30 Days of Night (review)
The concept? Brilliant… The execution? Oh, dear.
The Darjeeling Limited (review)
There is an ache to the movies of Wes Anderson, a quiet but bone-deep longing for *feeling.* These movies appear, in their flip quirkiness, to be about people looking for a reason to feel anything at all, but scratch their surfaces just a bit, and it turns out their problem is that they feel too much…
movie-ku #32
Life of the critic Sit in a cafe, kill time Between film screenings
new on DVD: ‘A Mighty Heart,’ ‘Transformers,’ ‘The Reaping,’ more
See it: • A Mighty Heart [buy it]. From my review: Like some other of Winterbottom’s films of the last few years — last year’s The Road to Guantanamo, 2002’s In This World — this one is like a stinging slap in the face. “Welcome to the 21st century,” it says; “this is our mess; … more…
movie-ku #31
Eleven fifty Cost of a flick in New York No refunds given
will Peter Berg direct a new ‘Dune’ movie?
The Net’s been abuzz about the possibilities for a couple of months, but now Ain’t It Cool News is sorta-kinda confirming the rumor — they’re calling it a “well-founded rumor” — that a new film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune is in the works. We’ll now pause for a brief moment of shuddering from those … more…
Karl Urban to play Bones McCoy in new ‘Star Trek’ movie?
I thought I was happy when it was announced that Simon Pegg would play Scotty? Well, now Ain’t It Cool News is saying that Karl “Eomer” Urban will be playing Bones McCoy. Look, I would click my heels and jump for joy just to get a physical exam from this Doctor McCoy, never mind a … more…
recap of this week’s episode of ‘Heroes’
Check out my recap of the Heroes episode “The Kindness of Strangers,” which aired Monday night, over at Film.com. Comments welcome here.
movie-ku #30
How come 90 mins Can feel like three point five hours While epics breeze by?
my week at the movies: ‘Gone Baby Gone,’ ‘Music Within,’ ‘Holly,’ ‘The Darjeeling Limited,’ ‘Darfur Now,’ ‘Steep’
Ben Affleck has made a movie. And not just any old sort of movie, but a kind of take-that reaction to, oh, Clint Eastwood and his Mystic River. “What does a cowboy know about Boston?” could be the question Ben is asking with Gone, Baby, Gone [opens wide October 19]. Or maybe it’s just, “How … more…
