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Welcome back to our Gospel Stats Weekly Brand Report. If you’re a vehicle enthusiast, this week is for you–we’ve got frequent flyer Mat Armstrong back with another poor totaled Rolls Royce, Veritasium to explore the physics of railroad systems, and WhistlinDiesel with a no-holds-barred test of the Cybertruck‘s supposed invincibility. We’ve also got Drew Gooden with a crackdown on YouTube‘s AI thirst,...

Many movies about the American Civil War mix fact with fiction, often failing to accurately represent the historical events and their impact. The best Civil War movies strive to stay as close to history as possible, but it's important to remember that they are not a form of education. Even though some Civil War films have historical inaccuracies, they can still provide entertaining and sweeping tales about the dilemmas faced during the war.

There are several films that depict the American Civil War, but some of these movies contain glaring historical inaccuracies. While it's not possible to get everything correct about a well-documented period in history, some movies about the American Civil War seem to mix fact with fiction. Great care has always been taken when it comes to the depiction of the American Civil War, and some of the best Civil War movies make an effort to stay as close to history as possible.

James "Jimmy" Stewart is a beloved national treasure and one of the few Hollywood stars of the golden era who maintained an unimpeachable reputation as a faithful husband and war hero. Despite his public persona as a "gee shucks" goody-two-shoes, Stewart's film roles were often more complex. Audiences in the 1950s struggled to accept Stewart's most dark and twisted role in Hitchcock's "Vertigo," but this wasn't the first time he had dipped his toe in murkier waters.

Stewart was best known for his instantly recognizable voice, a drawn-out drawl that was softly soothing, with line deliveries full of well-timed pauses. Stewart also stammered when his characters got excited or angry, which became another famous and much-imitated trademark. Despite only being an inch taller than Cary Grant, Stewart seemed much taller due to his slender frame and long face. He towered over his leading ladies, which increased the romanticism of...

We’re back with another round-up of horror and sci-fi news, including a casting update for Hannibal’s third season, Scream Factory’s new title announcement and their revealed special features for the Exterminators of the Year 3000 Blu-ray, and also an upcoming special screening of Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard that will include a Q&A with director B. Harrison Smith and cast members Billy Zane, Dee Wallace Stone, and Felissa Rose.

TVLine reports that Tony award-winning Nina Arianda (Broadway’s Venus in Fur, Rob the Mob, Midnight in Paris) will play a recurring role on Hannibal in the third season that premieres this summer. Arianda plays a character named Molly—a strong single mother who is a romantic interest for one key character.

In other, previously announced Hannibal Season 3 casting news, Richard Armitage (Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit films) will play The Tooth Fairy serial killer (aka Francis...

The opening thirty minutes of Robert Zemeckis’s Flight (2012) represents some of the most exhilarating studio filmmaking of recent years. When the movie begins, certain parameters have been suggested for the film: the poster comes bearing a reassuring subtitle (“from the Academy Award-winning director of Forrest Gump and Cast Away”); the trailer remains curiously elusive, but still proposes some sort of redemptive hero’s journey; and the 100th-anniversary Paramount logo, when combined with Alan Silvestri’s somber piano score, seems to promise an almost unrivaled level of year-end, November-release prestige. What Zemeckis gives us in the film’s first scene is mischievously, immeasurably different: a 7 a.m. cigarette, a swig of stale beer, a joint, a stark-naked Nadine Velazquez, a bitter phone call between a drowsy alcoholic and his off-screen ex-wife, and a line of cocaine (captured in a wicked, formidable Steadicam thrust).

The enormous gulf of difference between what...

Several Houston Texans players -- past and present -- are banding together today to make sure their local senior citizens don't get screwed out of their right to vote ... TMZ has learned. Former Texans offensive lineman Chester Pitts has organized a group of his gigantic NFL friends to help shuttle seniors in the Houston area to their local polling place. We're told Pitts has rented several 15-passenger vans ... and will be joined by several current...

