This week’s show is a study in contrast as we review and compare Hollywood’s painfully formulaic and offensive offering, “The Ugly Truth,” and the stubbornly independent, shoe-string budgeted, almost entirely improvised “Cut From Home.” What can we learn from the overworked, diluted scripts and direction of a Hollywood tentpole release — and of it’s antitheses [...]
“The Ugly Truth” is a remake. No, not officially, but does it really matter any more? Despite our best efforts in the critical and otherwise sane community to fortify our collective intellect against unnecessary and blatantly opportunistic remakes, sequels, and prequels, Hollywood not only defiantly presses on with its war against originality but ups the [...]
Jason Sudeikis is in advanced talks to join the Drew Barrymore, Justin Long rom-com, “Going the Distance,” over at New Line, reports THR. Sudeikis will play Box, a friend of Justin Long’s character’s, who counsels him against trying to maintain his long-distance relationship with Barrymore’s character. Geoff LaTulippe penned the script, which Nanette Burstein will [...]
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
