There’s a very good chance that you never saw David Gordon Green’s Undertow – it’s one of the least-seen great films of the 21st century (I blame myself – I failed to put the movie on my 2004 Top Fifteen and I gave it a positive but mixed review at the time). I feel like … Continue reading
This editorial contains complete and total spoilers for Little Miss Sunshine. The Little Miss Sunshine parade has begun. Today it was nominated for a number of Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Feature and Best First Screenplay. In the next couple of weeks you’ll see more of this – the film will end up on many, … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
I wish I could have used Super Troopers: Troop Harder, but Kevin Smith ruined it for all of us… To say that I love the Broken Lizard boys is an understatement. I fuck the Broken Lizard boys. Not literally, but my loving for the Broken Lizard flicks is so tender that a viewing never fails … Continue reading
It sucks to have such responsibilities placed in a bitter hunchback’s deformed little hands.
The nominees for the Independent Spirit Awards have been announced, and maybe their list of Best Feature nominees will finally inspire me to finish my editorial about Little Miss Sunshine. See, that film – which stars such edgy, indie unknowns as Steve Carrell, Greg Kinnear and Alan Arkin – is among the five films nominated. … Continue reading
Last night I was at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall for the New York premiere of Curse of the Golden Flower, the latest film from Zhang Yimou. There was a little red carpet with flashbulb-popping paparazzi, and Yimou and his star, Gong Li, both spoke before the film began. Alice Tully Hall is pretty big, … Continue reading
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I am hesitant to report too much Watchmen news. I’ve been down this road before, and it all ended in tears. Paul Greengrass was very, very far along with his version of Watchmen when the plug got pulled, and until filming on Zack Snyder’s version starts I’m not getting to comfortable. But Snyder et al … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading