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Satellite (film)
''Satellite'' is a 2005 American romantic drama film directed by Jeff Winner, starring Karl Geary, Stéphanie Szostak, Larry Fessenden, Christina Kirk and Randall Jaynes. Cast * Karl Geary as Kevin Sinks * Stéphanie Szostak as Ro Mars * Larry Fessenden as Jim Mullins * Christina Kirk as Susanna Sinks * Pell James as Annie * Randall Jaynes as Mark * Neil Jain as Rick * Jessica Lawson as Catherine * Joe Martine as Backseat guy * Lawrence Scaduto as Party goer * Stephen Barker Turner as Matt Muttel Release The film opened in New York City on 9 August 2006. Reception Stephen Holden of ''The New York Times'' wrote that while it is "not a profound film", it "touches a chord" and "captures the wistful underside of the rampant materialism embraced by the young professional class." Matt Singer of ''The Village Voice'' wrote, "Nice low-budget cinematography and authentic New York City locations aside, there's little to engage viewers over the course of 100 wandering minutes." Tyler F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Geary
Karl John Geary (born 31 May 1972) is an Irish-born American actor and author. Early life Geary was born in Dublin. In 1987, at the age of 15, he moved to the United States; he later obtained a green card in a visa lottery for undocumented Irish immigrants, and ultimately became a naturalized citizen. Career Geary appeared in Madonna's ''Sex'' book. His acting roles include ''Sex and the City'', ''Hysteria – The Def Leppard Story'', and ''Hamlet'' (2000). He wrote and appeared in '' Coney Island Baby'' (2003). He appeared as Coffey in the 2008 horror film '' The Burrowers''. He owns a bar in downtown Manhattan called the Scratcher, and previously co-owned another club, the original tiny Cafe Sin-é on St. Mark's Place in the East Village, where he waited on tables alongside Jeff Buckley. Personal life Geary has seven siblings. In 2003, he married Scottish actress Laura Fraser. They have one daughter, Lila, and live in Glasgow Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphanie Szostak
Stéphanie Szostak (born 5 November 1975) is a French actress and author who started her career in the early 2000s. Szostak is best known for having appeared in the films '' The Devil Wears Prada'', '' Dinner for Schmucks'', ''Iron Man 3'', and ''R.I.P.D.'' Szostak starred in the USA Network original drama series '' Satisfaction'' and the ABC series '' A Million Little Things''. Personal life Szostak was raised in the suburbs of Paris, France. She moved to the United States to study business at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where she played on the women's varsity golf team. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in marketing, she moved to New York City and worked for Chanel in marketing. She then switched to acting after taking acting classes. Szostak married Britt Szostak in 1996; her married surname is Polish. They have two sons together, and reside outside New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Fessenden
Laurence T. Fessenden (born March 23, 1963) is an American actor, producer, writer, director, film editor, and cinematographer. He is the founder of the New York based independent production outfit Glass Eye Pix. His writer/director credits include ''No Telling'' (written with Beck Underwood, 1991), ''Habit (1997 film), Habit'' (1997), ''Wendigo (film), Wendigo'' (2001), and ''The Last Winter (2006 film), The Last Winter'' (written with Robert Leaver, 2006), which is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He has also directed the television feature ''Beneath (2013 film), Beneath'' (2013), an episode of the NBC TV series ''Fear Itself (TV series), Fear Itself'' (2008) entitled "Skin and Bones (Fear Itself), Skin and Bones", and a segment of the anthology horror-comedy film ''The ABCs of Death 2'' (2014). He is the writer, with Graham Reznick, of the BAFTA Award-winning Sony PlayStation video game ''Until Dawn''. Films he has acted in include ''Bringing Out the Dead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Kirk
Christina Kirk is an American actress. Career Kirk appeared in Woody Allen's '' Melinda and Melinda'' and Ira Sachs' ''Love Is Strange''. She was also a series regular on '' A to Z'', and most recently played Jackie in the DC Comics TV series '' Powerless''. Other television appearances include ''Fatal Attraction'', ''Goliath'', '' Younger'', '' Girls'' and '' The Newsroom''. On stage, she has appeared in '' Clybourne Park'' by Bruce Norris at Playwrights Horizons and on Broadway; ''Knickerbocker'' for The Public Theater; ''There Are No More Big Secrets'' at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater; Will Eno's ''Oh, the Humanity and Other Exclamations'' at The Flea Theater; ''God's Ear'' at New Georges and The Vineyard; '' ic' at Soho Rep; ''Well'' by Lisa Kron; and ''Infinite Life'' by Annie Baker at Atlantic Theater Company and London's Royal National Theatre. Filmography Films * 1998 ''Safe Men'' - Hannah. * 2002 '' Bug'' - Olive. * 2004 '' Melinda and Melinda'' - Jennifer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pell James
