Paris, Texas: Criterion Collection
February 1, 2010
Films made about the United States by foreign filmmakers are interesting because quite often they provide a unique perspective – someone from the outside looking in. German filmmaker Wim Wenders did just this with his film Paris, Texas (1984). It was...
Director Jonathan Mostow Q&A
January 26, 2010
Terminator 3 director Jonathan Mostow stars in the action thriller Surrogates; a movie based on the successful comic book series by Robert Venditti. The story centers around a world where people live in near-total isolation, rarely leaving the safety...
The Boys are Back
January 21, 2010
After starring in blood-soaked, bullet-ridden action films like Shoot ‘Em Up (2007) and The International (2009), actor Clive Owen decided to shift genres completely and headline a touchy-feely drama for Miramax that was directed by Scott Hicks, who...
Surrogates Factoids
January 21, 2010
FACTOIDS · First-time author Robert Venditti came up with the unique premise while working at Top Shelf Publications in their shipping warehouse in suburban Atlanta. · “SURROGATES” was filmed on location in Massachusetts, primarily in Boston...
Surrogates
January 20, 2010
For every Die Hard (1986) or 12 Monkeys (1995), there are all kinds of 16 Blocks (2006) and Hostage (2005) – forgettable genre films that populate Bruce Willis’ extensive filmography. Surrogates (2009) is the latest paycheck film for the veteran actor....
Che: Criterion Collection
January 14, 2010
Che (2008) began as a personal project for actor Benicio del Toro around the time he was making Traffic (2000) with Steven Soderbergh. Originally, he planned on making the film about iconic revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara with Terrence Malick...
10 Things I Hate About You: 10th Anniversary Edition
January 8, 2010
A crass marketing ploy to capitalize on the death of Heath Ledger or a legitimate tribute to a film that helped launch his career in the United States, as well as that of Julia Stiles? 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) also hinted at the emerging talent...
Jennifer’s Body: Unrated
December 23, 2009
There is a scene in Juno (2007) where two characters argue about who makes gorier horror films, Herschell Gordon Lewis or Dario Argento. The film was written by Diablo Cody and she went on to win an Academy Award for her screenplay full of witty, stylized...
Extract
December 23, 2009
Mike Judge may have enjoyed considerable success on television with Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill but he continues to have an unlucky streak with feature films. His first two efforts – Office Space (1999) and Idiocracy (2006) – were given...
Gomorrah: Criterion Collection
November 30, 2009
Gomorrah (2008) started off as a controversial best-seller, a “nonfiction novel” by Roberto Saviano in 2006. It exposed and showed how the Camorra, Italy’s largest organized crime syndicate, worked. Based in Naples, it deals in drugs, weapons, construction...
