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NYFF Review: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

October 5, 2007 Rich Drees

The writing and directing team of Joel and Ethan Coen are at their best when dealing with the subject of crime. From their early films like the caper comedy Raising Arizona to the Prohibition gangland [click for more]

IRON MAN Teaser Poster

October 5, 2007 Rich Drees

While the Holiday 2007 movie seasn hasn’t even started, we are already being inundated with advertising for Summer 2008’s crop of films. Hollywood calls this building awareness or anticipation, and I have to admit, it [click for more]

Trailer Park: Kitamura’s MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN

October 4, 2007 Rich Drees

I’ve been a fan of Ryuhei Kitamura’s films ever since I saw Versus at the Philadelphia Film Festival in 2002. His kinetic use of the camera excited me like no other director had since I [click for more]

Another Trip Aboard SERENITY?

October 4, 2007 Rich Drees

The past few years have provided several interesting twists and turns in the impact that DVD has had on Hollywood studios. The digital format has been rewriting the rules about how financially successful a studio [click for more]

ONE MISSED CALL Poster And Trailer

October 4, 2007 Rich Drees

While I am not the greatest fan of Japanese auteur Takashi Miike’s work, I have seen enough of it to consider his horror film One Missed Call to be one of his lesser films. Coming [click for more]

More Pics From Stephen Chow’s Latest

October 3, 2007 Rich Drees

Some more pictures have surfaced from Stephen Chow’s latest film. The problem is, the site that originally posted them, CriEnglish, wants to call the movie Yangtze River 7. During the last round of pictures from [click for more]

More BUCKAROO BANZAI Real Soon!!

October 3, 2007 Rich Drees

No, unfortunately I am not about to tell you that we’re finally going to get Buckaroo Banzai Against The World Crime League, the sequel promised at the end of 1984’s The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai [click for more]

NYFF Review: I’M NOT THERE

October 3, 2007 Rich Drees

Singer Bob Dylan once famously asked in song, “How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man?” Writer/director Todd Haynes attempts to answer that question by showing us six [click for more]

STOPPING POWER Stopped Again

October 2, 2007 Rich Drees

Jan De Bont’s on-again/off-again thriller Stopping Power is off again. As was the case the first time the plug was pulled on the project last month, investor withdrawal is the cause being given for the [click for more]

No Opening For RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE

October 2, 2007 Rich Drees

Although I don’t think there was anyone still holding out strong hope that it was going to happen, Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy star Martin Freeman has stated that the next book in Douglas Adams’ [click for more]