Do you remember The Shadow? No, not the old radio series. I’m talking about that 1994 movie where Alec Baldwin starred. Remember when he went to that abandoned lot at the end of the movie (you know, the one that no one had bothered to check yet), and he found that invisible building? Man, that’s … Continue reading
Clapping at the movies never made much sense to me. What’s the applause supposed to signify? “Way to project that film!” But that didn’t stop me from applauding wildly at the end of Jennifer Hudson’s “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” smack dab in the middle of Dreamgirls. My applause was involuntary; it … Continue reading
This is probably not a happy holiday season at Kyle Newman’s house. He was the guy who was directing the Revenge of the Nerds remake for two weeks before Fox Atomic pulled the plug on it. Yesterday I was at the We Are Marshall junket, and I spoke with McG, whose Wonderland Sound & Vision … Continue reading
Today the New York Film Critics Online met for their annual awards voting. NYFCO is a motley bunch of critics ranging from Rex Reed to yours truly, and the group is kind of an underdog when it comes to awards season – we won’t get half the attention that the LA Film Critics Association*, who … Continue reading
The internet continues to be the ultimate explanation for why unchecked democracy is a disaster. Rotten Tomatoes has given users the ability to critique the reviews of critics; the basic idea seems kind of redundant – why not us then critique the critique of the critique? – but it has quickly passed from being a … Continue reading
This could be considered to contain spoilers for the end of The Good Shepherd, which opens December 22. I don’t think any information in here would ruin the film for you, but I wanted to give the heads up just in case. Robert DeNiro’s The Good Shepherd follows the CIA from its earliest days as … Continue reading
Here’s my pitch for an Apocalypto video game, which also serves as a synopsis of the movie: We begin the game with a training level so you can get used to the controls. You’re country Mayan Jaguar Paw, and you’re hunting tapir in the Central American jungle. You have to run, jump and use ingenuity … Continue reading
There are a lot of galling things in Blood Diamond, the new Africa in crisis movie, but perhaps the most galling is the way the film insists on making a white guy the lead when the whole thing is the black guy’s story. It’s not even a question – if the film has been set … Continue reading
Happy one year anniversary before the release of The Golden Compass, the first film in the projected His Dark Materials trilogy! In honor of this auspicious occasion, New Line has launched a website for the film, which is filled with a bunch of pictures that haven’t been seen anywhere else, including Gyptians, Lee Scoresby and … Continue reading
The Little Miss Sunshine directing team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris are the belles of the ball; their “indie” film is a smash hit and headed for award season kudos. So what’s next for them? It could bean adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s upcoming novel, The Abstinence Teacher. Perrotta wrote the book and screenplay for … Continue reading