On Twitter, Anne Thompson pointed to an L.A. Times article about Netflix preparing for possible new restrictions by studios that keep rental outlets from being able to rent new DVD releases until several weeks after they go on sale. The studios, of course, hope to boost DVD sales. But Netflix is okay with this: While […]
Not all New Yorkers live in glitzy apartments and spend endless hours in martini bars or coffeeshops.
Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood (formerly at Variety, now Indiewire) has long been one of my favorite film bloggers – one of the few who have never dropped off my Google Reader. She also maintains a very useful Twitter stream, and today she pointed to Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School. From the website’s “About” […]
The Coens’ latest once again boasts their signature mix of the grim and the mirthful.
On celebrations and empty chairs at the table in three films: Still Walking, Summer Hours, and Rachel Getting Married.
On mastering the art of home cooking.
It’s not what you’d call nuanced, or sympathetic, or thoughtful, but In the Loop is smart and wince-inducingly, bitingly, great.
IndieWire is reporting that John Krasinksi’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men has finally been picked up for distribution by IFC In Theaters in September. The film is Krasinski’s directorial debut, which premiered at Sundance this year and stars Julianne Nicholson, Krasinski, Will Arnett, Dominic Cooper, Bobby Cannavale, Timothy Hutton, Christopher Meloni, Max Minghella, Ben Shenkmen […]
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that the on-again, off-again production of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball, ostensibly starring Brad Pitt (at least for now) and previously slated to be directed by Steven Soderbergh, is back, well, on again. But this time with Aaron Sorkin rewriting the script. (In my opinion, this can only be good news.) Sorkin’s […]