Tag: John Callen
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The Lovely Bones (2009)
Peter Jackson’s first feature since 2005’s remake of “King Kong” is, contrary to first impressions, not so much a departure from that picture. The former gross-out horror auteur-turned Oscar-winning...
Jan 7, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA FilmCast #21 – District 9
Rookie director, Neill Blomkamp, has received untold accolades for his alien apartheid allegory, “District 9.” Can this $30 million socially conscious film please both the sci-fi fanboys and hardcore...
Oct 11, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongDistrict 9 (2009)
The 1970s were to good science-fiction what the 1960s were to social and political unrest, and counter-cultural deviance. With genre classics like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Star Wars,”...
Sep 1, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongJason Lee, Michelle Trachtenberg Join ‘A Couple of Dicks’
Kevin Smith, director of “Mallrats,” “Chasing Amy,” and most recently, “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” is filling out the cast of his upcoming detective comedy, “A Couple of Dicks.” Jason Lee and...
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