If there’s one thing that grabs my attention more than a B-list actor starring in a film, it’s when a gaggle of them are in one film together. But there are gradients even amongst B-actors, and it’s only fair to make the distinction. For example, even though I would call them both B-actors, I wouldn’t … Continue reading →
We should have all seen this coming. For years, books have been optioned before they ever hit shelves. Hannibal: Vegan? Not even left Harris’ pen yet, and it’s already a movie. I bought a copy in Chinatown over the weekend. But now we’ve moved into the new age, where other forms of media become film … Continue reading →
I keep saying it, but y’all don’t really hear me: If you’re a screenwriter, toss out that pirated copy of Final Draft and crank up Microsoft Word. If you want to get some films made these days, you need to be writing high-profile magazine articles, chump. Now that coverage guys have realized they can find … Continue reading →
Despite the fact that Daniel Craig moved on from his upcoming film Blindness, Fernando Meirelles is moving full steam ahead and in directions you might not expect given his rather grim filmography thus far, which includes The Constant Gardener and City of God (and Blindness is every bit as bleak). After that onslaught of onscreen … Continue reading →
Getting paid to do chicks. Short of getting paid to conduct breast exams for the 35 and not obese crowd, could there be anything finer? I dare say no. And Michael Baisden knows it– dude makes a living writing and talking about it. To be honest, I’d never heard of Michael Baisden, who, after surveying … Continue reading →
Wong Kar Wai. David Cronenberg. Atom Egoyan. Jane Campion. Roman Polanski. Takeshi Kitano. Gus Van Sant. These are some of the people who took the stage at a press conference in Cannes this weekend; all had made one of 33 three minute long ‘Chacun Son Cinema’ (To Each His Own Cinema, Indiewire helpfully decodes) films … Continue reading →
Michael Haneke, that cheery chronicler of abject inhumanity, is frustrating our expectations in new and, hopefully, exciting ways. After the art house success of Caché in 2005, the director blew minds all over the cineaste-sphere when he decided to do an English-language remake of his excellent 1997 mindfuck, Funny Games. Now, with Funny Games ’07 … Continue reading →
You might not have noticed (I know I hadn’t), but it’s been a full five years since we last saw Goldie Hawn on the big screen. As a fan of the 1970s ditz icon turned movie star (and longtime shacker-upper with Kurt Russell), I’d be sad about this if I felt Hawn had any interest … Continue reading →
Michael Winterbottom is one of my favorite directors, but I don’t know that I could tell you what makes a Winterbottom film a Winterbottom film. And that’s why I like him so much – he jumps from place to place, style to style, and genre to genre. He’s an exciting director to follow because you … Continue reading →
A source close to the production of Indiana Jones IV (still, as far as we know, unofficially called Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods, but more on that later) has divulged some information to us about the film’s shooting locations, opening set piece and what kind of a character Shia LaBeouf will be … Continue reading →