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Allen Holt
Review: Sideways
Miles Raymond, the wine connossuier at the heart of Alexander Payne‘s Sideways, would surely have looked down on, if not openly mocked, the bottle of wine the wife and I opened up as we cozied down on the couch to watch this fascinating movie. The wine was an ’02 Firesteed pinot noir, and though Miles [...]
Quotas Dias (4/11/05)
It’s always A Good Thing when I find someone else making a statement that mirrors my own opinions about things, and its An Even Better Thing when they do it in such a way that allows me to just steal the quote from them and not have to do any real work myself. Today’s example [...]
Review: Troy
The story of the Trojan War as told in Homer’s Iliad seems like it would feature all of the elements needed to make a classic (so to speak) epic film: larger-than-life characters (and gods, even); young lovers risking everything in order to be together; violent clashes of massive armies as well as personal blood fueds; [...]
Review: Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
Have you ever wanted anything so badly that you were willing to do almost anything to get it? To traverse any terrain no matter how treacherous, to endure the cruel ravages of the elements, to best any foe who stood between you and your object of desire? Have you ever been possessed by a craving [...]
Review: Sin City
If you’re reading this review, chances are pretty good that you already know Sin City was adapted by Robert Rodriguez from the series of hard-boiled graphic novels by Frank Miller. You probably already know that Rodriguez used Miller’s stark black-and-white images and kinetic storytelling and intertwines them with his own frenzied filmmaking techniques to come [...]
Review: Daddy Day Care
Daddy Day Care comes off like a movie developed entirely by a studio’s marketing department and focus groups–funny, since that’s exactly what Eddie Murphy‘s character does for a living (albeit for wretched cereal and not wretched movies) before getting sacked and going into the daycare biz. This movie was produced for exactly two reasons: because [...]
Teaser: “Superman Returns” one-sheet
Via Movieweb.com: Seems like we have the first official teaser poster for Superman Returns. Take a gander for yourself… The image itself doesn’t necessarily get me excited, though I guess it’s OK as a teaser image…but the fact that the poster exists at all does. June 30, 2006 can’t get here fast enough. UPDATE: Just [...]
Finally!
OK, I’ve finally posted the Official Moviegeekz 2004 Year In Review. Consider that post to be a “living document”–it’s going to get updated on a regular basis as I see more and more movies from last year. I don’t want to penalize (if you can call it a “penalty” to be left off my list) [...]
Review: Closer
The relationships of four damaged people come under the microscope of director Mike Nichols in Closer, a movie so obviously based on a stage play you can almost see the proscenium arch surrounding the scenes. The screenplay, which was written by Patrick Marber and was indeed based on his play, practically drips with intimacy: rarely [...]
Affleck To Direct Lehane’s Gone, Baby, Gone
Just to prove that I have an interest in movies that aren’t based on comic books, I now give you a bit of info about an upcoming movie based on a crime novel, instead. Variety reports that Ben Affleck will apparently make his directorial debut by helming an adaptation of Dennis Lehane‘s Gone, Baby, Gone, [...]
“Spider-Man 3″ Has Its Villain…Kinda
Thomas Haden Church has been cast as the Big Bad in Spider-Man 3. “Well, that could be cool,” I hear you say. “Just which of Spidey’s cruel and curious coterie of villainy will the one-time sitcom star and recent Oscar nominee be portaying? Electro? The Shocker? The Scorpion? The Rhino? The Lizard? Kraven the Hunter? [...]
Link: Inside Pixar
Ain’t-It-Cool News’ Moriarty got to live out one of my life’s ambitions when we he took a tour of the Pixar campus. I’ve seen the main building a couple of times on the special features of the last couple of DVDs but I always, always want to see more. The “cottages” that the animators work [...]
Review: I, Robot
Fresh from the Certainly Better Than I Thought It Was Gonna Be Department, we’ve got Will Smith‘s I, Robot, an entertaining and surprisingly thought-provoking movie. Not too thought-provoking, of course…it’s still a movie largely about a bunch of psycho robots. But coming as it did for me hot on the heels of the abysmal Daddy [...]
X-Men 3, Toy Story 3 Get Directors
The guys over at The Movie Blog have posted some news indicating that the third installments of a couple of my favorite movie franchies ever both now have directors attached. According to Ain’t-It-Cool News, Matthew Vaughn has been picked to direct X-Men 3. I don’t honestly have much of an opinion about this one yet [...]
The End (of Eisner) Is Nigh
Michael Eisner, nemesis of animation lovers everywhere, is leaving his gig as CEO of Disney a year early. My first thought, as I’m sure it was for many others: “What does this mean for the Pixar-Disney partnership?” The IMDb has this to say on the subject: The selection of Robert Iger to become CEO of [...]
Review: Shaun of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead (2004) Grade: A- Directed By: Edgar Wright Written By: Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg Starring: Simon Pegg Kate Ashfield Nick Frost Lucy Davis Bill Nighy Studio: Rogue Pictures It’s exceedingly hard to create a movie (or any other work of fiction) that both lampoons a particular style or genre but also [...]
Review: The Village
M. Night Shyamalan‘s The Village, while not a bad film by any stretch, suffers because of the reputation of its director: if you’ve seen any of his previous movies, you know that at some point there’s going to come a pretty major plot twist, most likely in the last reel of the movie. And if [...]
Link: New Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trailer
Second trailer for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is up, this one using the concept of the guide itself to make fun of movie trailers in general. Felt true to the spirit of the books to me, and what new footage there is looks pretty sharp. My expectations for this movie are growing. Two [...]
Oscar Night Wrapup
Took Chris Rock all of about eight seconds to make his first racially-oriented joke. I’m surprised he was able to restrain himself for that long. Rock didn’t do a bad job as host, but it certainly wasn’t a great job, either. But that wasn’t entirely his fault. He’s just not the kind of comedian you [...]
Review: The Day After Tomorrow
As long as you can shut off that part of your brain that might actually try to think about what you’re watching at all, The Day After Tomorrow can be reasonably enjoyable at times. At other times it borders on financial-report dull. It’s hard to take any movie directed by Roland Emmerich too seriously–he’s in [...]
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