If you’ve seen quiet, low-key indie movies like Mutual Appreciation (above) or The Puffy Chair, you’re familiar with Mumblecore. Even if you don’t know what Mumblecore is.
Mumblecore is the name given to this indie upstart genre and its small interconnected group of filmmakers. The title is generally attributed to Eric Masunga, sound mixer on the godfather of all Mumblecore […]
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A terribly uneven episode. The first 20 minutes are basically an edited rebroadcast of ABC’s coverage of the 1977 World Series. As a baseball chronicle, it’s just great — as a movie, it’s just boring. (But hearing that old ABC theme music was like an aural time machine.)
We’re […]
A few years back, before hearing about the Halloween remake, I was asked to review the 1978 Halloween, the original John Carpenter classic. I jumped at the chance. To my mind, the original Halloween remains an indie genre film done remakarbly well; so well, it spawned decades of horror films — most were crap — and series of horror films. Halloween […]
Coming to the big screen: The best-selling book that turned even Howard Stern into a soft-hearted wimp.
Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson have signed on for the film version of Marley & Me, the non-fiction hit about a pesky, misbehaving Labrador Retriever that becomes a huge part of columnist John Grogan’s family.
THE DIRECTOR: David Frankel (The […]
Ever-engaging actor Peter Fonda provided a hell of a revelation on NPR yesterday: In his real life he once — as he puts it — took lead. He’s been shot. In the gut. He was just shy of 11 years old.
This detail came up while Fonda discussed the upcoming remake of the western 3:10 to Yuma, which hits […]
How’s this for a power lineup of comedy writers: Adam Sandler, Judd Apatow, Robert Smigel. The trio has collaborated on the screenplay for You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, a new Sandler movie that’s been shooting in NYC the past couple weeks — just as Sandler’s latest, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, eclipses the $100 million mark.
Emmanuelle Chriqui […]
