At some point during this response, I’m going to say nice things about Eva Mendes. Just a warning.
I used to hate on CG, starting in around 1996 and ending about six years later, when I just gave up caring. It wasn’t ever going to stop and it had gotten to a point where there was […]
Entries Tagged as 'First Look Studios'
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call — New Orleans (2009)
January 1st, 2010 · No Comments
Tagged: Abel Ferrera· First Look Studios· Nicolas Cage· Val Kilmer· Werner Herzog· William M. Finkelstein· ★★★½
Thick as Thieves (2009, Mimi Leder)
July 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Maybe ten years ago, Thick as Thieves wouldn’t be a direct-to-DVD release (it’s actually a hit, which is kind of scary). Ten years ago, Mimi Leder hadn’t bombed out with Pay It Forward, Antonio Banderas movies–most of them–were still opening in theaters. Morgan Freeman usually gets even a limited release out of his more vanity […]
Tagged: First Look Studios· Morgan Freeman· Radha Mitchell· Robert Forster· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Birds of America (2008, Craig Lucas)
October 9th, 2008 · No Comments
The sub-ninety minute indie film is practically becoming a genre (I’m assuming these short lengths have a lot to do with sales to commercial cable–ninety minutes fits perfectly into a two hour slot on TNT). Birds of America is both a part of this burgeoning genre and the post–Little Miss Sunshine indie dysfunctional family comedy […]
Tagged: Ben Foster· Craig Lucas· Elyse Friedman· First Look Studios· ★★½
Transsiberian (2008, Brad Anderson)
September 8th, 2008 · No Comments
The train thriller has been a film standard for seventy years, probably longer. I can’t remember the last one, as the genre’s sort of fallen off in the last ten years. The naive American tourist is trouble genre is younger, but not by much. Transsiberian combines the two–a natural combination–but it’s far more of a […]
Tagged: Ben Kingsley· Brad Anderson· First Look Studios· Will Conroy· Woody Harrelson· ★½
Guy X (2005, Saul Metzstein)
August 13th, 2008 · No Comments
No studio picked up Guy X for a theatrical release. I kept seeing it in Jason Biggs’s filmography, kept waiting for it to show up in a theater and it never did. I assumed the worst from the lack of theatrical release–not to mention thinking Mena Suvari was in the film (it’s Natascha McElhone). After […]
Tagged: First Look Studios· Jason Biggs· Jeremy Northam· John Griesemer· John Paul Chapple· Saul Metzstein· Steve Attridge· ★★★½
August (2008, Austin Chick)
June 20th, 2008 · No Comments
August clocks in, with end credits, at eighty-four minutes. I didn’t know the running time going in, so I wasn’t thinking about it. I would have guessed, just based on the perceptive passage, around two hours. My wife, not being a fan, probably would say three and a half. Doing a good movie in ninety […]
Tagged: Austin Chick· First Look Studios· Howard A. Rodman· Josh Hartnett· ★★★★
Quicksand (2001, John Mackenzie)
January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Most of Quicksand plays like a multi-national mystery from the 1970s, filled with familiar faces (or a few familiar faces anyway). About three-quarters of it, approximately. There’s good and bad stuff in those seventy minutes. Michael Keaton’s excellent, which isn’t surprising. Michael Caine shows up for what appears to be a small role (it gets […]
Tagged: Desmond Lowden· First Look Studios· John Mackenzie· Michael Caine· Michael Keaton· Timothy Prager· ★★½
