Archive · 2006
168 posts
It’s been five years between films for Joe Carnahan, the man who directed the modern classic undercover cop movie Narc; his new film, Smokin’ Aces – a balls to the wall action madhouse unlike anything you’ve seen before, and with a killer cast – hits early… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Home VideoMSRP: $19.98RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 51 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: • Interviewing Your Hero featurette• Watching Wires featurette• Favre on the Links featurette The Pitch Apparently, aside from being a hall of… Continue reading
In less than a month you’ll be able to find out which side you are on in the great The Fountain debate – will you agree with the folks who booed the film (or did they? Read on) at the Venice Film Festival, or will you be with yours truly, thinking it’s one of… Continue reading
A couple of weeks back Gael Garcia Bernal was offered the role of a super-assassin hunting down Jason Bourne in The Bourne Ultimatum, Paul Greengrass’ second go round with Matt Damon as the amnesiac super-spy. Yesterday was the New York City press day for… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: TartanMSRP: $22.95RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 153 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Interview w/ Director• Featurette on US Healthcare• Booklet w/ criticism and interview The Pitch "It's the hero's journey as conducted by a man with a… Continue reading
Controversy is common marketing currency. It may not have done much for Pasolini, perhaps killed for making Salo, or for Theo van Gogh, definitely killed for making Submission. But less incendiary films by Scorsese, Michael Moore and Mel Gibson have all… Continue reading
Bad, bad, bad, bad, boy, you make me feel so good! Continue reading
Did you go buy Slither yesterday when it was released on DVD? If not, I don’t hate you. Yet. Maybe you need some extra convincing, and I’m happy to do some of that convincing here by bringing you a clip from the DVD’s copious and excellent special features,… Continue reading
There is a bizarre and fascinating PR war going on right now centering on Ed Zwick’s new Warner Bros film, Blood Diamond, which has Leonardo DiCaprio teaming up with a Kanye West song to draw attention to some of the evils of the African diamond trade. The… Continue reading
The Browncoats, a hardcore sci-fi subculture that loves Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity to an incredible (and, if you think hardcore “fandom”* is as creepy as I do, frightening) degree, usually feel like the underdogs. Heck, their name comes from a… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!PUBLISHER: PenguinMSRP: $13.00PAGES: 192 There's great fun to be had in reviewing an icon of literature. Especially if one, like me, has somehow managed to never read that piece of literature before. I don’t know how I’ve done it,… Continue reading
