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Review: The Last Station |
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 Just seeing the cast list made me want to see this film: Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, Paul Giamatti, James McAvoy. But I’m also interested in screenplays that spin drama from historic events and characters. I’ve tried it and know it’s a tough assignment. Michael Hoffman wrote and directed The Last Station based on the book of the same name by Jay Parini. As a director, Hoffman has created a faithful re-creation on screen. Continue reading ... |
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Review: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men |
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 Possessing an uncanny ability to convey demented comedy and heart-rending drama, often in the same breath, the late David Foster Wallace -- novelist (Infinite Jest), essayist (Consider the Lobster), short-fiction author (Oblivion) -- was a postmodern American literary titan of the first degree. It seemed no filmmaker alive had half the brain -- or half the balls -- to adapt Wallace for the silver screen. Nobody even wanted to attempt an adaptation. And so, for over 20 years of Wallace’s famed career, there were none. Perhaps Wallace was even … unfilmable? Continue reading ... |
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Review: Anvil! The Story of Anvil |
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 It’s not a joke. I must admit I had to do some research as to whether or not Anvil! The Story of Anvil was a documentary or a “mockumentary,” à la This is Spinal Tap (the similarities abound). Something about heavy metal bands in the early 1980s just seems too ridiculous to be real. Maybe it’s the hair. Maybe it’s the lyrics. Maybe it’s the fact that within the film’s first five minutes, we behold a man ecstatically playing an electric guitar with a dildo. But seriously, folks: Anvil was/is a real band, and rock they do, rock they have, for close to 30 years. You’ve got to respect that. Continue reading ... |
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Review: Jennifer's Body |
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 Have you ever heard a mashup? It’s one song that was originally two songs from different genres that have been spliced together. Depending on the deejay, a mashup can sound pretty damn cool -- the different aspects of the two kinds of songs complement and comment on each other, often to sensational effect. Unfortunately, such is not the case with Jennifer’s Body, the second film written by Diablo Cody. As directed by Karyn Kusama, Jennifer’s Body combines the lighthearted, high school joie de vivre of John Hughes with the clichéd schlock of a direct-to-DVD horror flick. Continue reading ... |
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Review: Number 10 |
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 Was Hugh Grant's young, single Prime Minister your favorite character in Love Actually? If you've ever been curious about a British Prime Minister's sex life, the late BBC writer Terence Feely has seven different answers for you. From 1983, Number 10 is not so much a television series as an anthology of seven distinct one-hour films, each starring a different cast in a different time period yet with the action transpiring in the same location: 10 Downing Street in London. For hundreds of years, this same building has served as home to the British Prime Minister. Continue reading ...
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Putting Art to Good Use: The International |
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 Film: The International
Writer: Eric Singer
Logline: They control your money. They control your government. They control your life. And everybody pays.
There’s just something about arms-dealing, terrorism-funding, money-laundering, conspiracy-covering banks that tends to bring out the worst in people. Good thing there’re guys like Clive Owen to keep everyone on the level. The International, an action-thriller out today on DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, pits Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Owen) against a bank so corrupt, even the U.S. government wouldn’t bail it out. With the help of the stunning Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts), Salinger intends to expose the International Bank of Business and Credit for what it is. SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW |
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