Is the world ready for a suicide bomber comedy (suicide bomedy)? Almost certainly not, but it looks very funny.
Also, new trailer for the upcoming season of Lost. I think we can all agree that it’s not marketing hyperbole to call this the television event of the year. I mean that’s just true. It’s a fact.
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I was a little underwhelmed by A.O. Scott’s recap of the decade in movies when I read it this weekend, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on why. Then, I read Isaac Chotiner’s blog post about the article, and it seemed exactly right. Not only did it feel like Scott was trumpeting middling movies, [...]

David Bordwell has a great post up on his blog about storytelling across media. His points about the mutual suspicion between filmmakers and theorists is absolutely true, but much more interesting to me is the subsequent discussion about how filmmakers are pursuing their stories into different media. His signal example seems to be The Matrix, [...]

I just watched: Kiss Me Deadly
Any movie that explicitly references Shakespeare, the Bible and Greek mythology already has me on its side. When it’s this lovingly shot, with expressive, angular photography and jutting shafts of light, even better. And when it opens with its amoral noir hero coming upon a half-crazed woman running barefoot down [...]