A Serious Man is going to put a lot of people off. That’s just it’s unrelenting nature, as the film doesn’t care if anyone likes it or not. Essentially what the Coen brothers are doing is asking the audience to laugh at one man’s misfortunes. They’re also taking a serious look at the Jewish culture [...]
Academy Award winner and jack of all trades actor George Clooney is going back in front of the camera once again starring in Anton Corbijn’s “The American”. Focus Features’ most recent suspecnse thriller begins filming in Italy, which is actually based off of a novel called A Very Private Gentlemen.
Alone among assassins, Jack (played by [...]
How does one begin to approach a film they wanted to like?
Before viewing 9, the film had a lot of things in its favor, the first being absolutely stunning visuals. That looked to be aided by a strong, possibly original premise about a stitchpunk (my gamer side tells me to stick to “Sackboy”) being the [...]
Vampire movies, thanks to a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad film that shall remain nameless, look like they’re here to stay for a while. Yeah, true, they might’ve always been with us but the craze is on another upturn which means up-and-coming filmmakers who have a vampire in their script will likely see it produced. [...]
“Hans Landa would have loved this movie.”
-Scott Marks
For those wondering, Mr. Marks is a pretty good friend of mine who often shares a radically different opinion than my own. Generally, I’ll come out singing the praises of Watchmen whereas he’ll yell at me for being wrong and rip the film to shreds. I can’t remember [...]
Still being active with boosting up Shane Acker’s 9, an upcoming film from Focus Features starring the voice talents of Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Chrisopher Plummer among many others, here is another contest for you to go after!
A few weeks back, the Scientist was forcibly removed from his laboratory and interrogated. Upon returning to his lab, [...]
And then the marine layer parted to reveal the sky above the San Diego Convention Center and there emerged…Friday’s schedule. That’s right, practically 24 hours later, we get one of the more coveted pieces of the schedule. The always official Star Wars day (girls, get your slave leia costumes ready) will include such awesome things [...]
Cheri is under the impression it’s a play with cameras watching it. Missing are the set changes in favor of editing to the next scene but the exchanges between the characters feel like they’re on stage rather than trying to emulate life on film. Director Stephen Frears brings it in terms of set design and [...]
The latest and greatest from Shane Acker’s 9 keeps on rolling in. Focus Features invites us all to take a peek into the inner workings of the Scientist in his laboratory. Figure out how he made such creations, why he did what he did and get yourself pumped for the release. Mess around with all [...]
If one were to never hear of Sam Mendes’ prior to seeing Away We Go, they would assume it was his first film. In some respects it is as it’s tonally different than what he’s accomplished in the past with Road to Perdition, Jarhead and the overrated American Beauty. Where Mendes’ usually invigorates a dark [...]
Even though to some people this might not be a suitable Under the Radar, there are still a fair amount of people (even among my peers) who have no idea what it is when someone mentions Shane Acker’s 9. Being pumped up by Focus Features, 9 is a cgi animated movie that seems, to this [...]
Many of you remember the 2000 Oscar winner for Best Picture, American Beauty. That film was one of few creations from the talented director Sam Mendes, and his latest film is what were here to talk about. Away We Go is a film very few of you have heard about (unless your trailer junkies) which [...]
