Fascinating if somewhat fawning ambush interview from Collider attached to an announcement on Blu-ray.com that del Toro’s debut film Cronos will soon be getting the Criterion treatment. Try to ignore the more aggressive stalkers and try to follow the genius path of creativity all over the map, bouncing from The Hobbit, Hellboy 3, Frankenstein, At the Mountains...
Monthly Archives: June 2010
The Kids Are All Right opened the LA Film Festival last week, and IndieWire‘s Anne Thompson likes it even better the second time around: The movie played great‚ÄîCholodenko told me she had ‚Äútightened‚Äù the film since its Sundance debut in January. My seat-mate, Roadside Attractions‚Äô Howard Cohen, agreed that it was even funnier and sexier than...
The Wrap has the exclusive rumor that Mike Nichols may be interested in directing Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges in Great Hope Springs, a dramedy involving a couple whose marriage is on the rocks. Earlier today we had multiple tips from some of our most reliable tipsters that the casting news had been announced on Playlist: Written by television writer Vanessa Taylor (“Everwoord,”...
With a current score of 86 on metacritic, Restrepo is right behind Toy Story 3 and Winter’s Bone in the top tier of most acclaimed movies of the year. WSJ‘s Joe Morgenstern gives the film it’s highest rating among a dozen other unanimously positive reviews: In one sense “Restrepo” is timeless. The subjects of this superb documentary, by...
(ClassicFlix.com) The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre both due on Blu-ray October 5th from Warner Bros Home Video, whose efforts to resurrect and restore top catalog titles deserve our appreciation. Maybe even more exciting: The Exorcist goes Blu the same day. From Blu-ray.com: The Exorcist will hit Blu-ray on October 5, in a two-disc Digibook edition,...
Today’s Unconfirmed Rumor: ComingSoon says SuperHeroHype says director Guy Ritchie hopes to convince Daniel Day-Lewis to play Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis Professor Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes 2, due December 16, 2011. “The site adds that if that doesn’t work out, other names that have been bandied about as being in consideration include Sean Penn,...
Deadline reports that City of God director Fernando Meirelles has signed on to direct 360, a Peter Morgan-scripted drama based on the scandalous 1900 play, Reigen. Wiki gives us some background on Arthur Schnitzler, the author of the source material: His works were often controversial, both for their frank description of sexuality (Sigmund Freud, in a letter to Schnitzler,...
Due in theaters Oct 15, Summit’s Red is based on the Warren Elllis graphic novel, and Ellis sums up my feelings pretty well on his blog from a few months ago: …did you see the goddamn cast list that‚Äôs signed on for those characters? Bruce Willis as Moses, yes. But also: Morgan Freeman, Mary-Louise Parker, John C Reilly, Helen Mirren, Julian McMahon,...
Adapted from Nick McDonell’s novel and directed by Joel Schumacher, Twelve features Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Ellen Barkin, and Kiefer Sutherland. The 2002 book was written when McDonell was only seventeen-year-old. The grim and gritty tale follows prep school dropout White Mike as he takes a year off to deal...
(click for full size) Featuring an off-kilter kid who could easily creep out the Addams Family, the poster for Life During Wartime does a fine job capturing the dubious defective innocence of Todd Solondz. Described as “a half-sequel” to Happiness (because the same characters are being played by different actors) your feelings about the first film will determine...