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Meet the Other Guys
This is the story of the other guys, the desk jockeys, the guys who only wish that they were the guys patrolling the streets. That’s the basic premise behind “The Other Guys”, a comedy...
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Venom Film Gets a Script
It’s probably an idea that sounded practical on paper: in “Spider-Man 3″, the symbiote becomes the impetus for Peter Parker’s aggression toward Harry Osborn and others. And, hey, let’s throw the Sandman in there...
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Michael Cera in Revolt
It’s a well-known phenomenon that Michael Cera plays the same awkward kid in every movie, and so it’s strange to see him do a non-spoof of himself in his new movie, “Youth in Revolt”,...
Read More »Disney Pulls Chair Out From Beneath Mamet’s Remake of Anne Frank
Sometimes there is a project that seems so incongruent with the predilections of a director or writer that the entire concept conjugally fits together like the left side and right side of the brain....
Read More »Yi Yi (2000) Movie Review
The rules of genre identification used to be simple: comedies ended in weddings, and tragedies ended in death. “Yi Yi” begins with a wedding and ends with a funeral, a cinematic blend of comedy...
Read More »Ron Howard Discovers Comic Books
Sometimes the lives of the men behind the stories are just as interesting as the fictitious concoctions they create, as such is the case with the 2004 film “Finding Neverland”. Or, to put it...
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Geoffrey Rush Speaks Out About Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean at the moment could not be on stranger tides. Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom have departed for other opportunities. Johnny Depp expressed remorse at the departure of Walt Disney Studios...
Read More »Keanu Reeves on the State of Cowboy Bebop
During an interview for the upcoming film “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee”, MTV spontaneously asked Keanu Reeves about the state of the “Cowboy Bebop” movie, in which Reeves plans to play the main...
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The Batman Sequel According to Caine
“There is nobody, there’s no script, there’s nothing,” Michael Caine told MTV News as he was promoting his new film “Harry Brown” at the Toronto International Film Festival. Also, if you close your eyes,...
Read More »Working With the Wild Things
It has been said – often correctly – that Hollywood is devoid of innovation and desolate of ideas, that they’ll keep rehashing and rehashing and rehashing until we’re practically conditioned to be fans of...
Read More »Will Sean Connery be Lured out of Retirement for Indiana Jones 5?
On the scale of cataclysmic mistakes, Sean Connery’s decision to spurn the role of Gandalf in “The Lord of the Rings” ranks prodigiously high. As well as pivoting away from the potential to earn...
Read More »Resident Evil: Afterlife Casting News
Black Films has an exclusive interview with Boris Kodjoe, who revealed on his Twitter page recently that he had been cast in “Resident Evil: Afterlife”. As well as discussing his role as a survivor...
Read More »John Malkovich Cast in Secretariat
Variety reports that John Malkovich has been cast to play Lucien Laurin in “Secretariat”, a film directed by Randall Wallace about the trainer of the 1973 Triple Crown winning racehorse. I’ve always thought that...
Read More »Avatar Goes Viral
“Avatar” is still several months away, but fans of the upcoming film can be satiated now through a new viral site, AVTR.com, which is dedicated to the “AVTR Program”. It contains information and images...
Read More »Everybody’s Fine Trailer
It’s hard to fault Robert DeNiro. He’s still putting in the hours when most others would have retired, and at that age it’s hard to do the kind of demanding work that once propelled...
Read More »Guillermo Arriaga on Guillermo Arriaga
The LA Times has an interesting article up about Guillermo Arriaga, writer of such films as “21 Grams” and “Babel”, as he discusses his childhood, his loss of smell, and the inspiration for his...
Read More »The ‘Caine’ Mutiny: Dispensing Justice as Harry Brown
There has been a recent emergence of aging action heroes (Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford) who dispense justice in a world that has inevitably passed them by, leaving them as petrified wood. In “Harry Brown”,...
Read More »Kingdom of Heaven: Director’s Cut (2005) Movie Review
Ridley Scott’s “Kingdom of Heaven”, although employing the Crusades as the backdrop of religious history, is just about as religiously ascetic as a movie of this kind can be, and as such it tends...
Read More »Andy Richter Controls Wolf Blitzer’s Universe
You might not know it by looking at him, but beneath Andy Richter’s suave exterior is concealed an intellectual, erudite mind worth $68,000. This is the mind of a man who beat Smartest Person...
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