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Future '38
''Future '38'' is a 2017 American science fiction romantic comedy film written and directed by Jamie Greenberg. Cast *Nick Westrate as Essex *Betty Gilpin as Banky *Tom Riis Farrell as Lamont Hitler *Robert John Burke as General Sportwood *Ethan Phillips as Dr. Elcourt *Sophie von Haselberg as Iota *Ilana Becker as Elke *Neil deGrasse Tyson *Sean Young as Mabel *Hillel Meltzer as Matzoh *Anthony DeVito as Bitter Herb *Michael Birch as Officer O'Reilly Reception The film has a 75% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang ..., based on 12 reviews with an average score of 5.67/10. References External links * * * American science fiction films American romantic comedy films 2010s English-language films 2010s American films {{20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Miller (composer)
Robert Miller is an American music composer for film, television and concert hall. Over the years he has earned seven Clio Awards, two AICP Awards, two Emmy "group" nominations for the Coca-Cola spot “It’s Mine” as well as collective Emmys for Coca-Cola's “Heist". In 2016, Miller received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Music Interpretation for the film "Of Miracles and Men". Career Film scoring Miller's film scoring career ranges across documentaries, thrillers, dramas, and comedies. Some notable films include: * '' Why We Fight'' * ''Teeth'' * '' Anytown, USA'' * ''Happy Tears'' * '' The House I Live In'' * ''Particle Fever'' * '' You Get Me'' * '' Celtics/Lakers: Best of Enemies'' * ''Atomic Homefront'' * ''Excuse Me for Living'' * '' The Forgotten Kingdom'' * '' Future '38'' * '' I Love You, Daddy'' * ''THE KING In the British English-speaking world, The King refers to: * Charles III (born 1948), King of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slamdance Film Festival
The Slamdance Film Festival is an annual film festival focused on emerging artists. The annual week-long festival takes place in Park City, Utah, in late January and is the main event organized by the year-round Slamdance organization, which also hosts a screenplay competition, workshops, screenings throughout the year and events with an emphasis on independent films with budgets under US$1 million. History The festival was founded in 1995 by Dan Mirvish, Jon Fitzgerald, Shane Kuhn, and Peter Baxter, along with Paul Rachman, after they had been unsuccessful in submitting films to the Sundance Film Festival. Baxter has been in charge of Slamdance since 1997. Screenplay competition In addition to the festival, Slamdance's screenplay competition has discovered a number of talented screenwriters, including Joshua Marston (''Maria Full of Grace'') and Steven Fechter and Nicole Kassell, co-writers of ('' The Woodsman''). In 2008, Slamdance entered into an agreement with Upload Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romantic Comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typical romantic comedy, the two lovers tend to be young, likeable, and seemingly meant for each other, yet they are kept apart by some complicating circumstance (e.g., class differences, parental interference, a previous girlfriend or boyfriend) until, surmounting all obstacles, they are finally united. A fairy-tale-style happy ending is a typical feature. Romantic comedy films are a certain genre of comedy films as well as of romance films, and may also have elements of screwball comedies. However, a romantic comedy is classified as a film with two genres, not a single new genre. Some television series can also be classified as romantic comedies. Description The basic plot of a romantic comedy is that two characters meet, part ways due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Journal International
''Film Journal International'' was a motion-picture industry trade magazine published by the American company Prometheus Global Media. It was a sister publication of ''Adweek'', '' Billboard'', ''The Hollywood Reporter'', and other periodicals. History and profile Launched in 1934 and published monthly, ''Film Journal International'' covered exhibition, production, and distribution, reporting both U.S. and international news, with features on industry trends, movie theater design and technology, screen advertising, and other topics. It was the official magazine of the industry conventions ShoWest, ShowEast, Cinema Expo International, and CineAsia. In 2008, it was based at 770 Broadway, New York City, New York. Its last editor and publisher was Robert Sunshine, and the executive editor was Kevin Lally. Its film critics included Lewis Beale, Frank Lovece, Maitland McDonagh Maitland McDonagh () is an American film critic and the author of several books about cinema. She is the au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Gilpin
Elizabeth Folan Gilpin (born July 21, 1986) is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Debbie "Liberty Belle" Eagan in the Netflix comedy series '' GLOW'' (2017–2019), for which she was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also starred as Dr. Carrie Roman in the Showtime comedy-drama series ''Nurse Jackie'' (2013–2015). Gilpin has appeared in films such as the mystery thriller '' True Story'' (2015), the science fiction romantic comedy '' Future '38'' (2017), the fantasy romantic comedy '' Isn't It Romantic'' (2019), the drama '' A Dog's Journey'' (2019), and the action comedy '' Stuber'' (2019). In 2020, Gilpin starred in the horror film ''The Grudge'', the satirical action thriller '' The Hunt'', and the action comedy ''Coffee & Kareem''. For ''The Hunt'', she won a Critics' Choice Super Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie. Early life Elizabeth Folan Gilpin was born in New York City on Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert John Burke
