PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
Watch : Movie Trailers – The Shock Doctrine : Free Download FULL EPISODE Now! Filmmakers Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross examine how modern capitalism affects the world. Based on a book by Naomi Klein. Add this to your queueAdded: Mon Feb 08 18:15:05 UTC 2010Air date: Fri Jan 22 00:00:00 UTC 2010Duration: 01:42 Download FULL EPISODE Now!
battle royale with cheese (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
From the BBC . Steve Coogan expects a decision to be made this month on a big screen outing for his comic creation Alan Partridge. "This is kind of make or break," Coogan told the BBC. "In a month it'll be very clear whether we're going to do it or not." Coogan said he and comedian Rob Brydon were also about to start work on a film directed by Michael Winterbottom....
kazimir0432u | 02/08/2010
PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) –Let's get this out of the way up front: In Michael Winterbottom's "The Killer Inside Me," Jessica Alba is pulverized, fist to face, fist to face, fist to poor pretty face, by Casey Affleck for a good three minutes or so. Until her eyes are swollen shut and part of her face has been smashed away, exposing her jaw. What one character
The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Reviewed at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Michael Winterbottom's "The Killer Inside Me" is a pedal-to-the-floor, broken-bottle-to-the-throat adaptation of a novel of the same name by Jim Thompson, the darkest and pulpiest dark pulp writer of them all. The opening sequence (after gloriously retro opening credits): West Texas hometown boy turned deputy sheriff Lou Ford (Casey...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
The Shock Doctrine Dir. Mat Whitecross and Michael Winterbottom [Renegade Pictures/Revolution Films; 2009] by Benjamin Pearson Rating: “A state of shock is not just what happens to us when something bad happens; it’s what happens to us when we lose our narrative, when we lose our story, when we become disoriented. What keeps us oriented and alert and out of shock is our history....
Great New Movies (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
The optimum way to see a documentary like Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' The Shock Doctrine is at a film festival, such as Sundance, where it made its North American premiere this week. Unfortunately, I saw it in my living room, which is probably how most people in the U.S. ...
