I wouldn’t mind having Stuart Beattie’s career. It started out rocky – Joey! (and not the one who is on Dancing with the Stars now, either) – but after Pirates of the Caribbean he’s been adding interesting and diverse movies to his resume. Collateral, Derailed (which sucked dick, but who knows at what point that … Continue reading
William Dafoe has joined the cast of Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected, yet another entry in the Holocaust Clown genre. Dafoe joins Jeff Goldblum in this adaptation of Yoram Kaniuk’s novel about a circus clown spared the Nazi gas chambers so he could entertain Jews being marched to their deaths. Goldblum plays the clown, while Dafoe … Continue reading
"Film criticism is effectively dead… I would love to take credit for killing it with my badly written reviews, but it was the blogs and audiences that did it. Audiences really democratized film reviewing on the Internet." That’s Chris Gore in a Variety article about the 10th anniversary of “fanboy” film sites. I won’t bother … Continue reading
The only thing worse than a potentially interesting film getting shelved is a potentially interesting film getting shelved and then brought back to life with Steve Oedekerk signed to write it. Tim Burton’s take on the life and adventures of Ripley, of Ripleys Believe It Or Not! (also the name of the movie) fame, was … Continue reading
The We Are Marshall junket took place on a particularly cold weekend, even for New York City in December. That must have been tough on Matthew Fox, who has spent the last couple of years living in Hawaii while he shoots Lost. Plus, the junket began at a punishing 9:15 in the morning – but … Continue reading
Jamie Foxx has presence. I don’t know if it’s the kind of presence that only comes with winning an Oscar, as I never got a chance to meet him before he got his for Ray, but he didn’t just enter the roundtable room at the Dreamgirls junket, he filled it. A big part of that … Continue reading
This summer I was in Mexico City for a couple of days, and when I wasn’t brushing my teeth with bottled water, I was visiting the set of Resident Evil: Extinction. The picture picks up years after the finale of Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and zombies have mostly taken over the world. Alice, played by Milla … Continue reading
Movies can be wonderful entertainment, but they can also be something more – a way of telling stories about important things going on in the world around us. Trade is a movie like that, a film that focuses on the horrors of international sex trafficking. Here’s the official synopsis from Lionsgate: Adriana (Paulina Gaitan) is … Continue reading
Last week the online community of journalists got an email from Universal publicity, the gist of which was “When you go to junkets don’t hound the talent for autographs, photographs or ask them to record special messages. Act professionally or we’re going to freeze you out.” This email came on the heels of Paramount’s latest … Continue reading