I haven’t seen a movie based on a Dennis Lehane novel yet that I really liked, but they just keep coming. Clint Eastwood directed Mystic River, Ben Affleck did Gone Baby Gone, Martin Scorsese is working on Shutter Island and now Sam Raimi joins the fray with The Given Day, to be published September 23.
Lehane [...]
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Ain’t it Cool News is reporting that Stan Winston, the 4-time Oscar winner for makeup and visual effects, died in Los Angeles on Sunday.
[UPDATE: Winston suffered mutiple myeloma for seven years, a treatable but incurable form of cancer of the blood plasma cells]
You might not have been able to pick Stan out of a police [...]
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Friday night was The Incredible Hulk night at LiC. The movie was fine. Better than fine probably, but I’m getting tired of superheroes. Seriously. Let’s get The Dark Knight over with, fast-forward to September, put the kids back in school and then start bringing out the real movies. The Hulk review is below somewhere.
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The troubling part of this Variety report about increased movie theater advertising revenue is the third paragraph that basically says that the ads are working and that people don’t mind them anymore.
I suppose it’s not that big of a deal, but I’m tired of being sold something everywhere I turn. I’ll go out of my [...]
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Happy Father’s Day
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“Hello. My name is Bruce Banner and I’m a rageaholic.”
Ang Lee sure ruined the Hulk. No, I’m not talking about the 2003 movie where he had the temerity to try injecting real adult emotion into a comic book story. I’m talking about the new 2008 incarnation that is so desperate to forget Lee ever happened, [...]
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Though I never lived through them, I think I miss the studio days when the buzz around a movie or a celebrity’s image was carefully controlled. At the very least, I’d like to go back to a time before the Internet when behind-the-camera movie gossip wasn’t dressed up as breaking news.
These days, director’s tirades turn [...]
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Be my Daikini baby
Turns out he’s probably the only one, but MTV would like you to think that the diminutive actor’s eagerness means plans are in the works for a sequel to George Lucas and Ron Howard’s Willow. They’re hoping you’ll click on their headline and read their ads, but I’m going to spare you [...]
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D’oh!
Anne Thompson does a spoiler-free, 10-point post mortem in this morning’s Variety on why Speed Racer was D.O.A. in theaters, pinching off a dismal $42.2 million at the domestic box office to date and another $36 million overseas. As unabashed fans of the film, this is a sensitive subject around the LiC head office - one [...]
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Najib: From Afghanistan to South Africa in Kicking It
It’s easy to look at a homeless person and see nothing but a dead ender. It’s easy to forget that these strangers are human beings. However, a single moment in time does not necessarily tell us who a person has been nor does it project who they [...]
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Hurdy Gurdy Man vs. Inspector Callahan
Forget about Jason Vorhees and Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers. It has always been the real serial killers who freak me out the most. Son of Sam, The Hillside Strangler, The Boston Strangler, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer - these guys are more chilling than any Hollywood creep [...]
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The AP takes time out from keeping tabs on the world flushing iself down the crapper to make a big deal out of the shared October 24 release date of Angelina Jolie in Changeling and Jennifer Aniston in He’s Just Not That Into You. You’d think the former Brad Pitt squeeze and the current Brad [...]
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I managed to avoid it before Indy 4 and I’m not watching it now, but that doesn’t stop me from trying to tempt you with it. Courtesy of Trailer Addict.
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Hulk SMASH puny summer movies!
Here’s what’s opening wide on Friday the 13th:
The Happening. Other than the fact that Mark Wahlberg is in it and it’s directed by M. Night Shyamalan, I know exactly nothing about this one. Whatever your opinion about Shyamalan, he’s a guy whose movies you don’t want spoiled. If I’m going to see [...]
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The LA Times has another piece about the crowded movie marketplace this morning, this one from the angle of movie executives battling over the summer calendar. Before David Poland comes along and dismisses it as a non-story or something he’s been saying himself for years (or pick your dismissal), I thought I’d take a look [...]
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