September 2007 - Posts

Das Vaknifeya by The Hot Blog

In Eastern Promises, Cronenberg takes on Knight’s fairly-traditional-on-the-surface story of the Mafioso with a heart of gold, the Mafia family he works for and is working his way up through, and the blonde innocent who forces him to make decisions about...
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Just Making Sure... by The Hot Blog

After some blog commenters accused me on not writing about movies and only business, I wondered if it was true... after looking at the last month of blog entries, my guilt was relieved. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Before...
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Docs by The Hot Blog

Kim Vonyar does a nice job starting down the doc road for the year in Cinematical. But she misses the most important doc of 2007 by a country mile... Tony Kaye's best-ever-in-the-category Lake of Fire . If you think I am exaggerating , go see the...
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Klady's Sunday Estimate - Sept 30 by The Hot Blog

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Hot Button - You Are What You Emulate by The Hot Blog

Truly original films are a rare commodity. They always were. But upon passing its hundredth birthday, the film industry is evolving in the way all the other arts have. There are plenty of remakes, but more interestingly, there are now more and more films...
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Box Office Hell - Sept 28 by The Hot Blog

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How Do You Know A Studio/ Producer/ Filmmaker Is Staining Their Jockey Shorts? by The Hot Blog

They show their Oscar-chasing art film to Fantastic Fest or Butt-Numb-A-Thon, where they know they control the dispensing of opinion, before they show it in less tightly controlled circumstances.... And sometimes, they even get a sweet kiss from a trade...
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Maybe Some Bionic Writers? by The Hot Blog

I watched Bionic Woman tonight... and I have to say... zzzzzzz... And not the way something like Desperate Housewives just isn't my taste. This show is trying so hard to be yet another version of Heroes that it is little more than a bunch of mediocre...
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Not New, But... by The Hot Blog

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Who'll Do It? by The Hot Blog

It occurred to me last night... The battle between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is hot and heavy... both companies are willing to spend millions to get studios to join the effort on one side or the other... The biggest challenge for the marketers is to get people...
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Gosling's Latex Love by Variety On the Town

At the Variety screening of “Lars and the Real Girl,” on Wednesday at the Arclight, director Craig Gillespie and thesp Ryan Gosling chatted about their unconventional story that follows the courtship of a man and his latex love. After a...
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Do You Know The Way To Chevalier? by The Hot Blog

I have tried conventional means to find Wes Anderson's Hotel Chevalier on iTunes... but nope. However, this link on Defamer got me there and the same link came back to me when I "Send To A Friend"ed it to myself. Odd. The link opens my iTunes...
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GREAT News for Hot Blog Fans!!! by The Hot Blog

( The following came from a promotion house... a few minor edits are italicized ) HOSTILE : PART II - UNRATED ( HACK )'S CUT Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is gearing up to release the Unrated Director's Cut of Hostile : Part II which ( abuses...
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Agreed by The Hot Blog

For weeks, said Mr. Ross, NBC producers and executives had declined to comment for his piece. Then, last Wednesday, NBC News president Steve Capus had publicly questioned Mr. Ross’ motives in an interview with USA Today. “I chalk this up to the usual...
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Gurus O' Gold: The Early Days by The Hot Blog

The Full Charts... Once again, we have launched Gurus o' Gold for the awards season. This year, there is a bit of a shake up in the line-up, which we are trying to address for those who are not on this chart this season… more on that next week. What...
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