Embedding trailers in posts is a lazy way of filling up blog-space, and so I have one question (for myself): Why haven’t I done more of it? Well, I’m not sure, but being as one of my weaknesses is the Coen brothers, I couldn’t resist. Here’s a trailer from their new film [...]
This summer, movies have done boffo business at the box-office, with so-called comic-book movies like Iron Man, Hellboy II and Hancock making boodles of cash. The clear-cut winner in all of this is something called The Dark Kite or The Masked Blight or something like that, a violent rip-off of Tim Burton’s Batman. Of course, [...]
Just a quick post . . . I’ve got family in town and I have to take them on the “Southern Heritage Tour.”
But I couldn’t resist passing along this hilarious post from David Bordwell’s blog. He describes, with great humor and — dare I say it? — accuracy, the one-upsmanship games that cinema lovers [...]
Is anybody getting as sick of animated films about cute animals as I am? I’d like to take all those CG penguins and feed ‘em to all the CG Lions, and then stuff ‘em both down the gullet of those fat-butted pandas. God, who knew all those years ago what Toy Story would [...]
When I heard about the Cannes premiere of Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman’s directing debut, I wanted to see it, in spite of its mixed reviews. Finally, it looks like I’ll get the chance: according to Variety, it’s been picked up for distribution by Sony. Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as theater director Caden [...]
Here’s an interesting piece by Yossi Alpher, one of the victims of Sasha Baron Cohen’s latest guerrilla-filmmaking outing. Titled Bruno, it follows Cohen’s narcissistic, very gay German fashion reporter as he once again interviews unsuspecting experts, in this instance about the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Though you’d think folks would be on to him by [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 . . . [...]
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