Because nothing sells tickets like a poet and his friends getting stinking drunk for two hours, here comes The Best Time Of Our Lives, the biopic of celebrated Welsh optimist and drinker Dylan Thomas. If he can get his schnozz out of the tumbler for at least a scene, you might recognize Matthew Rhys from … Continue reading
Rod Lurie has a film on the CHUD Essentials list (Deterrence). Now he’s remaking a movie that could have been a contender (oh snap, pun intended) for that list – Straw Dogs. And he’s remaking it for the House that Shitty Movies Built: Screen Gems. I have to admit I don’t understand the point of … Continue reading
Today marks the arrival of the first real Ocean’s Thirteen trailer. It’s similar in tone and format to the teaser everyone’s seen, but it gives more background as to what the caper is this time and why they’re getting together again under even riskier circumstances to make it happen. There’s a neat visual flourish or two, some … Continue reading
The video of David O. Russell flipping out on Lily Tomlin on the set of I <3 Huckabees is pretty amazing footage. Anybody who has been following Russell’s career (as I have; I think he’s one of our great modern directors) has heard stories about how ‘difficult’ the guy can be; ie, how he got … Continue reading
Speaking of messing with Chuck and Larry (as Devin did here just yesterday), the trailer has arrived with intention of adding proof to the critical pudding. And it does. Kind of. It’s got Rob Schneider offensively portraying some ethnicity under gobs of crappy make-up and feels like another attempt at polished (yet baseline unfunny) Sandler … Continue reading
Patrice Leconte is a masterful director of underwhelmingly perfect movies, and I’ve a feeling that this innocuousness is going to serve him well in the American market, though it doesn’t appear he’ll have much, if anything, to do with Hilary Swank’s remake of Intimate Strangers, which, by the way, was even more inconsequential than The … Continue reading
As if I weren’t already looking forward to Death Proof enough, Variety is reporting that writer-director Quentin Tarantino is prepping an extended cut to perhaps screen in competition at Cannes. That his currently eighty-seven minute segment of Grindhouse has the potential to run a full two hours without padding shouldn’t come as a surprise to … Continue reading
You’re reading that article header correctly — the column that wouldn’t die has again…not…died. But for once, the fickleness of the Prognosticator’s general character and publishing schedule is justified, since it’s the perfect quality to embody April, that month of unreliable weather and wacky release dates. Not only is this month slammed with filler and … Continue reading
I like Mark Wahlberg a lot. And that’s really saying something, because I was a little indie rock snob at the peak of his Funky Bunch days, and the disdain my type felt for his type was hard to overcome. But Mark did overcome them, I was even rooting for him at the Oscars this … Continue reading
This really isn’t movie "news" per se, but once you’ve read these two stories – the first by The New York Post‘s Lou Lumenick and the second a supplemental anecdote of sorts posted to Livejournal by "moroccomole" – about the Fair Theater, New York City’s "Last Grindhouse", I’m confident that you’ll thank me for running … Continue reading