Josh Strawberry is a long-time, trusted friend, and when he asked me if I would like some reviews of films playing at Sundance, I jumped at the chance. I had wanted to go this year, but it didn’t work out, so it’s nice to get a little insight into some of the films playing in … Continue reading
The Mist is rolling into production, and the Frank Darabont film (his third take on Mr. Stephen King) has added two new cast members: Andre Braugher – a guy who should really be more famous and more of a leading man than he is now – and Laurie Holden, who last met up with the … Continue reading
I got back from the UK yesterday afternoon. For the first time in my life, I slept through almost an entire flight – between take-off and the final descent into JFK I think I was awake for about 20 minutes. This means I don’t have much more by way of critique of A Game of … Continue reading
Seraphim Falls opens with Pierce Brosnan, swaddled in furs and high in the snowy mountains, making fire. Suddenly he’s shot in the shoulder and so begins a chase movie unlike any you’ve seen in quite some time. Brosnan, a former Yankee officer, is being chased by Liam Neeson, a former Confederate, down the mountains, over … Continue reading
In Tahoe, Joe Carnahan was all energy. I couldn’t imagine the guy being tired. Even at 2 in the morning, facing a flood of bad cards, the guy was crackling. Talking to him on the phone from Los Angeles on the day of the Smokin’ Aces junket, I got to hear what an exhausted Carnahan … Continue reading
Jet lag hovers over me at all times. When I finally pass out Monday night at 1am it’s really 8 to my body. When I wake up at 5am it’s really midnight to me. There’s something grossly disorienting about waking up far too early in the local time zone and yet at a completely bizarre … Continue reading
This contains no news. It is not terribly interesting. It’s just a bloggy recap of my first day in London. Read no further if you could care less. If you read further, don’t complain about a lack of relevance. All relevance has been carefully removed from this piece by experts. When I arrived in London, … Continue reading
One of the oddest choices of the Spider-Man franchise thus far has been the inclusion of Dr. Curt Connors, played by Dylan Baker (a man who has done a fantastic job of overcoming a very signature role of cinema’s creepiest pedophile in Happiness), in all three movies. Fans of the comics know that Dr. Connors … Continue reading
Rumpled and cynical, Clive Owen was like a noir character let loose in an apocalyptic landscape in Children of Men. The actor also explored some noir-ish territory in Sin City (and, to an extent, in the terrible Derailed) and even in Croupier, the movie that made his name in the US. Now he’s taking his … Continue reading
In October I went to Lake Tahoe, Nevada, to see Smokin’ Aces, Joe Carnahan’s follow-up to the great crime film Narc. I stayed in the hotel where the movie was shot, and after the screening I, along with a couple of other journalists, had dinner and then went gambling with Joe. We played blackjack until … Continue reading