Saturday, December 26th, 2009
There's a famous scene in Doug Liman's Swingers that is the key to understanding the entire career of The Hangover director Todd Phillips. As Jon...
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
According to one of the starry-eyed children interviewed at an Atlanta playground during Nicholas Jasenovec’s mockumentary Paper Heart, the most...
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
The downside of a genre movie’s success is that even though most of the eventual rip-offs are obvious, sometimes a truly interesting piece of...
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
There aren’t a lot of flaws in Doug Liman’s Swingers. The humor and insight into heterosexual insecurities and arbitrary rules is just as...
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They should remake Predator 2. Not because it's a great movie, in fact, it is lousy 70% of the time, or any time someone opens their mouth. No, the...
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Opening with a coke-filled clandestine Internet hook-up in the woods, quickly followed up with a painful headbutt, Simon Pearce’s Shank...
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For a long time, the cheapest place to shoot a movie was in Canada, often in Vancouver. Virtually every movie that was supposed to take place in New...
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The big-budget version of an exploitation movie is fool’s gold. Sure, the filmmaker who could have used some more money to make his action...
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During my interview with Shadow Billionaire director Alexis Spraic, she mentioned that she didn’t like the way that making documentaries had...
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It’s a shame that Hollywood is only interested in making origin films for the heroes of comic book films. Such is the case with the recent X-Men...
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