Archive · 2007
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Props to Latino Review, who called this one back in May: commercial director Joseph Kosinski has been tapped to direct the remake (or re-adaptation) of Logan’s Run, the film that Bryan Singer left to fail at Superman Returns. Kosinski is probably best known… Continue reading
NEW RELEASES The Lives of Othersd. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarckc. Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch While watching the 2007 Academy Awards, I figured that Pan’s Labyrinth was a lock for only one award – Best Foreign Film. I was crossing my… Continue reading
The Crop: Passengers The Production Company: Davis Entertainment? The Director: None The Writer: Jon Spaihts The Actors: Nada The Logline: "A guy wakes up on a space ship that's on a 120-year mission 90 years early, and apparently is the only one on the ship.… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: TouchstoneMSRP: $29.99RATED: PG-13RUNNING TIME: 100 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• “Bikes, Brawls, and Burning Bars: The Making of Wild Hogs”• How to Get Your Wife to Let You Buy a Motorcycle• Deleted Scenes and Alternate… Continue reading
3:10 To Yuma has it all. Leather. Guns. Shootouts. Bale. Crowe. Harvey Fierstein. I mean, seriously…this looks to be a nice night out at the movies. It's directed by James Mangold, features two worthy leads (One and a half, if you're of the same mind as… Continue reading
This monday post-Superbad, not much is happening. Jonah Hill and Michael Cera are waking up from their box-office orgy, hoping that their cold feet don't have to touch each other and wondering if it's going to be more awkward between them now that they have… Continue reading
If Match Point and this new trailer for Cassandra's Dream are any indication, Woody Allen's vigorousness as a filmmaker seems directly related to the viciousness of the material. When the seventy-one-year-old writer-director tried to downshift back to comedy… Continue reading
As a straight man who experienced puberty while Ronald Reagan was still president, the name Zac Efron fills me with a profound sense of ‘Who the fuck is that?’ Wikipedia tells me that Zac is in no way related to Nora (the spellings of the last names are… Continue reading
Not content with the controversy he's surely going to cause with his documentary on religion (currently titled Religulous… eh), Bill Maher has revealed to the all powerful, all knowing, perhaps thirty-percent living Larry King that the film is targeting… Continue reading
The excitement we felt over the reteaming of Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro in The Winter of Frankie Machine may be evaporating. According to Frosty over at Collider, Scorsese has dropped out of the project, and by leaving he has put the whole thing in… Continue reading
After watching 3:10 To Yuma, I could imagine Russell Crowe in the Christian Bale role, playing a one-footed rancher whose hardscrabble life has left him without hope and only one slim chance to ever be a hero, but I couldn’t imagine Bale in the Crowe role,… Continue reading
Though I have the utmost respect for director David Frankel and screenwriter Scott Frank, I cannot countenance another film based on a memoir of personal growth hitched to an author's relationship with a dog. The emotional distance traveled is usually very… Continue reading
