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Review: Man on Wire {Cinematical}
Jul 24th 2008 10:47AM It's a cliche, but man's dichotomy; his capacity to do great and marvelous things for the enjoyment of others and his capacity to do great evil out of pure hate are there on the screen. One to be clebrated, the other unspoken but impossible to forget.
First Images: Matt Damon's 'The Green Zone' {Cinematical}
Jul 6th 2008 3:14PM Any movie about Iraq that is being made now and tries to be political runs the great risk of having those politics being obsolete by 2010. No President Bush by then and, according to all the latest reports, a much more stable situation.
Weinsteins Set a Release Pattern for 'The Road' {Cinematical}
Jun 18th 2008 12:00AM This year I read, "No Country for Old Men" and "The Road",and both are truly excellent. Cormac McCarthy is great. However, would it kill him to use quotation marks? He makes you read every page of dialogue twice to make sure who said what.
BTW, I don't think that I'm giving anything away when I say that one great things about the Road is the fact that he never says what cause the holocaust. It could be nuclear warfare or an extinction type disaster caused by a meteor that cause worldwide firestorms like the one that killed the dinosaurs. In the end, the cause is immaterial because it's his portrayal of mankind's reaction that matters.
Asian Cinema Scene: Korean 'Butcher' Does Snuff {Cinematical}
Jun 12th 2008 8:42PM Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick to the masterful work of the recent Spanish Auteur Ghost stories, Devil's Backbone, Orphanage. The Others. Acting, directing , writing, atmosphere, and psychology. They may be similar, but so are all the torture porn movies.
All it takes to do torture porn is prosthetics, red corn syrup and the capacity to think as sadistically as possible. No real talent inherent in that.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan Heads to 'Shanghai' {Cinematical}
Jun 4th 2008 5:00PM Ok, this guy and Javier Bardem have to make a movie together, if only for the novelty factor.
Johnnie Walker Blue makes great strides in Russia {Slashfood}
Jun 4th 2008 4:58PM I see that you fixed that "European in Europe" thing, and yes, Blue label is indeed the best blended scotch.
Johnnie Walker Blue makes great strides in Russia {Slashfood}
Jun 4th 2008 4:11PM "First European country in Europe"?
Jon Cryer and James Spader Try On Robert Rodriguez's 'Shorts' {Cinematical}
May 30th 2008 1:09PM Of course, Spader will play the heavy, Mr Black. Rodriguez should have made the movie even quirkier and had Spader be the good guy and Cryer the bad one. That would have been weird.
Cinematical Seven: Watching Indy Through the Years {Cinematical}
May 18th 2008 11:03PM In stories like these, of course, one has to bring a healthy suspension of disbelief to enjoy the movie. The magic and superhuman feats never bothered me, but having Professor Jones be an archaeologist really left me puzzled.
I know it's silly, but I always felt that here' was a man who stole artifacts and then proceeded (through his own efforts or not) to destroy the entire archaeological site. Huge temples or catacombs were turned to dust, once the professor went by. No one else would ever be able to admire the magnificent building, search for more treasure or study those long-gone civilizations. Suspending my disbelief and getting caught up in the story left me with a heart ache when I saw the destruction.
One other thing that left a sour taste in my mouth from the Temple of Doom movie was remembering something that they had Jones say in a Raiders. In Raiders, Jones says that the story of power coming from the ark was just a bunch of ancient superstition and hocus-pocus nonsense. However, in the prequel they had him fighting black magic. To me that was a huge sequential error. How could a man that had gone through the events in Doom not be a changed man by the time he gets to the period in Raiders?
Finally in The Last Crusade, I had a hard time suspending my disbelief at the end when instead of building a fake cavern facade, Lucas and Spielberg decided to film in Petra, Jordan. I kept saying to myself, 'Hey, that's Petra, not some unknown cave housing the Holy Grail!"
BTW, it was the violence in Doom that led to creating the PG13 rating. Doom was PG and parents and critics were outraged.
EXCLUSIVE: 'City of Ember' Poster Premiere! {Cinematical}
May 12th 2008 3:23PM The producers better change that logo before Microsoft or Eveready sues them for trademark infringement. It looks almost exactly like the Internet Explorer logo or the one for Energizer lithium batteries.
