Christian Bale : The Real Deal (and now remixed)

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Don’t believe the hype about Christian Bale’s rant; he was right to chew out a distracted cinematographer…

Appaloosa…what a snooza

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

I watched APPALOOSA last night and was quite dismayed to find that the commercials showing intense confrontations between Ed Harris (who directed and co-wrote this film), Viggo Mortensen, and Jeremy Irons had sold me on a completely different film.  The destinies of this trio of gunslingers revolved entirely too much around an even shallower character […]

re: 2009 OSCARS – Toronto is full of like-minded mandroids…

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

NadSyde points out this from the TORONTO STAR; their critic Peter Howell agrees that leaving The Dark Knight out of the Best Picture nominations is a tragic omission

Could SAG destroy the film industry?

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

www.savethebiz.org thinks so!  While I support the Screen Actors Guild and my homies that are members, another work stoppage could be a huge blow to the thousands of people that work below the line.  Thanks to Christina for the link.

OSCARS, … schmoscars?

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Well, the nominations for the 2009 Academy Awards were announced about 12 hours ago and… they’re pretty boring, but not exactly free of surprises.  The academy (AMPAS) avoided having their ceremony picketed by legions of 15-year-olds by giving Heath Ledger the nomination he so justly deserved, but The Dark Knight went un-nominated as did its […]