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Review: THAANDAVAM Is Boring, Forgettable Garbage

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Review: THAANDAVAM Is Boring, Forgettable Garbage

Review: THAANDAVAM Is Boring, Forgettable Garbage

Posted: 29 Sep 2012 01:08 AM PDT

I love movies, good and bad.Let's just get that out there.I try to approach each new film I see with an open mind, ready to enjoy it on its own merits. The idea that I'd intentionally subject myself to a film that I'm expecting to hate is completely foreign to me. I'm really good at surrendering myself to a film's internal logic and allowing me to be swept up in whatever nonsense it wants to throw my way as long as it is entertaining, that's really my only hard and fast criteria for enjoying something. It can be a masterpiece, or a piece of garbage, but if it entertains me, I'm sold. Conversely, there is no greater sin for a film than to be boring,...

Review: HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA Offers a Mild Treat

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 06:45 PM PDT

After years of fruitless searching, it would appear that modern science has finally found the right place for Adam Sandler's crew: children's cartoons. Hotel Transylvania, a congenial toon about a monsters-only resort accidentally discovered by a human, has a lot of the same names in the credits as Sandler's recent live-action output, with roles for friends and family members and a writing credit for longtime SNL collaborator Robert Smigel. But while Jack and Jill, That's My Boy, Just Go with It, Grown Ups, etc., etc., have been lazily written and dully executed, some of them nearing atrocity level, Hotel Transylvania is a mild treat. It turns out childish jokes go down a lot smoother when they're actually directed at children, and when you can't see...

Walter Hill Seriously Wants To Remake WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 10:32 AM PDT

Today The Hollywood Reporter ehm... reports from Hollywood that Walter Hill has secured funding from Lakeshore Entertainment to direct a remake of Robert Aldrich's classic horror film Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?. The new film will be based on Hill's own script, which apparently is an adaptation of the novel rather than the script of the previous film. In the story, Blanche and Jane are two sisters living together in a decaying mansion. Both were stars in their youth, but their careers ended in their teens when Blanche got crippled in a car accident caused by Jane. Now in their old age, Jane takes daily care of Blanche but there is still plenty of resentment between the two. As Jane slowly but surely becomes demented,...

NYFF 2012 Preview: Twitch Raises The Curtain With 14 Capsule Reviews

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 10:02 AM PDT

Boys and girls, here we are, the opening day of the 50th New York Film Festival. If you venture out to Lincoln Center tonight, expect bedlam as Ang Lee's 3D adaptation for the Life Of Pi has its world premiere, with eight -- yes, eight -- separate screenings, all currently with stand-by only tickets. And while our boys on the front lines didn't have a chance to catch that tale of a boy and tiger adrift at sea, they do have for you 14 capsule reviews, including their takes on the much-anticipated and talked about Holy Motors, Amour, Passion and Barbara. So here they are: Peter Gutierrez, Dustin Chang, Joshua Chaplinsky and Christopher Bourne with what's good, what's bad and what may be a bit...

Rian Johnson Discusses The Ins And Outs Of LOOPER

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 09:00 AM PDT

I first became aware of Rian Johnson by accident. I stumbled into a screening room at the wrong time and didn't realize it until the word Brick was sitting in front of me. But if there is ever a right time to run into a brick wall I had found it. Before I realized what was happening movie magic had knocked me unconscious. I remember thinking I didn't want it to end. The patois, the look of the film, the magnificent performances and the triumph of watching so much young talent embrace a great screenplay and run with it into those shadows of light and circumstance that I as a member of the audience could only pay tribute to by watching was an amazing experience....

Frightfest Halloween All-Nighter Line-Up Revealed

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 08:31 AM PDT

Hot on the heels of Frightfest 13th comes the full line-up announcement for the Frightfest Halloween all-nighter, taking place on 27 October in central London. It's a typically juicy line-up, as anyone who has checked out James Marsh's fantastic coverage will have come to expect. Highlights include Pascal Laugier's follow up to Martyrs, The Tall Man, and Arrow's restored version of Lucio Fulci's seminal Zombie Flesh Eaters (aka Zombi 2). This year those unable to make it to London will be able to enjoy select films on Saturday,  November 3 in Cambridge, Glasgow, Sunderland, Newcastle and Bristol. Here's the full London line-up: 6.30pm EXCISION (UK Premiere) Alienated and mentally unhinged teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of high school, pleasing her demanding mother and loosing her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for...
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