When I saw the documentary Cocaine Cowboys a couple of months ago, I walked out the theater with the strong urge to play Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and do a couple of lines. I split the difference and watched Scarface. The film is an incredibly entertaining and astonishingly educational look at the world of … Continue reading
Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 The Prestige $14,818,000 $14,818,000 1 2 The Departed $13,675,000 $77,148,000 3 3 Flags of Our Fathers $10,200,000 $10,200,000 1 4 Open Season $8,000,000 $69,602,000 4 5 Flicka $7,700,000 $7,700,000 1 6 The Grudge 2 $7,700,000 $31,380,000 2 7 Man of the Year $7,035,000 $22,516,000 2 … Continue reading
Someone has to draw the line somewhere. Someone needs to stand up and demand a change. Someone needs to lead the way. Someone has to stop running all these fucking inane Indiana Jones IV stories. Has there ever been as much bandwidth wasted on a movie that’s essentially theoretical? Every time anyone speaks to Harrison … Continue reading
A lot of you aren’t going to like hearing this, but getting excited about a Fraggle Rock movie will make you exceptionally suspect. If you have kids at least you can pretend that you’re excited that your kids will have a chance to get into something you liked when you were younger, but if you’re … Continue reading
Sanity reared its head in Hollywood today as Fox and Universal pulled out of the Xbox video game movie Halo after its budget rocketed to a rumored 200 million dollars. A representative for executive producer Peter Jackson made a carefully worded denial of that number: "The only budget the filmmakers every spoke about was $145 … Continue reading
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Running With Scissors reminded me a lot of Terry Gilliam’s Tideland in that it’s about a group of mostly repulsive characters and how they collectively abuse a child, and how it’s supposed to be funny and/or uplifting and meaningful. I blame The Simpsons – they’ve so moved the goal post when it comes to dysfunctional … Continue reading
The Coppola clan is well represented in Marie Antoinette: director Sofia hired her brother Roman to shoot second unit, and she brought in her cousin Jason Schwartzman, son of Francis Ford Coppola’s sister Talia Shire, to play Louis XVI, doomed King of France. In the film Schwartzman has to act like he’s incapable of or … Continue reading
I figured out the ending of The Prestige about halfway through the movie. I don’t tend to be the brightest guy when it comes to solving cinematic puzzles like this, so this probably means that either the film is incredibly obvious or that it just plays extremely fair, giving real clues and not pulling the … Continue reading
Frank Darabont, you sneaky man. A few months ago I asked the man point blank about his long-awaited adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist and he indicated that it was sort of in limbo. It’s been one of those things I think we’ve been discussing since this site came into being in the late 90’s, … Continue reading