FOR NO GOOD REASON: JEREMY PINCHES OFF THE OSCAR NOMINATIONS
And gets everything right. As usual.
And gets everything right. As usual.
A jittery pastiche of more movies than I care to list, J.J. Abrams’s Cloverfield is thankfully as entertaining as it is shameless. It may be a case study in "stealing from the best", but Abrams and his co-conspirators (director Matt Reeves and screenwriter Drew Goddard) are so brazen with their smash-and-grab aesthetic that you almost … Continue reading
For many, the notion that John Carpenter is actually going to direct his first feature in seven years will come as a huge surprise; for me, the only shock is that he’s going to shoot it during the NBA Playoffs. Fucker must really like this script. According to ShockTillYouDrop.com, John Carpenter’s return to ‘Scope* is … Continue reading
You’ll get a better look at her tomorrow (i.e. if you go to see Cloverfield), but here’s your very first glimpse of J.J. Abrams’s Starship Enterprise (via Moviefone). As expected, the ship appears to be a little antiquated compared to later models (turbines, huh?), but, otherwise, it looks roughly like every other Enterprise up top. … Continue reading
Am I ready for the return of The X-Files? Oh, yeah. I just hope you’re not expecting a continuation of the show’s alien colonization narrative. According to Carter, "We spent a lot of time on [the mythology] and wrapped up a lot of threads. We want a stand-alone movie, not a mythology conspiracy one." This … Continue reading
Call me a big ‘mo, but I kinda liked what Chris Columbus did with Rent. All told, it was probably his best work since Adventures in Babysitting. Nearly twenty years separate those films, so I have a feeling it’ll be a while before Columbus fucks up and makes another good movie. In the meantime, we’re … Continue reading
Time to pop open a can of smashed assholes. David Twohy’s next movie is a go! Looking over David Twohy’s oeuvre, I see nothing but a bunch of movies I like: Pitch Black, The Arrival, Below and The Chronicles of Riddick. I wouldn’t categorize any of these as classics, but they are thoroughly entertaining B … Continue reading
Even if Cloverfield does not crack $40 million this weekend (as at least one box office observer expects), it’s safe to say the Martin Luther King holiday has been transformed from an opportune spot on the schedule for MTV Films’ latest teen skewing piece of shit to a legitimate off-season launching pad for… tough-to-market, modestly … Continue reading
There is a sizable enough British contingent within the Academy to give pause as the BAFTAs honor Atonement with fourteen nominations (as opposed to the nine snared by No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood), but I fear it’s too late for this sudden flush of success to qualify as a significant … Continue reading
I was unimpressed with the red-band Semi-Pro trailer we linked to a while back, but I’m open to the idea that this is a more of a character-based comedy than a gag-a-second affair (kinda like The Foot Fist Way), in which case the trailer could be a tad misleading. And if you’re wondering why I’m … Continue reading