To start out with, two extremely interesting trailers have been released in the past couple of months, both of which I'm dying to see. Here, we have a Coen brothers remake of the John Wayne western, True Grit, which looks appropriately gritty, and as long time followers of this blog know, I'm a sucker for Jeff Bridges. This movie looks awesome and I can't wait. The other trailer I'd like to bring to your attention is The Tourist. This film appears to be your traditional action escape fare, but when a cast of Johnny Depp (yes), Angelina Jolie (YES) and Paul Bettany (umm, thats cool I guess) gets together, there is potential for a great action film there. If you can't tell I really like Angelina Jolie.
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| Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit |
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| Kate Beckinsale |
Finally we have a fun series at the British online paper, The Guardian. They have created a top 25 list of the greatest action and/or war movies of all time. That is here, plus a pretty funny article by Guardian reporter Joe Queenan on action movie cliches. Click around a bit as there is some other good stuff around their site.
That's all we have time for today readers. To quote Mr. Carrey, that's the way the cookie crumbles.
Last week, a disturbing CNN report claimed that girls are hitting puberty as young as age seven.
ReplyDeleteEven more disturbing? The report was delivered by Roman Polanski.
lol, sure you didn't read that on the Onion?
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ReplyDeleteThat girl's last name is Steinfeld. She sure as shit better not become famous, or no one will ever pronounce our name right again.
ReplyDeleteI know. I'll bet you her name is actually Steinfield and she just decided to change after everyone kept mispronouncing it.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of John C Riley, last week I caught "Cyrus," with JCR, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei and Catherine Keener. The description said much of the dialog was improvised. Since I generally don't like improvised movies (the ones I've seen tend to be self-indulgent with scenes that ramble and go on way too long), I wasn't expecting much, but since I was trapped on an airplane I figured I could always unplug the earphones. I was pleasantly surprised at how well done the movie was. Just my rambling, self-indulgent way of saying John C Riley is a skilled actor, and I'll give "God of Carnage" a look just because he's in it. Thanks for the news update.
ReplyDeleteYeah it looks interesting, not least because Polanski is directing. I am very rarely disappointed by him. I still haven't seen Cyrus, but that sounded like a recommendation, and if so, I'll definitely give it a look.
ReplyDeleteI saw it Cyrus this past weekend too, and was also pleasantly surprised - not because I dislike improvisation, I actually love it a lot of the time - but because I thought, based on the cast, that it was going to be a take-off on Apatow's style of comedy, and it in fact had a much more dramatic tone and indy feel.
ReplyDeleteI also ended up seeing the original True Grit today, and am now very excited to see how the Coens revamp it. That last shootout was extremely badass.