This is a fucking terrible idea.

Yeah, to be fair, Red Eye isn't bad (it's certainly better than Craven's other recent stuff), and Mean Girls is solid (even if it's basically Heathers, but not as good), and I like the first Sherlock Holmes (Game of Shadows was terrible). Morning Glory is perfectly alright, too.

The TV show Slings and Arrows is pretty great, though she's only in the first season. Other than that, she's in the latest Terrence Malick movie (whenever that comes out) and she's shooting a Brian De Palma movie this March. So here's hoping.

De Palma is also shooting a movie called PASSION that sounds like a thriller in the classic De Palma sense. It stars Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace and starts shooting in March. Between that and the Statham movie, I'm pretty excited that he's making movies again.

I've heard of this, mostly because it got Mitchum his only Oscar nomination, which was enough to pique my interest. Now I really want to see it.

Sam Worthington in a film with a silly plot? You don't say.

BEADS.

Beads.

"Wait til the scene of Tom Hanks flying off one of the towers like he was Hans Fucking Gruber shows up in the ads."

Chalk me up as a "Coppola auterist who loves loves loves Rumble Fish". Flaws and all, that's filmmaking to be reckoned with.

It really does seem like a dire set of circumstances, like earlier this year when  Apollo 18 and Shark Night 3D got Fs on the same day.

O Glorious Day! Two Fs in one week, and so close to the end of the year! They say Christmas comes but once a year, but they're wrong!

Well, co-wrote anyway, with Michael Mann and the author of the original article, but yes, it is awesome. I also dig MUNICH, though I tend to give co-writer Tony Kushner more credit for that one.

It's dangerous to confuse precocious autists with angels!

I've always disliked Daldry's work, but this looks bad even by his low standards. I saw some of the A.V. Clubbers on Twitter talk about an embargoed film they hated, and I've been eagerly awaiting the smackdown. Holy hell, did this not disappoint.

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The fuck is this shit, Terrence Malick? You clearly have no idea how Terrence Malick works.

Some interesting defenses for PRINCE OF DARKNESS, though I'd argue that the film's poor reputation is well deserved, myself. The film gets too caught up in dry explanations for everything that's going on, it isn't as frightening or as haunting as most Carpenter films, and I'm not too crazy about the score, either.…

I think we all knew this. It's easy to see in CRYSTAL SKULL that Spielberg isn't really engaged in what's going on. It seems like it's jsut been plopped into his filmography in a time where it sticks out like a sore thumb. I've loved a lot of recent Spielberg films (A.I., MINORITY REPORT, MUNICH), but they're pretty…

New word to bbe added to dictionary: Hoopering, or the awarding of kindly British televison directors in a category featuring more talented filmmakers.