David Cronenberg is a monster, and I mean that with respect. He’s created as impressive a body of work as any director in cinema. Over the course of a thirty-year transformation from artistically minded horror filmmaker to true artist, he’s taken genre filmmaking into deeply emotional territory, finally reaching a place where ‘genre’ doesn’t apply. … Continue reading
By all rights I should hate the films of Cameron Crowe. They’re all essentially good natured, and sweet, and about the best qualities of people. I hate that stuff. But what makes his films work for me – hell, more than work; Crowe is one of my favorite modern filmmakers – is the fact that … Continue reading
By all rights I should hate the films of Cameron Crowe. They’re all essentially good natured, and sweet, and about the best qualities of people. I hate that stuff. But what makes his films work for me – hell, more than work; Crowe is one of my favorite modern filmmakers – is the fact that … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: DisneyMSRP: $29.99RATED: PGRUNNING TIME: 109 min.SPECIAL FEATURES:• Commentary tracks• Making of featurette• Deleted scenes I haven’t read Douglas Adams’ novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (or its follow-ups) since high school, which I’m sad and mildly horrified to say was nearly half my lifetime ago, so I don’t … Continue reading
I’ve started fresh with the Graboid, going for a more polished and tougher perspective. If you get them from now on it’ll be because you’re an astute fan of movies. I’m not going to make it easy and it’s going to be from something I either like or find it fun to put on the … Continue reading
The house was on the hill. I was invited there under the guise of a certain anthropologist and his crew, which consisted of an ESP expert and an heir to the Estate. The first night was rather uneventful, but as they wore on, something was off. Noise came from every corner. Voices emerged out of … Continue reading
It’s like the battle of Serenity Valley all over again. The numbers are in and the Browncoats lost – Joss Whedon’s Serenity underperformed at the box office this weekend in a pretty big way, making it incredibly unlikely that there will ever be a sequel. Across America something under 1 million fans are scratching their … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: DimensionMSRP: $29.99RATED: PGRUNNING TIME: 93 min.SPECIAL FEATURES:• Creating “Sharkboy and Lavagirl” with Racer Max• Feature Commentary with Director Robert Rodriguez• 4 pairs of 3-D glasses The Pitch “It’s The NeverEnding Story on Texas loco weed!“ The Humans Taylor Lautner, Taylor Dooley, Cayden Boyd, David Arquette (8 Legged Freaks), Kristin … Continue reading
I’ve started fresh with the Graboid, going for a more polished and tougher perspective. If you get them from now on it’ll be because you’re an astute fan of movies. I’m not going to make it easy and it’s going to be from something I either like or find it fun to put on the … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: PalmMSRP: $24.98RATED: UnratedRUNNING TIME: N/ASPECIAL FEATURES:• Four short films• Two interview featurettes• 56-page art booklet This volume of the Palm Directors Label series, featuring Stéphane Sednaoui, is pretty skimpy on the biographical details. There’s a reason the title is prefaced by The Work Of… Rather than focus on the … Continue reading