Last week I headed over to Newark International Airport to see the last day of principal photography of Paul Greengrass’ 9/11 film, Flight 93. It was a great opportunity to finally meet Paul, with whom I spent a number of hours on the phone in 2005. Paul’s one of the friendliest, most gregarious people of … Continue reading
One minute you’re only familiar to fans of made-for-TV junk and bad 80s movies and Highlander II (the Renegade version, naturally)… and one critically acclaimed wine movie later, you’re suddenly working with Bruce Willis and Robert Altman and presenting awards with co-star/drunken curmudgeon Harrison Ford, and your agent is calling with more high-profile opportunities. That’s … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
In March of 2005 the internet broke the story that Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film would be based on Upton Sinclair’s 1920s novel Oil!, and would star Daniel Day Lewis. That film seemed to fade away – it turns out PTA wasn’t able to raise the funds to make the movie independently. Now it’s back, … Continue reading
There’s a good joke to be found in a time travel movie that’s got a very familiar plot. Universal has picked up a pitch for a movie that sounds like Peggy Sue Got Married Meets Back to the Future, titled How Soon Is Now? (aka, the most sadly overabused and overcovered Smiths song. And my … Continue reading
I was a fan of John Singleton’s ludicrous revenge film Four Brothers, and I have to give him respect for producing Hustle & Flow, but I do have to draw the line somewhere, and that line is drawn where it comes to a movie that might require an actually technically proficient director. The movie, in … Continue reading
Even though it hasn’t officially arrived in the US of A, Park Chan-Wook’s Lady Vengeance (aka Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) still made the Best of 2005 lists of Devin (HERE), Russ (HERE) and myself (HERE), and it’ll probably show up on quite a few more when moviegoers assemble their own 2006 lists in about 11 months. … Continue reading
I’m not quite ready to eat my words, but Jared Leto looks like he might be willing to. Along with anything else on my plate. The hunk has gained a couple of pounds, it would seem, for his role as John Lennon’s killer Mark David Chapman in Chapter 27. A month or so ago I … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!LABEL: Sony ClassicalMSRP: $18.98TRACKS: 15MUSIC BY: John Williams I don’t know if controversial is the right term, but John Williams’ scores for the Star Wars prequels have certainly provided the material for much discussion over the previous six years since 1999’s The Phantom Menace. Of course, the music for the … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: Warner Brothers MSRP: $19.94 RATED: PG-13 RUNNING TIME: 136 Minutes SPECIAL FEATURES: • Commentary by Nick Redman, David Weddle, Paul Seydor and Garner Simmons • Alternate 2005 score• Riding For A Fall — stunt featurette (2 versions)• Excerpt from Mike Siegel’s ‘Passion and Poetry’ documentary• Trailers (This is … Continue reading