Movie Talk from the Front Lines: Filmmakers Discuss Their Works With the Los Angeles Film Critics Association
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Despite the title, this is Dickens's A Christmas Carol , faithfully rendered and extremely frightening, shot in 3D using the "performance capture" technique which transforms live actors into semi-animated figures. There are no inappropriate songs or additional sentimentality, and Jim Carrey plays Scrooge and the three Christmases in a variety of British accents. The production notes call...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scripted by Diablo Cody, who won an Oscar for Juno , this is the week's only vampire movie. A semi-serious, extremely bloody affair, it's set in the town of Devil's Kettle, where a band of Goths sacrifice the high-school beauty (Megan Fox) to Satan to take their band into the big time. Unfortunately she's not a virgin and thus remains alive to become an insatiable flesh-eating bloodsucker, terrorising...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Like Dr Strangelove , this crazy comedy of military madness is based on a non-fiction work (Jon Ronson's T he Men Who Stare at Goats ), and stars Ewan McGregor as Bob Wilton, a frustrated Michigan journalist in search of adventure who heads for the Middle East in 2003. In Kuwait he hitches a lift into Iraq from Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), a former member of the New Earth Army, a secret, experimental...
wei12 | yesterday
"I was a fan of both his work and a fan of him as a person. The world has lost not only a quintessential filmmaker whose influence will be felt for generations, but a great and decent man." – actor MACAULAY CULKIN • "John was an amazing mentor to me during the time we were shooting Curly Sue . He had a childlike spirit that connected us instantly and always made me feel loved.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
A surprise popular success in the States, this cod documentary features the hugely unimpressive young Chinese-American stand-up comic Charlyne Yi, who claims never to have experienced love. So with her director she travels the country in a haphazard way, asking everyone from fellow comic Seth Rogen to ageing Hells Angels and long-married couples about love and what it means to them. The whinging Charlyne...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Frank Borzage (1894-1962) was one of Hollywood's great romantics, a specialist in lyrical melodrama about love in adversity. But he was the son of an Austrian-born coalminer and his stories were set not in aristocratic circles, but in impoverished rural America or working-class Europe and invariably shot on stylised sets. These two discs contain a quartet of his best movies. Three are silent –...
Blog THIS, Pal! (Free subscription) | yesterday
These commercials are cool. They're well done. They're clever. And that they would include Tommy Boy in that company, I thought was very flattering To be honest, I hadn't planned on discussing this commercial - having seen Tommy Boy once, and not being impressed, it seemed like an issue that could do without my commentary. Especially since, unlike many people I know, I don't consider the Spade/Farley/Sandler/Schneider...
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Frost/Nixon is a 2008 film based on a play about David Frost's 1977 series of interviews with Richard Nixon. Ron Howard directs. Frank Langella is Richard Nixon and Michael Sheen is David Frost. The Younger Son gave this to me for my birthday, and we watched it tonight. I remember well the events that led up to the story told in this film. It makes me mad all over again. And apparently we learned nothing...
MoviesOnline! (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Seriously I think Latoya Jackson is a bigger nut then Bruno and Bruno isnt even a real person. Below is a deleted scene from the DVD where Latoya Jackson decides to sit on the Mexican Furniture and have some sushi off a naked Mexican piece of Furniture. I thought Paula Abdul was a nut but Latoya takes the cake. The deleted scene is actually quite funny watch it below. BRUNO will be on DVD & November...
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
• Dave Karger thinks "Precious" has a shot at landing at least five Oscar nods -- best picture, director, actress, supporting actress and screenplay. And he thinks, "Once people get past the strange concept of [Mariah] Carey as an Oscar contender, they won’t be able to deny the power of her few scenes as a social worker. If you ask me, she more than deserves to be in this...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Every week between now and February 2, when the nominations are announced, movies and stars will help themselves — or, sometimes, hurt themselves — in the Oscar race. Vulture's Oscar Futures will listen to insider gossip, comb the blogs, and out-and-out guess when necessary to track who's up, who's down, and who's currently leading the race for a coveted nomination. Best Picture UP: Precious...
James Wolcott's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
With the impeccable timing that has made him America's favorite band leader, Elvis Mitchell interviews Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner on the portentous eve of the gathering darkness of the post-traumatic season-three finale this Sunday on AMC. It's a fascinating...
hello, typepad (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
This one begins as traditional science fiction and branches out into radio signals from Mars, nosebleeds, Sartre's theories about free will, amputated toes, NASA, the National Security Agency, wind tunnels, murders, black Town Cars, obnoxious waiters, and a mysterious stranger....
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The critics have been miserly about Jim Carrey's Scrooge. Are they right, or do they just lack a little Christmas cheer? Ben Child passes the humbugs Perhaps the critics need a visit from the ghost of Christmas criticism: there is very little real joy in their hearts when it comes to Robert Zemeckis's latest 3D motion capture spectacular, a retelling of Charles Dickens's tale of an old miser who comes...
Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Owen Gleiberman on Cameron Diaz thriller from ''Donnie Darko'' director. Plus: ''Christmas Carol,'' more
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wei12 | yesterday
"I was a fan of both his work and a fan of him as a person. The world has lost not only a quintessential filmmaker whose influence will be felt for generations, but a great and decent man." – actor MACAULAY CULKIN • "John was an amazing mentor to me during the time we were shooting Curly Sue . He had a childlike spirit that connected us instantly and always made me feel loved. He will be missed but...
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