Where the author tells you of the many things out there that make him want to become a master thief with an exceptionally large basement to hoard the myriad material things worth owning and loving. Installment One.Installment Two.Installment Three.Installment Four.Installment Five.Installment Six.Installment Seven.Message Board Discussion. Good day. The love of consumption is a shameful yet … Continue reading
One of the things that has weighed on the minds of Watchmen fans is how Zack Snyder intends to deal with the end of the story. A number of previous drafts of the script have leaked, and they change the ending in ways that some feel are major, and that some feel ruin the thematic … Continue reading
Grizzly Park is lumbering closer to theaters, its fur matted with blood and the gristle of human flesh decaying in the cracks of its claws. Yum! American World Pictures has acquired the film debut of director Tom Skull and is getting its distribution plans together and the first couple of tangible results of their relationship … Continue reading
I know some of you want to read my scathing indictments of my new hometown of Los Angeles and its citizens, but when you read what follows, you’ll see why I’m finding myself pretty OK with the City of Angels. Edgar Wright is going to be presenting his own film festival at LA’s wonderful New … Continue reading
The trailer for Dan In Real Life set Jeremy off a little bit when it debuted; click here to read his original write-up wherein he bemoans the casting of Juliette Binoche as Dane Cook’s girlfriend. Some weeks later Jeremy and I were at a screening and ran into Drew McWeeny, aka Moriarty of Ain’t It … Continue reading
The problem here is twofold: Ron Howard’s The Da Vinci Code made $758 million worldwide, and the book’s author, Dan Brown, wrote a prequel. There was no avoiding Angels & Demons. And with a strike looming, Sony had no choice but to speed this unwanted film into production, even though it might break what remains … Continue reading
I love Into the Wild. It’s a film that moved me to tears, and that is still living in my thoughts, long after I saw it. It’s a film that I know I will revisit again and again over the years, one that will leave me with something new every time I see it. The … Continue reading
Four months ago, it looked as though Don Winslow’s aging hitman saga, The Winter of Frankie Machine, was going to be the (potentially) perfect coda to the Martin Scorsese/Robert De Niro mobster trio of Mean Streets, Goodfellas and Casino. Alas, it didn’t work out. But, in a semi-inversion of what went down with The Aviator, … Continue reading
As someone who got hooked on the lurid subject of serial killers back in high school (thanks, Thomas Harris!), I’m all for Hollywood A-listers delving into the phenomenon – i.e. provided they have a fresh take. And even if they don’t, I’ll still waste a couple of hours somewhere down the line watching any piece … Continue reading