Boiling them down, three things ruin Blood and Wine. Stephen Dorff, the script and the approach. The last two are complicated, because it’s hard to see determine where the script and the approach differ. Blood and Wine was, at the time of its release, promoted as the conclusion of an informal trilogy for Rafelson and […]
Entries Tagged as 'Fox Searchlight Pictures'
Blood and Wine (1996, Bob Rafelson)
March 17th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Alison Cross· Bob Rafelson· Fox Searchlight Pictures· Harold Perrineau· Jack Nicholson· Michael Caine· Nick Villiers· ★
The Wrestler (2008, Darren Aronofsky)
January 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Maybe Darren Aronofsky actually gets it. As The Wrestler started, I marveled at what must have been Aronofsky’s longest shots to date until they kept getting longer and longer. His direction of the film is incredibly simple–put the camera on the actors, occasionally do an establishing shot. No medium shots. Long shot to close-up. The […]
Tagged: Darren Aronofsky· Fox Searchlight Pictures· Mickey Rourke· Robert D. Siegel· ★★★★
Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Danny Boyle)
December 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
With Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle hasn’t just finally made his grand romance (something he’s wanted to do since A Life Less Ordinary–this time without the “acting” stylings of Miss Cameron Diaz), or given cinema its first great mainstream romance in nine years, he’s also made the best adaptation of a Charles Dickens novel (even if […]
Tagged: Danny Boyle· Fox Searchlight Pictures· Loveleen Tandan· Simon Beaufoy· Vikas Swarup· ★★★★
Choke (2008, Clark Gregg)
September 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Choke working at all is kind of something special. The film’s got a major twist at the end, but it’s a silly one and isn’t, with any thought on the matter, particularly feasible. The film’s got a major plot point for Sam Rockwell–his mother’s diary reports he’s the half-clone of Jesus–and, eventually, he believes it […]
Tagged: Chuck Palahniuk· Clark Gregg· Fox Searchlight Pictures· Sam Rockwell· ★★½
Street Kings (2008, David Ayer)
April 15th, 2008 · No Comments
I wonder who came up with the title Street Kings, as it has nothing to do with the film’s actual content. I didn’t realize Fox Searchlight had a dimwit exec in charge of re-titling movies. Silly me. The original title, The Night Watchman, actually makes sense (especially since the movie appears to be shot with […]
Tagged: Chris Evans· David Ayer· Forest Whitaker· Fox Searchlight Pictures· James Ellroy· Jamie Moss· Keanu Reeves· Kurt Wimmer· ★★
The Darjeeling Limited (2007, Wes Anderson)
October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
The first sequence in The Darjeeling Limited suggests a far worse film than Anderson actually delivers. A frantic taxi race to a train station with Bill Murray suggests Anderson has become–well, I really don’t know who, but someone who miscasts incredibly. Besides the Murray cameo coming off like Anderson fulfilling his image, the taxi race […]
Tagged: Adrien Brody· Bill Murray· Fox Searchlight Pictures· Jason Schwartzman· Owen Wilson· Roman Coppola· Wes Anderson· ★★½
Sunshine (2007, Danny Boyle)
July 31st, 2007 · No Comments
Sunshine appears to be an amalgam of Alien, 2001 and Event Horizon (at least, if Event Horizon’s previews adequately communicate the film’s content, not having seen it). There are Alien references abound, a handful of 2001 ones, and no Event Horizon ones I’m aware of… I imagine they’d try to hide those as well as […]
Tagged: Alex Garland· Chris Evans· Cillian Murphy· Cliff Curtis· Danny Boyle· Fox Searchlight Pictures· Rose Byrne· ★★★★
