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We’re big fans of “300″ here at IFC, Zack Snyder’s genre-bending ode to the Spartan soldiers who stood their ground against the ginormous armies of Persian leader King Xerex. But alongside all the cool death scenes, mutated creatures, battle rhinos and battle cries, another thing jumped out at us…when it comes to faces, this movie…
Marc Forster is a filmmaker who likes to take chances, having helmed projects as small as “The Kite Runner” and as large as the second Daniel Craig Bond film, “Quantum of Solace,” which is as high-profile as it gets. As a director he’s hard to peg, and now he’s back with another eclectic project, that…
The folks at Relativity have sent over our first look (seen above) at the upcoming drama “Machine Gun Preacher” starring Gerard Butler (seen above, on the right, the guy who looks like Gerard Butler). “Preacher” is the first directorial effort from Marc Forster since his James Bond flick “Quantum of Solace” and his last directorial…
In her column at the New York Times today, Maureen Dowd tag teams with film writer Sam Wasson to bemoan the state of the romantic comedy. It’s a not-uncommon complaint (and a variation on the larger “there are no good movies anymore” one trotted out by Joe Queenan last week) that usually goes something like…
Poor Chris Klein. It’s bad enough that the guy has been reduced to appearing in stuff like “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.” Now, he has to deal with the fact that late last week someone leaked a tape of his failed audition for the movie version of “Mamma Mia!” online. After some awkward small…
The Guardian‘s Joe Queenan likes to snark on books and and film, but with his latest salvo on in-flight entertainment, he seems to be just phoning it in. Much of the piece is devoted to taking down two actresses with regrettable track records: Kate Beckinsale and Minnie Driver. If you’re under the age of 20,…
This week, Ludacris has the number one album in the country: “Battle of the Sexes”, a title which seems eminently appropriate. Not that gender representation on-screen has ever gone uncontested, but everyone seems particularly punchy after Kathryn Bigelow’s victory — an unfortunate side-effect of which will be designations like “Britain’s Bigelow,” applied by the Telegraph…
Is it too late for “9″ to be the action movie of the summer? Shane Acker’s dystopian fable shares a subject with the latest entries in the “Terminator” and “Transformers” franchises (not to mention “Battlestar Galactica”), but his direction is a model of clarity and grace, and his animated, inhuman protagonists are more life-like and…
There’s something a little strange about the poster for “The Ugly Truth,” and the sight of the stubbly, gruff face of Gerard Butler, affecting a sly grin and brandishing a heart at groin-level. This is the guy who carried “300″ on his back (and maybe his washboard stomach) and, through sheer badness of his assness,…
A small smattering of romantic fare amongst the new releases this week lines up alongside some caustic political satire, a couple of dark chillers, somber documentaries, and a string of grouchy gurus. Download this in audio form (MP3: 13:52 minutes, 19.1 MB) Subscribe to the In Theaters podcast: [XML] [iTunes] “The Answer Man” Having quietly…
Stars Gerard Butler, Jeremy Piven, Idris Elba and Chris “Ludacris” Bridges joined director Guy Ritchie for yesterday’s presentation on “RocknRolla,” Ritchie’s first film since infamous bomb “Revolver,” which took two years to reach U.S. shores. “RocknRolla,” which is about the Russian mob in London, is the film that everyone’s hoping represents a return to form…
