SUNDANCE REVIEW: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN?
Devin is more than a little disappointed with Morgan Spurlock’s new documentary.
Devin is more than a little disappointed with Morgan Spurlock’s new documentary.
Devin has seen what could be the best film of the festival.
Devin rode this wave, but isn’t sure you should.
In 2011 the Three Gorges Dam will become fully operational and will be the largest hydro-electric power station on Earth. It will also have displaced one and a half million people whose homes are now or will be underwater as the dammed-up Yangtze River floods. As the water creeps higher, luxury boats catering to foreign … Continue reading
Time Crimes could possibly be retitled The Idiot’s Guide to Time Travel – which isn’t a complaint or a put down of the movie. Hector is a hapless schlub who is moving into his new house; when we first meet him he’s coming home from the store without having closed his car’s hatchback, and has … Continue reading
Cloverfield is audacious. That’s a word I certainly didn’t think I would be using in conjunction with a movie that I have been sort of dreading, a movie wrapped in a nonsense blanket of mystery marketing. Here’s the answer to the mystery: Cloverfield is about a big monster who attacks New York City and the … Continue reading
A jittery pastiche of more movies than I care to list, J.J. Abrams’s Cloverfield is thankfully as entertaining as it is shameless. It may be a case study in "stealing from the best", but Abrams and his co-conspirators (director Matt Reeves and screenwriter Drew Goddard) are so brazen with their smash-and-grab aesthetic that you almost … Continue reading
It’s a pleasure to get past viral salesmanship to see the thing itself. J.J. Abrams’ low-fi monster flick Cloverfield began as a secret and became an internet oddity propelled by a marketing approach that engaged everything but the film. Now stripped of external influence we can see the movie for what it is: a meticulously … Continue reading
It’s hard out there for a pimp, especially if that pimp happens to be a monster movie with theatrical aspirations. Monster movies have long been the black sheep of the horror genre and though their fans are among the most loyal and vocal there’s still the stigma of the concept that makes it difficult for … Continue reading
I’ve come to the realization that Uwe Boll’s latest film, In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Seige Tale, is an incredible work by a director who has flown under the radar for too long. Rather than churning out just another video game adaptation, Boll has delivered his most complex work, with the only … Continue reading