What the hell happened to the African-American filmmaking renaissance? In the 1980s, there was Spike Lee, Charles Burnett, Wendell B. Harris Jr., Robert Townsend and Charles Lane. A few years later, Carl Franklin, The Hughes Brothers, Mario Van Peebles, John Singleton and Rusty Cundieff got into the mix. Then, late in the 1990s, there was … Continue reading
The United States is finally getting Danny Boyle’s sci-fi odyssey, Sunshine, in theaters on July 20th (the movie came out in the UK and Australia earlier this year). We’ve been excitedly following the film ever since Boyle mentioned it to me during an interview about his film Millions, and we’re proud to bring you this … Continue reading
Only a deeply pathetic creature would brag about scooping Variety on Rachel Weisz being cast in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, so I’ll just pretend I didn’t bring it up last Saturday in my cockamamie new column (after sitting on it for two weeks). Since I was more than a little wrong about Warner Brothers … Continue reading
Holy Christ on Oprah, if this ain’t the most mindblowingly awesome poster I’ve seen in years! If only I had any confidence in director Hyung-rae Shim delivering the goods. I mean, if the movie is a quarter as astounding as the above image, it’d still my number one must-see of Summer 2007. My sweet lord! … Continue reading
Jesse Bradford seems like a pretty solid actor, so I’ll spare him any further snark regarding his involvement with Swimfan, easily the most laughable high school-set thriller since Judgment at Nuremberg. Actually, I thought the kid might’ve had a shot at stardom following his appealing performance in Peyton Reed’s Bring It On, but, aside from … Continue reading
Fernando Meirelles is rounding out the cast for his adaptation of Jose Saramago’s acclaimed novel Blindness, and, while the material is extraordinarily weighty for a (partly) studio-financed production, this doesn’t mean the director of The Constant Gardener and City of God is excluded from hiring a couple of good loookin’ youngsters to sell this downbeat … Continue reading
Supposedly, you can’t ever count Drew Barrymore out. Just when you think her career is spiraling, she quietly jumps back in her romantic comedy lane and lands a hit like this year’s Music and Lyrics, which, despite performing modestly in the US, did great business overseas. Sure, Lucky You came and went like a teenage … Continue reading
Hostel 2. Not as good as Hostel. Not that that has anything to do with the comic.
Paul Bettany will play a claymation artist in Daniel Simpson’s Born, a psychological thriller in which the animator’s creations take on a life of their own. You don’t even need to throw in Jennifer Connelly or the Chiodo Brothers or Guillermo Del Toro and Clive Barker as producers (along with Lloyd Levin and Lawrence Gordon) … Continue reading
Jeff Wells often pisses off the readers of his blog, Hollywood Elsewhere, by blatantly spoiling films that he’s seen very early. Recently he caused a ruckus by discussing an aspect of the ending of No Country For Old Men, which he saw at Cannes. This week he had his readers in paroxysms of rage when … Continue reading