Monthly Archives: March 2008

I’ve been looking forward to this movie for months, and have tried to keep a lid on my anticipation while the enthusiastic buzz increased to an electric hum the past several weeks. For the next few days I’ll be focusing on Stop Loss as (maybe) the first important release of the year — and hope to see some critics on Thursday who’ll back up my...

¬† Several sources are reporting that Thomas Sangster is set to play the intrepid Tintin in Steven Spielberg’s and Peter Jackson’s motion-capture adaptation of the classic Belgian adventure comic. Everyone is using phrasing like Spielberg and Jackson May Have Found Their ‘Tintin’ and Young Brit Thomas Sangster Cast as Tintin?, so we’ll...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HU8egqDF1A[/youtube] Bonnie and Clyde – Ultimate Collector’s Edition hits stores on March 25. It seems like as good a time as any to revisit that great flick. Speaking of money shots, there are several great ones in Bonnie and Clyde: the first time Clyde meets Bonnie and takes her out for a burger. She has stars in her...

Good to see a cleancut Johnny Depp with his hair inside a hat for a change. As evidenced below, Russell Crowe’s hair is already acting up a storm, with extensions on loan from Dumbledore. Deranged hair is a perennial Oscar highlight. Demented chopjobs and lunatic fringe were key components to winning awards this year. But slicked down with Dapper Dan as Dillinger,...

JoBlo is introducing a new series called The Money Shot, highlighting the best scenes in movie history. First up for them is this scene from Boogie Nights: ...

First Showing (via ONTD) has a nice first look at Russell Crowe’s “look” in State of Play. The film, directed by Kevin MacDonald (Last King of Scotland) is described this way on IMDb, “Based on the BBC mini-series of the same title, a team of investigative reporters work alongside a police detective to try to solve the murder of a congressman’s...

Filmjerk’s Edward Havens counters the “source” at Ain’t it Cool that Gran Torino is a Dirty Harry movie: 1) A new Dirty Harry movie? Not likely. The hot rumor is that a killer is riding around in a Gran Torino, and the now-retired Harry Callahan is on a mission to track down the culprit, as one of the victims was Callahan’s cop grandson. What...

Printed in Entertainment Weekly, link via HE  To Anthony I shall learn to live without you. With all we’ve done and undone with all the missing parts I’ll have to carry on hoping you were the bedrock of fun, the laugh that made me laugh and your hand came with love and care I could see your thoughts going faster and faster ahead in their curved complex...

Due to complaints, I’m removing this post — but suffice it to say that Expelled is a documentary that will not see the light of day in the Oscar race. I will post this and other items relating to it on my personal site, sashastone.com. However, if a reader threatens me or anyone who posts any information to this site with a potential loss of readership due...

You don’t have to look that hard for really great blogs on the net.¬† One of the most popular think-sites, Kottke.org, offers up this snippet from writer Michael Chabon about why superhero costumes don’t work: This sad outcome even in the wake of thousands of dollars spent and months of hard work given to sewing and to packing foam rubber into helmets has...