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First Shotnew
Don’t you love it when a corporate Cyclops blinks? Marvel Films has reportedly reached a deal with director Jon Favreau for Iron Man 2, after having made some threatening noises that the sequel might be going on without him.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-24-2008 |
Movies
Eddie Murphy's Skin Color -- Not His Movies -- Makes the Media Hate Himnew
By beautiful coincidence, the critical drubbing of Murphy's Meet Dave preceded controversy over the New Yorker magazines cover cartoon of Barack Obama as a terrorist-agent.
New York Press |
Armond White |
07-24-2008 |
Movies
Hard-Boiled, Soft-Centered: What does Casablanca mean in a post-9/11 world?new
Conservatives will lay nostalgic claim to Casablanca as an exemplar of tradition to be gotten back to; liberals like it, because its idealism is worldy, not naïve, and tough enough to triumph over both wrongness and cynicism.
It endures as a classic because both parties are essentially correct.
Charleston City Paper |
Jonathan Kiefer |
07-23-2008 |
Movies
Tags: Casablanca, Michael Curtiz
How a Porn Star-Turned-Producer Presses Flesh for Cashnew
Dave Pounder is many things: a local boy who made a name for himself nationally; an entrepreneur who left the corporate world to follow his passion; a guy smart enough to stay one step ahead in arguably the dirtiest, riskiest end of the entertainment business. Dave Pounder, see, is a pornographer.
Metro Times |
Hobey Echlin |
07-22-2008 |
Movies
Tags: pornography, Dave Pounder
'Indestructible': Living with ALS for the World to Seenew
Ben Byer died just weeks before the theatrical premiere of his documentary about fighting the disease.
Chicago Reader |
Ed M. Koziarski |
07-21-2008 |
Movies
As 'The Dark Knight' Approaches, Some Clues on the Origins of the Jokernew
Me, I always figured that the Joker came from New Orleans.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
07-17-2008 |
Movies
'RoboCop' in the Library of Congress? I'd Buy that for a Dollar!new
Every year, the U.S. Library of Congress's National Film Preservation Board has earmarked up to 25 "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant films" for preservation in the National Film Registry. Let's make sure RoboCop can be seen by future generations.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
07-16-2008 |
Movies
Heath Ledger's Final Days Among the Massesnew
Birthed in a big loft in midtown Manhattan by one Los Angeleno, Amato, and one New Yorker, Jon Ramos, in 2002, the collective was transformed in the fall of 2006, when the members set up shop in Hollywood, and Amato's longtime friend, Heath Ledger, started channeling some of his creative energy, and eventually, money, into the company. It was at the Masses that Ledger and his peers converged around a notion; taught each other how to shoot, light and edit; plotted out music and record labels; and sought to develop a little engine of creativity.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
07-11-2008 |
Movies
San Antonian Climbs Mountains for Decade-long Film Projectnew
For 10 Mountains -- 10 Years, the 10-member climbing team known as "The Regulars" is scaling 11,239 feet to the summit of Mt. Hood, the highest peak in the state of Oregon to raise awareness and find cures for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
07-02-2008 |
Movies
Inaugural Philadelphia Independent Film Festival Programs Honest-to-goodness Indie Filmsnew
Coming as it does in between April's behemoth Philadelphia Film Festival and July's ever-expanding Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, the Independent Film Fest has to be looked at as David next to a pair of well-established Goliaths.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
07-01-2008 |
Movies
Queers Get Pressured to Support Bad Moviesnew
Why can’t a queer fest program decent features?
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
06-30-2008 |
Movies
Tragic Punk Icons The Gits are Recaptured in a Long-awaited Filmnew
Following a series of eBay purchases, a tentative friendship sprung up between Gits drummer Steve Moriarty and aspiring producer Jessica Bender and budding director Kerri O'Kane, who shared an obsession with the Seattle band and their late singer, Mia Zapata.
Seattle Weekly |
Hannah Levin |
06-30-2008 |
Movies
Spike Lee versus Clint Eastwoodnew
Lee was off base in giving the impression that Eastwood's body of work is racist. That is simply not the case. Lee was correct, however, in pointing out that Eastwood's omission in Flags of Our Fathers only reinforces the idea that black contributions to America's struggle in World War II were minimal.
Shepherd Express |
Richard G. Carter |
06-27-2008 |
Movies
'A Bend in the River' Looks at a Nashville Prison Rehab Programnew
While it's neither a wallow in sensational cellblock horrors nor a Scared Straight-style sock in the gut, A Bend in the River offers quiet, solemn and persuasive evidence that prison is the last place on earth anyone wants to end up.
Nashville Scene |
Jim Ridley |
06-27-2008 |
Movies
Digital Video Has Become as Unreliable a Narrator as Celluloidnew
Hollywood has finally started to respond to the success of YouTube and other online video sites. Cloverfield, Redacted, and Diary of the Dead purported to be "found" videos, made by someone who didn't plan for their footage to wind up in a movie theater. But video looks too good to be "real."
Baltimore City Paper |
Martin L. Johnson |
06-24-2008 |
Movies
