Archive · 2005

August 2005

308 posts

DVD REVIEW: CHAIN OF COMMAND

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: CannonMSRP: $14.96RATED: R, ‘for Terrorist Violence and Plentiful Language’RUNNING TIME: 97 min.SPECIAL FEATURES:• ‘Play Movie’ Option• Chapter Stops The Pitch “It’s On Deadly Ground, but without Seagal or the giant bear!“… Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 8.30.05

I've started fresh with the Graboid, going for a more polished and tougher perspective. If you get them from now on it'll be because you're an astute fan of movies. I'm not going to make it easy and it's going to be from something I either like or find it fun… Continue reading

NEW WORLD, NEW DATE

Terence Malick makes movies on his own schedule. It took decades for him to get from Days of Heaven to The Thin Red Line. So when his next film, The New World, is slow to the finish line, you just change the release date and be glad that you’re going from the… Continue reading

X3: MUTANT JENGA

Listen. Hear that? It’s the sound of X3 falling right over the cliff of too many characters. We’ve joked about it in the past, but now the film seems to be reaching some sort of singularity, and any X-character mentioned near the film’s producers or Bret… Continue reading

APATOW WINS!

I just finished watching the DVD box set of Undeclared, the show that Judd Apatow did after Freaks and Geeks that got cancelled just as ignominiously. It’s great stuff – not as good as Freaks, but still classic. Apatow can dance on the edge of bathos but… Continue reading

THUD NEWSBREAK: COX SUCKER

I admit, I quit Deadwood. After they killed Wild Bill I felt like the series lost all forward momentum, since I didn’t find the continued use of “cocksucker”and “motherfucker” as novel as the rest of the TV audience, what with me being an Italian from New… Continue reading

HAGGIS, PAUL HAGGIS

Just when you think that Casino Royale, the 21st James Bond movie, is just an excuse to keep proposing new Bonds, it is announced that the film has a new screenwriter – none other than Paul Haggis has been brought on board to rewrite the current script. What… Continue reading