It wasn’t that long ago that no one would even consider making a film about 9/11. Now there’s a race to get one into theaters first. Oliver Stone’s still-untitled film about the last two people to be pulled from the rubble of the Twin Towers has been given a release date of the 11th – … Continue reading
It’s been eight years since Francis Ford Coppola last directed a movie. Or five if you count Supernova. But the last official FFC film was The Rainmaker, which was actually pretty good, if a touch generic for one of his films. Hey, at least it wasn’t Jack. Coppola’s been busy enough in the intervening years, … Continue reading
Devin: Serenity is going to come out and it’s going to do what it does. If it does well, you’ll come back for more, but either way I am sure Serenity II wouldn’t be the next thing you do. Is there another original project that you have percolating?Whedon: Well, there’s there’s Wonder Woman obviously. But … Continue reading
How badly does Flightplan stink? I’ve been sitting here coming up with lists of stinky cheeses and which athletes probably had the stinkiest feet, and I am still not finding anything comparable to the great stench that Flightplan will be laying in theaters starting this weekend. Interestingly it’s not the worst movie of the year, … Continue reading
I come to you not knowing how to take Dear Wendy, the new film written by Lars von Trier and directed by Thomas Vinterberg, the cofounders of the Dogme movement. More than Dogme, though, von Trier is best known these days for his films Dogville and Manderlay, which are both hypercritical of America – and … Continue reading
I guess it makes sense that New Line would want a sequel to this summer’s comedy smash The Wedding Crashers, but much like the other comedy blockbuster The 40 Year Old Virgin, the film just doesn’t seem to lend itself to sequalization. But I’m probably just not thinking big enough. Maybe a Wedding Crashers sequel … Continue reading
Did you catch the first half of my one on one interview with Joss Whedon? You can still read it by clicking right here. In that first part we talked about his new film, Serenity, which came out of the cancelled TV series Firefly. I have to say thanks to the people who had some … Continue reading
Did you catch the first half of my one on one interview with Joss Whedon? You can still read it by clicking right here. In that first part we talked about his new film, Serenity, which came out of the cancelled TV series Firefly. I have to say thanks to the people who had some … Continue reading
I just came from a press screening of the new Park Chanwook film, the third in his revenge-themed trilogy that began with Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and continued with Oldboy. Until today the new film was to be known in the United States as Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, but just before my screening Tartan, who … Continue reading
Earlier this year I had a chance to see one of 2005’s best horror films at the NY Asian Film Festival – the movie is called Three… Extremes, and it features short films from Park Chanwook, Takashi Miike and Fruit Chan. It’s like a Pan-Asia League of Genius! I’ll tell you right up front that … Continue reading