trailer break: ‘The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest’
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a trailer that says less about a film than this one.
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question of the day: Is it dishonest for filmmakers to distort history and historical figures to make a point about our world today?
Reader bluejay wonders, with reference to Agora, How important is historical veracity is to a film like this? Is a film that distorts history intellectually dishonest, even if it does so to make a valid point?
trailer break: ‘Unstoppable’
I can’t help it: I look at this trailer, and I think it’s gotta be a joke.
trailer break: ‘Saw 3D’
Is it really a selling point that the viewer gets to be in the middle of this movie… or at least feel like it, via the 3D? Does anyone actually really want to get in the middle of the action here?
trailer break: ‘Paranormal Activity 2’
I didn’t find the first film all that terrifying, only momentarily cheaply distracting, and I can’t see how this won’t be more of the same.
question of the day: Why did ‘Jackass 3D’ make $50 million this past weekend?
What on Earth is the appeal of the Jackass franchise? Why would a movie with no special FX, no characters to speak of, no story, no nothing except overgrown idiocy speak to so many people?
trailer break: ‘Carlos’
With a long miniseries version debuting on TV and a shorter cut opening in theaters, Olivier Assayas’s epic about the notorious terrorist Carlos the Jackal should be an interesting test in new movie-release paradigms.
trailer break: ‘Conviction’
It must be awards season, when the studios are dragging out all the Incredible True Stories and the casts full of Oscar winners and nominees.
tres cool: no 3D for ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I is rapidly barreling at us — it releases on November 19 on both sides of the Atlantic — which is good enough news, but now comes even better news for fans of not-sucky films everywhere…
trailer break: ‘Hereafter’
Matt Damon sees dead people. And pretty French ladies. And scared little boys. And it’s all so very, very sad.