Pell James (born April 30, 1977) is an American actress. Life and career James was born in Virginia. In the early 2000s, she appeared in an episode of ''Law & Order'' and an episode of '' Law & Order:SVU''. In 2005, she portrayed Brier in '' Undiscovered''. She also appeared in the film ''Broken Flowers'' and earned her first starring role in the film '' The King''. In 2007, she played Zodiac Killer victim Cecelia Shepard in ''Zodiac The zodiac is a belt-shaped region of the sky that extends approximately 8° north and south celestial latitude of the ecliptic – the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year. Within this zodiac ...''. In 2006, James married banker, entertainment executive, and vice-chairman of Lionsgate Michael R. Burns in a Roman Catholic ceremony officiated by Rev. William G. Murphy at the Chateau Marmont. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Winner
Jeff is a masculine name, often a short form (hypocorism) of the English given name Jefferson or Jeffrey, which comes from a medieval variant of Geoffrey. Music * DJ Jazzy Jeff, American DJ/turntablist record producer Jeffrey Allen Townes * Excision (musician), Canadian dubstep producer and DJ Jeff Abel * Jeff Abercrombie, bassist for American rock band Fuel * Jeff Allen, English session drummer * Jeff Baxter, American guitarist for rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers * Jeff Beal (born 1963), American composer of music for various media * Jeff Beck (1944–2023), English guitarist * Jeff Buckley (1966–1997), American singer-songwriter * Jeff Coffin, saxophonist, bandleader, composer and educator * Jeff Current, lead singer of American alternative rock band Against All Will * Jeff Fatt, Australian musician and actor, formerly with the children's band The Wiggles * Jeff Gillan, an American journalist * Jeff Graham, Canadian radio DJ * Jeff Hanneman (1964–2013) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Barker Turner
Stephen Barker Turner (born June 27, 1968) is an American stage, television, and film actor. Early life Turner was born in St. Louis, Missouri on June 27, 1968. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Juilliard School. Career After starring in numerous stage productions, Turner made his film debut in '' Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2''. He had a small but important nonspeaking role in ''Cosmopolitan'' (2003). He has also appeared in the television shows ''Swift Justice'', ''Sex and the City'', ''Law & Order'', and '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. He played title role of Charlie in '' Seducing Charlie Barker'', an independent film adaptation of Theresa Rebeck's stage play '' The Scene'', released in December 2011. He is an associate artist at the California Shakespeare Theater California Shakespeare Theater ("Cal Shakes") was a regional theater located in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Its performance space, the Bruns Amphitheater, was located in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slant Magazine
''Slant Magazine'' is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians. The site covers various film festivals like the New York Film Festival. History ''Slant Magazine'' was launched in 2001. On January 21, 2010, it was relaunched and absorbed the entertainment blog ''The House Next Door'', founded by Matt Zoller Seitz, a former ''New York Times'' and '' New York Press'' writer, and maintained by Keith Uhlich, former '' Time Out New York'' film critic, who was the blog's editor until 2012. In the media ''Slant''s reviews, which A. O. Scott of ''The New York Times'' has described as "passionate and often prickly", have occasionally been the source of debate and discourse online and in the media. Ed Gonzalez's review of Kevin Gage's 2005 film '' Chaos'' sparked some controversy when Roger Ebert quoted it in his review of the film for the '' Chicago Sun-Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden (born July 18, 1941) is an American writer, poet, and music and film critic. Biography Holden earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University in 1963. He worked as a photo editor, staff writer, and eventually became an A&R executive for RCA Records before turning to writing pop music reviews and related articles for ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, '' Blender'', ''The Village Voice'', '' The Atlantic'', and '' Vanity Fair'', among other publications. He first achieved prominence with his 1970s ''Rolling Stone'' work, where he tended to cover singer-songwriter and traditional pop artists. He joined the staff of ''The New York Times'' in 1981, and subsequently became one of the newspaper's leading theatre and film critics. Holden's experiences as a journalist and executive with RCA led him to write the satirical novel ''Triple Platinum'', which was published by Dell Books in 1980. He is the recipient of the 1986 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Village Voice
''The Village Voice'' is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first Alternative newspaper, alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf (publisher), Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock, and Norman Mailer, ''The Voice'' began as a platform for the creative community of New York City. It ceased publication in 2017, although its online archives remained accessible. After an ownership change, ''The Voice'' reappeared in print as a quarterly in April 2021. ''The Village Voice'' has received three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Press Foundation Award, and the George Polk Award. ''The Village Voice'' hosted a variety of writers and artists, including writer Ezra Pound, cartoonist Lynda Barry, artist Greg Tate, music critic Robert Christgau, and film critics Andrew Sarris, Jonas Mekas, and J. Hoberman. In October 2015, ''The Village Voice'' changed ownership and severed all ties with former parent compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
