The career of writer/director Eric Red fascinates for a number of reasons. But mostly because he melds the mystical and vague with utter incompetence. Red got his big break with his screenplay for The Hitcher, a combination of ridiculous 1980’s action, mysterious psychopath slasher film, open road spareness, and narrative incoherence mistaken for open-endedness, all […]
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Cohen and Tate
Friday, June 12th, 2009
Tags: 100 Feet, Adam Baldwin, Adam Lippe, Bad Moon, Badlands, Billy Bob Thornton, Body Parts, cars, child in jeopardy, Cliché, Clownhouse, Days of Heaven, distribution problems, Eric Red, film, film review, Ford, Full Metal Jacket, homoerotic, Jaws, Jeepers Creepers, Jeepers Creepers II, Mariel Hemingway, MGM, Michael Bay, Michael Pare, movie, movie review, Near Dark, Night Game, Peaceful Warrior, pedophile, Powder, Predator 2, R rated, Radio Flyer, ratings concession, RegrettableSincerity.com, retarded, road movie, Robert Harmon, Roy Scheider, Sling Blade, suicide, Telephone, Terrence Malick, The Hitcher, Undertow, Victor Salva, video film, werewolf, X rating
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The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
Friday, June 12th, 2009
Over the past few years, director Tony Scott (Top Gun, True Romance, Enemy of the State) has been taking shots from the press over his recent fascination with film school tricks like flash frames, jump cuts, color filtering and his insistence on somehow cutting his films even faster than he used to. Whether this is […]
Tags: Adam Goldberg, Adam Lippe, Armageddon, Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Beverly Hills Cop II, Brian Helgeland, bunghole, butler, cab driver, car accident, chase, Christopher Walken, City on Fire, Conspiracy Theory, Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, Deja Vu, Denzel Washington, director's cut, Domino, Enemy of the State, exploitation, film, film review, Inside Man, Jack Black, James Gandolfini, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jerry Stiller, Joel Silver, John Travolta, John Turturro, Julia Roberts, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner, Lethal Weapon, Lethal Weapon 2, Lethal Weapon 3, Lethal Weapon 4, Luis Guzman, Man on Fire, Martin Balsam, mayor, Mel Gibson, Michael Bay, Michael Bloomberg, movie, movie review, Natural Born Killers, New York City, NYC, Oliver Stone, Patrick Stewart, PG-13, profanity, Quentin Tarantino, R rated, RegrettableSincerity.com, Remake, Reservor Dogs, revenge, Richard Donner, Ridley Scott, Robert De Niro, Robert Shaw, Rudy Guiliani, Seth Green, sneeze, Spike Lee, Steven Seagal, Sturm und Drang, Taxi Driver, The Fan, The Hunger, The Killing, The Rock, The Warriors, Tom Cruise, Tony Scott, Top Gun, train, Transformers, True Romance, Under siege, Under Siege 2, Val Kilmer, video film, Walter Hill, Walter Matthau, Will Smith, Woody Harrelson
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Cohen and Tate
Friday, June 12th, 2009
Tags: 100 Feet, Adam Baldwin, Adam Lippe, Bad Moon, Badlands, Billy Bob Thornton, Body Parts, cars, child in jeopardy, Cliché, Clownhouse, Days of Heaven, distribution problems, Eric Red, film, film review, Ford, Full Metal Jacket, homoerotic, Jaws, Jeepers Creepers, Jeepers Creepers II, Mariel Hemingway, MGM, Michael Bay, Michael Pare, movie, movie review, Near Dark, Night Game, Peaceful Warrior, pedophile, Powder, Predator 2, R rated, Radio Flyer, ratings concession, RegrettableSincerity.com, retarded, road movie, Robert Harmon, Roy Scheider, Sling Blade, suicide, Telephone, Terrence Malick, The Hitcher, Undertow, Victor Salva, video film, werewolf, X rating
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The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
Friday, June 12th, 2009
Over the past few years, director Tony Scott (Top Gun, True Romance, Enemy of the State) has been taking shots from the press over his recent fascination with film school tricks like flash frames, jump cuts, color filtering and his insistence on somehow cutting his films even faster than he used to. Whether this is […]
Over the past few years, director Tony Scott (Top Gun, True Romance, Enemy of the State) has been taking shots from the press over his recent fascination with film school tricks like flash frames, jump cuts, color filtering and his insistence on somehow cutting his films even faster than he used to. Whether this is […]
Tags: Adam Goldberg, Adam Lippe, Armageddon, Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Beverly Hills Cop II, Brian Helgeland, bunghole, butler, cab driver, car accident, chase, Christopher Walken, City on Fire, Conspiracy Theory, Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, Deja Vu, Denzel Washington, director's cut, Domino, Enemy of the State, exploitation, film, film review, Inside Man, Jack Black, James Gandolfini, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jerry Stiller, Joel Silver, John Travolta, John Turturro, Julia Roberts, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner, Lethal Weapon, Lethal Weapon 2, Lethal Weapon 3, Lethal Weapon 4, Luis Guzman, Man on Fire, Martin Balsam, mayor, Mel Gibson, Michael Bay, Michael Bloomberg, movie, movie review, Natural Born Killers, New York City, NYC, Oliver Stone, Patrick Stewart, PG-13, profanity, Quentin Tarantino, R rated, RegrettableSincerity.com, Remake, Reservor Dogs, revenge, Richard Donner, Ridley Scott, Robert De Niro, Robert Shaw, Rudy Guiliani, Seth Green, sneeze, Spike Lee, Steven Seagal, Sturm und Drang, Taxi Driver, The Fan, The Hunger, The Killing, The Rock, The Warriors, Tom Cruise, Tony Scott, Top Gun, train, Transformers, True Romance, Under siege, Under Siege 2, Val Kilmer, video film, Walter Hill, Walter Matthau, Will Smith, Woody Harrelson
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On Cold Fish:
Though the 16 year old me described the 1994 weepie Angie, starring Geena Davis as a Brooklyn mother raising her new baby alone, as “maudlin and melodramatic,” Roger Ebert, during his TV review, referring to the multitude of soap-operaish problems piling up on the titular character, suggested that it was only in Hollywood where Angie would get a happy ending. “If they made this movie in France, Angie would have shot herself.”
Well Cold Fish was made in Japan, where Angie would have shot herself and that would have been the happy ending.