Valiant surely seemed a good idea in the planning stage. A CGI feature about homing pigeons in WWII battling it out with evil German falcons? The basis is there for a nice little cartoon. Add voices like Ewan McGregor, Ricky Gervais, John Hurt, John Cleese and Hugh Lurie and it sounds like something worth seeing. … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!LABEL: EMI Music KoreaMSRP: $26.49TRACKS: 24MUSIC BY: Yeong-wook JoNote: We first discussed the idea of music reviews a few months ago, but I had writer’s block back then, so it sat on the backburner until Chan-wook Park’s classy stunner approached its US DVD debut, which gave us the perfect time … Continue reading
Where have you gone Dirty Harry and Paul Kersey? This is the question that John Singleton is trying to answer with his new film, Four Brothers. Going against the grain of current films, filled with wimpy girly-men action stars like the feyer than Wray Orlando Bloom, Singleton has put together a hard bitten tough guy … Continue reading
Last month McDonalds had to pay out lots of money to Hindu and vegetarian groups because they had been using beef fat in their French fries and keeping it a secret (they haven’t changed, by the way, so if you’re a vegetarian who gets fries at Mickey Ds while your carnivore friends chow down on … Continue reading
Werner Herzog’s films have often been about the extremes of humanity, and in Timothy Treadwell he has found a perfect subject. Treadwell spent 13 summers in the wilds of Alaska, surrounded by grizzly bears, fancying himself their protector. For the last five of these years he filmed himself, almost obsessively. And in the last summer … Continue reading
It’s not hard to imagine the characters Bill Murray playing today as the older versions of the characters he played in the 70s and 80s. The younger characters often approached the world with a detached hipness and sarcasm which at some point in their lives, after Meatballs and Ghostbusters II ended, stopped being hipness and … Continue reading
Burt Reynolds fired his agent after Boogie Nights. If he has a lick of sense in his head, he’ll kill his agent after Dukes of Hazzard. The movie, an adaptation of the popular TV show, has the distinction of being one of the worst films I have sat through so far this year. It’s a … Continue reading
“You had to be there.” We’ve all said it. We’ve all heard it – when something is so funny, but cannot be adequately expressed to someone else. The real phrase shouldn’t be “You had to be there,” it should be “I can’t tell it.” That, at the core, is what The Aristocrats is all about. … Continue reading
The opening training mission sequence of Stealth introduces a trio of hotshot Navy superpilots in Ben Gannon (Josh Lucas), Kara Wade (Jessica Biel) and Henry Purcell (Jamie Foxx), who finish their task with a major bang as Ben announces he’s preparing for “penetration detonation” (there’s a kiloton of eroticized weaponry and maneuvers in Stealth, with … Continue reading
I have read that the film SOB was at least partially inspired by Blake Edward’s true life interest in making a hardcore adaptation of The Joy Of Sex. It obviously never happened, and after watching Michael Winterbottom’s 9 Songs, I have decided that maybe that’s a good thing. Winterbottom’s film has gotten a lot of … Continue reading