You may remember reading something recently about the fracas surrounding Atom Egoyan’s new film, Where the Truth Lies. The movie earned itself an NC-17, thanks to a three-way sex scene between Colin Firth, Kevin Bacon and Rachel Blanchard. In the end the decision was made to release the film unrated rather than accept the MPAA’s … Continue reading
Shane Black’s new film, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, is one of my favorite this year. It’s like nothing I have seen in a long time, the kind of movie that’s so much fun and has so much going on that you can’t wait to see it again. It’s jammed to the edges of the frame … Continue reading
Shane Black’s new film, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, is one of my favorite this year. It’s like nothing I have seen in a long time, the kind of movie that’s so much fun and has so much going on that you can’t wait to see it again. It’s jammed to the edges of the frame … Continue reading
Once he’s done adapting a book I have read, Mike Newell may move on to adapting one of the perennial inhabitants of my “To Read” pile (which just keeps getting bigger by the year, as I keep believing the fiction that if I buy the book I will read it) – Love in the Time … Continue reading
To get into the proper mindset for this article, I recommend you immediately put on Kanye West’s Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix). That’s because this article is about the decision of my neighbor, Jennifer Connelly, to join the cast of The Blood Diamond with Leonardo DiCaprio. I know that The Blood Diamond sounds like the … Continue reading
Mike Myers is solidifying his position as a force for evil in Hollywood – not only is he signed on for two more Shrek films, and not only is he going to be playing Keith Moon in a biopic (seriously, I can’t get my fucking head around how wrong that is. Was Starr Jones unavailable?), … Continue reading
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Hold on to your bladders, Harry Potter fans. The new film in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, is weighing in at 157 minutes, making it the longest in the series. That’s almost two hours and forty minutes, for those of you mathematically impaired in the audience. Goblet of Fire was at … Continue reading
George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck (I can’t seem to bring myself to punctuate it like the poster) is one of the year’s best films, and one of the great films in recent times. It’s a sober, factual and meticulous recreation of CBS News when anchor Edward R Murrow took on the Red-baiting Senator … Continue reading
Hollywood, fully embracing its creative bankruptcy, has yet again turned to an epic poem to be the inspiration for a movie. The poem is Paradise Lost, which is one of those literary works that everyone knows enough to pretentiously reference but hasn’t actually read. It’s the story of Lucifer’s fall from heaven and his subsequent … Continue reading