Archive · 2007
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BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERESTUDIO: Paramount Home VideoMSRP: $19.99RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 140 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: • Commentary by John Woo and writers Mike Werb and Michael Colleary• Commentary by writers Mike Werb and Michael Colleary• The Light and the… Continue reading
Memo to Mark Waters and New Line: if you adopt the above title in favor of the banal Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, I will henceforth shower this production with ceaselessly positive coverage. Every casting choice and every shred of media (both official and… Continue reading
I get no small amount of amusement from the fact that the latest films from Bela Tarr and the Coen Brothers share the same plot. It's a tribute to the infinite variability of storytelling and cinema that, despite a common narrative spine, the films couldn't… Continue reading
Sometimes you don't know you're even in the mood for a snack until you come across one. Continue reading
I'm really struggling with the fact that the lads behind VICE Magazine have created a film that is human, touching and fully divested of put-on scenester bullshit. Heavy Metal In Baghdad applies the magazine's DIY aesthetic to a story that is genuine,… Continue reading
We haven't seen much from Ed Norton's The Incredible Hulk, so these just-posted-to-AICN pictures may be of interest to those of you excited about this small, independent project. Judging from the above, it looks like Hulk has landed in an alternate universe… Continue reading
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I didn’t see Superbad until a few weeks after its theatrical bow, and – whether it was the expectations and hype being too high or the fact that I wasn’t seeing it in a packed theater with a raucous audience – I sadly left the theater underwhelmed. To this… Continue reading
Between the ace usage of The Fratellis’ “Chelsea Dagger”, the appearances of Simon Pegg and Hank Azaria, and the random slapping together of scenes without any sort of voiceover or narrative, I was quite intrigued by the initial teaser for Run Fat Boy Run.… Continue reading
You've probably heard wrong information about Diary Of The Dead, so let's do some bookkeeping. Yes, the film is George Romero's dramatized recreation of the outbreak of his zombie plague. No, it is not a Blair Witch clone. Instead, Romero has made a film that… Continue reading
J.J. Abrams may be methodically busting up my dream Trek crew, but Zoe Saldana claiming what was rightfully Rihanna's is acceptable; after all, she was in Center Stage (which should've been one of my Guilty Pleasures entries, even though the write-up would've… Continue reading
Here's hoping Tobey Maguire isn't over Jake Gyllenhaal's near-theft of his leading role in Spider-Man 2, ‘cuz all that tension could help turn Jim Sheridan's remake of Susanne Bier's very good Brothers into the male version of Whatever Happened to Baby… Continue reading
