Brick is Rian Johnson’s debut as a director, and it’s an audacious one. Johnson, who also wrote the dense script, took a noir story and set it in a Southern California high school – and didn’t make a joke out of it. he makes the genre mash-up actually work, and he makes a really good … Continue reading
Brick is Rian Johnson’s debut as a director, and it’s an audacious one. Johnson, who also wrote the dense script, took a noir story and set it in a Southern California high school – and didn’t make a joke out of it. he makes the genre mash-up actually work, and he makes a really good … Continue reading
Fans of physical torment and freaky puppets, rejoice! I’m not sure just how worthy Saw really is of an ongoing movie franchise, but it’s hard to argue with a profit margin. And thus the official announcement of Saw III, already planning to slice thrice with a release on October 27th 2006, even though they’re still working on … Continue reading
Calling 16 Blocks a bad film is selling it short. It’s often truly awful, a mess of confused geography (both real world and action), an improbably slothful pace, a lead actor showing about the same amount of effort I see in your average McDonalds lifer, and a subtext so grotesquely racist I couldn’t believe it. … Continue reading
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party was shot over a year ago, in the fall of 2004, but the film has been worth the wait. Dave – before his current rounds of troubles and controversy – wanted to use his new fame to do something cool. He settled on a free concert in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, featuring some … Continue reading
It wasn’t easy picking a winner from the many great entries we received for the Stay Alive poster contest, but what drew me to this one, by Heath K., was the simplicity. It’s a classy image, one that would look nice hanging on a wall. Heath now goes on to the finals, along with winners … Continue reading
There’s a pretty palpable Garden State backlash out there. To those people, I can only implore: “Please… please! Go fuck yourself.” It’s a really good movie, a very honest and nice movie, and a fantastic first effort. Maybe that’s why people hate it so much. Garden State turned me into a Zach Braff fan – … Continue reading
The first New York ComiCon was a chaotic place to be on Saturday. The show had about half of the Javits Center, New York City’s big convention center, but that turned out to not be enough – fire marshals and state troopers showed up to do crowd control when 20,000 people showed up for a … 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
The first New York ComiCon was a chaotic place to be on Saturday. The show had about half of the Javits Center, New York City’s big convention center, but that turned out to not be enough – fire marshals and state troopers showed up to do crowd control when 20,000 people showed up for a … Continue reading