KICK-ASS teaser trailer
Kick-Ass, starring Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz, Mark Strong, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Lyndsy Fonseca and Nicolas Cage, directed by Matthew Vaughn, opens on April 16,...
Read MoreAn Oscar Education – Predictions Updated
A funny thing happened when I finally saw An Education. I realized that the film, with some of the strongest female characters your likely to see on film this or any year, was going to be a hard sell to the Academy. Carey Mulligan’s role doesn’t fit the mold that Oscar has developed: either deglam or play a famous female figure. If you do both (see: Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose) you get the gold. If you do neither, well, you’re Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada. At least that’s how it used to be. When I wrote my first Oscar post of the season, I mentioned that this year we could finally see a female director win the Best Director statue. I was talking about The Hurt Locker‘s Kathryn Bigelow, who I have since removed...
Read MoreSEVEN team together again for PETER PROUD
When they were released, David Fincher’s early thrillers (Seven, The Game) were better than anything else anyone else had delivered in the genre for years. His post-Fight Club thrillers, Panic Room and Zodiac, were more refined, close to masterpieces. Now after venturing into epic territory with Benjamin Button and dramatic filmmaking with The Social Network (in production early next year), Fincher will return to the genre he does so well with the team that helped him create one of the best films of the 1990s. According to THR, Fincher will reteam with his Seven writer Andrew Kevin Walker and producer Michael De Luca for The Reincarnation of Peter Proud. The premise sounds like Fincher and company could do great things: The film follows a college professor who realizes his dreams and nightmares are flashes from a past life. The...
Read MorePRECIOUS box office
While Disney’s A Christmas Carol won the weekend with a lackluster $31 million, it was Precious that outperformed all expectations. The film about an young woman from the ghetto who is abused by her mother and impregnated by her father took in $1.8 million at the weekend box office. Variety notes that the $100,000 per screen average is a record for any film that opened in less than 50 theaters. That’s good news for the Oprah and Tyler Perry endorsed indie. Maybe this grim film will turn out to be a bigger hit than anyone (other than Lionsgate) thought it would...
Read MoreFaris, Aykroyd, and Timberlake up for YOGI BEAR
Not to be outdone buy his Ghostbusters co-star Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd may soon be voicing classic cartoon star Yogi Bear in what will likely be a critical darling on the same level as Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties. Yogi Bear, a CG-animated/live-action adaptation from Warner Bros., may also star Anna Faris as a documentary filmmaker who follows Yogi and his faithful pick-a-nic basket stealing companion Boo Boo. Justin Timberlake is up for the voice of Yogi’s Boo. According to THR, all three are just in talks and no one is signed yet. I do, however, enjoy the thought of Aykroyd saying “Hey there, Boo Boo” to Timberlake. I just envision him doing it with an empty bottle tequila rattling around by his...
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Movie Review: ALL THE KING’S MEN (2006)
All the King’s Men (2006) – *1/2 I’m not one to think that all remakes are a bad idea. In fact, remaking the Best Picture winning film All the King’s Men was something that, if done with an eye for epic political drama, could have succeeded. Steve Zaillian’s adaptation of the novel All the King’s Men is not the film it could have been. It’s not even the film it should have been. It’s not a remake, per say, but rather a different (at times too timely) interpretation of the Robert Penn Warren novel. Instead of adding some much needed weight to the story, which is where the original needed improvement, the film feels like a hollowed out version of the first adaptation. Even a heavyweight ensemble can’t stop that. Willie Stark (Sean Penn) is the treasurer of a rural Louisiana county. Stark’s...
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