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American Pie: Reunion – review
4 May 2012 2:45 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The teen babes and the Milfs are back, but the fourth film in the franchise struggles with reality
I first heard about this when it was billed with the Us title American Reunion; a glance at the publicity still showing Mena Suvari whooshed my memories back to those blue remembered hills of 1999, all that teen sexiness, the embarrassment of that dad taking an inappropriate sexual interest. What would this much-hyped "reunion" bring, 14 years on? What would Mena be doing? Would Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening be divorced by now? Will a grownup and balding Wes Bentley, working in insurance, admit that his video of a plastic bag blowing in the wind really was fantastically pretentious and annoying? Will Thora Birch … wait. Actually, what the heck happened to Thora Birch?
But no. It's a reunion of that other zeitgeisty classic from 1999, American Pie, and this comedy plays out as if they »
- Peter Bradshaw
Before They Assembled: The Best Performances From The Cast Of 'The Avengers'
3 May 2012 12:59 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
For all the many strengths of "The Avengers," there's one important element that writer-director Joss Whedon can't take credit for: the casting. Of the main characters, only one, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/The Hulk, hasn't appeared in one of the previous five Marvel movies that have led to this point. So given the casting committee that assembled The Avengers, it's something of a miracle that it's ended up with one of the most enjoyable collections of actors in a big tentpole movie for quite some time.
Of course, for the most part, it's to be expected: while there are a few newcomers in the mix, the principle cast have close to a century of experience in the movies between them, and countless great performances in their back catalogs. With "The Avengers" finally hitting U.S. theaters tomorrow, we've picked out the greatest performance of each of the seven members »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Review: The Art of Daniel Clowes
21 April 2012 10:01 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
The Art of Daniel Clowes
Edited by Alvin Buenaventura
224 pages, $40, AbramsComicarts
The world appears to have caught up with Daniel Clowes, the artist who looks at the ordinary and conveys that feeling of loneliness and cluelessness so many of us feel on a daily basis. When he grew up, just three years behind me, he saw the pop art era in a vastly different way, an artist’s way I suppose. He had an unremarkable childhood and was trained at the Pratt Institute, graduating in 1984. He desperately wanted to find a commercial art job.
“I was trying to get work as an illustrator in the ’80s, but no art directors actually ever called, which is what led me to throw up my hands in despair and slink back to comics. Originally, I was hoping to find a writer to collaborate with, since I was much more interested in the drawing part of the equation, »
- Robert Greenberger
Springtime for Homos: Our Nine Essential Springtime Movies
2 April 2012 10:46 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
I'm going to shock you with my findings here, but I believe spring is the most underrepresented season in movies. "Summer" is practically its own genre, fall gets plenty of Halloween-themed flicks, and winter films are downright ubiquitous. Problem is, spring is the time of year when the worst movies come out, so it's difficult to pinpoint the season's best finds. Lo and behold, we've done it: Here are our nine favorite movies that remind us spring's sassy freshness. There's even baseball! I can't believe it either.
9. Ghost World
If you're like me, spring means one thing. Say it with me! A Strange, Isolating Weariness!
Yeah, it means other things too, but spring routinely brings me back to high school when graduation was near, motivation was far, and you couldn't escape that pervading languor. In Ghost World, Thora Birch played a disillusioned teenager named Enid Coleslaw whose cynicism gives way to a realistic, »
- virtel
Thoughts on... American Beauty (1999)
27 March 2012 2:12 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
American Beauty, 1999.
Directed by Sam Mendes.
Starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Mena Suvari, Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper and Allison Janney.
Synopsis:
A middle aged man finds himself questioning what his life has become and promptly embarks on a mid-life crisis.
The world, and particularly America, is now a very different place than it was when American Beauty was first released. Arguably the most difficult test a movie has to face is the test of time, and for every timeless classic that still retains moments of wonder there are countless that have slipped from memory and the annals of history. It may not seem like American Beauty is a particularly old movie, and indeed in comparison to the silent movies from cinema's tentative years it could be considered remarkably fresh, it is still worthy of retrospective evaluation to see if it holds up today.
The key to American Beauty »
- flickeringmyth
Holy Plot Holes! (Train Movie Review)
17 February 2012 9:20 PM, PST | Horrorbid | See recent Horrorbid news »
Due to being single on Valentine's Day, I decided to spend my night watching a horror movie entitled Train (2008) starring Thora Birch and a bunch of other not so well known actors. Summary (taken off of IMDb.com): In Europe, a group of American college athletes unknowingly board a train that will become one deadly ride. My Review: This movie had many plot holes and many moments where I literally face palmed in disappointment. Yet again this… »
Are Found Footage Films Gimmicks To Excuse Poor Film-Making?
17 February 2012 6:31 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
There’s a trend with film-makers working on relatively low budget productions now to go the ‘found footage’ route. It was once primarily the domain of horror pictures but with the likes of the superhero movie Chronicle this year, other genres are starting to be subsumed by this filmic ‘style’.
Of course, it was The Blair Witch Project in 1999 that really exploded the found footage bubble (though there were others before this like 1980′s infamous Cannibal Holocaust), purporting to be the ‘actual’ documentary film that three teenagers were making, the film was presented as the chilling record of what might have become of them. The brilliance of this approach was that (a) you could get away with some very dodgy and amateur camerawork (b) you could legitimately break the fourth wall and try to connect with the audience more directly (c) you really put the audience in the character’s »
- Owain Paciuszko
Top 50 modern day low budget movies
2 February 2012 5:04 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
We salute 50 of the finest contemporary films with budgets of less than $10million. Did your favourite make the list…?
In this age of multi-million dollar blockbusters and eye-watering fees paid to some actors, you may forget we’re in an age of austerity. However, for the vast majority of the film industry, there is no huge vat of money, nor has there ever been. But this hasn’t stopped some of the finest films of recent years being made on a relative shoe-string, and in some cases, quite literally with a shoe-string.
I reckon filmmaking thrives at the sharp end, and low budgets mean more creative ideas, and as a result, more engaging films. To prove this, here is a list of what I consider to be the finest 50 contemporary films made for under $10 million. There is a breathtaking array of recognisable genre pictures in here, too, with budgets rangin »
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