Comedy Central Insider (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
A few weeks ago I linked to Patton Oswalt's review of Punisher: War Zone. The movie sounded amazing, the review was hilarious and Patton declared "Is This Happening" a new film genre. And when you're talking about the most outrageous...
The Lobby from SPG (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
The brisk winter weather will undoubtedly keep many people huddled inside their warm homes this January, but a few thousand fans of independent cinema know that the real heat can be found in Utah. The Sundance Film Festival will be...
Ambival.net (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
The first year I did this (“locking” my “top movies of all time” list at the end of the year) it seemed a little pointless, but this is the fifth time now and it’s proving to be as good a snapshot as any of who I was at a particular point in time – the [...]
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
Thanks to Ross for reminding us that the National Society of Film Critics announces today (I dont think theyve announced yet). Last year, they sort of backed up what the LA Film Critics had said when...
Donal Foreman (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
FIVE NEW FILMS • Hunger (Steve McQueen) • There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson) • Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh) • Yeast (Mary Bronstein) • The Wire (David Simon, TV) FIVE OLD FILMS • Five More Minutes (Karin Wandner & Dena DeCola, 2005) • Tren de Sombras (José Luis Guerin, 1997) • July Trip (Waël Noureddine, 2007) • Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977) • Histoire(s) du [...]
Esoteric Rabbit Blog (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
Performance Sydney Theatre Company: Frankenstein The Border Project: Highway Rock 'n' Roll Disaster The Hayloft Project: Chekhov Re-Cut: Platonov Ridiculusmus: The Importance of Being Earnest/Tough time, nice time Melbourne University Student Union Theatre: Attempts on Her Life Sydney Theatre Company: The Season at Sarsaparilla Opera Australia: Arabella/The Makropoulos Secret Red Stitch Actors Theatre:...
Oceans Never Listen (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
First rule of film reviewing. Any Paul Thomas Anderson film is destined to be considered above all others. Well, that is my rule anyway, as I do believe this wondrous director hits heights that no other current film maker currently does. Put simply, the man is a marvel. So, even though, his latest film was released overseas in 2007, it only saw the light of day in Australia in early 2008 and from the...
Spectacular Attractions (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
It took years for movie catchphrases like “You talkin’ to me?”, “You’re going to need a bigger boat” and “Into the mud, scum-queen” to gain common currency. So it’s striking that Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will be Blood has so quickly acquired it’s own flurry of tributes and impersonations of its big-acting highpoint “I drink [...]
A Shaded View on Fashion (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
High-Def Digest: Blu-ray Disc News (Free subscription) | 29/12/2008
No matter how much he’s tried to emerge as a genre savior over the years, writer/director/producer Paul W.S. Anderson (not to be confused with five-time Academy Award-nominated auteur Paul Thomas Anderson)...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 23/12/2008
Blu-Ray Review: An essential film of the nineties, and Wong Kar-wai's breakthrough feature, Chungking Express helps Criterion join the world of Blu-ray.
The God and Culture Blog (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
Posted by Joel Edwards He’s made five great movies, three of which are absolute masterpieces. And this video is an incedible tribute to those films.
Comedy Central Insider (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
When I first read Upton Sinclair's Oil!, I thought the story of a sweet-talking oil salesman who tries to scam the pants off the residents of a sleepy Iowa town until he learns to sing a few songs, falls madly...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
The veteran character actor explains what it takes to work for Sidney Lumet and appear in Christmas comedies.
Ken Trax (Free subscription) | 14/12/2008
The King of Kong (Seth Gordon) imdb amazon Personal, amazing and often amusing look into the trials of obsessively competitive classic arcade video-game players. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson) imdb amazon Epic parable of ambition and family, selfishness and power, driven by the incredible performance of Daniel Day-Lewis as the ruthless and charismatic Daniel Plainview and a vivid rendering...
