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Last week the Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz action comedy Knight and Day opened on a Wednesday, ostensibly to avoid the Friday opening, two days later, of the Adam Sandler “family” comedy Grown Ups. It looks — to my eyes, having seen both films as well as examined the marketing of them — as if the two … more…
Awesome breakdown of storytelling clichés — many of which occur in films, of course — from cartoonist Dresden Codak. A tiny taste: The whole cartoon is here. Don’t be drinking anything while perusing it unless you want to ruin your keyboard. I especially like the categories of “Shyamalan” and “Double Shyamalan.” See also Codak’s newest … more…
obsession: the plays of William Shakespeare (cuz he never goes out of style) boyfriend: Clive Owen in Duplicty psyched: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (it’s gonna suck but Hugh Jackman will be half naked through half of it) girl crush: Amy Adams in Sunshine Cleaning dreading: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Hugh Jackman will be half naked through half … more…
Fans of the anime series Avatar: The Last Airbender are up in arms over the casting of the live-action movie adaptation, being directed by M. Night Shyamalan and scheduled for release in 2010: not one member of the cast is Asian or Inuit, as the setting and ethos of the original series suggests they should … more…
This appears to be a movie about an incident that occurs to a certain number of people across a particular region consisting of a few states.
What if the dude who played Nosferatu in that great old 1922 silent German horror movie was actually really a vampire? Cool.
I don’t think it’s venturing too far into hyperbole to call this, the followup to The Sixth Sense from writer/director M. Night Shyamalan, a work of transcendent filmic genius, one that acknowledges the audience’s expectations, confounds them, rebuilds them, and ends up using them to brilliant, astonishing advantage.
So while I am both a bit dismayed and smugly satisfied to report that yes, I was correct in guessing what The Sixth Sense’s big twist is (I won’t reveal it here!), I am overjoyed to report that not only is there much more to this film that just its twist, watching the film with full knowledge of its big secret adds new layers to enjoy.
