Mini-review: Daybreakers (2010) **
Posted on January 9th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
This stylish attempt to shake up the vampire genre is a curiously leaden time-filler that wastes a talented cast.
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AFI Fest: Fantastic and not-so-fantastic
Posted on November 1st, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
AFI Fest reviews of FANTASTIC MR. FOX and EVERYONE ELSE
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Satanic Mr. Fox
Posted on October 14th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
With people trying to turn “Chaos Reigns” from Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist into a t-shirt friendly catch phrase, it was probably inevitable that some smarty would make the connection between Antichrist, Willem Dafoe, talking foxes and Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox… and now Peter Debruge has. It’s not embeddable, but it’s sort of funny. Check [...]
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AFI Fest to open with ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
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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Character Posters: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Posted on September 18th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
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Courtesy of Empire, the obligatory character posters for Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox which opens November 13th. This one is facing a bit more flack lately than Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are (can we have a moratorium on the word “twee” now? Please?), but my enthusiasm is still running high.
Five more [...]
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TIFF ‘09: Vampires, Vikings and Trash Humpers
Posted on September 13th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
A look at TIFF reviews of Daybreakers, Valhalla Rising, I Don Giovanni and Trash Humpers
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Trailer #3: Antichrist
Posted on September 11th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
There’s been a new trailer for Lars von Trier’s vomitacular Antichrist up at Apple for at least 4 hours now and I’m apparently the only person on god’s green earth who can get it to play. I even had to rip off the above trailer cap from AICN because I couldn’t make one myself.
You can [...]
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Antichrist: Now in Vomit-O-Rama!
Posted on September 10th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Lars von Trier’s Antichrist causes viewer to vomit in Toronto.
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Venice ‘09: Tornatore, Solondz and a surprise Herzog/Lynch
Posted on September 5th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Grace Zabriskie, Michael Shannon and Chloe Sevigny make
a surprise Venice appearance in Werner Herzog’s
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done presented by David Lynch
Here are a few more highlights from the 66th Venice Film Festival ongoing as we speak. Based on the trade reviews, Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime is the film of [...]
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Trailer: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Posted on August 17th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Freaky goodness from the minds of David Lynch and Werner Herzog.
“Why is the whole world staring at me?” I know, right?
I have no idea when My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done opens, but I can’t wait.
In case you haven’t been following this film at LiC, you can get a few details here.
via: The [...]
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