in fact I can’t really think of a film from Brunei. In fact, until 2013, there wasn’t really a film from Brunei made after 1968, which was well before the country gained its independence. The 2013 film What’s So Special About Rina? (Ada Apa Dengan Rina) was the first release, and other Brunei films are in production, including a female-led martial arts drama called Yasmine.

Yasmine follows the titular heroine and her dream to become a silat champion, the martial art popularized from the The Raid films. Newcomer Liyana Yus will play Yasmine, whose goal at martial arts is first to attract the attention of a boy, but soon grows into something bigger. Yasmine will be directed by Siti Kamaluddin, who produces along with her brother and cowrote the story. Kamaluddin and her brother Khairuddin Kamaluddin have a successful advertising company and have made the plunge into the film world. Jackie Chan collaborator Chan Man-Ching is directing the action sequences and helps with the 5 hour a day training regimen of Liyana Yus.

Siti Kamaluddin explains some of the difficulties of starting film production from scrap and importing talent and equipment:

“The equipment is rented from Malaysia, the crew is mixed: our sound and audio department is from Indonesia, then we’ve got Hong Kong and Chinese crew for technical,” she says, listing it all on her fingers. “The art department is from Malaysia but the head of production design is Australian. My DoP [director of photography] is Australian. Chan Man-Ching is from Hong Kong. We have talent from Indonesia and Malaysia. I’m Bruneian, my line producer is from Malaysia, and it’s been a challenge getting extras. Normally you’d go to talent for this stuff but that doesn’t exist here, so we have to do it all ourselves: advertising, calling schools, sending text messages.”

The film has completed filming and will be released at some point in 2014.

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Guardian of the Highlands
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Sir Sean Connery is the Guardian of the GAHHHHHHHH!!!

February 26, 2014By

Guardian of the Highlands

What the crap??? Kill it, kill it with fire!

Sean Connery’s animated film Sir Billi, where he is a skateboarding veterinarian battling to save a beaver (seriously), is getting a US release and a new title to go along with it Guardian of the Highlands. It also has the scariest DVD cover I’ve ever seen. Ever.

It can be yours on April 8th! Don’t say you weren’t warned, because that’s what TarsTarkas.NET does. Warns people who go and buy these films anyway. Also I’ll probably get this film. Because even I don’t listen to myself!

Heart warming and hilarious, Guardian of the Highlands features an all-star cast including Academy Award® winner Sir Sean Connery in his first ever animated voice-over role as Sir Billi, the Guardian of the Highlands.

This is an adventure story about an inimitable Highland hero – a grandpa. As active senior skateboarding veterinarian he goes above and beyond the call of duty fighting villainous policemen and powerful lairds in a battle to save an illegal fugitive – Bessie Boo the beaver! Sir Billi braves treacherous ravines and hazardous gullies with his sidekick Gordon the Goat (Alan Cumming) to save Bessie Boo and Wee Dave the rabbit as they hurtle down a perilous river.

Explore the powerful force of this international Highland community, with its unrivalled landscapes, breathtaking scenery and hidden secrets. Discover the power of the local people when they unite as one against evil and embark on an expedition like no other. Sir Billi delivers the charm and panache that one would expect of a true Highlander. As the Guardian of the Highlands, everyone will want a grandpa like Sir Billi!

via CartoonBrew

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