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Role Recall: Peter Fonda Recalls His Far Out ‘Ultimate Life’
Adam Pockross at Yahoo Movies12 hrs agoRole Recall is pretty much made for Peter Fonda.
In case you're not up on the lingo, Role Recall is a game we play with talented guests where we pick plum past roles and ask the guest to recall the first memory that comes to mind.
Fonda, who phoned us recently to promote "The Ultimate Life," now out on Blu-ray, has everything we could ask for in a Role Recall contestant: He's got a slew of memorable roles to recall, He's an unbelievable storyteller, and he frequently uses the phrase "far out."
Wanda Nevada (1979) "A fairytale. A perfectly written fairytale," said Fonda about the western he directed and starred in alongside 14-year-old Brooke Shields. It was also the only film Fonda would appear in with his famous father, Henry (who didn't exactly see eye-to-eye with his counter-cultural son).
Matthew McConaughey Reaches For the Stars in Teaser for Christoper Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’
Bryan Enk at Yahoo Movies17 hrs agoJust when you thought you had a complete list of your favorite movie trailers of the year, along comes Christopher Nolan with his latest secretive but grand vision to demand a rewrite ... and an inclusion near the top.
"Interstellar" was already by default one of the most anticipated films of 2014, if only because when the man who gave us "Memento," "Inception," and "The Dark Knight" trilogy makes a new movie, we've already made plans to be there opening night.
Now Nolan has provided us with a teaser trailer to blast that hype straight to the heavens.
In keeping with Nolan's treatment of moviemaking as highly classified projects, the teaser doesn't reveal much about the sci-fi film's plot, but according tothe film's official website, "In the future, governments and economies across the globe have collapsed, food is scarce, NASA is no more, and the 20th Century is to blame. A mysterious rip in spacetime opens and it's up to whatever is left of NASA to explore and offer up hope for mankind." Whoa!
Beautiful Streamers: 5 Great Films Set in the 1970’s
Yahoo Movies1 day agoA viewers guide to movies available through online services. No decade is a gift to costume designers like the 1970’s: the feathered hair! The giant lapels! The bell bottoms jeans! The tinted glasses! But the besides being a unique fashion moment, the decade was also the critical turning point in American culture, when the traditional gave way to novelty; age and youth for a moment danced together at the same party. This week the 70's are back again at the multiplex with "American Hustle." But in case that leaves you wanting more of the Me Decade, here are the five films – made after the 1970’s ended – that best captured the decade’s chaotic spirit.
5. Almost Famous (Available on iTunes and Amazon) When you get down to it, the 1970’s were really just one long bus tour into a flickering sunset cloistered away from the nameless cities in one delicate bubble, destined to pop too soon. No film may have captured that ineffable yearning of the era like Cameron Crowe’s recreation of his adolescent adventures as an aspiring rock journalist.
Our ‘Man of Tai Chi’ Giveaway Kicks Butt
Adam Pockross at Yahoo Movies1 day agoYou know what kicks more butt than Tiger Chen in "Man of Tai Chi"? Our "Man of Tai Chi" giveaway!
We're doing a kick-butt giveaway to celebrate this week's Blu-ray and DVD release of "Man of Tai Chi," Keanu Reeve's directorial debut in which he also plays Donaka Mark, a puppet-master of a fight promoter who convinces Chen to participate in a closed-circuit, underground, bare-knuckle fighting ring.
One lucky Yahoo Movies Twitter follower will win a "Man of Tai Chi" Blu-ray and a poster signed by Keanu Reeves, a "Matrix" Trilogy Blu-ray box set, and a "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" Blu-ray. And three runners up will each receive a "Man of Tai Chi" Blu-ray.
Here's how to enter:
Step 1: Follow @yahoomovies on Twitter
Step 2: Tweet this message:
You owe me a life! I want to win a #ManOfTaiChi Prize Pack from @yahoomovies: http://yhoo.it/Keanu #YGiveaway
Note: One entry per person/email address/Twitter handle.
'Mandela' Trailer Elects Idris Elba as Awards Season Frontrunner
Bryan Enk at Yahoo Movies1 day agoHot on the heels of yesterday's Golden Globe nominations comes a new look at "Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom," the new biopic that showcases Idris Elba as a lead contender to take home the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama next month.
Elba's Golden Globe-nominated performance is front and center as he disappears into his role as Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid revolutionary and former South African president who dedicated his life to "this struggle of the African people," a man who "cherished the ideal of a free Democratic society, equal political rights, one man, one vote."
