RATED AARGH! #71 – ALIENS
All aliens are not created equal.
All aliens are not created equal.
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a relentlessly bleak read like pretty much everything else he’s written, which means John Hilcoat is both a perfect and wrongheaded choice for director. In a way, Hilcoat’s The Proposition was an ideal, rigorously one-note warm-up for the misery of The Road. Not only does he possess a vivid, diseased … Continue reading
The flash game is fast becoming a staple of the online movie marketing machine (and it’s probably the only component missing so far from the massive Cloverfield and Dark Knight campaigns, but I digress…). The latest property to jump on the mini-game bandwagon is Saw IV, or, specifically, the impending release of Saw IV on DVD. … Continue reading
I’m not going to try to sell you on this one ‘cuz, frankly, Lionsgate ain’t trying either! The trailer for Roger Donaldson’s The Bank Job – inventive title, that – plays like a tribute reel to Ocean’s Eleven, Sexy Beast, Layer Cake, The Italian Job (original or remake), Scandal and Inside Man. Among others. And … Continue reading
The Wire‘s Jimmy McNulty is one of the great characters in television history, and while you have to lay a lot of that at the feet of creator David Simon and his team of insanely talented writers, you must leave room in your praise for Dominic West, the man who gives McNulty his soul. Fans … Continue reading
For those of you who dared to believe that Ice Cube would sand down the rough, rusted, tetanus-inducing edges of Welcome Back Kotter… motherfucker, does he have some words for you: "There’s a script. We’ve got the same characters, they’re just re-vamped to suit the times, totally different. It’s, like, flipped. With me playing Kotter, … Continue reading
I troll MySpace less and less — look ma, I’m growing up! — so it was easy to miss the Diary of the Dead trailer the site posted as an exclusive at the end of last week. The clip highlights the film’s basic conceit — a kid with a camera captures the rise of the … Continue reading
How do you, with a straight face, make a movie about a group of buddies taking their terminally ill friend to break into Skywalker Ranch to see Episode I before it comes out (and before he dies)? Unless the film ends with Cancer Boy seeing the bad film and using it to make his peace … Continue reading
I’ve come to the realization that Uwe Boll’s latest film, In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Seige Tale, is an incredible work by a director who has flown under the radar for too long. Rather than churning out just another video game adaptation, Boll has delivered his most complex work, with the only … Continue reading
I love Michel Gondry for his imagination and seemingly boundless talent, but I wonder how frustrating it would be to have him for a father. Does he ever let up on the whimsy? Does he invest, say, the taking out of the trash with the same exhaustive inventiveness he throws into his sometimes brilliant (Eternal … Continue reading