You review: Choke
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
You review: Choke, Clark Gregg's tale of a sex addict and his dying mother, didn't exactly leave the critics breathless when it opened last weekend. But how was it for you?
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Choke
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Sam Rockwell is a sex-addicted con artist with serious maternal issues in Clark Gregg's adaptation of the novel by 'Fight Club' writer Chuck Palahniuk. Rating:2.5
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Movie Review: Choke
Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
It entertains in spite of its wrong-doings. The writing of author Chuck Palahniuk is always going to be tough to translate from page to screen. His sardonic, scalpel-edged satire works fantastically in book form but it doesn’t work in film form unless under expert supervision (as it was with Fight Club). Unfortunately writer/director Clark Gregg (making his directorial debut and...
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Choke (18)
The Herald (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
You don’t expect any picture based on a novel by Chuck “Fight Club” Palahniuk to be bland. Clark Gregg’s riotous comedy drama more than lives up to its end of the bargain, but in the process ends up too clever for its own good.
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Choke - Watch saucy clips and win merchandise
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
FROM maverick author Chuck Palahniuk ( Fight Club ) and breakout new writer-director Clark Gregg comes Choke , the subversively comedic tale of Victor Mancini, con artist, sex addict, Colonial village re-enactor, angst-filled son, serial restaurant choker… and unsuspecting romantic antihero for our unsettling times. Victor (Sam Rockwell), in an effort to pay for his demented mother’s...
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Palahniuk: It was easy to hand over 'Choke'
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Chuck Palahniuk says he found it easy to hand over the Choke film rights to Clark Gregg.
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UK Cinema Releases: Friday 21st November 2008
FILMdetail (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
... week the downbeat vibe might put them off. [Cert 15] Choke (Fox): A black comedy directed by Clark Gregg and adapted from the novel by Chuck Palahniuk . It stars Sam Rockwell as a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his strange mother ( Anjelica Huston ) in an expensive private hospital by working days as a historical re-enactor at a theme park and scamming rich customers in...
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Choke
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Film Reviews »ChokeDirected by Clark Gregg. Starring Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Brad William Henke, Bijou Phillips, Gillian Jacobs, Joel Grey, Jonah Bobo 16 cert, Cineworld, Dublin, 92 minMICHAEL DWYER'YOU LIE A lot," medical school dropout Victor (Sam Rockwell) is told midway through Choke . That comes when, asked about a missing piece of his ear, and he claims he...
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Review: Choke
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Palahniuk’s novels are so wilfully quirky, so egocentric, so out there, that transferring them to the screen must be like using chopsticks to transport a blancmange across a room. David Fincher may have managed it with Fight Club, but first-time director Clark Gregg isn’t quite equal to the task here.
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Choke - Chuck Palahniuk interview
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
... at Sundance there were some really technical things that weren’t happening. The whole humour with Clark Gregg’s character, with the dialect and the olden speak, and breaking character so often didn’t work because the soundtrack was kind of muddy. Fox gave Clark this whole dump of money to re-cut it, so they re-recorded the soundtrack, re-cut it and got Radiohead to do more...
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Choke - Review
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
It’s been nine years since David Fincher turned Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club into one of the great movie translations. Choke marks the long overdue second translation of one of Palahniuk’s books and while it’s never less than enjoyable, it falls some way short of achieving the classic status of Fincher’s masterpiece. On the plus side, director and screenwriter Clark Gregg has plenty to...
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Palahniuk: Rockwell perfect for 'Choke'
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
... he was just perfect."Heath Ledger and Ryan Gosling were both the lead role before writer-director Clark Gregg decided to cast Rockwell.
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Ledger, Mirren almost cast in 'Choke'
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Chuck Palahniuk has revealed that Heath Ledger was almost cast in the movie adaptation of his novel ChokeLedger, who died of an accidental drug overdose in January, was among the actors in line to play sex addict Victor Mancine in Clark Gregg's dark comedy before the role eventually went to Sam Rockwell.Palahniuk confessed that the actors who were circling the role prior to Rockwell's...
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Sian Thatcher: The worst film promotion freebies
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... process ... until now.Choke Release: 2008 Country: USA Cert (UK): 18 Runtime: 92 mins Directors: Clark Gregg Cast: Anjelica Huston, Brad William Henke, Clark Gregg, Kelly Macdonald, Sam Rockwell Fox are currently promoting the 21 November release of Choke, an adaptation of the book of the same name by . As it centres around a group of sex addicts, and in one scene features...
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The New Adventures of Old Christine - 8:00 PM ET, CBS
PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Click Here to download full episode Doesn’t everyone bring his or her ex along on a date? In this new episode, Christine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) invites Richard (Clark Gregg) along when she goes out to dinner with her new beau, Patrick (guest star Tim DeKay). Hmmm, maybe she wants to show Richard how much better she can [...]