The trailer's opening speech ends on a rather bittersweet note, as Mandela reveals that not only is it an ideal that he hopes to live for and achieve but one for which he is also "prepared to die." Nelson Mandela himself died on Dec. 5, just a few days after the film's limited U.S. opening on Nov. 29.
Critic’s Pick: ‘Saving Mr. Banks’
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This week's Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations only confirmed it: Emma Thompson tears off one hell of a performance as P. L. Travers, the famed author of "Mary Poppins" at the center of "Saving Mr. Banks." The movie unravels the little-known backstory of how the prickly writer nearly kept Walt Disney from making the children’s classic for fear "Uncle Walt" would sprinkle it with pixie dust and animate it to music. (Okay, he did.)
Thompson's Travers doesn’t want to surrender her beloved, fictional nanny to the maw of Hollywood. And she doesn’t want any of that animated frou-frou either, no Chim Chim Chir-ee, please, and would you like a cup of tea?
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Exclusive! 'Pompeii' Star Kit Harington Seizes Yahoo Movies Instagram
Yahoo Movies1 day agoFrom Westeros to Pompeii, Kit Harington is trading in the brutal badlands of "Game of Thrones" for a doomed gladiator arena in the shadows of Mount Vesuvius.
Friday, the English actor best known as GoT’s Jon Snow took over the Yahoo Movies Instagram.
Harington was in Italy for a few days for a fashion photo shoot to promote his upcoming "Pompeii" flick, in theaters on Feb. 21, 2014. But before heading back to London, Kit took a day trip to Pompeii and showed us what he was up to.
He reflected on the fallen city's storied past and took in the grandeur of the city's ruins that were preserved by the infamous Mt. Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D.
Yup, that's Vesuvius in the background of Harington's first pic, seen below!
Harington also posed for fan pics with some lucky tourists!
Get the Straight Poop From the Stars of 'Anchorman 2'
Yahoo Movies1 day agoThey played experienced-yet-sexist newsmen in "Anchorman" and are guranteed to make us laugh until our guts ache in "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues."
Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and David Koechner spent some time with Yahoo Movies showing off their mad news reading skills... along with their "deep knowledge" of the future of mobile computing.
Go figure.
Through it, the boys who came from KVWN channel 4 in San Diego (which Ron Burgundy pronounces as "Sawn Dee-ya-goh") kept with the franchise's tradition of telling superior poop jokes. (Remember what Ron's pooch Baxter did in the refrigerator in the original movie?)
Yup, they totally went there.
Ferrell read the headline: "Pills Made From Poop Cure Serious Gut Infections."
"I like the alliteration," Carell commented.
"Canada has always been one step ahead of us in terms of fecal cures," Ferrell deadpanned.
"It's just the way their system is set up," Rudd chimed in.
Travel to Tom Hanks-Land With the Cast of ‘Saving Mr. Banks’
Adam Pockross at Yahoo Movies1 day ago"Saving Mr. Banks" is one of those rare movies that can make you feel like you're flying a kite. Like kite-flying, it's just hard not to enjoy it.
It helps to have Tom Hanks, one of cinema's most enjoyable leading men, playing Walt Disney, one of history's most enjoyable leading men. Would it be too much to say that Tom Hanks's "Banks" performance is pretty much the human manifestation of flying a kite?
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Perhaps, but it isn't too much to say that Tom Hanks deserves his own theme park. Or at least it wasn’t too much for us to bring up the idea with Hanks's "Banks" co-stars Emma Thompson, Colin Farrell, Bradley Whitford, Jason Schwartzman, and B.J. Novak.
You'll Never Guess Which 'Hobbit' Star Has the Worst Feet!
Yahoo Movies1 day agoYahoo Movies has unwittingly sent shockwaves through the cast of "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug." And it was all prompted by something so seemingly harmless: feet. Since Peter Jackson thinks shoeless-ness is the new black, and being that Bilbo Baggins is also shoe-averse, we thought it'd be fun to quiz Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Evangeline Lilly, and other "Hobbit" stars on the cast's own feet.
You can play along here! (Foot spoilers appear at the bottom of the post.)
Little did we know one star's tootsies would inspire such shock that swear words started flying and mouths flew agape. (See it toward the end of the video above.)
Literally, when we revealed the identity of one "Hobbit" star's feet, Cumberbatch said "Oh my god! F---!" Richard Armitage feared retribution, Freeman couldn't stop laughing, and Luke Evans widened his eyes to the size of saucers in disbelief — which soon turned into deep regret.
