2010
298 articles
Tallgrass Presents the Midwest Premiere of Lee Whitman’s ‘WAR STORIES’
Wichita, KAN. – The Tallgrass Film Association and Uncheckable Films will present the Midwest premiere of Wichita-native Lee Whitman’s feature film debut WAR STORIES. The film will screen 7 p.m.,...
May 25, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA’s 25 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time
As usual, distilling the value of a film into a short paragraph and ranking it against every other film ever released in the same genre is imperfect, subjective and quite frankly, irrational — but it...
May 25, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongPostal Failure: Aparna Sen’s ‘The Japanese Wife’ Disappoints
Indian indie favourite Aparna Sen’s new film about love through letters lacks style and diction. The phonetic possibility of her surname Sen makes Indian indie filmmaker Aparna Sen’s films a fine...
May 19, 2010 / Sayandeb ChowdhuryTerry Gilliam Nabs Ewan McGregor For ‘Don Quixote’
Terry Gilliam’s fittingly Quixotic quest to make a movie set against the backdrop of Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th century magnum opus “Don Quixote” may finally be coming to a head. Empire bumped into...
May 18, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongVideo: Gritty Super Hero Reboot Parody
So, you’ve got a once vibrant franchise that’s made hundreds of millions of dollars. You’d love to keep this golden egg laying goose alive and well, but the most recent iterations have become tired,...
May 18, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong3D Version of Cult Thriller ‘Battle Royale’ in the Works
For those of you who think 3D is a gimmick and will disappear as quickly as it did in the 1950s, you’re right about the gimmick part. But the technology seems to be here to stay. Hollywood has been...
May 17, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongFox Also Developing a ‘20,000 Leagues’ Movie; Ridley and Tony Scott Attached
Hollywood is notorious for its bandwagon tendencies. Notice how many vampire flicks surfaced immediately following the success of the “Twilight” films? This time around the trend centers on Jules...
May 17, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongDavid Fincher to Direct a ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ Update in the Vein of ‘Star Wars’
With Hollywood mining comic books, toys, board games and established film and pop-culture properties like there’s no tomorrow, it was only a matter of time before Captain Nemo and his Nautilus would...
May 15, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Napoleon Dynamite’ Gets Animated for the Small Screen
Can’t get enough of Napoleon’s catch phrases, one-liners, bow staff skills, ligers and wicked awesome dance moves? You’re in luck. MediaBistro is reporting that 20th Century Fox is currently...
May 15, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongWachowskis Developing Iraq War Film With ‘Hard R’ Gay Love Story
Just when you thought the Wachowskis, the team behind “The Matrix” films, couldn’t get any weirder. Deadline is reporting that the brother/sister duo (sister because Larry is a post-op female now...
May 15, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongInterview: Werner Herzog Reminds Us Why He’s Brilliant
Werner Herzog, the brilliant, eccentric director behind “Aguirre: The Wrath of God” and “Fitzcarraldo” speaks about his unique approach to filmmaking, forgery and the acting talents of one Nicolas...
May 12, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongRoman Polanski’s ‘The Ghost': Haunted by the Author
I recently had the pleasure of seeing a Polanski film in utter innocence. As the result of a rare set of circumstances, I found myself in the wrong cinema in front of a film which had a very...
May 10, 2010 / Alison FrankHow ‘The White Ribbon’ Fits Into Michael Haneke’s Moralizing Cinematic Vision
The first images of Michael Haneke’s “The White Ribbon,” a film shot in a delicately lambent palette suggestive of old gelatin silver prints, is of a shrub-ringed meadow, a horse and rider...
May 8, 2010 / Jesse CataldoLocation, Location, Location: ‘Casimir Effect’s’ Creative Approach to Low-Budget Filmmaking
Against a post-dawn March sky, Cardiff’s historic Coal Exchange silently welcomed cast and crew to the set of “Casimir Effect,” a science fiction romance/thriller. In the late 1800s this site bustled...
May 7, 2010 / Lynnette PorterIron Man 2 (2010)
John Favreau doing Michael Bay doing Robert Altman doing Dostoyevsky doing Shakespeare. “Iron Man 2” is as elegant as it sounds. After battling a pre-Oscar, double-crossing Jeff Bridges in the first...
May 6, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
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