After seven years served in Director Jail for The Cell, one of the most incomprehensibly awful films of the last decade, Tarsem Singh has been released back into the Hollywood system. He will direct The Unforgettable, which is based on a video game called The Condemned: Criminal Origins. Just to confuse the issue, the film … Continue reading
Hot off his Live Free or Die Hard triumph (riding high with an 80% "fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes), the incomparable Len Wiseman is ready to receive another critical pass with his remake of Escape from New York, the twenty-six-year-old relic that’s been rendered unwatchable due to its plentiful matte paintings and an unforgivable absence … Continue reading
I am woefully unqualified to assemble a film canon. Though I have devoured films and books on films, and actually made a few short films (the most distinguished being "Crisis in the Golan Heights", which consists of my friend Volney chasing my other friend Phil all over a crowded Athens, Ohio thoroughfare in the middle … Continue reading
Between Evan Rachel Wood’s manly alto and Jim Sturgess breaking out into "I’ve Just Seen a Face" in a bowling alley, I’m confident that Across the Universe has the potential to be the career-killing feat of creative hubris it’s been rumored to be since last March. And now that Julie Taymor’s struck out with (ostensibly) … Continue reading
I was going to lead with a not-very-clever joke about Ice Cube reimagining Blake Edward’s 10 as the ribald tale of a married hip-hop producer who, in the midst of a midlife crisis, falls for an unattainable beauty (Rihanna, the new Uhura herself!), but what’s so funny about that which could be in development at … Continue reading
Who would’ve thought a documentary about two nerds battling it out for the title of World’s Greatest Donkey Kong Player would wind up being the summer’s most exhilarating movie? When I first heard about Seth Gordon’s King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, I was expecting something along the lines of Chris Smith’s American Movie, … Continue reading
In 2001, Scott McGehee and David Siegel went from being two audaciously talented indie filmmakers to a couple of above-average stylists. We know this to be fact because no one throws down for The Deep End anymore unless they’re closing out the easy-to-make case for Tilda Swinton as a great actress. As for Suture, it’s … Continue reading
They already revealed his real name was "John" (thus confirming our suspicions that Carrie Bradshaw was always meant to be viewed as a high-class hooker)! What more do we need out of Chris Noth’s "Mr. Big" in a Sex & the City movie? Wait, why do we need a Sex & the City movie again? … Continue reading
There are lots of little disappointments peppering the trailer for Dan in Real Life: there’s the realization that the once interesting writer Peter Hedges is now a third-rate James L. Brooks; there’s the sight of Dianne Wiest, which reminds you that Dianne Wiest doesn’t work nearly enough anymore (I don’t watch Law & Order; that’s … Continue reading
The 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta have been a font for unintentional comedy. These were the Olympics that gave us the gold medal winning Brian Boitano (now best known as a provider of life lessons to the South Park boys) and the Jamaican Bobsled Team, forever immortalized in the Jon Turteltaub-directed cable mainstay, Cool … Continue reading