by admin on September 2, 2010
The Telluride Film Festival, which takes place every Labor Day weekend in the mind-expandingly gorgeous San Juan Mountains, is the favorite film festival of anyone who’s ever attended it. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but not much. The four-day festival is neither hectic nor amped, but it nonetheless manages to showcase [...]
by admin on September 2, 2010
I know what you’re thinking: how can I talk about the one and only Ghostbusters and not talk about that song. Well, today I thought I would honor all the unsung heroes of the soundtrack to one of the greatest comedies of all time by dedicating this Scenes (Songs) We Love to Alessi’s Saving the [...]
by admin on September 1, 2010
Some people try to deny the fact that they’re getting older. I’m constantly in denial about the movie stars I grew up with.
Michael Douglas, who turns sixty-six — sixty-six! — in a couple of weeks, went on Letterman last night ostensibly to promote the September release of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. But the conversation [...]
by admin on September 1, 2010
The screenplay race is always the most fun to speculate upon. Mostly because it is the one category where one of your favorite films of the year has a real shot at getting its single nomination; a little toss off to the year’s best comedy, indie or twisty genre entity. It is where Pixar has [...]
by admin on August 31, 2010
- Hah: Apparently no one searched Google for “blue dong” prior to Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. [via Reddit]
- Jackie Chan is set to direct and star in the Chinese historical drama The 1911 Revolution. The film is expected to feature a cast of around 70 of China’s biggest stars and be done by September of [...]
by admin on August 31, 2010
George Clooney as a hit man planning his exit strategy in ‘The American’ follows a long line of assassins (and bank robbers and jewel thieves) who decide to pull that legendary “last job” before retiring to a hard-earned life of luxury.
Of course, everything always goes wrong as a lifetime of bad choices catch [...]
by admin on August 30, 2010
I’m going to keep this short and quick: the general consensus (aka my twitter feed) seems to indicate that the summer of 2010 was “like, one of the worst ever,” as decided by a group of people with the average age of 27. I actually agreed with that sentiment until just now, which is when [...]
by admin on August 30, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I put forth The Last Exorcism as a likely candidate to become a late-summer sleeper hit. At the end of its first weekend in theaters, the box office returns look good, and the critical consensus does too — with the exception of the ending, which took a drumming from everyone [...]
by admin on August 29, 2010
More than half the votes in last week’s Trailer Park poll went to expected winner Black Swan (with 57%). There is definitely a lot of interest in Darren Aronofsky’s latest, far more than any of the other nine films. I am a bit surprised to see the Joaquin Phoenix documentary I’m Still Here garnering so [...]
by admin on August 29, 2010
If there’s one thing I want to pluck off my to-do list and move to my have-done list in the very near future, it’s underground supper clubs. Rather than going out to a fancy restaurant to gorge on any old meal, many are falling victim to the lure of secret, one-of-a-kind foodie adventures. Not advertised [...]