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It didn't happen to his Brokeback Mountain, and it didn't happen to Paul Verhoeven's Black Book, but now Lust, Caution, Ang Lee's follow-up to his culturally significant homo opus has been tagged with the four characters that newspapers and Blockbuster love… Continue reading
We've been pretty tough on Rod Lurie lately. News of his Straw Dogs remake hasn't done anything to endear the filmmaker to any of us here. The guy makes a comment about how he's going to approach the film's pivotal rape scene and he might as well be on the… Continue reading
Now that he's moved on from giant shark pictures to landlocked action, Jan de Bont is casting some smart muscle. He's just added Jason Isaacs to the cast of Stopping Power, the film in which John Cusack plays a father forced to cooperate with a kidnapper when… Continue reading
This slipped through the cracks yesterday, but news about the (possibly) upcoming adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting sequel Porno is, today at least, more an excuse for me to publicly express my extreme disappointment with Sunshine than anything else.… Continue reading
The full program lineup for the 2007 Toronto Film Festival has been released, and, as expected, it's pretty wonderful. From high-profile obvious hits like No Country For Old Men and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (this is the… Continue reading
I'll keep this short, since Paul W. S. Anderson's Death Race (nee Death Race 3000) is quickly becoming one of my most reviled movies of the year, and it's not even shot yet. I know that's bad. You know that's bad. But how can I help myself? But look, when you… Continue reading
It’s the week after The King Of Kong opened to great reviews and good numbers for a limited release, and director Seth Gordon already has two new projects lined up. So why am I not happy for him? For starters, because one is a dramatic remake of The King of… 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
Thanks to an inopportune slot in the August release schedule, I can’t help stacking The Ten up against Superbad, and it’s never going to win that contest. The difference is that while The Ten, a comic collection of stories based on the ten commandments, is… Continue reading
Over the last few weeks I've seen Superbad more than once and had innumerable conversations about it. The dialogues all start the same way: ‘is it actually funny?' When I emphatically assure friends, enemies and Republicans that it is fucking hilarious,… Continue reading
Put yourself in Oliver Hirschbiegel's shoes. You've made several films, two of which broke out of Germany to international success: das Experiment and Downfall. You're presented with a major studio opportunity to rework Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but… Continue reading
UPDATED! Scroll down below the first poster for the new goods. Alright, this is a lot better. After the filigree and font-heavy design of the first one-sheet, I'm psyched for the old-school simplicity of this new design. It's stark and simple, like some of… Continue reading