New 'Flight' movie delivered great drama,storyline & more with Denzel Washington. Paramount Pictures released their new drama flick "Flight" into theaters this weekend. I just checked it out,and thought it was just great,especially for a drama movie. The storyline was just very compelling and interesting the entire time. It stars: Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, Don Cheadle, Bruce Greenwood, Brian Geraghty, John Goodman,and Tamara Tunie. In the new flick, character Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) is a pilot who has a major drinking problem,and showed up to pilot a plane while drunk,but snorted a bit of cocaine to get him back alert for the flight. He also drunk a couple of small alcoholic beverages during the flight,but everything seemed to go well until about midway through when the plane took a sudden nose dive. A sleeping Whip was forced to wake up and take immediate control of the plane,...

Flight

Directed by Robert Zemeckis

Written by John Gatins

2012, USA

Premiering at the closing night of the New York Film Festival, Robert Zemeckis dives back into live-action filmmaking from a twelve year motion capture hiatus with Flight. An audacious, well-matured character ensemble piece about a man whose most heroic venture may have resulted from his most innate pitfall, this provocative drama gives Denzel Washington one of the most layered and conflicting characters of his career. The Paramount release will be a gripping arrival on November 2 for audiences, proving to be the thought-provoking robust taste many will crave by year’s end.

From the film’s very raw beginning, we are introduced to commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washngton), a middle-aged man who knows how to live life large as well as the ropes to piloting. We meet Whip lying in bed at seven o-clock in Orlando from an alcohol induced coma,...

Wamg recently attended the Flight press conference held at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills. The great thing about press conferences is that you really get a nice glimpse into the creative effort that goes into any given film. For Flight, we got to hear director Robert Zemeckis, screenwriter John Gatins, star Denzel Washington, and other cast members talk about their various approaches and experiences with Flight.

For Zemeckis, Flight marks the return to live-action filmmaking. The innovative director has spent the past decade directing and producing films that utilize motion capture technology and indeed Zemeckis has long been on the forefront of special and visual effects technology in films. However, strong characters with compelling emotional journeys anchor all of his films, including Flight.

Gatins extensively researched real-life air disasters. At that time, the legendary Us Airways .Miracle on the Hudson. river landing accomplished by heroic pilot Sully Sullenberger, was still ten years away.

Chicago – Few films have more deftly walked the tightrope through a moral gray area than Robert Zemeckis’ stunning “Flight,” one of the best dramas of the year that also just happens to include the best performance from two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington in the last decade. Reminding us what he can do with a deep, complex character, Washington completely embodies the soul of a man dealing with a life crash long after he’s no longer in the cockpit of an actual plane. Working from an Oscar-worthy script by John Gatins, Zemeckis & Washington work together to deliver an adult-oriented drama that is so consistently entertaining and fascinating that it plays like a thriller even if the thrills aren’t produced from traditional devices but from the sense that you’re watching masters at work.

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) is not a good guy. If you knew he was your pilot and knew his background,...

Bruce Greenwood plays Pilot Union representative Charlie Anderson and old friend to Denzel Washington's Captain Whip Whitaker in Robert Zemeckis' Flight - which tells the story of a pilot who becomes a national hero after a plane disaster... until the truth about what was in his system at the time is revealed.

After the press screening and conference for Flight, on the morning of the movie's world premiere at the 50th New York Film Festival Closing Night Gala, I had a chance to chat with Greenwood, before he had his official Film Society Festival photo taken. Washington and Greenwood had previously worked together on the 2006 thriller Déjà Vu.

Greenwood starts out speaking Swiss German to me, with a Zurich accent, and tells me he lived there at age 16 because of his father's work in Switzerland and that he goes...

Principal photography has wrapped on the upcoming Dead.tv, and we have the first official stills from the feature film starring Danielle Harris, Eric Roberts and Felissa Rose.

Take a sneak peek at the pics below, and dig all the talent working on the project. Be sure to check back soon as we'll give you more on this one as we get it!

From the Press Release

Eric Roberts and Danielle Harris headline Dead.tv, an upcoming horror movie that wrapped principal photography in Pennsylvania on September 24. Producer/writer Harrison Smith (The Fields and the upcoming 6 Degrees of Hell) directs Dead.tv in addition to writing and co-producing with Brian Gallagher.

Former Sleepaway Camp killer Felissa Rose rounds out the cast as a counselor involved in a dark puzzle unraveling at a summer camp. The film focuses on a group of young reality show wannabes locked in a Machiavellian scenario...