Avatar, Too… and Three
Posted on December 10th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Avatar will be sequelized. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.
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A.O. Scott on Ryan Bingham vs. Jerry Maguire
Posted on December 4th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
AO Scott illuminates UP IN THE AIR with a nice compare/contrast to JERRY MAGUIRE
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Two-Bit LiC Guild Nomination Analysis
Posted on January 8th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
I’m too lazy to look back past 2004, but since then there have been two best picture Oscar nominees that didn’t receive either a DGA or PGA nomination. The first was Letters From Iwo Jima which you may remember was a somewhat unexpected last-minute awards derby entry. The other was last year’s Atonement, a British production and [...]
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Scott and Dargis on the Indie Death Rattle
Posted on September 7th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The state of independent cinema has been on the minds and lips of everyone who follows the business of making movies this year. The cry of “independent cinema is dead” has superseded the one of a year or two back that went “box office is down, the movie business is doomed.” Next year it will [...]
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Action!
Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris in Return of the Dragon (aka Way of the Dragon)
With an eye toward the action scenes in The Dark Knight, Dennis Lim offered up an interesting video slideshow in Slate yesterday illustrating the evolution of fight scenes through the ages.
See Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston fighting old school under a [...]
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Hulk Smash Puny Internet Rumors
Posted on June 14th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
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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There Went Speed Racer
Posted on June 13th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
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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So Many Movies, So Little Time
Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
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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Sex and the Box Office
Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Yeah, I know “box office” is a dirty word around here, but just because it’s an over-emphasized subject doesn’t mean it isn’t occasionally important.
In this case, while we’re all sitting here chatting so enjoyably, Sex and the City is raking in some serious coin at the cinemas. Most estimates had Indiana Jones and the Whatchamacallit [...]
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The Wrath of Armond
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
“There’s more writing about movies these days than ever before. In print and online, it’s never been worse-especially on the Internet where film buffs emulating the Vachel Lindsay-Manny Farber tradition are no longer isolated nerds but an opinionated throng, united in their sarcasm and intense pretense at intellectualizing what is basically a hobby.”
So begins Armond [...]
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