Surrogates is filled with pros and cons. I enjoyed it quite a bit, though I’m convinced some of that is because of my silent ponderings of the movie’s philosophical themes, and not necessarily because of what was happening onscreen at the time. The “human vs. humanoid” aspect was well-balanced, though not fleshed out very much. [...]
A few days ago we featured the first teaser poster for David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom, one of my favorite Sundance films that I saw a week ago during the first half of the fest. Also a few days ago, while working at our condo, Dave Chen from SlashFilm decided to record a video discussion of [...]
TV Renewals & Rejections: Amy Poehler starrer gets early third-season order — NBC bureaucrats approved another year of funding for the “Parks and Recreation” department of Pawnee, Indiana late Friday.
Front Page: ‘Ghost Writer’ will bow at fest without helmer — Roman Polanski, under house arrest in Switzerland, will not go to the Berlin Film Festival to present his latest film, “The Ghost Writer,” according to Berlinale head Dieter Kosslick.
TV News: Oprah’s design guru headed to major markets — The 10 NBC O&Os have picked up the hourlong syndie talk-lifestyle strip fronted by Nate Berkus.
This movie is fucking terrible. I wanted to run across the rain-slick pavement outside with the slightest chance I might slip and hit my head on the concrete, bruising my brain in the exact spot where the ability to write exists, just so I wouldn’t have to write this review. But I received it as [...]
One location. One actor. One phenomenal filmmaking achievement. Directed by Rodrigo Cortes, starring Ryan Reynolds, Buried is the story of Paul Conroy who, after his convoy is attacked in Iraq, is buried alive inside a coffin with only a lighter and a cell phone. That’s it. For 94 minutes, we, the audience, are inside that [...]
It was first announced almost two years ago that Steven Spielberg would be developing a new live-action adaptation of the beloved manga Ghost in the Shell. Since then we’ve heard bits and pieces regarding the project, but they still haven’t really progressed past the development stage on it. We also learned last October that Shutter [...]
Be warned with this list. The title of it is, “The Top Ten Most IMPORTANT Launch Titles Of All Time,” not “The Top Ten BEST Launch Titles Of All Time,”
Despite the news this week that Disney is shutting down Miramax Films, the studio’s animated Gnomeo & Juliet is apparently still in the works. With reported production problems surrounding it for years, the film is supposed to be a comic take on William Shakesphere’s Romeo and Juliet, but with talking garden gnomes instead of human [...]