As announced on Saturday, this was the winner of TIFF ’07’s People’s Choice Award. Way to go, Canada! With Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg has made the most accessible film of his career. Applying long-standing interests in transformation and duality to familiar subjects (gangsters and their victims) he’s turned out a tale of mafia machinations that … Continue reading
Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four | Day FiveDay Six | Day Seven | Day Eight I finally hit a wall Thursday night. The tiny of the brain that allows me to write shut down with a clank and a hiss. The overheated system just wouldn’t kickstart. And I tried … Continue reading
The first time I saw a promo for HBO’s Flight of the Conchords, I was sorely tempted to buy a ticket for the “Man, HBO’s Sunday nights are fucking done” train. After exploding with a long string of landmark pop culture touchstones, it almost seemed like a regression to throw up this tiny musical/comedy weirdness … Continue reading
I don’t know the first thing about Max Makowski’s work, so it’s entirely possible that the "Hong Kong-based" director is just the guy to bring the popular 1970s television series Kung Fu to the big screen. But until I have a better sense of his worthiness, I am going to make light of his presumed … Continue reading
1999 Little Red Corvette Joy in Repetition Uptown Kiss 1 The Brave One $14,015,000 $5,087 $14,015,000 2 3:10 to Yuma $9,150,000 (-34.8%) $3,430 $28,549,000 3 Mr. Woodcock $9,100,000 $4,078 $9,100,000 4 Dragon Wars $5,376,000 $2,363 $5,376,000 5 Superbad $5,200,000 (-31.1%) $1,786 $111,336,000 6 Halloween $5,011,000 (-47.3%) $1,642 $51,264,000 7 The Bourne Ultimatum $4,151,000 (-26.8%) $1,589 … Continue reading
The last two films I saw in the theater are oddly familiar in a few aspects and the response I’ve noticed to them represent how weird this world of cinema is and how a few tonal decisions can take two different yet similar films and create such an impasse between them. Additionally, the one I … Continue reading
Neil Jordan’s The Brave One positions Jodie Foster, finally, as the butch badass we’ve always known waited within her. He goes so far as to let us watch her transformation from a blithely happy woman in love to shattered gunslinger, and Foster, for her part, plays it well. She looks so natural blowing away kids … Continue reading
As we near the December start date for the as-yet-untitled twenty-second installment in the James Bond series, plot and character details are beginning to get meted out in a very controlled, supremely boring fashion. Thus far, we’ve learned that the story will pick up right after the finale of Casino Royale, with Bond facing down … Continue reading
And the festivals keep coming. Very exciting for good movies. Alas, for normal folk outside of New York and LA, the pickins are leftovers, and shit. Though Dragon Wars should feature Dragons. So that’s something.THE ART HOUSE CIRCUITThis week Across the Universe, Eastern Promises, and In the Valley of Elah (with the last two real … Continue reading
Here’s a hint to you international travelers in the audience: don’t stay at the Radisson SAS in Belfast. The internet has been out in the hotel for 24 hours now, which has been incredibly frustrating for someone who, you know, writes on the internet. Fuck these people. In the meantime, here are my pictures from … Continue reading