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HARTNETT GOES POST-MODERN

Somewhere in any top ten list of ‘important’ authors from the past fifty years resides Don DeLillo. Composer of novels that are somewhere between those of Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth, his books tell the story of the 20th and 21st centuries in a unique, if occasionally long-winded fashion. As dense as his work is, … Continue reading

MARKY MARK FEELS MAX PAYNE

I can’t say I dig everything he’s been doing, but Mark Wahlberg is on a hell of a roll. Fresh from The Departed he had Shooter and We Own The Night, and he’s already jumped to The Lovely Bones and, um, Shyamalan’s The Happening. Now there’s a new addition to his burgeoning slate: Max Payne, … Continue reading

SUSAN SARANDON’S A LOVELY LAUGH RIOT

My biggest worry with Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones has been that the tone might not match up to the haunting beauty of the screenplay. As we all know, Jackson has a tendency to go garish with his situations and characterizations; this is fine for The Frighteners or even Heavenly Creatures, … Continue reading

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE IV

The trailer for Valkyrie, the Tom Cruise in a Nazi uniform and eyepatch movie, has debuted at Yahoo! movies. It’s one of those trailers that gives the whole movie away, but I guess there’s no harm in that, since anybody with a brain knows the plan to kill Hitler failed. There are three things I … Continue reading

GUILLERMO DEL TORO IS A CHAMPION

Guillermo del Toro has added another item to his already heaping plate of future projects. He’ll be writing, directing and producing a movie version of an obscure British TV series, The Champions, for United Artists. The Champions ran for 30 episodes from 1968 to 1969, and it was about a secret UN trio called Nemesis … Continue reading