Archive · 2006
210 posts
One of the wonderful aspects about being dreadfully sick is that your body tries to reject the little things – like your soul. At least mine is. So in order for me to make it out of this thing alive with Jim Morrison, the SE is going to be pared down this… Continue reading
Rather than focus on all the positive things the internet can be used for (downloading illegal music, multiplayer gaming mayhem, driving directions, porn… probably some other stuff), Lionsgate's thriller Hard Candy instead concentrates on a disturbing and… Continue reading
Actress Rosario Dawson might just be perfect: she's beautiful and multitalented and otherwise gifted (by which I mean she has an extraordinary rack), and she breathed healthy life into a character from the pages of Frank Miller’s comic book Sin City. But if… Continue reading
Rather than broaden his filmmaking skills beyond people standing around reciting overwritten dialogue, writer-director Kevin Smith has literally gone back to where he started with Clerks 2. The sequel (which I pray has dropped the idiotic subtitle The Passion… Continue reading
The producers of 24 are looking to bring secret agent killerman Jack Bauer from the TV to the movies in a feature film franchise. This is obviously a ridiculous idea – sitting through three hours of King Kong was trying enough, there’s no fucking way I am… Continue reading
I don't care what happens in theaters for the rest of the year; 2006 is already a win. Sam Peckinpah's The Legendary Westerns Collection (CHUD's Amazon link!) is a landmark. It's got three films new to DVD (Ride The High Country, The Ballad of Cable Hogue and… Continue reading
Clint Eastwood’s companion piece to Flags of our Fathers, now titled Red Sun, Black Sand, is finding itself having some logistical issues. The movie will tell the story of the battle for Iwo Jima from the Japanese point of view, a very intriguing concept –… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: Warner Brothers MSRP: $19.98 RATED: NR RUNNING TIME: 94 Minutes SPECIAL FEATURES: • Commentary by Nick Redman, David Weddle, Paul Seydor and Garner Simmons • A Justified Life: Sam Peckinpah and the High Country • Trailers… Continue reading
Though their Grindhouse project is still a vapormovie (I think they may start shooting later this month), directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez are chronicling the experience for a 250 page “companion” book that should theoretically be on shelves… Continue reading
***UPDATED: Two new cities added!*** Yeah, I complain about the screenings but even I have moments of weakness where I try to keep a toe dipped in the pond and this is one of at least two screenings we'll be doing in January. As long as I don't overdo it, I… Continue reading
I recently read an excellent book, Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause, and I was just as fascinated by the general life of that film’s director, Nicholas Ray, as I was in what went into making the film. Ray was a madman and… Continue reading
It looks like my “Going for Brokeback” piece was written a week or two early. Just this weekend Brokeback Mountain, well on its way to being the frontrunner for the Academy Awards, became the center of two controversies. One is stupid. A movie theater in Utah… Continue reading
