Archive · 2008
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Why does Jonathan Levine, director of Devin Faraci's favorite movie of 2008 (aka, The Wackness) look so stoked in this picture? According to the Hollywood Reporter, it's probably because people want him to keep making movies. The trade says Levine will write… Continue reading
Quentin and Tera? Unlikely… Continue reading
Brian Keene returns to the story that made him famous. Continue reading
If you've been reading any movie news or blogs you've probably read someone gushing about the new film The Wackness. It stars Josh Peck of Disney's Drake and Josh, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby and Famke Jenssen (?). Taking place in 1994 and with a soundtrack… Continue reading
In every orphan's life there comes a time to search for roots. It's a matter of natural curiosity, like how every hot girl eventually needs to kiss another hot girl. No one can fight human nature. Superman in particular gets his little ass whipped by it on a… Continue reading
This week's a relatively light column. Too many other deadlines looming, on top of which I'm getting ready to move to Portland for a month and a half, so I've got an apartment to get in order. Next week I hope to address this business of the "new classics"… Continue reading
I learned a lot from Wall-E this weekend. For one, there's no reason to ever pay for snacks at a movie theater when the Wal-Mart down the street has a seven-foot-tall steel cage full of eighty-eight cent movie candy. I loaded up on Cookie Dough Bites, Nerds,… Continue reading
All I'd really heard about this film before I saw it was that the beginning was nearly silent, no dialogue. People love to point this out (such as with There Will Be Blood or 2001: A Space Odyssey, to which this movie pays considerable homage), which is funny… Continue reading
This is a personal preference of course, but I hate this sub genre of movies. Its condescending and trite, almost always unrealistic and extremely predictable. From what I gather, these kinds of movies always fall into three sub genres. Here they are: 1. Free… Continue reading
It is with subtle but sure statement of purpose that I have not yet reserved, nor will I ever reserve, any of this space to discuss Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull. My agenda here is to only ever write constructively, if I can't always… Continue reading
War, Inc. : A Long & Winding Consideration. I guess I was hoping for another Grosse Pointe Blank. No dice. War, Inc. is the new movie from John Cusack. There are other writers and a director credited, but the first credit that comes up is New Crime,… Continue reading
War, Inc. : A Long & Winding Consideration. I guess I was hoping for another Grosse Pointe Blank. No dice. War, Inc. is the new movie from John Cusack. There are other writers and a director credited, but the first credit that comes up is New Crime,… Continue reading
