News Rick on 26 Jun 2008
Adam Sandler’s latest movie You Don’t Mess With The Zohan has a title ready-made for lampooning. Never ones to miss an easy target, critics have been happy to oblige: “You mess with the Zohan at the risk of your own IQ,” says Chris Vognar of the Dallas Morning News. And “while you don’t [...]
News Rick on 13 Jun 2008
In case anybody’s wondering, I’m up in Seattle getting my daughter married off. Being a preacher type, I’m going to perform the ceremony myself. Needless to say, we’ve been kind of busy this week, and I haven’t had time to update this blog.
On the film side of things, these are the last few [...]
Akira Kurosawa and News Rick on 08 Jun 2008
So I was rooting around on IMDB the other day, and I came to Akira Kurosawa’s page, and here’s what I saw under “Director”:
Gendai no No (2010) (filming)
And I thought: You can’t fool me . . . Kurosawa’s been dead for years. Must be one of IMDB’s legendary mistakes. Just for yucks, I pressed the [...]
News Rick on 03 Jun 2008
Here’s a cool film from Jonathan Lapper over at Cinema Styles:
To see it in it’s natural habitat at Jonathan’s great site Cinema Styles, go here.
Also, go over to YouTube , Digg it and otherwise show it some love. Never mind if you don’t know what this new-fangled digging stuff is . . . [...]
Analysis & Commentary and News Rick on 31 May 2008
It’s Holly Hunter time, all the time, over at Variety. In something called “Holly Hunter: Profile in Excellence” you will find five — count ‘em: five! – articles on the Georgia-born actress. There’s a piece on her TV show Saving Grace, one on how her career got jump-started via a meeting in an [...]
News Rick on 27 May 2008
Sydney Pollack, prolific actor, producer and director, died yesterday of cancer. Best known to the public in recent years as an actor, he often played affable executives with a core of steel underneath. He was director of such films as They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Way We [...]
News Rick on 26 May 2008
Speaking of blockbusters (and isn’t everyone these days?), D.J. Siegelbaum interviewed Daniel Jones (one of the guys on the right), co-founder of a religion based on the other Franchise That Destroyed Cinema. Siegelbaum writes:
May 25th marks the 31st anniversary of the movie megalith Star Wars. In three decades the franchise has spawned more than [...]
News Rick on 19 May 2008
Fernando Meirelles’ Blindnes, a film I’ve been looking forward to, opened the Cannes film festival last week, and the reviews have been mixed. Dave McCoy of MSN movies doesn’t particularly care for it:
What could have been a creepy, intelligent horror/drama is essentially stripped of any humanity and humility because Meirelles chose to populate his [...]
Analysis & Commentary and News Rick on 13 May 2008
So the other day, I walked into my local Movie Gallery, looking for I’m Not There and maybe even The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, both of which I missed because they didn’t play here in the wilds of West Alabama, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a [...]
News Rick on 12 May 2008
Well, it had to happen — several reviews of Indy’s newest outing have hit the fan, and they aren’t all that pretty. The worst one has been posted at Ain’t It Cool News by someone who calls himself (or herself) ShogunMaster:
. . . this is the Indiana Movie that you were dreading. During the [...]
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