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We could simply cut and paste stories from Variety, but we don’t. We’re too amazing for that. We RETYPE articles from Variety…

WHEN RUSSELL CROWE MET LEO

I love it when an actor finds synergy with a director and works with them on multiple films because both parties are usually able to up each other’s game and bring a level of trust and freedom to a movie set that you simply could not have otherwise. Lately, we’ve been treated to more than … Continue reading

GOSLING MAKES JACKSON’S BONES

If Hugh Jackman really "passed" on The Lovely Bones (and this does seem to be the case), then consider Ryan Gosling a major upgrade of a second choice. Don’t take this as a slight against Jackman; he’s a fine actor who just turned in the best performance of his career a year ago in The … Continue reading

MORPHEUS TRIES ALCHEMY

Paulo Coelho, who wrote the best selling book The Alchemist, traffics in bullshit yuppie spirituality, kind of a better dressed Carlos Castaneda who just loves doing book signings. Check out ‘The Magus,’ a profile of Coelho in an issue of The New Yorker this past May – the guy acts like a rock star to … Continue reading

I FOUND YOUR SQUAD

Three cheers for 300. The "little" movie that could (and did) has reopened the doors for big concept, smaller-budget filmmaking where the unsuccessful experiment of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was labeled as having incidentally squeezed it shut*. Since 300‘s successful release (built on production chassis of Sky Cap‘s failure), it’s been interesting … Continue reading

THE DEVIN’S ADVOCATE: THE QUOTE

“Did you really like it?” That’s what my brother asked me when I told him that the first DVD to carry my quote was now in stores. My own brother. I understand where he’s coming from. Not only am I an opportunistic prick, but the world is filled with unbelievable, unsupportable quotes from disingenuous hacks … Continue reading

MO’ SPIDEY SEQUELS, MO’ VILLAINS

With the massive fiscal success and equally as massive critical and popular disdain for Spider-Man 3, Sony’s probably surer than ever that any collection of light and sound labeled “Spider-Man” that could run in a projector for 90 minutes or so would be an automatic money maker regardless of budget of quality. And they wouldn’t … Continue reading

THE WRONG ONDAATJE

Michael Ondaatje, the Booker Prize winning author of The English Patient, is too obdurately non-linear in his storytelling to churn out a commercial adaptation of Hitchcock’s silent non-classic The Lodger, but, given the project’s pedigree, I’d rather see an intellectual with an adventurous sense of narrative take on the Jack the Ripper-esque yarn than some … Continue reading

HEY TONY – GROUP SHOT!

Over the last few months we’ve been treated to some nicely geekgasmic photos from Jon Favreau’s upcoming Iron Man: the original suit, the shiny and steppin’ Mark 4 armor and Tony Stark with his chest of wonder.Since Entertainment Weekly is apparently Paramounts go-to for first-looks, we get yet another image taken from its pages. Though … Continue reading

THE DEVIN’S ADVOCATE: DIE HA_D

Tonight I saw a silly, but entertaining and ultimately enjoyable, Fox movie. But before paying to see Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, I attended a press screening of Live Free or Die Hard. I cannot give you my review of this cartoonish film that shares only a title and character name in common … Continue reading