How were we with Ed Harris’s Pollock? I thought his directorial debut was an emotionally astute examination of the volatile abstract artist – though Martin Scorsese covered that ground better and more tersely in "Life Lessons" (his segment of the hit-miss-hit omnibus New York Stories). I haven’t felt compelled to revisit Harris’s film since its … Continue reading →
FYI, I’m a big enough sap to look at this poster and get all teary over the invocation of a completely different movie. And while I doubt it was anyone’s intention to get me wondering when Paramount Home Entertainment is going to cough up a Searching for Bobby Fischer SE, that’s primarily what the above … Continue reading →
Wizard magazine has learned from its masters well. Like Stan Lee, whose diahhretically verbose editorials used a lot of words to say very little, the magazine is able to spin a little bit of quoted straw into feature gold. There’s a lot of text flying over there about Gavin Hood’s Wolverine (it’s still so weird … Continue reading →
After I finally made the decision to move to LA, I had to figure out how to do it in reality. I hate moving, and most of my big moving experiences had been within sixty miles of New York City. I’ve actually moved as far as seven blocks and found it to be a harrowing … Continue reading →
Casting. The Desperate Frontier. This is the phase of pre-production currently faced by J.J. Abrams and the other creatives behind Paramount’s Star Trek reboot. Their hopefully-no-longer -than-one-month mission: to assemble an attractive group of twenty/thirtysomethings who a) remind us of our favorite original Trek characters without b) coming off as banally handsome facsimiles. To achieve … Continue reading →
Hey, look what ‘leaked’ on to the internet – a three minute clip from the profanely hilarious (and incredibly smart and sweet) Superbad, the next film from the people behind The 40-Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up. It’s a great scene where Jonah Hill’s character explains why he doesn’t like the girl who Michael Cera’s … Continue reading →
Treat this rumor as nothing more than wishful thinking. If our favorite directors said yes to everything offered them we’d be inundated with all sorts of great flicks. Guillermo del Toro’s Creature from the Black Lagoon, James Cameron’s Spider-Man, Kevin Smith’s The Green Hornet, and Harmony Korine’s MEG are but a few… IESB, fresh off … Continue reading →
When I first heard of Crossing Over, I wondered why anyone thought a feature-length film about communicating with the dead would work. About two milliseconds later when I actually read the description of it, I thought the border/immigration drama starring Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, and Sean Penn would be notable given the convenient rehashing of … Continue reading →
World of Warcraft is a weird game in that all of my friends who obsessively play it aren’t rank and file nerds. I know guys whose diets are mainly made up of coke, booze and pussy who log hours a night playing WOW. Actually, it’s also a weird game because it’s so unbelievably boring and … Continue reading →
Hi, I’m Devin Faraci, and I’m the guy who is always saying how good an actor Channing Tatum could be if he was given the right roles, despite his Tiger Beat image. This kid is the goods*. Now Tatum is reteaming with the director who got the most out of him, Dito Montiel. Dito wrote … Continue reading →