Archive · 2007
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BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: WarnerMSRP: $19.97RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 93 minSPECIAL FEATURES:• Introduction by Michael Crichton• Feature Commentary by Michael Crichton• Theatrical trailer• Dukes of Hazzard preview The Pitch “I am an immaterial girl.”… Continue reading
How do you make a sequel to a movie where almost every main character is killed off in the end? (SPOILERS!!!!) That’s the dilemma facing William Monahan, who has been quietly toying with a sequel to the smash hit Martin Scorsese crime film The Departed. The… Continue reading
Oh, Variety, you’ve done it again. Earlier this year you goinked my Zyzzyx Road story without giving me any credit, and eventually had to run a piece saying CHUD originated Zyzzyx Fever. Today you ran a piece about how Marc Rocco – whose last directorial gig… Continue reading
Dominic Sena rarely makes movies. It was seven years between Kalifornia, his first film, and Gone in Sixty Seconds.* It was only a year until his next movie – Swordfish – but the guy has been out of the game for the last six years. We were all happy, but we… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Sony PicturesMSRP: $26.96RATED: PGRUNNING TIME: 112 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: • Behind the scenes featurette• Blooper reel• Commentary by the director• Deleted scenes• Interview with Mark Richt• Music video• Theatrical… Continue reading
With Renny-Harlin craziness that is the hit and miss mostly miss lately, (The Excorcist: The Beginning, Mindhunters, The Covenant), Harlin's pushing through his nine lives like they're braided belts and the knots that dangle them (there's no denying– you know… Continue reading
The Zodiac Killer case is one of America’s great murder mysteries. He terrorized San Francisco between 1968 and 1969, killing at least five people, and continued to taunt the authorities with letters for years to come. His letters contained cryptograms, and… Continue reading
With a successful debut under his belt (the Dawn of the Dead remake) and excitement for his stylized adaptation of Frank Miller's 300 at a good level, Snyder is in a good place in Hollywood right now. Accordingly, Warners, who's not only making 300 but also… Continue reading
In America we get all worked up about a school shooting that kills a kid or two. Compare that to the terrifying ordeal and death toll of the hostage crisis in a Russian school in September of 2004 – Muslim Chechen terrorists took over a school in the Russian… Continue reading
Miramax – at least during the Weinstein era – gathered a pretty savage reputation both as careless acquirers of Asian film and hounds for Oscar-baiting prestige material. People tend to forget that they had some nice, smaller films – generally romantic… Continue reading
One of the all-time great documentaries about the making of a movie is also one of the least seen – Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse. It’s filled with unflinching behind the scenes footage of the legendarily difficult Apocalypse Now shoot, and in… Continue reading
In the fall we brought you the news that Joe Carnahan would be directing an adaptation of White Jazz, James Ellroy’s sequel to LA Confidential. Later it was announced that George Clooney would be starring as dirty cop Dave Klein, sending interest in the film… Continue reading
