I’m a big fan of the horror genre. If you’ve read any of my reviews around here, you may have picked up on my intellectual love of morality plays, or you may have picked up on the fact that I desperately want you to think I have an intellect. My favorite horror flicks tend to … Continue reading →
If it weren’t already obvious enough that Harvey Weinstein is desperately trying to duplicate the success of Chicago with the company’s forthcoming stage-to-screen transfer of Maury Yeston’s Nine, the old Troll of Tribeca just made his aspirations official by hiring the highly regarded Michael Tolkin to flesh out the musical’s book for director Rob Marshall. … Continue reading →
John Leguizamo may be a great actor, but his presence in a movie is not a guarantor of quality; for every Carlito’s Way there are far too many Spawns. So while the idea of Leguizamo teaming up with Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel on M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening might sound promising, remember that some … Continue reading →
I have not read Claire Messud’s novel, The Emperor’s Children, but even if it is a terrible book, it seems like there is the skeleton of a good movie here. You don’t have to be an Ivy Leaguer to relate to the idea of three Brown University grads who, years after moving to New York … Continue reading →
Last night I underwent a rite of Los Angeles passage: I went to my first test screening. Many of the interweb writers out here make it a regular point to hit up these test screenings, and they have all sorts of connections and people on the inside who hook them up with date and location … Continue reading →
If you didn’t read the first part of this now three-part series, it’ll look like I’m just randomly categorizing 2007 movies. If you did read the first part of this now three-part series, you’ll know I’m just randomly categorizing 2007 movies. You can go back and catch up if you want, but, because I know … Continue reading →
Now that twenty-eight-year-old Sarah Polley has established herself as a filmmaker of some talent with the deeply affecting Away from Her, I’d love to see her apply an equal degree of discernment when it comes to taking acting gigs. Polley is incredibly smart. She obviously knows from good material. So there’s no earthly excuse for … Continue reading →
No need to inveigh against the Weinsteins for once again acquiring a quality film and shelving it due to marketing neglect/ineptitude; whatever harm they did to All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, it’ll be undone by the good folks at Senator U.S., which will distribute the brainy take on the slasher flick in early 2008 … Continue reading →
I’ve written nice things about Steven Awalt and his site, SpielbergFilms.com, so I was a little shocked to see him getting not just uppity about me, but downright personally insulting. There’s a thread on his site’s message boards that links to Moriarty’s recent Indy IV Rumor Control article on Aint It Cool News; in that … Continue reading →
I never saw Ace Ventura 2 because the first one was so awful, so inept and so unfunny that viewing it almost turned me into the kind of brain-dead motard that makes up the film’s target audience. That there are enough people who lack enough of a properly formed sense of humor to have turned … Continue reading →