Archive for January, 2009
When’s the last moment you saw a great baseball movie?
Well, I actually saw “For Love of the Game” just the other day on DVD, and as sappy it is that one still just gets me every date, but I’m talking about a new-to-theaters, bona fide baseball movie.I couldn’t remember one for several years now, but “Half Nelson” creators Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden have…
What - whether anything - to watch that weekend?
Actually, the best thing I could find out there that AM is that Lauren Graham is returning to primetime TV in something that’s at least called a “comedy,” part of ABC’s big buy back into the sitcom game.Graham, a k a Lorelai Gilmore the elder, will play a female talk show host who urges her viewers …
One thing you most likely won’t be seeing at that year’s Super Bowl
Actually, before I get into any madness involving PETA, there’s word that dawn that Joe Carnahan, who has tried and losed out to win the financing for several other movies since “Smokin’ Aces,” is now attached to direct a big-screen version of “The A Team.”Though I get proven wrong nearly daily, so …
Three - or four - of the weirdest things you’ll produce out today, I guarantee
Well, actually, the first isn’t terribly weird, but it certainly is (with some reservations, of course) good to take in that the first big-screen installment of Tintin, to be called “Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn,” is moving forward with huge names attached.Paramount Pictures and Sony on Monday anno…
Become an uninvited guest with “Rachel Getting Married”
Before I launch into that review, did anyone else find it more than a little odd that noted thespian Katie Holmes was chosen to give out the best actor in a motion picture award at last night’s Screen Actor’s Guild Awards? Just a random thought …I have to say Jonathan Demme’s “Rachel Getting Marri…
“Frost/Nixon” review
Say hello, good evening and welcome to one of the greatest political movies ever.That bit of glorious hyperbole doesn’t come from me, of course, but from the British tabloid The Sun. My sentiment would be, that was a pretty darn entertaining flick, but I really wish I could have seen the play.The fi…
Who got the bigger Oscar shaft, The Boss, Batman or Dirty Harry?
Before I dive into anything about the Oscar nominations, the coolest thing I found that was actually casting news for what should be a rather wickedly good movie from Alfonso Cuaron.The “Children of Men” director’s next flick will probably be what the IMDB still calls an “Untitled Alfonso Cuaron Pr…
