Streaming services always raise eyebrows when they edit the movies on their platform, usually because they never inform viewers as to when they’ve done it. The most recent high-profile example was Disney+ censoring Daryl Hannah’s butt in Splash! by putting some extremely fake-looking CGI hair over it. Now, it’s Netflix’s turn to get fans grumbling, as they’ve inexplicably censored a scene in Back to the Future Part II.
The edit comes during the 1955 sequence where Marty McFly believes he’s finally gotten hold of the Sports Almanac. If you’ll recall, he excitedly opens it, only to realize it’s actually a French girlie magazine called Oh LàLà. In the original, he flicks through it, getting increasingly upset and saying “Oh LàLà?” before ending on the cover. In the Netflix version, he briefly flicks through it, though the scene cuts before we see the cover page.
The edit comes during the 1955 sequence where Marty McFly believes he’s finally gotten hold of the Sports Almanac. If you’ll recall, he excitedly opens it, only to realize it’s actually a French girlie magazine called Oh LàLà. In the original, he flicks through it, getting increasingly upset and saying “Oh LàLà?” before ending on the cover. In the Netflix version, he briefly flicks through it, though the scene cuts before we see the cover page.
- 5/20/2020
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
You might think you can do a decent Christopher Walken, but really, you can't touch the professionals. Here, from Kevin Spacey to Steve Coogan, are the very finest impersonators in the business (of other people in the business).
1. Kevin Spacey
Actors impersonated: Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken
To know Kevin Spacey is to know his impersonations. Willing to bust out a Brando at the drop of a hat, the former Old Vic head honcho was more than willing to obey James Lipton's commands during his appearance on Inside The Actors Studio.
Ps - there are Kevin Spacey impressions, then there are Kevin Spacey impressions in front of the people he's impersonating. Ladies and gentlemen, Al Pacino and "Al Pacino".
2. Bradley Cooper
Actors impersonated: Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson, Christopher Walken, Christian Bale
Everyone can do a Christopher Walken - even if it's a terrible Christopher Walken...
1. Kevin Spacey
Actors impersonated: Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken
To know Kevin Spacey is to know his impersonations. Willing to bust out a Brando at the drop of a hat, the former Old Vic head honcho was more than willing to obey James Lipton's commands during his appearance on Inside The Actors Studio.
Ps - there are Kevin Spacey impressions, then there are Kevin Spacey impressions in front of the people he's impersonating. Ladies and gentlemen, Al Pacino and "Al Pacino".
2. Bradley Cooper
Actors impersonated: Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson, Christopher Walken, Christian Bale
Everyone can do a Christopher Walken - even if it's a terrible Christopher Walken...
- 8/24/2015
- Digital Spy
Comic book writer Mark Millar talks to us about his work on Kingsman: The Secret Service, storytelling and more...
The latest big screen adaptation of Mark Millar's work, Kingsman: The Secret Service, arrives in UK cinemas this week. It follows the likes of Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2 and Wanted to the screen, and Millar also advises Fox on its series of Marvel films. He spared us some time for a chat about his films, storytelling, auctioning names off for charity, and specifically about Kingsman itself.
Here's how it went...
To what extent would you say this is a political story?
Funny you should say that. We were chatting about this earlier, and my friends who are left-wing so it as a left-wing political story about a guy from nothing showing that he’s just as good as people who had everything, and he’s even being better than them by the end.
The latest big screen adaptation of Mark Millar's work, Kingsman: The Secret Service, arrives in UK cinemas this week. It follows the likes of Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2 and Wanted to the screen, and Millar also advises Fox on its series of Marvel films. He spared us some time for a chat about his films, storytelling, auctioning names off for charity, and specifically about Kingsman itself.
Here's how it went...
To what extent would you say this is a political story?
Funny you should say that. We were chatting about this earlier, and my friends who are left-wing so it as a left-wing political story about a guy from nothing showing that he’s just as good as people who had everything, and he’s even being better than them by the end.
- 1/23/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Three years after the agreeably poky, faux-verite-style road comedy The Trip, actors, comics, mimics, and uneasy mates Steve Coogan and Rob Bryden return—or, rather, depart once more—in The Trip to Italy. Last time, Coogan (as “Steve Coogan”) was hired to write a newspaper feature about eating in the north of England, and he brought along Bryden (as “Rob Bryden”) as a last-minute replacement for his girlfriend. Even with the banter and the ludicrously foam-topped cuisine and the incessant impersonations (the classic was their dueling Michael Caines, each progressively more nasal and phlegmy and emphatic), the journey was a melancholy one. The promiscuous Coogan was increasingly swallowed in a fog of lonely self-absorption, while Bryden—his wife and baby in London—extemporized in a void.In the sequel, they visit Umbria, Rome, and sundry vista-rich locations on the Italian coast, joking early on about how sequels are rarely very...
- 8/14/2014
- by David Edelstein
- Vulture
Prepare yourself for another culinary delight from director Michael Winterbottom in this new preview for The Trip To Italy - the sequel to The Trip.
In the 2010 film, Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour England’s finest restaurants and envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon. As the brilliant comic duo, freestyling with flair, drive each other mad with constant competition and showdowns of competing impressions (including dueling Michael Caines, Sean Connerys and Al Pacinos), the ultimate odd couple realize in the end a rich amount about not only good food, but the nature of fame, relationships and their own lives.
Only this go around, the two are asked by The Observer to do another series of restaurant reviews...
In the 2010 film, Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour England’s finest restaurants and envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon. As the brilliant comic duo, freestyling with flair, drive each other mad with constant competition and showdowns of competing impressions (including dueling Michael Caines, Sean Connerys and Al Pacinos), the ultimate odd couple realize in the end a rich amount about not only good food, but the nature of fame, relationships and their own lives.
Only this go around, the two are asked by The Observer to do another series of restaurant reviews...
- 5/27/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Fifty years ago (on Feb. 7, 1964, to be precise), the Beatles came to America with a sound so blissful and spangly and new that it would have seemed — still seems — counterintuitive to think how much that sound was influenced by America. The four magical mop tops seemed to relish our rock & roll even more than we did (though, of course, they gave it their own incandescent spin). Mind you, I’m not comparing Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, the two brilliantly funny quipster cynics who portray themselves going on a culinary road adventure in The Trip to Italy, to the Beatles...
- 1/22/2014
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
I just saw this video on my twitter feed, tweeted by Mike Gaines (who some of you know as the mastermind behind the scenes of the Totally Rad Show), of Henry Thomas' audition for E.T.. I know I must have seen this clip before on the DVD release, but I wanted to share it with you guys. For me the best part is what director Steven Spielberg says following Henry's moving audition (something you just don't get from many child actors these days). Watch the video clip after the jump.
- 3/31/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
News Corp.-controlled satellite TV firm Hughes Electronics on Tuesday named three executive vps as the new leadership continues to put its stamp on the company and its main operating unit, DirecTV. In strengthening the Hughes management ranks, president and CEO Chase Carey tapped two proven hands who have worked elsewhere in Rupert Murdoch's empire. Hughes appointed Bruce Churchill, who most recently was president and chief operating officer of News Corp.'s Asian satellite TV operation STAR, as executive vp and the company's chief financial officer. Former chief financial officer Michael Gaines was among 50 people leaving Hughes as part of a revamp of the company's corporate office, which was announced late last week (HR 2/2).
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