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On this week's episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show, we review Daybreakers, Leap Year and Youth in Revolt; Brett breaks down the Top 5 Movie Badasses compared to The Book of Eli, Matthew Broderick shares his Five Favorite Films and we stage an intervention for Quentin Tarantino among other things.
-Tonight is the start of Stuart Gordon's program at the New Beverly in Los Angeles. Jeremy "Mr. Beaks" Smith breaks the slate down. [AICN]
-These seven directors once had talent and a smidge of self-worth. Now? They're hacks and here's why. [Independent Eye]
-Boardwalk Empire: The Jersey Shore for the martini crowd. [The Playlist]
-First the (implied) end of AFI, now the Denver Underground Film Festival calls it quits. [The Auteurs' Daily via DUFF]
-Ivan Reitman to direct Ghostbusters 3. Sky is blue, water is wet. [Current]
-What begins as a slam on Legion turns into an oddly poetic comment post thread from Lex_G on "hipsters" and Legion's appeal. [HE]
-"Mark Millar doesn’t just want to have his cake and eat it. He wants to have fuck it too, and have lots of little Mark Millar mini-muffins running around the place screaming 'Daddy!' "[Bleeding Cool]
-BREAKING: LIONSGATE TO CONTINUE EXPLORING EXPLOITATION. THIS TIME: BABY-MAKING AND HORMONAL WOMEN WITH BABIES. IN FILM FORM. [PR]
-Iron Man 2. IMAX. You're there. [Current]
On this week's episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show, we review Daybreakers,... more
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That logo never seemed more fitting. Just when it looked like things were getting fired up over at the Ghostbusters threequel, proceedings may have hit a stumbling block.
Seems Sony Columbia are feeling a bit tetchy about Ivan Reitman taking the helm as director, and are keen for a younger, hipper new filmmaker to take the reins. Yuhuh, it’s Spider-Man all over again.
Except this time, it’s Reitman who wields the power. An intricate web of legal thingmebobs means that Reitman and his cast get the final say on the project, not the studio (now there’s an interesting concept – filmmakers actually being in control of their own stuff).
So, even if Columbia want to hire the former director of Hannah Montana or some such guff, Reitman and the triumvirate of Akroyd-Ramis-Murray are the ones who get final approval on anything Ghostbusters 3.
The question now is: will he give up on the project entirely, and shelve Ghostbusters 3 forever? He’s already lined up to direct Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher in cover-those-eyes-kids-rom-com Fuckbuddies (coming soon to a title-changing factory near you), so he’s a busy fella.
I'm guessing his decision will rest on the quality of the script’s second draft, due this May. At that point, any one of the power-wielding cast members – the decidedly unenthusiastic Bill Murray the most likely suspect – could pull out of the flick and doom it to an early grave...That logo never seemed more fitting. Just when it looked like things were getting... more
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Up in the Air is one very fine, near-perfect movie. It is entertaining, timely, serious and funny all at the same time. It is, in fact, director Jason Reitman’s best film and, if only because there are no happy endings, far superior to Juno.
Frankly, like almost everyone else, I liked Juno, a lot, but it left a bitter aftertaste. Juno was about an unmarried teenager who gets pregnant and, for her, pregnancy is an almost fun, positive experience.
Her parents are supportive, fellow students are mature as high school students always are and don’t ostracize or make fun of her, the baby daddy didn’t hide, and Juno found a great mom for her infant.
Real life doesn’t work that way. But Up In the Air’s finale is dead solid perfect. Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner did a great job building on Walter Kirn’s book.
Want to be a critic? Can you write? Enjoy films? DVDs? Contact filmsoundoff.comUp in the Air is one very fine, near-perfect movie. It is entertaining, timely,... more
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