The steel market is as sturdy as, well, steel. With other countries hoarding their own steel for expansion at home, Steel Dynamics is filling the U.S. hole and is using scrap metal to do it.
Funniest pot joke in a movie? The moment in Up in Smoke (1978) when the blissed-out Cheech, having sampled a doobie the size of Baja California, asks, "How'm I driving?" and the blitzed-out Chong answers, "Um, I think we're parked"? Or when The Dude Jeff Bridges, the bowler/stoner of The...
The Wrong Arm of the Law 1.35pm More 4 *** (Cliff Owen, 1963) Peter Sellers's last film before The Pink Panther made him a global star. It's an amiable crime caper, co- written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. He plays London crime...
Celebrity Appearances, Convention Exclusives, and Product Debuts at Booth #2343! LOS ANGELES, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Entertainment Earth (http://www.entertainmentearth.com/) is gearing up for an exciting show at Comic-Con International in San Diego this July 23-27. With huge celebrity appearances, one-of-a-kind convention exclusives, and first-look prototype debuts,...
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary 4.35pm Sky Arts HHHH (Guy Maddin, 2001, left) The Royal Winnipeg Ballet company dances its version of Bram Stoker's Dracula to Mahler's First and Second Symphonies, while the experimental Canadian director Guy Maddin films them in an Expressionistic style that pays...
MONTECITO, Calif. -- "Smile and turn to your left," Jeff Bridges says, holding an antique camera to his face. "Now turn the other way ... frown ... and freeze!" He's showing off his Widelux, a panoramic camera whose shutter moves so slowly it can capture its subject twice...
CULTURAL LIFE Film I see embarrassingly little because I'm constantly travelling, but I know what I'm looking forward to: There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, and anything with Philip Seymour Hoffman in it. I saw Eastern Promises. One of my all-time...
Picturing America; trauma, realism, politics, and identity in American visual culture. Ed. by Antje Dallmann et al. Peter Lang Publishing Inc 2007 204 pages $43.95 Paperback PN1992 Dallmann (American literature and culture, Humboldt-Universitat zu...
FILM OF THE WEEK This strange, disquieting new movie by the Coen Brothers is being hailed as a return to form, and let's face it, anything that makes a break from Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers has to be considered good news. The Coens really are one...
The Big Lebowski Sun 1.30pm, Tue 8.40pm The Belmont, Aberdeen The Coen brothers' most purely enjoyable comedy, in which Jeff Bridges's Dude squares off against German nihilists with designs on his johnson and delivers the last word on the Eagles' execrable "Hotel California". Cabaret...
Tokyo Story Sun 3pm Tyneside Cinema, Gateshead "Living alone like this, the days will get very long..." If you have tears, prepare to unleash a downpour at Yasujiro Ozu's quietly devastating tale of an elderly couple's visit to their blithely uncaring children. The Big...
The Big Lebowski Mon 8.30pm Odeon, Preston "Mr Treehorn treats objects like women" and other great gags in the Coen brothers' shaggy-dog story, all of which improve with repetition. No, really, they do. Jeff Bridges's Dude really holds the film together. My Name Is...
HAVING triumphed at Cannes, worked with Brando and appeared in films as varied as The Big Lebowski and Harry Potter, David Thewlis has already banked more credibility than most actors see in a lifetime. He's even survived Basic Instinct 2 with his reputation intact, a not inconsiderable feat under the...
Exodus Film Group announced today that ithas cast Golden Globe winner John Goodman to voice the role of "PaulBunyan" for their upcoming CG-animated film "Bunyan & Babe." He will play"Paul Bunyan" in the family adventure film adaptation of the legend. Goodman, who is known for his portrayal of the blue-collar...
Later this month in Edinburgh, legions of people will don their bathrobes, drink White Russians and go ten-pin bowling to pay homage to a man who calls himself "the Dude". In spite of how this might sound, the Dude is not a crazed cult leader; in fact, he's not even...
Surf's Up is a cartoon about two penguins arguing over the best way to carve a surfboard. I don't suppose that's how the studio would describe it, but if you're looking for anything more scintillating than one seabird denigrating another seabird's woodworking techniques, you'll have to dig out your Toy...
The brothers grim; the films of Ethan and Joel Coen. Rowell, Erica. Scarecrow Pr. 2007 379 pages $35.00 Paperback PN1998 Rowell a journalist and film producer titles each chapter examining a film from the...
CHANCES are that you already know about The Big Lebowski, or maybe not. With its unique combination of nihilists, marmots and severed toes, the movie was always expected to be a big deal. In 1998, the Coen brothers had just won two Oscars for their previous film,...
The word Jose Mourinho chose to describe his new approach to the new season was unusual for the man in question. "Mellow" is how Mourinho sees himself from now on and, just to make his point clear, he rolled the word slowly around his mouth like a character straight out...
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