Archive · 2007

December 2007

291 posts

JOHNNY DEPP MANNS UP

With his planned next project, Shantaram, delayed by the strike, Johnny Depp has found something else to pass the time – he'll star in a new Michael Mann film. The movie, Public Enemies, is about the great American crimewave of 1933-34, when larger than life… Continue reading →

PEYOTE RACER

I am LOLing right now. I keep looking at the new Speed Racer photos that USA Today has premiered and I keep LOLing as I wonder what the hell the Wachowski Bros are up to with this movie. Why is Emile Hirsch dressed like Tron? Is Speed Racer on one of the… Continue reading →

THE WRIGHT STUFF, AT HOME

Devin's been going on about how great the Wright Stuff mini-festival is, and with good reason. Edgar Wright has put together a fantastic collection of films to show at the New Beverly theater over a couple weeks. If I could, I'd be there for every single… Continue reading →

JOKER CAKE!

I was sitting in my living room, writing up the National Board of Review winners, when someone knocked on my door. It was a guy with a cake in one hand and a copy of the Gotham Times in the other. I had been delivered my own Joker cake. Some of you have seen… Continue reading →

LOOKIN' GOOD, IRON MAN

Getting new Iron Man details feels like waiting for your tax return to arrive. There are perfectly legit reasons for keeping a lot of the film's details under wraps – I really don't want to know the whole movie before I sit down in front of it – but in the… Continue reading →

REVIEW: THE GOLDEN COMPASS

The Golden Compass is an extraordinary movie for one bad reason: it manages to be both rushed and boring at the same time. The film blows forward at a breakneck pace but never thinks to make anything happening on screen in the least bit interesting. By the… Continue reading →