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Trailer Park: Aeon Flux, Walk the Line, Jarhead
OK, I’m getting annoyed with the fact that I haven’t seen any movies lately–not only have I missed watching good flicks, but it’s made my beloved site here pretty damn stagnant. Part of the problem has been the fact that my Netflix queue has still been slam-packed with full seasons of TV shows (man, is [...]
Joe Ranft, 1960-2005
Pixar’s Joe Ranft, head of their phenomenal story department (as well as the voice for Heimlich, Wheezy and Jacques) was killed in an auto accident on Wednesday. That’s terribly sad news for the folks at Pixar, both professionally and personally (by all accounts he was an incredible (so to speak) person). And I feel some [...]
Review: Batman Begins
One thought kept bouncing through my head over and over as I watched Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan‘s magnificent reconceptualizaion of the Batman mythos: “They get it.” Director Nolan (Memento, Insomnia) and co-screenwriter David Goyer understand that audiences don’t want to see the primary-color pap of Joel Schumacher‘s last two Batman travesties. We don’t want superhero [...]
Review: Team America: World Police
Man, Trey Parker has got no love for Michael Bay. Not only is Team America: World Police constructed as a brutal satire of the lamebrained explody Bay oeuvre (Transformers and the trainwreck Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the Bad Boys flicks, The Rock, Armageddon), he even has a song in the movie devoted entirely to [...]
Less like a phoenix, more like a dodo
In general I haven’t felt the need to post much in the way of news on here lately–been trying to stick mostly with the reviews (1), but a piece of news that has sickened me to my very core has crossed my virtual desk and I needed to rant to you, my fine readers. All [...]
SPECIAL FEATURE: 7 Days of Serenity
Revisit our special 7 Days of Serenity feature from 2005, in which we tried to pump up the ‘verse for the big-screen return of Mal Reynolds and crew.
Review: Serenity
I found myself experiencing the same problem trying to decide on an approach for this review that I’d imagine the creators of Serenity faced: how to gear the movie/review so that it pleases both the rabid fanbase of the “Firefly” TV series from which the movie spawned and people who’ve never seen the show. It’s [...]
Review: Star Wars, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
So at least we’ve seen the whole story; the ends of the circle finally meet in the middle. We’ve seen how innocence (well, angry and whiny frustrated innocence, anyway) finds itself corrupted by absolute (and a bit melodramatic) evil and becomes the face of the devil for a generation of consumers. We’ve seen enough poor [...]
Review: A Love Song for Bobby Long
The New Orleans found in A Love Song for Bobby Long doesn’t map to the real New Orleans: it’s a romantic impression of a mythical New Orleans, all hot jazz and cool rain, a city imagined by writers for generations as a safe haven for broken creatives. This New Orleans can’t help, of course, but [...]
Review: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
At some point during the last few years–I think quite likely it was during the making of Charlie’s Angels, if not earlier–Bill Murray decided it was time for him to put away his trademarked schtick for awhile and do some actual acting. Oh, he’d tried doing the dramatic stuff early in his career, of course, [...]
Review: In Good Company
It happens all the time in all manner of businesses, from Hollywood backlots to sports fields to corporate boardrooms: seasoned, talented veteran with plenty of good years left gets pushed to the side in favor of hotshot rookie with none of the experience but all of the flash and promise. Our culture has never been [...]
Link: Scalzi on Sith
Since I have no idea when I’m actually going to get to see Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, I’m directing you now to John Scalzi’s review. Not only is Scalzi’s review as well-written and entertaining as the rest of his posts on The Whatever, but he’s recently done loads of research about [...]
Review: Ray
We all know the familiar dark glasses, the side-to-side sway and euphoric smile as music pours from the piano, the raspy voice that should be part of the dictionary entry for “soulful”; Ray Charles has been such an icon for so long that it’s probable most of us born after 1970 or so don’t truly [...]
Review: Heat
At first glance, you might see the outlines of familiar cliches and think Michael Mann‘s Heat to be something it’s not: you see Al Pacino‘s Vincent Hanna as a kind of supercop, a crusader with well-honed detective skills willing to break whatever rules are necessary to nab the bad guys; you see Robert DeNiro‘s Neil [...]
Review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I don’t consider myself a die-hard Adams junkie, at least not anymore; I haven’t read any of the books in years. They’re pretty much fondly-remembered relics of my nerdy adolesence at this point. And given that I hadn’t read “Hitchhiker’s” in so long, I thought I’d be able to separate what the movie was trying to accomplish from what the book set out to do, to judge the movie on its own merits instead of simply judging how faithfully it aped its source material. But that proved more difficult that I’d anticipated.
Batman Begins…to get me hyped for this movie.
Hot on the heels of the grandeur of the Serenity trailer, Apple now has the final trailer for Batman Begins and it’s got me pretty geeked. While there are certainly a couple of goofy moments in it, the many, many bits of utter kewlness thoroughly trumped them. What we can see of the overall look [...]
“Let’s go be bad guys.”
The official trailer for Serenity came out about an hour ago and man, does it look good. The effects look sharp and the dialogue is typically Whedon-y. I feel pretty confident in saying that anyone who dug Firefly, the TV series from which the movie spawns, is probably going to like this movie. It honestly [...]
First Official Pic of Routh as Superman
Warner Brothers has released the first official picture of Brandon Routh in the new Superman getup from Superman Returns. Two things to discuss here: one, the suit; and two, Routh himself. The costume I like. It’s not necessarily the way I would have gone with it, but I like it. I especially like the fact [...]
Doc Ock, Gandalf Sign On For “DaVinci Code”
The cast for Ron Howard’s adaptation of The DaVinci Code just keeps getting better and better. This movie was going to be an absolute smash no matter who they got to star in it, but man, they’re certainly not going for “movie stars” with the casting…they’re getting Actors. In addition to the already-cast Tom Hanks [...]
Review: Ocean’s Twelve
Ocean’s Eleven was one of my favorite movies of 2001: great cast of actors and an excellent director (Steven Soderbergh) making an easy, fluffy movie and obviously having a ball doing it. The witty interplay between the characters and the slickly-executed heist succeeded largely because the A-list stars were obviously having fun making the movie. [...]
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