Good Is The New Bad – Film Reviews And More

When it comes to the movies, is there such a thing as too big? With the inflation of expectations and ticket prices, audiences are demanding more from their movies than ever before. We want spectacle and quality; we want to be dazzled by the fantastic and touched with real emotion; we want movies to make [...]

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Freshly leaked to YouTube is Oliver Stone’s trailer for “W“. The script pages were previously leaked, and he’s racing to have the movie in theaters by election season. The trailer isn’t bad – though obviously it’s a rush job. There’s no cartoonish Will Ferrell impersonation, or cheap shots . The more I hear, the more [...]

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It’s rare when a second film in any given franchise is superior to the original.

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The Los Angeles Times posted pieces from Kenneth Turan and Charles McNulty, their stud film and theater critics, respectively. It’s part of an “ongoing series” (which is newspaper-ese for “slow news day”), but the conceit is great. Each critic was asked if there was a review that they regretted writing. The question itself is the [...]

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Just as pretty flowers spring can spring forth from beds of manure, the tedious Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull is turning out to be quite the fertilizer for interesting critical writing. Earlier posts here have alluded to the underground re-make of Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Two Mississippi teenagers spent most [...]

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The good folks at Ain’t It Cool dug up this promo from England’s Channel 4 Television, promoting an upcoming run of Stanley Kubrick’s films. It’s a lengthy, Kubrick-styled tracking shot behind the scenes of “The Shining”, and as with most things Kubrick, the attention to detail is astonishing. There isn’t much there for non-Kubrick fans, [...]

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The New Yorker‘s back-up film critic has just published a surprising review of Hancock that is an unqualified rave. If critics were cars, Denby would be a Ford Taurus. His writing is clear and logical, and almost as exciting as a tan-colored, four-door sedan. He not only lacks the flamboyance and savage wit of Anthony [...]

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