It will show up soon enough... But I wanted to point out the absurdity of suggesting that a $20m+ opening for The Bounty Hunter is "embarrassing." It will easily be Jennifer Aniston's biggest opening without a major male opener (or a dog... same diff') by her ...
My son contemplates his first Dorothy's burger... the best burger on the planet and a BIFF tradition.
It was only the other day that we got some behind the scenes footage from Predators and now, whaddyaknow, the big shiny full trailer arrives online too. Produced by Robert Rodriguez (based on his story) and starring the likes of Adrien Brody, Topher ... Read more Filed under: VideoPermalink | Email ...
When Obi Wan Kenobi was given trouble by the authorities he was able to use a cunning Jedi mind trick to get what he wanted, that or he'd mercilessly hack at them with his lightsaber until the pen pushing bureaucrats wished they've never put a ... Read more Filed ...
And now, a brief pause while we delve into the realm of the political ... As I'm sure most of you folks know, there's been this little brouhaha stirring in Mississippi around Constance McMillen, a teenage lesbian who wanted to bring her girlfriend to prom and gender-bend by wearing ...
photo by eugene hernandez Evoking the early to mid 90s, Courtney Love took the stage this afternoon at SXSW, fronting a band that she boldly branded, "Hole." Either willfully or playfully, Love was defiant about the new lineup for her group, despite the absence of her co-founder Eric Erlandson and ...
In 1987, Studio Ghibli acquired the rights to a children's novel written by Kadono Eiko, titled Witch's Delivery Service: the story of Kiki, a 13-year-old girl, and the last year of her training as a witch, as she set off for a new town away from her family and had ...
The Runaways director talks.
While at Sundance I sat down with director Floria Sigismondi to discuss her debut feature, The Runaways, starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning as Joan Jett and Cherie Curie. I’ve been a fan of Floria’s for years, and with The Runaways she has brought her keen sense of place and ...
No disrespect to our former colleague Nicole LaPorte, typically a sharp thinker and strong writer, but her story in The Daily Beast this week suggesting a causal relationship between winning an Oscar and marriages falling apart seemed like a textbook case of false deductions and selective reasoning. It's not ...
I know I could be writing about far more important things, like why Jon Voight of all people is calling upon all "freedom loving" Americans to rally in Washington against the Democrats' healthcare legislation, saying it "will destroy America." Or I could be begging you to read my ...
There were eight entries in the documentary competition at SXSW with Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol taking the top jury prize. (Jury members were Nelson George, Thom Powers, and Karina Longworth). Rebecca Richman Cohen's War Don Don was given a special jury nod. You can read rhapsodic reviews for Marwencol here, ...
What's on your mind (cinematically speaking)? We've had no time to breathe today. But at least it's gloriously pleasant weather! That's a change.
One of the notable things to come out of SXSW is the so-called mumblecore movement, which like the word "indie," has taken on so many meanings that it doesn't really mean anything. (Check out Paste's long-winded answer to the question: "Is Indie Dead?") The term is mainly used as shorthand ...
My motive is that I thought we could use a break from all the madness. My motive for what, you ask. My motive for not writing about what you might expect me to be writing about in this week's Topics/Questions/Exercises at The Auteurs'. What did I write about instead? ...
EXCLUSIVE: Back when "Zombieland" turned into a sleeper hit last fall, Ruben Fleischer became one of the most wanted directors in Hollywood. The rookie filmmaker behind the horror-comedy phenomenon met with and/or was wooed by producers for a slew of projects, including a potential Will Ferrell vehicle called ...
Marco Bellocchio sets history a-twirl in the opening minutes of his Cannes-buzzed melodrama Vincere, cutting between set-ups in Trent 1907 and Milan 1914 and back again, tripping the wire on linear narrative with rapid-fire bursts of under-contextualized, nonsynchronous events. We are somewhere in time. A young Benito Mussolini (Filippo Timi), ...
My SXSW Music highlight, so far, is: The xx. A fan of their self-titled first album, I was curious to see how the lush aural experience of their music would translate to a live experience. They were terrific. Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim are up front for the band, ...
TCM’s first-ever Classic Film Festival launches April 22nd, running 50 classic films and wide-ranging panels over four days at three landmark venues--Grauman’s Chinese, the Egyptian and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The fest kicks off with a screening of the newly restored George Cukor film A Star is Born (1954). Other ...
There's been a ton of buzz about Warner Bros.' upcoming "Clash of the Titans," which the studio believes could be its next blockbuster release when it hits theaters April 2. But in the 3-D geek community, the film has been drawing fire ever since it became apparent that the ...
Remember Ramona Quimby? That quirky adolescent with a red-haired bob whose curiosity always seemed to land her in hot water? Most of us became familiar with Ramona via the bestselling book series by author Beverly Cleary, which was later turned into a popular PBS television series. This summer, ...
I'd assume most of you who frequent film festivals have felt my current pain. Half-way through this year's SXSW, I woke up with a cold/flu type thing that has basically fucked over the past 3 days. It makes sense. You're malnourished and sleep-deprived so you're immune system is iffy to ...
