It’s common knowledge that a lot of films are born with a single pitch. A writer or director may have an idea for a film but the window to sell the story is very small. It helps if you can refer to other, successful films where the plot and characters are well known.
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The Daily Helping is proud to present our personal favorites for the past ten years.  Now please note that this in no way implies that these are the best artistic efforts for the decade. That’s a bit pretentious.  Instead these are personal favorites that speak to a particular taste.
If you’ve taken the time to put [...]

A few weeks ago, Daily Helping let you know about a violent little movie called, Kick Ass. It’s another live action film adaptation of a very popular series of illustrated novels by legendary comic book writer,  Mark Millar (Wanted, which became a movie last year) and illustrated by John Romita Jr. (One of the premier [...]

Though there won’t be sign of the movie until the Spring of 2010, the hype machine has begun to let us know that Robert Downey Jr. is coming back as Iron Man and this is going to be one of those few sequels that surpasses the quality of the first film.
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This is a teaser trailer which does exactly what it’s supposed to do. After watching this trailer, you’ll start looking for the release date. When  you find out that it’s a movie not due out til April, 2010, you’ll be pretty pissed.
The movie, actually called “Kick Ass” is based on the illustrated novel by Mark [...]

The Russian movie-going public has a Hollywood-style action picture coming down the pipe and it looks pretty interesting.  The trailer shown below is in Russian, but there’s no confusion about the production values and special effects.  The movie is called, Solomon Kane.
The film is the first part of a trilogy.  It’s an epic adventure [...]

Cable network, Spike TV has a particularly violent hit on it’s hands and it’s called, Deadliest Warrior.  In the grand tradition of barroom debates as to whether a Siberian Tiger could kill a North American Grizzley, a diverse and talented team of weapons and combat experts devote an episode to the ultimate death matches imagined. [...]

One of the Daily Helping’s favorite directors is Kathryn Bigelow.  Once married to Titanic/Terminator director, James Cameron in the early 90’s,  Bigelow has established herself as one of the few respected, and  successful female directors of our time.
(Of the top 250 films released in North America every year, and the 8,500 directors represented in the [...]

Chicago White Sox manager, Ozzie Guillen is often the subject of controversy that he generally stirs up  himself.
This past Sunday, Guillen took a pen to his cap and paid his respects to the fallen policemen from Oakland.  It was a classy gesture made more appropriate by the fact that his Sox were playing the Oakland [...]