If you enjoyed the compilation film Paris, je t’aime, but prefer your romance focused in the States, here comes the American companion piece New York, I Love You. Like its Paris counterpart, the film is a series of shorts directed by an eclectic set of filmmakers — in this case, Mira Nair, Allen Hughes, Brett […]
Okay, maybe our headline is an exaggeration. But the just-announced marketing plans for Roland Emmerich’s end-of-the-world thriller 2012 are massive enough to cause the apocalypse. What’s weird is Columbia’s overt pride at the size of the effort. It almost ignores an important question: Is the movie any freaking good?
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Is the world going mad? I can’t recall an Entourage episode with as many strange firsts as Episode 76. We send some Lobby applause over to creator Doug Ellin (who wrote this one) and director (and X-Files alum) David Nutter: This one goes against the grain, but it keeps the storylines moving and keeps a […]
The making of Jaws is one of the great stories of 1970s cinema. An upstart director named Steven Spielberg (heard of him?) was practically drowning in troubles, including budgetary problems and an unreliable mechanical shark. Would the result be a pulpy genre movie? Heh. Jaws became an unstoppable cultural icon, an accessible thriller that redefined […]
How do you reinvent the 1990s slacker for the end of the 2000s? Yeah, he’d still approach life with a half-hearted, who-cares existentialism. Sure, he’d smoke too much dope and drink away the blues. He’d even be too mentally inert to go after his just-departed girlfriend. Meet Jonathan Ames, the protagonist of the snappy new […]
