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Cinecast Episode 89 - You Can Believe What You Want, But Don’t Believe it Here
Row Three —
Henrik : I just realized there was a trailer up there and having watched it, looks pretty fucking par for the course. The last... Henrik : Edward Zwick is the worst person ever to have directed multiple wide-release films. He is like Steven Spielberg with... Goon : “Blood Diamond was good. I loathe Last Samurai (i.e. Dances with Wolves in Japan).” I’ve never seen... Andrew James : There are SO MANY good ones, but just a few good ones after searching fo about 2 minutes: Andrew James : Ooo! Good call rot on the Criterion posters. Sounds like a backstreet business we could start up! rot : Kurt, I am a Mario Bava virgin, where do ...
Terrible things to the human spirit
Bright Lights After Dark —
It's shameful and it's sad this en masse critical ass-whupping given to poor old M. Night Shyamalan over his second turkey in a row, THE HAPPENING (which would be a great title if it starred Peter Sellers or Russ Tamblyn, and was made in 1967). What do they expect, I wonder, from a man who started plastering his name around with a presumptuous solemnity befitting some long dead, highly prolific master, such as Poe, Kafka, Ozu before he even made a second decent film? SIXTH SENSE was a twisty ghost story that surprised all the people in the world who had never seen CARNIVAL OF SOULS. But then came UNBREAKABLE, THE VILLAGE (which I haven't even seen ...
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Even Texas Journalists Now Hire Ghost Writers [Journalismism]
gawker.com 6/12/2008 — Ramiro Burr, a longtime music writer and columnist at the San Antonio Express-News, has resigned from the paper in the face of "allegations that he hired a ghost writer to produce more than 100 stories and columns since 2001." Wow. Didn't it used to be that only journalism's upper crust muckety-mucks hired ghost writers for their columns, like when Mort Zuckerman got Harry "Mr. Tina Brown" ...
A 'Happening' preem —
Variety.com 6/12/2008
VPage: Mark Wahlberg, M. Night Shyamalan taut film -- Before a packed house at the Ziegfeld, M. Night Shyamalan introduced his thriller "The Happening" as the B-movie that finally reunited him with Fox, the studio that, bought his first script when ...
It's 'Happening' on Friday the 13th —
Extra 6/12/2008
"Extra" is sitting down with hunk Mark Wahlberg, star of M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller, "The Happening." Wahlberg is dishing why M. Night is the big boss on the super-secret set, how badly the movie scared him -- and why he ended up in his ...
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