#DailyStream weekly roundup
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Road to Perdition
cinematic roots of: ‘The American’
In *The American,* George Clooney’s murder-weary professional assassin mopes around rural mountain Italy while doing one last job before he’s out, out, he tells ya. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
The Wolfman (review)
The metallic tang of blood is all over the elegant facade of this mysteriously disappointing, dispassionately underpowered story of a British aristocrat who dances with the devil, in the form of a werewolf curse, in the pale moonlight.
trailer break: ‘The Wolfman’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I’d been hearing about Benicio Del Toro in a Wolfman reboot for a while, but it never occurred to me that it wouldn’t be set in the present day. I’m not sure why, I just assumed it would be modern. I guess they’re adhering more closely to … more…
July 1-3: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We all know how it is. You’d like to get out to see a new movie this weekend, but all those fireworks aren’t gonna shoot themselves off, and there’s too many hot dogs to be eaten, anyway. But you can have something close to that blockbuster experience on the road with the proper application of … more…
top 11 movies of 2002: the great, the good, and the really, really ugly
About half my best-of’s for 2002 were clear and ready choices, films I fell instantly in love with, that completely blew my mind, that utterly awed me in their fabulosity — I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out which those were. Filling out the rest of the list was tough … more…
Road to Perdition movie review: pulp fiction
There’s not a thing that isn’t hauntingly, quietly electrifying about this, the first truly grown-up comic book movie. Fans of the medium have known for years that the form had no trouble being Important, but the film industry (though perhaps not all filmmakers themselves) has stubbornly insisted on treating comic adaptations as juvenile.
