I’m not sure why I was a little surprised by the recent news that Steven Soderbergh was set to begin production on Knockout, an action film in the vein of La Femme Nikita starring mixed martial artist Gina Carano. Every announcement from Soderbergh is almost willfully unpredictable. The guy clearly likes to mix it up [...]
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“You really are a, quote unquote, fantastic fox.”
Judging by the response I’m picking up around the internet, I stand nearly alone in my unrestrained enthusiasm for Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. The only thing I don’t like about this latest trailer is the voice over and whorish pull-quotes. The rest? Gold.
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A few random thoughts on the Polanski business.
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My indifference to this remake of the classic ’80s horror flick A Nightmare on Elm Street is absolute and the trailer does nothing to convince me otherwise. By lifting whole scenes from the original (including the glove emerging from the bathtub between the heroine’s legs – which Craven himself lifted from a similar scene with [...]
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There isn’t much to speak of in this vacation edition of the LiC Watercooler, but I did catch up with the new extended cut of Terrence Malick’s The New World on Blu-ray. Clocking in at 37 minutes longer than the previous cut, in some ways it feels like a different movie. It’s more literal and [...]
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Greetings from the City of Roses, or Stump Town or P-Town, or PDX. Greetings from the meeting place of the Columbia and Willamette rivers.
That’s right, LiC is “Out of the Office” as they say and the monkeys and I are enjoying the sights, sounds and tastes of Portland, Oregon.
Posting will be light for today at [...]
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LiC’s pick of the week: Coco Before Chanel opening in NY and LA
Opening in wide release this weekend:
Fame. I’m gonna live forever…but life is still too short to be wasted on this. For those of you younger than 30, Alan Parker’s Fame was huge in 1980. It told the story of a bunch of students [...]
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Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox has been announced as the opening night film of AFI Fest 2009 which runs in Hollywood from October 30 to November 7.
The film featuring the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray and Owen Wilson opens in limited release [...]
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THR’s Steven Zeitchik is reporting that David Cronenberg has agreed to direct and possibly write a new version of The Fly, the 1958 classic he memorably remade in 1986 with Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis.
It’s not a horrible idea per se, but is Cronenberg only interested in the quick cash or does he genuinely have [...]
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