Will Rocky Balboa be Sylvester Stallone’s last chance? It’s easy to forget that Rocky was a celebrated film, and that Stallone earned both Best Actor and Best Screenplay Oscar nominations for it in 1977 (by the way, getting those two nods for the same film put Stallone in the same company as Charlie Chaplin and … Continue reading
Last night I had a chance to talk with Alexander Aja, the director The Hills Have Eyes – a movie I liked so much that you can look for my pull quotes on TV commercials right now. We’ll run the full interview – where he discusses what the MPAA cut, why rape scenes should be … Continue reading
We have exclusive new images for you from an interesting new film – Asia Argento’s adaptation of JT Leroy’s memoir The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things. It’s an interesting film because there is no JT Leroy – it’s a literary hoax; I guess some thing are deceitful above the heart after all. Even James … Continue reading
We have exclusive new images for you from an interesting new film – Asia Argento’s adaptation of JT Leroy’s memoir The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things. It’s an interesting film because there is no JT Leroy – it’s a literary hoax; I guess some thing are deceitful above the heart after all. Even James … Continue reading
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party is an ebullient, joyful, grooving, fun, funny, moving, ass-shaking, mood-elevating, pulse-quickening gem. It’s a movie that sends you dancing out of the theater, filled with glowing happiness and a peculiar optimism for the future of mankind. Dave Chappelle and Michel Gondry have come together to make a film that gets you … Continue reading
Brick is Rian Johnson’s debut as a director, and it’s an audacious one. Johnson, who also wrote the dense script, took a noir story and set it in a Southern California high school – and didn’t make a joke out of it. he makes the genre mash-up actually work, and he makes a really good … Continue reading
Brick is Rian Johnson’s debut as a director, and it’s an audacious one. Johnson, who also wrote the dense script, took a noir story and set it in a Southern California high school – and didn’t make a joke out of it. he makes the genre mash-up actually work, and he makes a really good … Continue reading
Calling 16 Blocks a bad film is selling it short. It’s often truly awful, a mess of confused geography (both real world and action), an improbably slothful pace, a lead actor showing about the same amount of effort I see in your average McDonalds lifer, and a subtext so grotesquely racist I couldn’t believe it. … Continue reading
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party was shot over a year ago, in the fall of 2004, but the film has been worth the wait. Dave – before his current rounds of troubles and controversy – wanted to use his new fame to do something cool. He settled on a free concert in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, featuring some … Continue reading
It wasn’t easy picking a winner from the many great entries we received for the Stay Alive poster contest, but what drew me to this one, by Heath K., was the simplicity. It’s a classy image, one that would look nice hanging on a wall. Heath now goes on to the finals, along with winners … Continue reading