Archive · 2006
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Phone | Whispering Corridors | A Snake of June | Memento Mori | Face | Koma | Vital | Doppelgänger | The Hillside Strangler | Suspicious River | The Coast Guard | Hoover Street Revival | Sorum | Bush's Brain | R-Point | Wishing Stairs | Marebito | Pray |… Continue reading
The day Josh Friedman called me for our interview I was in the lobby of MTV. I don’t normally hang out in MTV’s lobby, but it’s located in the same building as the New York Paramount offices, and I was there to see a movie in their screening room (the… Continue reading
Despite Christopher Nolan’s claims to the contrary, we have learned from a trusted source that Justin Long, star of Accepted and the ubiquitous Apple Computer commercials, has been cast a Robin the Boy Wonder in The Dark Knight. Our scooper has also given us… Continue reading
When Mel Gibson got arrested for drunk driving this summer and it was revealed that he was on to the Zionist conspiracy to start all wars, lots of rumors swirled around his new movie, Apocalypto, which stars non-actors and is filmed in some language Cortez… Continue reading
Is this really what people my age are like? Are they as grimly dull and mopey as the characters in The Last Kiss, the movie that takes the shine off Zach Braff’s Garden State? The film follows a quartet of morose motherfuckers who are having some kind of… Continue reading
UKGabriel Range In my initial notes, I called Death of a President the scam of the festival. After some reflection, that's probably too harsh. But it is a waste of a perfectly good controversy, and another blow for the politcally aware audience which wants… Continue reading
"Witness the birth of fear" the poster warns. Hopefully this isn't a flick about the casting of Reese Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg because I have a rival project about that at Warner's. No, this is the prequel to the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.… Continue reading
I wonder how many times John Cameron Mitchell will have to answer a variation of “If you’re going to have real sex in a movie, why don’t you have real violence?” when he does press for his excellent new film Shortbus? It’ll probably come up in most… Continue reading
Edward Burns is a guy I cannot help but respect and appreciate. The Brothers McMullen was a great little debut and though it tread similar turf I feel She's the One is a special comedy I can watch any time thanks to the chemistry of Burns, Mike McGlone and… Continue reading
All images copyright Nick Nunziata & Lewis Cox III. Do not reprint without permission. The Dark Him Discussion Thread. Continue reading
Usually when you hear that a great novel that helped earn its author the Nobel Prize is being made into a movie, you would get a little nervous. Especially when that book is Jose Saramago’s Blindness, a novel that is easily imaginable as a movie, but not… Continue reading
The saga of Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain continues. When I walked out of my screening many months ago, I was elated – I had just seen a masterpiece. It didn’t even occur to me at the time that this film could divide audiences; what I had seen was so… Continue reading
