George Clooney has a busy 2007 ahead of him. Michael Clayton and Oceans 13 both come out, so he’ll be doing the junket hustle (by this time next year I may have interviewed him five times). He’s directing Leatherheads, a romantic comedy set in the early days of football, and then he’ll be gearing up … Continue reading
This past year was so filled with quality documentaries that I put out a list of the ten best – and I still left many, many qualities films off. But one movie I didn’t leave off was Street Fight – in fact it was my number one doc of the year. And now I have … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Home VideoMSRP: $44.98RATED: Not RatedRUNNING TIME: 531 minutesSPECIAL FEATURE: "The Writers Flipped They Have No Script" featurette The Pitch "It’s a treatise on human behavior as written by Bizarro!" The Humans Rob Paulsen, Tress MacNeille, Jess Harnell, Maurice LaMarche, Bernadette Peters. The Nutshell The Warner brothers, and their … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Disney MSRP: $42.99RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 150 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES: • Extended version with enhanced special effects and an extended battle scene• Commentary by director Andrew Adamson, production designer Roger Ford and producer Mark Johnson• Commentary by child stars Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley and Anna Popplewell with director Andrew … Continue reading
We’re just weeks away from the release of Smokin’ Aces, the gonzo new Joe Carnahan shoot-em-up. I know a number of message board regulars have seen the film in the last couple of weeks, and the response seems to be uniformly “kicks ass.” There have been a couple of cool updates in the world of … Continue reading
I keep on meaning to write about the total clusterfuck surrounding Weinstein Co’s Factory Girl, the George Hickenlooper biopic about Edie Sedgewick. I touched on it briefly a couple of weeks ago when Bob Dylan’s lawyers threatened to sue the fuck out of the movie for possibly claiming that Edie died due to negligence by … Continue reading
A terrible thing happened to our nation in September of 2001 – Aqua Teen Hunger Force went on the air. Now it’s getting a movie, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters, and the fans of the anthropomorphic happy meal will get to see them on the big screen this March. All of … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: Click HereSTUDIO: Warner Bros.MSRP: $39.98RATED: TV-PGRUNNING TIME: 378 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:•Various Featurettes The Pitch “It‘s Masters of Horror (but without all the unwarranted false bravado) meets Are You Afraid of the Dark." The Humans A cavalcade of stars, including (but not limited to), Steven Weber, Kim Delaney, Claire Forlaney, William H. Macy, … Continue reading
UPDATED! Update follows at the endMovies get bounced around the release schedule all the time, but rarely is there as big and sudden a leap as Hollywood Pictures has made with their giant crocodile-but- we-want-you- to-think-it’s-a-serial-killer movie Primeval, which has moved from April to… January 12, two weeks from now! That’s a big change, which … Continue reading
Smell is, unless you’re John Waters and in possession of a few hundred Odorama cards, the toughest thing to get across in cinema. Most films rely on Pavolovian reactions to visuals to indicate the ideas of smells, but rarely try to actually get odor across. Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer, in his adaptation of … Continue reading