Collider.com’s Mr Beaks has seen the next Sam Mendes movie, Jarhead, and he offers some trenchant criticism of the flick. What’s most interesting to me is that Beaks notices what I worried about – the current war in Iraq, which has seen dozens of Marines killed in just the last week and change, really makes … Continue reading
Joe Lovero. That’s the guy we’ll have to blame for what sounds like yet another of the "high concept" comedies that Jim Carrey used to do all the time. Except this time we’ll be stuck with Seann William Scott. The Book of Leo is about a guy who, as he approaches his 30th birthday, decides … Continue reading
Hey remember when Neil Young wrote that awful song Let’s Roll? Holy shit, it’s hard to believe that was the same guy who wrote Rocking in the Free World. By the way, I thought for about six weeks that he had written a song about Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. But now that "Let’s roll" has … Continue reading
There’s only one time that a film rating becomes a news story, as far as I’m concerned, and that’s when a serious piece of work gets slathered with an NC-17 kiss of death. The NC-17 was created to be an alternative to the X rating, which the MPAA lamely never copyrighted, and which soon came … Continue reading
There are a lot of things I like about the 21st century, but chief among them might be the weird state of movies in the post-Internet world. I am going to go out on a limb here, but I think that there is a whole generation of film goers – maybe some of you reading … Continue reading
There are a lot of things I like about the 21st century, but chief among them might be the weird state of movies in the post-Internet world. I am going to go out on a limb here, but I think that there is a whole generation of film goers – maybe some of you reading … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago Brendan Fraser let drop that there was a third Mummy film coming. Today Rachel Weisz, his co-star in the first two films of the franchise, was in town promoting her new film The Constant Gardener, and while we didn’t get much time with her, I did have a chance to … Continue reading
Here’s an idea that I find sort if irresistible – the Watergate scandal and the fall of the Nixon presidency as seen through the eyes of the wives. Nip/Tuck (read Nick’s latest DVD review) creator Ryan Murphy seems to feel the same way, so he is making a movie out of the play Dirty Tricks, … Continue reading
Today I spoke with the venerable Ralph "Don’t call me Ralph" Fiennes, who was in town promoting his new film, The Constant Gardener, based on the John LeCarre novel. Of course Ralph is starring in the next Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, as the evil Lord Voldemort, returned to full … Continue reading
I’ve known Brady Hall, the writer and director the very indie feature June & July, for a couple of years – almost completely through the Internet. When he sent me a rough cut of his film on DVD I can’t say I was expecting much – the guy’s previous movies had titles like Polterchrist and … Continue reading