2009 January | Coosa Creek Cinema

Trailer Lazy: The Horsemen

By Rick, on January 31st, 2009 |

The domestic trailer for a movie about a series of grisly murders fashioned after the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Can you say Se7en? Still, it stars Dennis Quaid and Zhang Ziyi (!), so it might be worth a [...]

Slumdog Smackdown, Continued

By Rick, on January 29th, 2009 |

The Daily Telegraph reports that the actors who played Latika and Salim early in the film, are living in conditions very much like those of their characters. [...]

Slumdog Smackdown

By Rick, on January 28th, 2009 |

Seems some in India are getting a mite testy now that Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” has finally opened there. [...]

The Departed Effect: Singin’ Them Low-down Remake Blues

By Rick, on January 26th, 2009 |

Remakes are almost never a good idea. Yet Hollywood — and others — keep right on making them, seemingly with greater and greater [...]

Movies at the End of the World

By Rick, on January 23rd, 2009 |

it’s that time every year when everybody gets Oscar fever, and I always try to see the five nominees for Best Picture. Living in a West Alabama town with only only one 16-screen multiplex, it’s not all that easy. But you ought to see where I used to [...]

Gran Torino

By Rick, on January 22nd, 2009 |

A funny thing happened while I sat through Gran Torino: I discovered I liked it, in spite of its rather simple schematics, its howler moments, and its generally amateurish [...]

Dardos-like Behavior

By Rick, on January 19th, 2009 |

I am the proud recipient of one of the premiere awards in the blogosphere, the Dardos. I am humbled. Humbled and proud. Aren’t those two things [...]

Standard Operating Procedure

By Rick, on January 18th, 2009 |

“Standard Operating Procedure” examines the the scapegoating of American soldiers at Abu Ghraib. Along the way, it looks at the nature of photographic evidence and eyewitness accounts, and how they [...]

Encounters at the End of the World

By Rick, on January 14th, 2009 |

Werner Herzog makes a documentary that’s nothing about penguins. Well, there ARE penguins in it, but they’re obsessive penguins . . . [...]

TOERIFC is Upon Us!

By Rick, on January 12th, 2009 |

Mosey on over to Marilyn Ferdinand’s joint to get a load of her post on “The True Meaning of Pictures,” an absolutely fine documentary on, well, the true meaning of [...]