As the crap really begins to fly in yet another depressing American presidential campaign (my guy is pulling ahead and yet the whole thing is leaving a bad taste in my mouth…how sad is that?), Oliver Stone’s W. has finally been seen by journalists and the word so far is mixed.
Variety’s Todd McCarthy calls it [...]
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The Argentine, part one of Steven Soderbergh’s Che Guevara biography starring Benicio Del Toro as the controversial revolutionary pulled in “substantially more than expected” during its public premiere in Spain according to one of the film’s bookers. Variety called the $2.5 million and $7,683 per screen average “non-spectacular but very encouraging.”
The trade notes that Che [...]
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Is it just me or is there a little bit of Toronto ennui in the air? It’s not just indifference at LiC, I’m noticing it on the blogs actually covering the event. I didn’t focus on Toronto last year so perhaps this is par for the course.
I didn’t mention yesterday that Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler [...]
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For this batch of Toronto reviews, I’m mostly dispensing with plot synopses because I already recently summarized these movies in the fall forecast. If you enjoy your LiC regurgitated story blurbs, let me know and perhaps they’ll return with the next round.
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Variety’s John Anderson liked it a little but called [...]
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Zac Effron and Christian McKay in Me and Orson Welles
Richard (Slacker) Linklater’s Orson Welles bio Me and Orson Welles unspooled at Toronto this evening, but the LA Times anti-blogger turned bloggy-blogger Patrick Goldstein got a sneak preview last night and he loved it.
The film takes place in 1937, a year before the Mercury Theatre Company’s [...]
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Jeremy Renner in Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq themed The Hurt Locker
That’s what it’s been like recently for movies that have anything to do with Iraq. The question is: are audiences truly leery of movies about Iraq or are they just waiting for a good one?
According to THR’s Steven Zeitchik, the next crop of war films seems [...]
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The natives were beginning to grumble about a disappointing Venice Film Festival this year, but it looks like Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married has livened things up a little bit. The darkly comic drama stars Anne Hathaway (Brokeback Mountain, The Devil Wears Prada) as the black sheep of a dysfunctional family who gets out from [...]
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After catching 20 minutes of clips from David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at Telluride, SlashFilm’s Peter Sciretta seems hell-bent on taking the film down. He was disappointed with the compilation, which by his own later admission contained clips that were mostly one minute plus with one romantic scene going over two minutes.
Now [...]
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The trades are weighing in on the new Keira Knightley film The Duchess.
THR’s Kurt Honeycutt likes Knightley but calls Saul Dibb “a sturdy but uninspired director,” adding that he “brings no Shekhar Kapur visual or dramatic flamboyance to the task of bringing Georgiana’s life to the screen. So Duchess will satisfy those who enjoy costume [...]
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One of the favorite games of studios and entertainment journalists alike is looking under rocks to find the next big indie sensation. Studios want the break-out hit and journalists want to be the first to proclaim the next Juno or the next Little Miss Sunshine. This year, eyes are turning to Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire [...]
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Julianne Moore in Blindness
One of the more anticipated films going into Cannes last spring was Blindness, the opening night selection from Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardner) about a mysterious epidemic that causes people to go blind. With Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal, it seemed like it couldn’t [...]
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All it took is one clown spouting off about a friggin’ test screening at AICN and suddenly the idea that David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is too long is on its way to becoming conventional wisdom.
Next Anne Thompson rings in. I don’t know if she’s referring to the AICN piece which had [...]
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MTV Movie’s Blog appears to be completely in the tank for all things Twilight. Most of the movie sites I keep track of have been largely silent about the upcoming teen vampire flick based on the very popular novels by Stephenie Meyer. Cinematical has kept on top of the phenomenon, but I realized the other day [...]
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I have to admit, in the 74 times I’ve seen the trailer for the new animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars, I’ve slowly gotten sucked in to hoping that it would recapture some of the old Star Wars magic that had been so buried in the three prequels. Well, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame [...]
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