Is “Iraq fatigue” a disgusting phenomenon or a natural dance between real life and movie life? The new WHOLPHIN quarterly DVD magazine is out and needs to be talked about.
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March 31, 2008 – 12:01 pm
As expected, 21 came in at the top of the box office this weekend, with a not-huge $23.7 million. And as hoped for by many––maybe even Paramount, who opened the thing on suspiciously few screens––Stop-Loss tanked with $4.5 million.
Just three months before their mutual contract expires, the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of [...]
I’m going to spend about four hours this weekend with my celebrity boyfriend, Young Albert Brooks, at Anthology Film Archives‘ double feature of two of Brooks’ early, still super-relevant films, Modern Romance and Real Life (see above). But if you’re not lucky enough to be in New York, there are three films opening in general [...]
March 28, 2008 – 10:03 am
The Eliot Spitzer scandal resolves in a boon for the New York film industry. Plus: Paramount builds a video game studio.
There seems to be a lot of eye-rolling over Kimberley Pierce’s Stop-Loss, as if there’s some kind of collective embarrassment over the fact that this highly-stylized policy polemic––literally, an MTV Film––is seeing the light of day so many months after last fall’s D.O.A. Iraq movie wave. Mainstream reviews have so far been mixed, and blog [...]
March 24, 2008 – 10:46 am
In this longish but fascinating video companion piece to his Atlantic story on how Hollywood has reverted to 70s-style dialectics in order to talk about current global conflicts, Ross Douthat explains why the recent wave of Iraq movies haven’t connected with critics or audiences. The problem, in part, is that “Hollywood hasn’t found anything new [...]
Every single little bit of our SXSW 2008 coverage, in handy list form.
A review of one of the most anticipated films of SXSW 2008, Kimberley Pierce’s STOP-LOSS.
January 28, 2008 – 9:54 am
Is the problem with Iraq movies that “realistic as hell” characters make bad movie heroes?
