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TREME Season 1 DVD Review

by Jake Lasker    Posted: April 21st, 2011 at 7:00 am

New Orleans as a setting is a tough place for outsiders. Between the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, generations of racial tension and the hyper-exclusive music scene, the world of New Orleans could be very intimidating to viewers. But if there was one man who could help usher audiences into this unfamiliar landscape, it was David Simon. After taking viewers through the gritty Baltimore crime scene for 5 years on The Wire, Simon returned to TV with HBO’s Treme. Following the lives of dozens of people in the Treme district of post-Katrina New Orleans, the show introduces viewers to all different walks of life and the things that connect them. Less explosive and more of a slow burn,Treme is still another Simon triumph. Continue reading for my full review.

David Simon Interview TREME

by Sara Wayland    Posted: April 9th, 2010 at 8:55 am

Treme is the new HBO drama series set in post-Katrina New Orleans. From executive producer David Simon (best known for his work on The Wire), the 10-episode first season follows musicians (Wendell Pierce), chefs (Kim Dickens), Mardi Gras Indians (Clark Peters) and ordinary New Orleanians (including Khandi Alexander, Steve Zahn, Melissa Leo and John Goodman), as they try to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane and the levee failure that caused the near-death of an American city.

At its heart, Treme, named for the New Orleans neighborhood where jazz was invented, is a series about the people and the culture that survived and, at times, it is so authentic and raw that you forget you’re watching actors merely speaking from a script.

We recently spoke to show co-creator/writer David Simon, about his passion for the unique and eccentric city, how he sees it taking four or five years to tell the story of these characters on Treme and how he could never work in network television. Check out what he had to say after the jump:

New Trailer, Images, and Featurette for HBO’s TREME, the New Orleans Series from WIRE Creator David Simon

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: March 15th, 2010 at 9:39 pm

Early in the new year we got our first look at the teaser trailer for Treme, the upcoming series from The Wire creator David Simon.  Consisting mostly of slow pans about New Orleans, it didn’t reveal much, though the scattering of various instruments hinted at the musical nature of the show.  HBO has released a new trailer that imparts all sorts of great imagery, though it still doesn’t reveal much about the narrative–we’ll let the logline do that: the show “explores the lives of several struggling musicians and other New Orleans locals in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina”.  The new trailer rather beautifully lingers on said musicians dancing and parading through the street amid the destruction, and gives us a look at cast members Steve Zahn, John Goodman, Wendell Pierce, Clarke Peters, Khandi Alexander, and Rob Brown (among others), plus an Elvis Costello cameo.  The 1:37 clip is often reminiscent of the mostly headless “Way Down in the Hole” montages that primed the viewer for each episode of The Wire.

The show’s debut date of April 11 is now less than a month away, so get excited.  Hit the jump to check out the trailer and the full plot synopsis.

WWII in HD Blu-ray Review

by Matt Currie    Posted: February 23rd, 2010 at 2:25 pm

The History Channel’s WWII in HD is an epic ten-part documentary that comprehensively details America’s participation in the Second World War. It originally aired from November 15 to November 19, 2009 before being released on Blu-ray and DVD. It features ten hours’ worth of rare and never-before-seen color footage shot across the globe throughout WWII, all of which has been converted for presentation in glorious HD. And you NEED to watch it on Blu-ray. Hit the jump for more.

A PERFECT GETAWAY DVD Review

by Hunter Daniels    Posted: February 4th, 2010 at 7:20 am

Writer/Director David Twohy sure knows his way around a high concept. His previous directorial efforts Pitch Black, and the Darren Aronofsky scripted, Below demonstrate him to be a master of creating tension in small spaces. The man knows how to develop unconventional characters and wring every ounce of tension out of a situation. Of course, when he is given a bigger palette the results are more mixed. Sometimes you get The Arrival, sometimes you get Chronicles of Riddick.

His latest film, A Perfect Getaway falls into the latter category. Fortunately it is also his most satisfying entry into the more-than-one-primary-location genre of filmmaking, at least until the final 20 minutes.  More after the jump:

A PERFECT GETAWAY Unrated Director’s Cut Blu-ray Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: December 28th, 2009 at 5:33 pm

The problem with the thriller is that formalists like Brian De Palma and Bryan Singer have spoiled them for normal people and critics. We expect our genre entries to confound us, or at the very east to be deconstructions of the genre. Forget dramatic irony, we want expert sequences, and tension to abound. And so David Twohy deserves some credit for what he attempts in A Perfect Getaway. He is aware of genre constructs and addresses them, but he does so in such a way that when he removes the tablecloth and the plates are still standing, no one’s so much impressed as ready for the third act. My review of A Perfect Getaway after the jump, jump (please continue).

Jonathon Schaech and Kiele Sanchez Red Carpet Interviews from A PERFECT GETAWAY Premiere

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: August 6th, 2009 at 10:53 am

Last night I covered the premiere of “A Perfect Getaway” in Hollywood. While I already posted my interviews with Steve Zahn, Timothy Olyphant and Writer/Director David Twohy, I’ve got two more and they’re with Kiele Sanchez and Jonathon Schaech.

In the film, Kiele plays one of the people who may or may not be the murderer. Jonathon, on the other hand, was attending the premiere to support his “That Thing You Do” friend Steve Zahn. Actually, since most of “The Wonders” were at the premiere last night, I asked if they were playing. Check out both interviews after the jump:

Exclusive: Steve Zahn talks about David Simon’s New HBO Series TREME

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: August 5th, 2009 at 11:44 pm

If you’re a fan of David Simon (“Homicide”, “The Wire”, “Generation Kill”), you’re really going to enjoy the interview I did with Steve Zahn at the premiere of his new movie “A Perfect Getaway”. That’s because after talking about the film, he told me a ton of info about David’s new show which he’s a part of. The big info is the pilot is done and they start filming the first season this November! If you haven’t heard of the show yet, Steve says “Treme” is about the rebuilding of New Orleans right after Katrina through the eyes of the musicians. He says he play’s a DJ/musician named Davis that’s the voice of the jazz scene. He also talked about how badly he wanted to work for David Simon. Watch the full interview after the jump:

A PERFECT GETAWAY Trailer – Thriller Stars Steve Zahn, Milla Jovovich And Timothy Olyphant

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: May 27th, 2009 at 6:11 pm

A young couple honeymoons in Hawaii and, because they’re fun-loving adventurous types, they decide to skip the room service and backpack instead to a completely isolated beach.  Stop me when you’ve heard this one before.  This brief synopsis is the opening to the new thriller from Rogue Pictures called “A Perfect Getaway”  and in case you can’t see the rest of the synopsis coming – bad stuff is about to go down on that beach.

“A Perfect Getaway” stars Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich as the aforementioned fun-lovers and Timothy Olyphant and Kiele Sanchez as the mysterious “other couple” in this well-worn suspense-thriller scenario.  Even if I’m relatively sure where this “Getaway” is headed, the trailer makes it look like an enjoyable trip to take.  It’s always fun to watch Jovovich kick and scream and nobody does cool and menacing as well as Timothy Olyphant.  Whether audiences will buy Steve Zahn as a dramatic hero or not is the film’s only question mark.

“A Perfect Getaway” opens on August 15^th.  Check out trailer and some new images from the movie after the jump.

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