This week is liable to be packed with hype, fresh game details, and hyperbole. That’s right, it’s the week of E3! We’ll be giving our own spin on the more interesting details to emerge, and you can bet Jon will have a boatload of shit to dump in his Random Setting on Friday. But, for … Continue reading
In the most anticipated re-teaming of disaster-tainted icons since Kris Kristofferson met Michael Cimino for a steak dinner at Dan Tana’s (and washed dishes ’til 4 AM to settle the check), Kevin Costner has persuaded his clinically insane Waterworld co-star, Dennis Hopper, to play the Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the … Continue reading
Though it does not please me that Ernst Lubitsch – who, despite his German lineage, is carved into the Mount Rushmore of American sound comedy alongside Howard Hawks, Preston Sturges and Groucho Marx – is little more than a footnote in today’s popular culture, I can at least excuse it as an unavoidable product of … Continue reading
First off, I apologize for the delay. The holiday week and a few other unforeseen complications got in the way of our prognostication this month. But we’re not about to let it go, since July is bursting with films, especially if you live in an area fed by a decent indie cinema. There’s the big … Continue reading
# Title the Title! Weekend the Total! Per the Screen! Film the Total! 1 Transformers $67,600,000 $16,853 $152,500,000 2 Ratatouille $29,029,000 (-38.3%) $7,367 $109,546,000 3 Live Freebreeze or Dye Hard $17,400,000 (-47.9%) $5,101 $84,160,000 4 License to Wed $10,400,000 $3,993 $17,816,000 5 Evan Almighty $8,114,000 (-46.4%) $2,345 $78,101,000 6 1408 $7,140,000 (-33.0%) $2,713 $53,789,000 7 … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Tartan VideoMSRP: $22.95RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 107 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Feature Commentary w/ director & film critics• "Making-of" featurette• "Behind the Scenes" featurette• Special Effecets featurette• Deleted scenes w/ commentary• Character introductions• Trailers The Pitch "It’s The Devil’s Backbone meets The Sixth Sense!" The Humans Charlie Trairat, Sirachuch Chienthaworn, Chintara Sukapatana. … Continue reading
Have you been waffling about going to San Diego Comic Con this year?* Sure, you’re thinking, I could go to Con and meet actors and comic creators, be among the first to see footage from upcoming exciting movies, fill the holes in my collections of geek crap for only moderately gouged prices and possibly finally … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: LionsgateMSRP: $19.98RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 299 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:Replicant• Commentary by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Michael Rooker• Deleted Scenes• Storyboards• Cast & Crew Bios• Photo GalleryUniversal Soldier• Commentary by Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Roland Emmerich, and Dean Devlin• "Guns, Genes, and Fighting Machines"• "A Tale of 2 Titans"• Alternate EndingI … Continue reading
Here’s a fun dilemma! I don’t want to break embargo on Ben Affleck’s directorial debut, Gone, Baby, Gone (saw it a couple of weeks ago for long-lead), but I also don’t want to run a link to its just-released theatrical trailer without offering this caveat: what Miramax is selling ain’t the movie by a long … Continue reading
I love Ang Lee, but I would never try to sell his movies on the power of their lush, romantic imagery; unlike the work of his Taiwanese contemporaries, Hou Hsiao-hsien and the recently deceased Edward Yang (and I’m going off the judgement calls of my peers on the latter, since I’ve only seen Yi Yi), … Continue reading