Werner Herzog stalks around the set of Zak Penn’s new improv film, The Grand, dressed all in black like a Teutonic Johnny Cash. He’s in character as The German, a truly nasty poker player who has come, along with his own personal menagerie (Herzog will explain this in the interview) to the National American Indoor … Continue reading
Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Gridiron Gang $15,000,000 $15,000,000 1 2 The Black Dahlia $10,362,000 $10,362,000 1 3 Everyone’s Hero $6,150,000 $6,150,000 1 4 The Last Kiss $4,702,000 $4,702,000 1 5 The Covenant $4,700,000 $15,714,000 2 6 Invincible $3,904,000 $50,911,000 4 7 The Illusionist $3,751,000 $23,254,000 5 8 Little Miss Sunshine $3,350,000 … Continue reading
New Zealand Jonathan King Someone had to finally force sheep buggery into a horror film, and it makes sense that a Kiwi would be the one to do it. With Black Sheep, Jonathan King has made a film so obviously indebted to Peter Jackson (Dead Alive in particular) that it can be difficult to … Continue reading
UK Christopher Smith In 2004 Christopher Smith’s debut Creep was a TIFF Midnight Madness pick I recommended, albeit with qualifications. For 2006 I’m happy to recommend his second feature, Severance, with no qualifications at all. People are calling it The Office meets Deliverance, which is as good a way as any to get asses … Continue reading
USA Jem Cohen Concert films are next to useless. It’s easy enough to point a camera at a band, wave it around a little, then mince the footage like hamburger. And the kids seem to love it. I don’t. I’ll take the concert flick as a bare substitute for a band I never saw … Continue reading
Russ’s 2005 coverage.Russ’s 2004 coverage. Do you think the disconnect between audience and critic is not as large as advertised? Do you want to see the deepest and most unique collection of films to play in North America in a given year? Or maybe you just want to pay twenty bucks (Canadian, which is now … Continue reading
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I know next to nothing about Eragon other than the fact it was probably called Dragon and its precocious author accidentally hit "E" and history was made. Christopher Paolini was 15 years old when he started the book which inspired the upcoming Fox fantasy flick, so I guess he gets a pass on some factors. … Continue reading
USA Werner Herzog I’m not going to address Werner Herzog’s new feature as an adaptation of his own documentary Little Dieter Needs To Fly. In part because it’s been years since I saw the doc, but more important is that the comparison isn’t what makes this movie good, not is it the point of sale … Continue reading
Australia Dir: Geoffrey Wright In the Shakespeare canon, reinterpretation is like adrenaline. The bard’s plays have endlessly been folded, cut and crumpled into new shapes, deviant forms. So it’s not a shock to see Macbeth transposed onto modern Melbourne, where feudal kingdoms become drug organizations and the Castle Dunsinane a lavish mansion. Ideally, this would … Continue reading