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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
“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 →
Any time I mention Djimon Hounsou, I have to fight the urge to do two things. One is making any sort of joke that involves Digimon (thanks, Nick!) or Moon Knight. Two, which is just barely more important, is to not immediately mentally replay his death scene from Deep Rising in a loop. You see, … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →