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Psychic Fiends Network

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2005-08-15 22:50:59 by Editor in Cinephiliac
...brassy Jaws of John Williams' high-contrast Herrmannian score give some bite to the film's opening beachfront vacation sequence, as devoted father and elite U.S. agent Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas, all dimple and grimace) tussles playfully -- if not a little homoerotically -- with his teenage son Robin ( Andrew Stevens, son of Stella), a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Centennial Tributes: Ethel Merman

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2008-01-16 08:30:00 by Josh R in Edward Copeland on Film
...brassy society hostess appointed ambassador to a fictional European nation, was almost as good, and won her the Tony Award. After announcing her intention to retire after Gypsy, she reprised her role in the 1966 Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun referred to by theater insiders as Granny Get Your Gun. It didnt matter that she was nearly...
 
 
 
 
 
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FILM SCORE MONTHLY RELEASES "DARK OF THE SUN" SOUNDTRACK

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2008-01-31 18:15:00 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...brassy inflections of John Barrys James Bond scores while remaining the very personal work of its composer. The main theme consists of three layered ideas: a plucked pulse, a jazzy, syncopated bass line for piano and harpsichord, and a distinctly European minor-mode melody often voiced by strings. The score expresses the tragedy and subtext...
 
 
 
 
 
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ROMANCE & CIGARETTES (John Turturro, 2005)

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2008-03-03 18:57:00 by aaron in More Than Meets The Mogwai
...brassy, bombastic blue-collar musical with an impressive cast lip-syncing and belting it out alongside a hodgepodge of classic AM favorites. James Gandolfini is a bellicose, mustachioed construction worker frustrated and frazzled with the way his marriage to Susan Sarandon is turning out, and so, after an impassioned contemplation over the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Six On The Clock: Cinema's Working Women

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2008-03-07 00:32:32 by Kim Morgan in Sunset Gun
...brassy, ballsy, idea-driven, helps create modern television as we know it Weaknesses: A power-hungry bitch, bad in bed, encourages Howard Beale (Peter Finch) to continue his nervous breakdown on TV, helps create modern television as we know it Final Analysis: Is this what the modern-day working woman would become? For some work-a-holic...
 
 
 
 
 
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2008-03-27 17:51:00 by Tanner in Double O Section
...brassy Bassey sound we expect from her best Bond themes, including the very Bondian single "The Living Tree" and the titular Pink cover "Get the Party Started." I had misgivings about the latter track when I first saw the tracklist for this album a year ago, but Dame Shirley blew me away with her take. She really made the song her own, as if...
 
 
 
 
 
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NBC Announces Their Fall 2008 TV Schedule

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2008-04-04 04:46:36 by Jason the TVaholic in TVaholic.com
...brassy women who prefer the finer things in life like acrylic nails, big hair and faux diamond chips. The series is produced by Universal Media Studios and Reveille. The executive producer/writer is Michelle Nader ( The King of Queens ) and the executive producer/director is Paul Feig ( Freaks and Geeks , The Office ). Gina Riley, Jane Turner...
 
 
 
 
 
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Happy 100 Bette Davis

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2008-04-04 22:41:27 by Kim Morgan in Sunset Gun
...brassy and swishy (as in Jezebel ) or an elegant liar (as in The Letter ) or mousy turned gorgeous (as in Now, Voyager ) or just plain gloriously melodramatic then vulnerable (as in All About Eve ) or heart-breakingingly desperate (as in The Star ). There are moments when Bette seems almost turned inside out, as if shes revealing the innards...
 
 
 
 
 
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Polish Documentaries: The Flood (1947)

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2008-04-13 19:28:58 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
...brassy, occasionally overlaid by sound effects We see people, frantically engaged in what appears to be repairs to a small wooden bridge - until we realise that theyre actually taking it apart and transporting its planks and logs to safety before theyre swept away. Men armed with long metal poles try to break up sheets of ice that are...
 
 
 
 
 
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Allison Janney Grabs Roles with Sam Mendes and Brian Robbins

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