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(11/14/11 2:18am)
Notoriously crude, boorish director Bret Ratner (creator of
cinematic masterpieces like "Rush Hour 3") made a complete ass out
of himself at the premier of his new under-performing flick "Tower
Heist" by commenting in a Q&A that "Rehearsals are for fags."
This happened the same week as Ratner talked sleazily about
sleeping with actress Olivia Munn on the "Howard Stern Show," only
to admit a few days later that he lied about it all.
(11/07/11 4:10am)
This November marks the birth of a new cinematic obscenity from
Adam Sandler. It is so obviously, absurdly horrible that upon
viewing the trailer for the first time, I assumed it was a leftover
gag movie from "Funny People," in which Sandler plays a
hyperbolized version of himself, starring in such fictional trash
as "Mer-Man," "Astro-Not" and "My Best Friend is a Robot"-I wish
that were the case.
(11/01/11 4:48am)
I remember the old posters that used to hang in movie theater
lobbies explaining the Motion Picture Association of America
ratings system to patrons-a vertical ladder of movie ratings G
through NC-17 accompanied by cartoon renditions of the appropriate
audiences for each.
(10/23/11 6:00am)
I've spent the better part of a decade perfecting my movie theater
regiment. And chief of all is the commandment: Thou shalt not
attend Friday or Saturday-night movies.
(10/09/11 6:00am)
With Oscar season ahead, 2011 is looking more and more like the
year of the Gosling. In the wake of her Best Actress Oscar win for
""Black Swan"", this was promising to be Natalie Portman's year in
the spotlight as Hollywood's darling. After all, Portman had no
less than three movies hit theaters this year.
(10/02/11 6:00am)
Despite the major movie studios' absolute infatuation with 3-D (or
perhaps, more accurately, the inflated box office hauls that
inevitably accompany 3-D) it seems like its popularity among the
general public has once again peaked and is beginning to wane, just
like it did 50 years ago when the iconic red-and-blue glasses were
still in use.
(09/25/11 6:00am)
While a few dedicated dreamers still
strolling to class in cargo shorts and flip-flops may be ignoring
the inevitable, the ugly truth is that summer is over and the fall
semester is upon us. It's hard to ignore the clearly inverse
relationship going on here—the temperature keeps dropping and the
homework keeps piling up.
(09/18/11 6:00am)
This summer's movie selection has been,
let's face it, lackluster at best. Where was the ""Inception"" of
this summer?
(09/11/11 6:00am)
There are celebrities and there are actors. There are the
heartthrobs, action heroes,thespians and performers. Even though
many people are a combination of only two, they are almost always
one more so than the other.
(09/06/11 6:00am)
(05/03/11 6:00am)
Recently, I re-watched the quality flick ""High Fidelity."" It's
one of those rare movies that I can watch perpetually without it
ever feeling stale. The movie follows a group of record store
employees who have a penchant for conversing in lists: top five
songs to play on a Monday morning; top five musical crimes
perpetrated by Stevie Wonder in the 80s and 90s; top five track
one, side ones—you get the idea. In this ""top five"" spirit, my
last column of the semester is a countdown of my top five favorite
movies. These aren't the five movies I think are the best for any
technical, artistic or cultural reasons. These are simply the
movies that make me love movies.
(04/25/11 6:00am)
One of my chief laments regarding the Wisconsin Film Festival was
the scarce supply of prominent, buzz-worthy independent films.
Luckily this Wednesday marks the kickoff of WUD Film's third annual
Mini Indie Film Festival. The festival brings to campus some of the
most interesting indie flicks from both the past and previous
years, all at the the brand-spanking new Marquee at Union South.
WUD may not be hosting the glamorous premiers of these movies, but
that's OK, as word-of-mouth and past performance is what earned
each of them their place on the lineup. All of the films are
completely free and a full schedule of films can be found at
union.wisc.edu/WUD/film.aspx
(04/18/11 6:00am)
With impending finals and looming end-of-the-semester projects
starting to darken your horizon, you can at least anticipate the
summer 2011 movie season. And this summer is filled to the gills
with action-packed blockbusters and intriguing indie hits alike. In
fact, this year's summer schedule is so crowded that director Jon
Favreau (""Iron Man""), whose flick ""Cowboys and Aliens"" is out
July 29, described it as, ""Omaha Beach, it's going to be a blood
bath. There's never been a summer like this next summer. It's going
to be bloody [for filmmakers and studios].""
(04/11/11 6:00am)
Even if you feel like you keep seeing the same mediocre genre
movies repackaged with just a different façade, year after year, a
few American studios have some surprises in store that promise to
change that storyline. A trend has begun among big studios to begin
producing so-called ""microbudget"" films that they would have
otherwise left to the tiny indie studios to produce. This isn't
just the well-established genre of American independent films, but
a whole new genre of even ""indie-er"" flicks.
(04/04/11 6:00am)
While I'm not exactly a film festival connoisseur, I've attended my
fair share, including the Sundance Film Festival, the Chicago Film
Festival, the Maui Film Festival and, of course, the Wisconsin Film
Festival. They all have pros and cons, and each does some things
better than the others. After my third year attending the Wisconsin
Film Festival, I'd like to offer up my wish list of
improvements.
(03/29/11 6:00am)
With South by Southwest now over, there's a renewed interest in
many independent film favorites that have been riding the festival
circuit, hoping to find distribution or generate buzz. The
following are four film festival favorites finally seeing
theatrical releases worth checking out this spring.
(03/25/11 6:00am)
At Sundance this year, I noticed a particularly strong marketing
push by the festival to promote that about six of the movies at the
festival were already available to be streamed by the home viewer
via various video-on-demand outlets. This is the second year
festival titles have been simultaneously released at Sundance and
in the digital market. In conjuncture with the 2010 festival,
YouTube launched its own streaming movie-rental service by offering
several contemporary and previous festival selections. And in the
year since YouTube stuck its toe in the movie-streaming pool, a
variety of other outlets have emerged and are jumping in the pool
themselves.
(03/07/11 6:00am)
The Wisconsin Film Festival, running March 30-April 3, offers 209
films this year, which can make ticket selection a daunting task.
But in the hopes that you won't take this opportunity for granted,
I've picked a few intriguing films I'd recommend to best enjoy our
local film fest.
(02/28/11 6:00am)
Although I saw the writing on the wall a few weeks ago, I'm still
disappointed that ""The Social Network"" didn't take home the best
picture Oscar Sunday night at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards.
However, I was genuinely shocked that David Fincher was robbed of
his best director statuette—and by ""The King's Speech"" director
Tom Hooper no less, whom I would argue may be the least deserving
of all the nominees. All I can say is that the Academy really
showed its age last night and its disconnect from the modern film
community.
(02/23/11 6:00am)
The world's most unnecessary use of 3-D has officially been
greenlit. For those unaware, over the last few months Baz Luhrmann
(""Romeo + Juliet"", ""Moulin Rouge"") has been debating whether
his next project should be an unnamed musical or a new adaptation
of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel ""The Great Gatsby.""