AWFJ 2016 EDA Awards winners announced
Moonlight leads, with seven awards…
Paul Verhoeven
RoboCop review: I will notify a cinema crisis center
No black humor. No satire. No point. But hey, check out the 1987 catchphrases dropped in at random!
question of the day: How would great female filmmakers describe their work in ways comparable to the machismo of male filmmakers?
The male dominance of filmmaking sometimes smacks at you from a direction you weren’t expecting.
question of the day: What’s the point of an untitled videogame movie?
I saw this headline yesterday at Cinematical: “Paul Verhoeven Working on Untitled Video Game Movie” and I thought: What’s the point of an untitled videogame movie? Isn’t the whole reason for adapting movies from videogames in the first place is that there is built-in name recognition from the gamer fanbase, much in the same way … more…
August 21: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you’re in the Nazi-killing business, and business is booming. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see Inglourious Basterds this weekend?” … more…
District 9 movie review: aliens go home
Even as half my brain was ticking off all those little nods with a geek’s appreciation for fellow geekitude, the other half of my brain was so floored with surprise that this could all still feel so fresh, so original, so like nothing I’d ever seen before.
Starship Troopers (review)
Character Assassination Paul Verhoeven is exactly the wrong man to have made Starship Troopers (starring a bunch of impossibly perfect-looking faux teenagers including Doogie Howser, plus Michael Ironside, Clancy Brown). Set in a future global Earth society that restricts citizenship to those who serve in the armed forces, Troopers follows a group of teens through … more…
