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I imagine Craig Gillespie would've preferred a little distance between his Toronto Film Fest fave, Lars and the Real Girl, and the wide theatrical release of Mr. Woodcock, the "comedy" from which he was "removed" a year ago. Reshot by Wedding Crashers‘… Continue reading
America is in distress. There. I just saved you two hours and ten bucks. But if you're still hot to see whether Paul Haggis has matured as a storyteller after ramming Crash down your gullets, In the Valley of Elah offers signs of progress; even though every… Continue reading
You've probably heard wrong information about Redacted, so let's do some bookkeeping. Yes, it's Brian De Palma's recreation of the rape and murder of a 15-year old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family. No, it is not made from documentary footage and other… Continue reading
The twisted team of David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen prove persuasive enough to distract from screenwriter Steven Knight's parade of contrivance and convention in the Russian mob melodrama, Eastern Promises. Though far from Cronenberg's best, the director… Continue reading
In a grand orphanage on the Spanish coat, dead children are playing games. Once a childhood resident, Laura (Belen Rueda) has returned as an adult. With her husband, she's bought the old manse to turn it once more into a home for children. Her own adopted… Continue reading
You can't go home again. I thought Dario Argento learned that in 1980 after making the laughably bad Inferno, ostensibly a sequel to his landmark Suspiria. But he's back again with the third part in this so-called trilogy. Taken as a whole, the three films… Continue reading
We've been deluged, it sometimes seems, with portraits of troubled musicians. The musical biopic has become a popular sub-genre; it sells soundtracks by the millions and raises familiar public figures up to a level of adoration and/or scrutiny that we're all… Continue reading
It's Casey Affleck's face you'll remember. His expressions are crude oil: unrefined, shifting, impenetrable. His eyes and lips slide and scrabble for purchase on some honest display. As the coward Robert Ford, Affleck brings a quiet arsenal to bear on a man… Continue reading
Not the movie we were promised. Continue reading
Remember that Simpsons episode where Homer buys a gun and proceeds to use it as an all-purpose tool to turn off lights, change the channel, crack nuts and so on? The protagonist of Michael Davis's Shoot ‘Em Up, Mr. Smith, approaches firearms with a… Continue reading
This will not be a long review, as Jeremy and Devin and Alex have already unloaded on this truly terrible film in far more delicious ways that I ever could want to. That said, I felt like it'd be a lost opportunity not to bring my take to the mix just to soil… Continue reading
"John Carpenter's The Thing is a foolish, depressing, overproduced movie that mixes horror with science fiction to make something that is fun as neither one thing or the other. Sometimes it looks as if it aspired to be the quintessential moron movie of the… Continue reading
