Tag: Eastern Promises
A sequel to look forward to…
David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen are re teaming for a return to London’s Russian mob with a currently untitled sequel to “Eastern Promises.”
The Daily Helping is often suspect and wary of sequels. This is a huge exception. This site considered “Eastern Promises” a candidate for best film of the past decade, [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2010 under movies.
Tags: David Cronenberg, Eastern Promises, Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen
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The best of the past ten… (film)
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 [...]
Posted: January 10th, 2010 under books, movies, weaponry.
Tags: A History of Violence, Alfonso Cuaron, Children of Men, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Clive Owen, Cormac McCarthy, David Cronenberg, Eastern Promises, Goodfellas, GOSFORD PARK, Hannibal Lecter, Heath Ledger, Infernal Affairs, Jack Nicholson, Javier Bardem, Joel and Ethan Coen, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Matt Damon, Michael Cain, Momento, No Country For Old Men, Norman Bates, The Academy Awards, The Dark Knight, The Departed, The Golden Globes, The Inside Man, The Prestige, Viggo Mortensen
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Favorite movie of the decade….
The following is a list compiled by DailyHelping that will remind you of the movies you may have seen over the past ten years. Included are foreign and documentary films that were well received here in the United States. As we work our way toward finding our favorite film of the decade…(and maybe 2nd and [...]
Posted: November 27th, 2009 under movies, website.
Tags: 21 Grams, 25th Hour, A History of Violence, A Mighty Wind, A Serious Man, About A Boy, About Schmidt, Adaptation, AI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Almost Famous, AMELIE, American Psycho, American Splendor, An Inconvenient Truth, Anvil-The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Best in Show, BLACK HAWK DOWN, Born into Brothels, Bowling for Columbine, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Capturing the Friedmans, Casino Royale, Castaway, Catch Me if You Can, Chicken Run, Children of Men, Chocolat, Cinderella Man, Cold Mountain, Crash, Crouching Tiger, District 9, Diving Bell and the Butterfly, DONNIE DARKO, Doubt, Dreamgirls, Eastern Promises, Elf, Erin Brockovich, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Finding Nemo, Finding Neverland, For Your Consideration, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Funny People, GHOST WORLD, Gladiator, Gone Baby Gone, GOSFORD PARK, Grizzly Man, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hidden Dragon, High Fidelity, Hotel Rwanda, Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Inland Empire, Ironman, Juno, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Kinsey, Letters from Iwo Jima/Flags of Our Fathers, Little Miss Sunshine, Lord of the Rings- Return of the King, LORD OF THE RINGS-FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, Lost in Translation, Lovely Bones, Man on Wire, March of the Penguins, MEMENTO, Michael Clayton, Milk, Million Dollar Baby, Millions, Minority Report, MONSTERS INC., Moon, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, Munich, Murderball, Mystic River, Napolean Dynamite, Nine, No Country For Old Men, OCEANS 11, Once, Pan's Labyrinth, Paranormal, Persepolis, Pollack, Precious, Quills, Rachel Getting Married, Ratatouille, Ray, Road to Perdition, Seabiscuit, SEXY BEAST, Shaun of the Dead, SHREK, Sideways, Slumdog Millionaire, Spiderman, Spiderman 2, Star Trek, Sugar, Superbad, Sweeney Todd, Synedoche New York, Syriana, The, The 40-Year Old Virgin, The Bourne Identity, The Contender, The Counterfeiters, The Dark Knight, The Departed, The Fog of War, The Host, The Hours, The Incredibles, The Lives of Others, The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Namesake, The Patriot, The Pianist, The Queen, The Reader, The Road, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Squid and the Whale, The Station Agent, The Visitor, The Watchmen, The Wrestler, There Will Be Blood, Traffic, TRAINING DAY, U571, Unbreakable, United 93, Up, Up In the Air, Wall-E, Wonder Boys, X-Men, Zodiac
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Say Hello to the Bad Guys
Free lance writer Michael Ordoña, put together an interesting list. He went with his top ten Mobster list. He was very specific regarding the pool from which his names could be drawn. These were not just bad guys and crooks, but the essence of organized crime. They could be good soldiers, but not be [...]
Posted: June 28th, 2009 under books, movies, television, website.
Tags: Al Pacino, Bruno Kirby, Carmen Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, David Mamet, Eastern Promises, James Caan, James Gandolfini, Joe Pesci, Jude Law, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marlon Brando, Mathew Broderick, Once Upon A Time in America, Scarface, Sean Connery, The Freshman, The Godfather, The Godfather ll., The Sopranos, Tony Montana, Tony Soprano, Viggo Mortensen, Vito Corleone
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Cronenberg
David Cronenberg is a big favorite of Daily Helping. He figures prominently on the short list of those directors that can put butts in the seats regardless of what the project may be. Such success can be fleeting (just ask M Night Shyamalan).
He cut his teeth on campy horror and will soon be working with [...]
Posted: April 6th, 2009 under art, books, movies.
Tags: A History of Violence, Christoper Walken, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Deborah Harry, Eastern Promises, Gena Davis, Holly Hunter, James Spader, James Woods, Jeff Goldblum, JG Ballard, Mel Brooks, The Dead Zone, The Elephant Man, The Fly, Videodrome, Viggo Mortensen
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