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Don't get too excited yet; this ‘leaked' image may or may not be official marketing for Todd Haynes' very ambitious biography of Bob Dylan. I really hope it is legit, though, because it gets several things quite right. First, it's eye-catching, and… Continue reading
Variety reported earlier on Hasbro's new merchandising strategies, and there are a few facts I need to parrot on to you, so that they're out of the way and I can get to the point of this article. So: Hasbro was with CAA for a while, and is now berthing in… Continue reading
So, uh, Denzel Washington kinda has a thing for Kimberly Elise, huh? She was in his Manchurian Candidate remake as well as John Q which, to my continuing disappointment, wasn't Nick Cassavete's remake of Takashi Miike's homage to lactation and family values.… Continue reading
It's Monday, so I don't have anywhere near the thick skin that I'd have on a Wednesday or Thursday, so I don't have what it takes to dress up the spec script that's just been picked up by Disney for Scott Rudin to produce. All About Adam, by Alan Schoolcraft… Continue reading
A month ago I wrote a news item about Bertrand Tavernier's new movie, in which I proclaimed his Coup de Torchon to be the best (and my favorite) Jim Thompson film adaptation. But everyone has to have the last word, and a few brought up the notion that I might… Continue reading
I'm pretty proud of myself – I made it through May without seeing Shrek. Even with it being the only movie I haven't yet seen at my favorite local theater, I've resisted the occasional urge to see it just so that I can go to the theater and not see 28 Weeks… Continue reading
In the past fifty years, pretty much everyone who's tried to strike gold with a screwball comedy has just struck out. It's like the genre vanished with Bowery flophouses and sidewalk apple vendors and literally can't be recreated. Equal parts phsyical… Continue reading
ABC’s Good Morning, America is one of those shows that broadcasts to folks a couple generations ahead of me. People who saw The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in their first runs. This might, in part, explain why Paul Newman chose a relatively… Continue reading
The Brothers Solomon has the creepiest poster of the year. I'm not one of those guys who can't take the sight of a gloriously pregnant woman. Usually it is, indeed, glorious. Especially when the kid ain't mine. But the belly on display here is just… Continue reading
One of the films I most wanted to see at Toronto last year was Fido. It's the story of a zombie-infested town that has been ‘saved' by ZomCon, a company that specializes in zombie control. The sleepy burg (which is als o appraently stuck in the '50s)… Continue reading
You know how to get me excited about the synthesis of games and film? John Lassiter needs to get on stage at ShoWest and announce that Pixar is developing a film based on Will Wright's Spore. I would probably lose it, if only for a minute. Until this morning,… Continue reading
The very concept of a film trilogy engenders certain expectations. When a studio stretches a tale over six hours or more, we hope for a certain fluidity from one chapter to the next, for plotting, action and character arcs that are consistent both within each… Continue reading
