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The Catholic horror genre.
Mon, Nov 16 2009 5:09 PM
Being unreasonably easy to scare, I'm a soft touch when it comes to horror movies and basically refuse to have anything to do with them at this point, but "The Exorcist" is one movie that's never bugged me. But it has scared the hell (heh) out of every Catholic I know; it's the rare horror movie (theoretically) deriving its scares from the... Read More...
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Brother vs. brother: Zucker fight.
Fri, Nov 13 2009 11:24 AM
Greenpeace is a good organization that's kind of itchily annoying, the same way a college activist getting you to sign a worthy petition is -- a point driven home quite literally when Bruce Willis was whacking activists with golf balls from his oil rig in "Armageddon." That image might be a good one to keep in mind when reading the news that arch... Read More...
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The brothers who brought you "Bad Lieutenant."
Fri, Nov 13 2009 6:00 AM
Alan Polsky wanted to tell me a story about how Werner Herzog held a gun to his head and shattered his brother Gabe's eye socket with the butt of the pistol in the middle of shooting "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," but that was just wishful thinking. "We wanted things to go crazy so that we could tell great on-set stories like ... Read More...
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The many Middle Eastern faces of Ben Kingsley.
Thu, Nov 12 2009 12:01 PM
In his long and storied career, Sir Ben Kingsley has played Lenin, Dmitri Shostakovich, Simon Wiesenthal, Meyer Lansky, Moses and Sweeney Todd. Thanks to his half-Indian background, he's also frequently been a go-to generic Middle Easterner: one of his first parts was as a Pakistani cab-driver in Mike Leigh's 1973 TV movie "Hard Labour," Mohandas... Read More...
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"Monopoly" as bad advertising.
Thu, Nov 12 2009 5:00 AM
There's too many stupid movies these days based on comics, video and board games and theme park rides, but I'll skip the dearth of originality preamble and, well, just pass go and collect $200. That's because there's a new movie based on "Monopoly" in the pipeline and there's not a thing you can do about it. Suck it up. For the edification... Read More...
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"Nailed" is back, Tony Kaye is probably not.
Thu, Nov 5 2009 4:45 PM
David O. Russell ("I Heart Huckabees") and Tony Kaye ("American History X") are both fearsomely talented directors and, from most accounts, extremely difficult human beings; their projects attract trouble on a regular basis. Both had the bad luck to get tied up with Capitol Films when the company imploded. It's a complicated saga, but... Read More...
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Rewriting the heartland: "Fargo Rock City."
Fri, Oct 23 2009 1:30 PM
Chuck Klosterman's "Fargo Rock City" might be my favorite book about music, because it does the one thing great music writing should do: it sucks you in even if you don't care about the actual tunes at hand. In my case, I could care less about the collected musical legacies of Tesla and Cinderella, but Klosterman's book presents his beloved... Read More...
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Amelia Earhart: Fashion pioneer, lousy pilot?
Thu, Oct 22 2009 1:10 PM
"Amelia" looks like the kind of splashy biopic that might as well come with the title suffix "Oscar Bait," but the reviews are rolling in, and it's looking like the awards thing won't be happening. All the cultural activity surrounding "Amelia" is turning out to be more interesting than the movie itself. Tuesday's premiere... Read More...
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"Jane Eyre," round 16.
Wed, Oct 21 2009 10:15 AM
"Sin Nombre" director Cary Fukunaga is in "advanced negotiations" to direct a new "Jane Eyre," according to Variety. Which makes perfect sense, since there've only been 15 previous film adaptations and near as many TV versions, in addition to all of the ballets, musicals and operas. And it's been three whole years since the... Read More...
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What we learned from the "Fantastic Mr. Fox" junket.
Fri, Oct 16 2009 1:30 PM
Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" had its world premiere at the London Film Festival this week. A boatload of reporters were there -- 250 print, 35 broadcast/online -- some on 20th Century Fox's dime. After wading through the many reports, here's what I've learned: The London Film Festival is becoming a bigger deal. Its budget has been... Read More...
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Richard Kelly, website auteur.
Wed, Oct 14 2009 6:00 PM
Richard Kelly might be one for two in terms of the movies he's had in theaters so far, with "Donnie Darko" arguably the only real cult classic of the decade and "Southland Tales"... not. But one thing he has been consistent with are the dense, enigmatic websites that support his films. "The Box," his third feature, opens November... Read More...
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A kids' movie that's not for kids.
Mon, Oct 12 2009 2:57 PM
Anne Thompson at indieWIRE believes "Where The Wild Things Are" is too expensive to succeed commercially, and I think she's probably right. Standard movie math says a studio film needs to gross two and a half times its budget before it can start being profitable; in that case, "Where The Wild Things Are" would need to make $250 million... Read More...
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of the Allegory.
Wed, Sep 16 2009 10:08 AM
As someone who dug the way this year's "Star Trek" reboot dug up memories from a few years of a wasted youth (let's not talk about it), I'm none too thrilled at this piece in the LA Times that suggests that for the sequel, J.J. Abrams & co. are considering adding topical political allegory. Co-writer Robert Orci says that in post-release... Read More...
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"Creation" vs. America.
Tue, Sep 15 2009 9:45 AM
Biopics about Important Men ironically tend to be Very Mediocre. So the fact that Toronto opening night film "Creation," a Charles Darwin drama directed by Jon Amiel (who once helmed the original "The Singing Detective" but lately has turned out the likes of "The Core") premiered to roundly indifferent reviews is no great surprise... Read More...
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There & Back: Diablo Cody.
Fri, Sep 11 2009 5:40 PM
Unless she changes her schtick, Diablo Cody, last year's fresh face of screenwriting success, could become next year's Shane Black or Joe Eszterhas, screenwriters who were briefly brand names until too many of their films tanked. In Cody's case, the rise/fall cycle's accelerated by the way she served as the main talking point related to "Juno... Read More...
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