Archive · 2007
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This week really does not interest me that much concerning the DVD releases. There are a couple of pretty cool re-releases of older movies, but the new movies leave a bit to be desired. Oh well, you take the good with the bad and I move on: CATCH AND… Continue reading
Further to the headline, if you've never heard the one about Kevin Costner nearly ending Cal Ripken, Jr.'s consecutive games played streak by sleeping with his wife, why don't you remedy that. (Costner has denied it, and I believe him, but it's still one of… Continue reading
The Crop: The Lovely Bones The Studio: Dreamworks The Director: Peter Jackson The Producer: Jackson, Fran Walsh, Carolynne Cunningham and Aimee Peyronnet The Writers: Jackson, Walsh and Phlippa Boyens The Actors: No clue! The Premise: Fourteen-year-old Susie… Continue reading
Clothes really make the man. The half of our species with external reproductive organs gets a little flush when we see new images of men in metal suits. Meanwhile for some of the people born with a pair of ovaries (instead of this little ovarian nub the… Continue reading
I have to admit that I am stunned by the backlash against Spider-Man 3, a movie that was not great but has great moments, and a film that in no way deserves the amount of outsized hate being unleashed on it at the moment. Certain writers for this very site… Continue reading
I’m excited about John Rambo for one simple reason: I want to know how quickly Stallone can destroy all the goodwill he got from me with Rocky Balboa. It’s the man’s curse, it seems, to every now and again make a movie that reminds you why he was a Great… Continue reading
Patrick Dempsey's in! Michelle Monaghan is in! Mr. Bean is not in, but Paul Weiland, a guy who directed him a few times, is… to direct no less. And now, despite the fact Made of Honor has been filming for a week now, the ball can finally get rolling… Continue reading
1. GUITAR WORLD – JUNE 2007 You'll see this baby show up more as their coverage isn't just nerdy articles on how to do wank-off licks faster than ever, but rather broader coverage of guitar-oriented artists in blues, jazz, and rock (My apologies, country… Continue reading
Oliver Stone’s Wall Street is probably most famous for a line that has wormed its way into the American consciousness: ‘Greed is good.’ The interesting thing about the line is that while it’s attributed to Michael Douglas’ character, Gordon Gekko, he never… Continue reading
Twisted Pictures, the company behind the relentlessly terrible Saw movies, is betting that everything old is new again. They’re among the people taking old, discarded film narrative forms and trying them out again on the Internet. Their first effort is a… Continue reading
I wasn’t crazy about Grindhouse, but I’ll forever be grateful to all involved for giving guys like Michael Biehn and Jeff Fahey another chance to shine on the big screen and show that they’re still viable cinematic presences, despite their diminished careers… Continue reading
This season of Lost has been fantastic, a boon to the fans who stuck out some of the show’s previous lulls. The show has been amping up the drama and the mysteries*, and with the new schedule – wherein Lost is running without repeats through the season finale… Continue reading
