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Only a deeply pathetic creature would brag about scooping Variety on Rachel Weisz being cast in Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones, so I'll just pretend I didn't bring it up last Saturday in my cockamamie new column (after sitting on it for two weeks). Since I… Continue reading
Holy Christ on Oprah, if this ain't the most mindblowingly awesome poster I've seen in years! If only I had any confidence in director Hyung-rae Shim delivering the goods. I mean, if the movie is a quarter as astounding as the above image, it'd still my… Continue reading
Jesse Bradford seems like a pretty solid actor, so I'll spare him any further snark regarding his involvement with Swimfan, easily the most laughable high school-set thriller since Judgment at Nuremberg. Actually, I thought the kid might've had a shot at… Continue reading
Fernando Meirelles is rounding out the cast for his adaptation of Jose Saramago's acclaimed novel Blindness, and, while the material is extraordinarily weighty for a (partly) studio-financed production, this doesn't mean the director of The Constant Gardener… Continue reading
Paul Bettany will play a claymation artist in Daniel Simpson's Born, a psychological thriller in which the animator's creations take on a life of their own. You don't even need to throw in Jennifer Connelly or the Chiodo Brothers or Guillermo Del Toro and… Continue reading
Pete Doctor did such a splendid job guiding Monsters Inc. to the screen that I'm going to pretend his next directorial effort, Up, doesn't sound like a joke project. I mean, what are we supposed to do with a premise that has a seventy-year-old joining forces… Continue reading
I have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and Ned Beatty will not have it. Escape As Game 2 of the least competitive NBA Finals since 2002 lumbered its way to tip-off at 6 PM PST, I was anxiously aware that television history was being made on HBO's… Continue reading
Tom Wolfe's inside-mocking-without brand of satire was never more pungently amusing than with The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which was published forty-years ago. I haven't read the book since high school, and can't imagine how any of it will speak to our… Continue reading
Preamble I am easily distracted. Some might say I have ADD. I'd like to hurt these people. And I will. One day, I'll make the whole world pay. Why No Ocean's Thirteen Review? What's there to say? It's essentially review-proof: more so than the other two,… Continue reading
What's your favorite Steve Miner movie? Is it Friday the 13th Part II or Part III? House or Warlock? Lake Placid or Texas Rangers? All joking aside (my apologies if you're actually pondering the above query), Miner did direct one minor classic: the first… Continue reading
Just when you think Martin Campbell is ready to make the leap to A-list director status, he takes a pure for-hire gig that reminds you he's just a high operating hack. In a way, you've got to respect that. What if Martin Brest would've limited himself to… Continue reading
