It’s the week after The King Of Kong opened to great reviews and good numbers for a limited release, and director Seth Gordon already has two new projects lined up. So why am I not happy for him? For starters, because one is a dramatic remake of The King of Kong which…well, put it this … Continue reading
This monday post-Superbad, not much is happening. Jonah Hill and Michael Cera are waking up from their box-office orgy, hoping that their cold feet don’t have to touch each other and wondering if it’s going to be more awkward between them now that they have to stare across piles of money. I hear Judd Apatow … Continue reading
Thanks to an inopportune slot in the August release schedule, I can’t help stacking The Ten up against Superbad, and it’s never going to win that contest. The difference is that while The Ten, a comic collection of stories based on the ten commandments, is funny and unwilling to set arbitrary content limitations and taboos, … Continue reading
Over the last few weeks I’ve seen Superbad more than once and had innumerable conversations about it. The dialogues all start the same way: ‘is it actually funny?’ When I emphatically assure friends, enemies and Republicans that it is fucking hilarious, not merely ‘funny’, I’m always met with the same rebuttal: ‘really?’ I can see … Continue reading
Put yourself in Oliver Hirschbiegel’s shoes. You’ve made several films, two of which broke out of Germany to international success: das Experiment and Downfall. You’re presented with a major studio opportunity to rework Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but with a script that casts the alien invasion as the sort of fascist takeover you’ve already … Continue reading
UPDATED! Scroll down below the first poster for the new goods. Alright, this is a lot better. After the filigree and font-heavy design of the first one-sheet, I’m psyched for the old-school simplicity of this new design. It’s stark and simple, like some of the ’60s and ’70s western posters I used to have on … Continue reading
You loved her in Grindhouse. Or did you? I loved Zoe Bell in Tarantino’s Death Proof, but a lot of people didn’t take to her untrained delivery — it wasn’t natural but awkward. Now Bell’s been tapped to star in an as yet untitled picture by Marco Weber and Senator Entertainment, the US arm of … Continue reading
A couple years ago I saw a really bizarre flick: John Turturro’s pseudo-musical Romance & Cigarettes. (Click here and scroll down to read the original festival coverage.) A few other people saw it, too, at the Venice film fest and in a limited European release. But the US rights have been tied up in red … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: RhinoMSRP: $19.99RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 179 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:More Things That HappenedLynch 2BallerinaQuinoaStoriesTrailersStills The Humans Laura Dern; Justin Theraux; Harry Dean Stanton; Jeremy Irons; William H. Macy; Diane Ladd; Peter J. Lucas; Karolina Gruszka; Grace Zabriske The Nutshell Actress Nikki Grace (Laura Dern) is waiting to get a big part in … Continue reading
What happens when the director who’s top on your list wants ten million? Roll ’em out and move on, that’s what. According to IESB, that figure is the reason Lorenzo diBonaventura and Stephen Sommers are passing on one another, leaving G.I. Joe hanging like a lost little child in the middle of a divorce. Hey … Continue reading