Return of the Kiwi? THR’s Heat Vision says maybe: It looks like Peter Jackson may direct the two “Hobbit” movies after all. Jackson is in negotiations to direct the movies, which were left without a captain after Guillermo del Toro left the director’s chair May 30. Del Toro’s move caught observers by surprise because the filmmaker had devoted...
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Director of the gripping Danish cult trilogy Pusher and last year’s terrific Bronson, Nicolas Winding Refn here adopts an epic mud-n-blood style that feels like Carl Theodor Dreyer by way of Sam Peckinpah. Or is it more Herzog meets Malick? The Washington Post outlines the grim premise: Mute slave Harald escapes his Scottish masters with the help of 10 year old...
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...
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,...