Archive · 2007
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There is something undeniably appealing about vital organs being ripped out of living human beings; while hearts are the real crowd pleasers (just ask the Mayans or my main man Mola to your right), the kidney, liver and spleen also look mighty fine when… Continue reading
The modern Western tends to be a sweeping, poetic epic – the genre is not commercially viable, so when people make Westerns they make them with the most artistic of intentions. Which is too bad, because the Western is a fun genre, one that lends itself to… Continue reading
Un Film Un Gross Un Per Screen Un Total 1 Fantastic Four 2 $57,400,000 $14,498 $57,400,000 2 Ocean's Thirteen $19,105,000 (-47.1%) $5,359 $69,810,000 3 Knocked Up $14,535,000 (-26%) $5,000 $90,482,000 4 Pirates 3 $12,024,000 (-43.1%) $3,611 $273,757,000 5… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: The History Channel MSRP: $14.99RUNNING TIME: 53 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: none The Pitch It’s a crazy man with a foul mouth and a gun! And a knife! And a .30 Cal. Machine gun…and a crossbow and a tank and a dueling pistol… Continue reading
Earlier this week I ran an interview with Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime in the Transformers cartoon as well as the new Michael Bay movie. In the intro to that interview, I said this: “Cullen’s Prime is good voice work, and it doesn’t have the over… Continue reading
Even though it's probably a damning commentary on the psyche of America that audiences (or, at least, filmmakers) seem so eager to revisit the blockbusters of their youth with late-in-the-day sequels like Rocky Balboa, John Rambo and Indiana Jones 4, I still… Continue reading
Buy it at Amazon: CLICK HERE! Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment MSRP: $29.99Running Time: 94 minutesSpecial Features: • Commentary with the director and visual effects supervisor• Crocumentary: Bringing Gustave to LifeThe PitchTo paraphrase Peter… Continue reading
When Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 came out there was a ripple of hope in my liberal circle of friends: this movie was going to make a difference. After four years of dealing with a man who was manifestly the worst president in history, a year after getting… Continue reading
It’s easy to find commentary about the one-note nature of summer films. Doesn’t take a think tank to understand that May through July are given over to sixteen year old boys, with the occasional nod to 30-year old boys through a film like Ocean’s Thirteen.… Continue reading
A few weeks ago, Variety reported that Venice Film Fest president Marco Mueller was in talks with Warner Brothers to land Robert Zemeckis's 3-D performance capture rendering of Beowulf . Well, they were full of shit. Actually, they weren't. Mueller really was… Continue reading
There is no movie here. The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer does many things most movies do in that it features a variety of characters striving to attain a variety of objectives, many of which are in direct opposition to one another. This is called… Continue reading
