Burns must have cast Elijah Wood because of Lord of the Rings, figured his presence would boost Ash Wednesday’s salability. At some point during filming, as Burns watched Wood’s useless, laughable, whiny performance… he must have regretted it. It’s not like the film’s only problem is Wood–far from it–but he’s just so terrible, so incompetent, […]
Entries Tagged as 'Edward Burns'
Ash Wednesday (2002, Edward Burns)
March 8th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Edward Burns· Focus Features· Oliver Platt· Rosario Dawson· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Groomsmen (2006, Edward Burns)
February 20th, 2009 · No Comments
The Groomsmen looks wrong. The film doesn’t have any grain and the lighting suggests it’s shot on some kind of DV (it isn’t). Everything is very controlled–a bright outdoor scene doesn’t seem bright in Groomsmen, it seems like the color has been toned down so as not to offend. It looks like a Mentos commercial […]
Tagged: Bauer Martinez Studios· Edward Burns· Matthew Lillard· ★½
Looking for Kitty (2004, Edward Burns)
April 18th, 2007 · No Comments
After Ed Burns’s last couple films, I’d forgotten to expect something great from him. Looking for Kitty opens with a shot straight out of The Brothers McMullen, or at least a camera move straight out of it. Kitty also borrows a lot of the same music style and, watching the film, I kept remembering Burns’s […]
Tagged: Edward Burns· ThinkFilm· ★★★★
