Who wants to have fat kids with snub noses? Jennifer Garner sure doesn’t, and if you’re being honest, you probably don’t either. The difference between our world and the one Garner and Ricky Gervais occupy in “The Invention of Lying” is that here, such a declaration on a first date, especially when that date is [...]
Controversial Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, announced that he met privately with Academy Award Winning actor, Sean Penn, on Wednesday. THR reports that Penn may have plans to shoot a film in Venezuela adapted from Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier’s 1953 novel, “The Lost Steps,” about the journey of an American anthropologist and composer into the jungle [...]
As they say, all good things must come to an end. The 2009 Tallgrass Film Festival has come and gone. Another year, another successful event Wichita can count among its artistic and cultural highlights. If you were lucky enough to be there, you were no doubt treated to some of the finest films, independent or [...]
Suspicion of intellectualism and academia have been the unfortunate byproducts of the rise of the big dumb Hollywood movie. Film critics, once a respected and authoritative source of reasoned artistic analysis, have come to be looked upon by the movie-going masses as archaic contrarians stuck in a time when color film was a novelty and [...]
Sylvester Stallone has made a career out of rehashing a single beloved performance and storyline over and over and over and over and over again. And who can blame him? Wouldn’t you if you had the chance? Well, even the most die-hard “Rocky” fans, and I count myself among them, may be running out of [...]
The first official photo from Joe Carnahan’s “A-Team starring Bradley Cooper as Lt. Templeton “Faceman” Peck, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson as Sgt. “B.A.” Baracus, Sharlto Copley as Capt. “Howling Mad” Murdock, Liam Neeson as John “Hannibal” Smith, and Jessica Biel. Scheduled for wide release June 11, 2010.
Thump… Creeeak….. THUMP! Fear. The invaluable evolutionary tool that has enabled our survival of predation from prehistoric menaces like the saber-toothed tiger and aided our scattered tribes into eventual planet domination and thriving globalization has become all but useless. Of course, true danger still exists, but how many times a day, or even in a [...]
Charlize Theron to replace raving mad Mel Gibson’s iconic Mad Max? Maybe. E! News Online is reporting on information from “multiple sources” that say that the Oscar-winning sexpot is the front runner to the play the lead female role in the upcoming “Mad Max 4.” Director George Miller already nixed the idea that Gibson would [...]
David Fincher, director of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Zodiac,” and “Fight Club,” has teamed with Media Rights Capital to adapt the popular British miniseries, “House of Cards,” for American audiences. THR reports that Fincher will executive produce with writer Eric Roth (“Benjamin Button”) and that the political drama will be condensed into a [...]
The folks over at the Tallgrass Film Festival have been kind enough to offer those few of you without tickets yet a special opportunity to save some money and still get access to Wichita’s premier event this weekend. Come on down to The Orpheum Theater Thursday between 9:30 AM and 6:30 PM for Early Bird [...]
Loco: London’s 1st Comedy Film Festival
Orlando: Does Sex Matter?
A soothing demise: Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ considered
The Power of Limits in The Five Obstructions
Surviving ‘Surviving Life’
‘The Other’ at The 2nd London Iranian Film Festival
‘Leaving’: Made in Prague
A Step Forward: New African Film in Paris
Adapting to The Skin I Live In: The Antidote to Horror
Chicken with Plums: Better on Paper
