Posted by: Douglas Wolk on February 17, 2008
Categories: Site News
Go read: Tom Spurgeon’s interview with Douglas Wolk. Go look: the new Indiana Jones Trailer! Looks better than I would have hoped! (lets try the embed thing, to see if it works) -B
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Who are we to deny it in here? HIbbs on Todd: the movie
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on December 23, 2007
Categories: Reviews
The good thing about Tim Burton’s SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET is that it really works remarkably as a film — I went in with a fair deal of trepidation over the changes I knew were coming, but virtually all of them worked pretty darn well. The cuts to the libretto that were made, were overall, pretty good — I didn’t really know if it could survive removing the (various) “Ballad(s) of Sweeney Todd”, but, for the most part one didn’t miss them. And while a couple of pieces were missed (I was sort of looking forward to the four-part disharmony of “Kiss Me/Ladies in Their Sensitivities”), it kicked the momentum of the story dramatically forward. I’m… Read More…
Killing Time: Jeff Talks Movies Instead of Reviewing Books.
Posted by: Jeff Lester on November 30, 2007
Categories: Reviews
A review for Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together should be forthcoming sometime soon but I keep coming up with new ways to put it off (if you download Sid Meier’s Pirates from Gametap, expect at least five hours of your life to disappear in flash). Like today, for example. There’s no reason I couldn’t sit down and organize my thoughts on the book, but instead I’m gonna review a few movies I saw rather than, y’know, being true to the purpose of this blog. I apologize. (On the other hand, it’s probably foolhardy to try another comics-related post on the same 24 hour period as Jog’s awe-inspiring Jademan essay, so maybe this will work out best for all involved.) COMEDIAN:… Read More…
Hooray: A film and a comic for 9/19. Jog.
Posted by: Joe McCulloch on September 25, 2007
Categories: Reviews
So I did wind up seeing Eastern Promises, the new David Cronenberg thing, and it was good stuff. I liked it more than A History of Violence, which can be considered a companion film of sorts, given that both pictures see Viggo Mortensen as a man of secrets caught up in the world of organized crime, with violence meeting violence and family ties frayed. The prior film struck me as really heavy-handed and sorta banal with its mannered small town American archetypes giving way to bloodletting… it was like a lot of high-fiving and shouting WE HAVE ACHIEVED SUBTEXT without anyone pausing to check if the subtext had much of interest in it. Oh, I enjoyed the contrasting sex scenes… Read More…
Weekend’s End: Jeff Gabs About Manga and Movies.
Posted by: Jeff Lester on August 26, 2007
Categories: Reviews
Howdy. Here’s what I’ve been reading and watching lately. God help me, I’m still so trained to write reviews in old school SavCrit style, you get it all in one big glop. I’d like to do something similar about the comics I’ve been reading, but can’t quite tell yet if my week is going to open up enough to let me do so. Anyway, for now, here’s what’s what. CEMETERY MAN: Cinematically, I’ve been in search of some satisfying lowbrow thrills and it really seemed like this cult favorite was gonna do the trick: after all, it’s an Italian horror comedy based on a graphic novel by the creator Dylan Dog about a morose gravedigger who must not only bury… Read More…
Not Comics: Jeff Reviews The Bourne Ultimatum
Posted by: Jeff Lester on August 10, 2007
Categories: Reviews
The first moment in The Bourne Ultimatum I truly loved comes about fifteen or so minutes into the film, when Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is about to meet with reporter Simon Ross (Paddy Considine) about articles Ross has been publishing about Bourne and his mysterious past. Seeing what’s about to go down, CIA uber-clench Noah Vosen (David Strathairn) places a call to have both men eliminated. The call reaches a man (Edgar Ramirez) sitting on a bed in a nondescript room, his bag on a chair nearby, and when he gets the call, he takes the bag and exits without hesitation. This shot of Paz, the man in the room, is indicative of the rest of the film: it… Read More…