Robert John Burke (born September 12, 1960) is an American actor known for his roles in ''RoboCop 3'' (1993), '' Tombstone'' (1993), and '' Thinner'' (1996). During the 2000s Burke became well known for his portrayal of Mickey Gavin on '' Rescue Me'' (2004–11), Bart Bass in ''Gossip Girl'' (2007–12), Ed Tucker in '' Law and Order: Special Victims Unit'' (2002–20), and a number of other film and television roles including Netflix ''Intrusion'' (2021). Early life and education Burke was born in Washington Heights, Manhattan, the son of immigrants from Galway, Ireland. He graduated from Northport High School and attended the Acting Conservatory at State University of New York at Purchase. Career Burke's television roles include Mickey Gavin on '' Rescue Me'', Bart Bass on ''Gossip Girl'', ''Kidnapped'', '' Six Degrees'', ''Law & Order'' and IAB Captain Ed Tucker on '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', Officer Patrick Simmons on ''Person of Interest'', ''Sex and the City'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethan Phillips
Ethan Phillips (born John Ethan Phillips February 8, 1955) is an American actor and playwright. He is best known for his television roles as Neelix on '' Star Trek: Voyager'' and PR man Pete Downey on ''Benson''. Personal life Phillips was raised on Long Island, New York. His father was the owner of Frankie & Johnnie's, a steakhouse on 45th and Eighth Avenue in New York City. He received a bachelor's degree in English literature from Boston University and a Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University. He plays the tenor saxophone in the Alan Wasserman Jazz Band. Career Theatre Ethan Phillips began his show business career in New York City, performing off-Broadway at theaters including Direct Theater, winning the Best of the Actors’ Festival there in 1977; at the Wonderhorse Theater, in the premiere of Christopher Durang's ''The Nature and Purpose of the Universe''; and at Playwrights Horizons in a revival of '' Eccentricities of a Nightingale''. Tennessee Williams, who helped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Von Haselberg
Sophie Frederica Alohilani von Haselberg (born November 14, 1986) is an American actress, best known for co-starring in the Woody Allen film '' Irrational Man''. Early life and education von Haselberg was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actress and singer Bette Midler and artist Martin von Haselberg. Her father is of German descent and her mother is of Jewish-American descent. She attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City. She then studied sociology and East Asian studies at Yale University, worked at an ad agency in China and returned to Yale to study acting at the drama school in 2011. Career von Haselberg's NYC theatre debut was in October 2014 at The Vineyard in a play entitled ''Billy and Ray''. In 2015, von Haselberg had a role in the Woody Allen film '' Irrational Man''. Allen stated, "She's wonderful. She came in with a lot of other women that read and she's the spitting image of her otherand she was just good... I thought she wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson ( or ; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium and oversaw its $210 million reconstruction project, which was completed in 2000. Since 1996, he has been the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003. From 1995 to 2005, Tyson wrote monthly essays in the "Universe" column for '' Natural History'' magazine, some of which were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly Wide-format printer, large-format print magazine with a revamped website. As of 2020, the day-to-day operations of the company are handled by Penske Media Corporation through a joint venture with Eldridge Industries. History Early years; 1930–1987 ''The Hollywood Reporter'' was founded in 1930 by William R. Wilkerson, William R. "Billy" Wilkerson (1890–1962) as Hollywood's first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3, 1930, and featured Wilkerson's front-page "Tradeviews" column, which became influential. The newspaper appeared Monday-to-Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday-to-Friday from 1940. Wilkerson used caustic articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Young
Mary Sean Young (born November 20, 1959) is an American actress. She is particularly known for working in sci-fi films, although she has performed roles in a variety of genres. Young's early roles include the independent romance ''Jane Austen in Manhattan'' (1980) and the comedy feature ''Stripes'' (1981), the latter being a commercial success. Her breakthrough role was that of Rachael in the sci-fi ''Blade Runner'' (1982), which emerged as a significant work in popular culture; she reprised the role for ''Blade Runner'''s acclaimed sequel '' Blade Runner 2049'' (2017). She originated the character of Chani in the sci-fi ''Dune'' (1984), led the neo-noir '' No Way Out'' (1987), played Kate in '' Wall Street'' (1987), and had starring roles in the comedies ''Fatal Instinct'' (1993) and '' Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'' (1994). Early life Young was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of Donald Young, Jr., a television producer and journalist, and Lee Guthrie (born Mary L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
