Ever mindful of keeping his options open, Tony Scott has added to his stable of post-Taking of the Pelham One Two Three projects with an untitled biopic on the life of Don Aronow, a construction millionaire whose passion for speedboat racing spawned the obnoxious Cigarette Boat – which became the go-to go-fast boat for South … Continue reading
It’s a bit premature to declare the post-9/11 Middle East drama a complete non-starter for American audiences (it used to be that baseball films were considered commercial poison), but one more box office disappointment (like, say, Robert Redford’s Lions for Lambs) could cause a citywide greenlight outage. This is why, looming WGA strike be damned … Continue reading
From the official Star Trek casting breakdown we ran back in August: [LEONARD(BONES)MCCOY] – 28-32 Medic on the Enterprise. Smart, clever and a bit danger-loving. Dark hair, blue eyes. And, now, Karl Urban’s vitals: Age: 35Hair: DarkEyes: Definitely not blue.Danger Threshold: LowFavorite Monkee: Peter Tork This is very near to an outrage, J.J. Abrams. And … Continue reading
It’s been a while since we’ve heard news on Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables: Capone Rising, but with the master filmmaker still making the press rounds in tireless defense/support of his exceptionally difficult (and I think brilliant) Redacted, it’s hardly a surprise to hear him say that the prequel to his biggest commercial success will … Continue reading
If Love in the Time of Cholera is fated to be one of this year’s worst films, then its long, leaden stomp toward wretched artlessness began when some moron hired a hack to film the words of a poet. It’s not screenwriter Ronald Harwood to whom I object; he did a fine job with The … Continue reading
The horror kids are getting all worked up over this French Inside picture (not this equally commendable, Made-In-America Inside picture), so I guess we’re all compelled to see it even though they lied about Hatchet*! Directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, Inside is a allegedly a taut home invasion flick in which an awful … Continue reading
What’s the difference between a dæmon and a demon? One could spend a good deal of column space and bore a great many readers differentiating between the two, so, for the purposes of this article, we shall define a dæmon as "a person’s attendant spirit" and a demon as "a film by Lamberto Bava".Unfortunately for … Continue reading
As a former fan of The O.C. who was so charmed by Season One that he stayed with it all the way through its dreadful, and mercifully final, Season Four, I have to admit that the idea of Adam Brody (aka nerdtagonist extraordinaire Seth Cohen) playing The Flash kinda works for me – i.e. provided … Continue reading
Sylvester Stallone didn’t get to be one of the most successful movie stars of the 1980s by ignoring the demands of his fan base. While he may be a long way past his blockbuster prime, Stallone is still savvy enough to know when anything from a story element to a title isn’t clicking with the … Continue reading
With one film, Paul Verhoeven’s masterful Black Book, Carice van Houten has proven herself the deadliest Nordic import since Lena Olin never mind my geographical ignorance, she just reminds me of Lena Olin. Combining the wanton sensuality and feral ruthlessness of Olin’s characters from The Unforgivable Lightness of Being and Romeo is Bleeding, van Houten’s … Continue reading