The Crop: Frost/Nixon The Studio: Universal The Director: Opie Cunningham! Opie Cunningham! Opie Cunningham! The Writer: Peter Morgan The Producers: Howard, Brian Grazer, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner The Actors: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones, Matthew Macfadyen The Premise: British talk show host David Frost’s televised interrogation of Richard M. Nixon in … Continue reading →
The other day my brother said to me, ‘Everything you write in The Devin’s Advocate is about something you hate.’ I don’t agree with that sentiment*, but I see where he’s coming from. Like all brilliant, creative people I crave feedback, so I tend to write things that are geared to get a reaction. Plus … Continue reading →
ABC’s Good Morning, America is one of those shows that broadcasts to folks a couple generations ahead of me. People who saw The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in their first runs. This might, in part, explain why Paul Newman chose a relatively quiet appearance on the show last last week to … Continue reading →
With the ever increasing PR thunder surrounding Halo 3, it’s been easy to forget the video game franchise with low-hanging balls of titanium also had a film aiming to beat the "video game movies suck" standard of property licensing. Many swore the project would fail. I remained the optimist*, which had me weeping pathetic and … Continue reading →
The Brothers Solomon has the creepiest poster of the year. I’m not one of those guys who can’t take the sight of a gloriously pregnant woman. Usually it is, indeed, glorious. Especially when the kid ain’t mine. But the belly on display here is just so…big. It’s almost like it holds the combined manpower of … Continue reading →
Doing this the right way, counting back as it was back in the day. One a day. Discuss it right here. Previous deaths: 100, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 91, 90, 89, 88, 87, 86, 85, 84, 83, 82, 81, 80. Enjoy!* # 79 – Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood … Continue reading →
One of the films I most wanted to see at Toronto last year was Fido. It’s the story of a zombie-infested town that has been ‘saved’ by ZomCon, a company that specializes in zombie control. The sleepy burg (which is als o appraently stuck in the ’50s) now has zombie mailmen, housekeepers and, when little … Continue reading →
While this trailer’s opening scenes of our gal working a pole at a “scrip” club may prove frightfully prescient, Lindsay Lohan’s I Know Who Killed Me is not in fact a film about stripping, exactly. It’s a generic-looking dual identity thriller in the vein of Stay or The Number 23 (Yeah, I know. I can … Continue reading →
You know how to get me excited about the synthesis of games and film? John Lassiter needs to get on stage at ShoWest and announce that Pixar is developing a film based on Will Wright’s Spore. I would probably lose it, if only for a minute. Until this morning, I thought that one other name … Continue reading →
This week will see the next series of mini-featurettes about Grizzly Park, my maiden voyage into producing a feature. Directed by the enigmatic Tom Skull [I don’t know his legal name], it’s a nice cocktail of horror and comedy that we’ll hopefully be seeing in theaters later this year. Here’s the eighth video, Trevor Peterson … Continue reading →