"Confusion surrounds a reported 'embargo' placed on reviews of George Lucas' latest epic. Has someone got the wrong end of the lightsabre?
The last three years has seen a huge rise in the number of films not screened in advance to critics, presumably with the aim of ensuring that poor movies are not further hindered at the box office by tepid reviews. However, even worse, to my mind, is the practice of screening a film to the critics - and then telling them they can't publish their review until the thing is already in cinemas.
I'm still utterly confounded at this modern habit of film studios and PR companies, and was amazed to see that said embargo had apparently been placed on the new Star Wars animated film, The Clone Wars.
Aintitcool.com reported earlier this week that it had pulled its review following requests from Warner Bros, in the process berating Empire (who give it a pretty decent write-up) and the Hollywood Reporter (not so good) for continuing to break the embargo. But I spoke to a PR on this side of the pond today, and they weren't aware of any ban on reviews."
Saturday, 30 August 2008
Monday, 11 August 2008
TOM CRUISE - A COMIC COMEBACK IN TROPIC THUNDER
Read More Here:: "This is hard to say. I am a Tom Cruise convert. Yes, this is the same Tom Cruise we recall talking up Scientology, dismissing Brooke Shields's postpartum use of antidepressants, and tsk-tsking Matt Lauer in a Today show interview punctuated by a strung-out appearance courtesy of black circles under his eyes.
But I just got back from a screening of Ben Stiller's very funny movie Tropic Thunder, in which Tom Terrific is the funniest thing. Playing a swaggering, bald movie executive with a razor-quick temper and a four-letter-word vocabulary—you know, the perfect Hollywood suit—Cruise steals the movie from Stiller and co-stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black. By the end of the movie, when Cruise is doing what we'll charitably call a dance, his shirt unbuttoned to reveal a forest of hair and gold chains, all has been forgiven. At least for me."
But I just got back from a screening of Ben Stiller's very funny movie Tropic Thunder, in which Tom Terrific is the funniest thing. Playing a swaggering, bald movie executive with a razor-quick temper and a four-letter-word vocabulary—you know, the perfect Hollywood suit—Cruise steals the movie from Stiller and co-stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black. By the end of the movie, when Cruise is doing what we'll charitably call a dance, his shirt unbuttoned to reveal a forest of hair and gold chains, all has been forgiven. At least for me."
REVIEW OF ELEGY
Read More Here:: "What might attract a beautiful young woman, of too romantic a character to be lured by mere money, to a man some 30 years her senior?
It could be his air of worldly knowledge, certainly, but more likely the human wisdom and kindness that accrue with age. The latter two qualities, however, are not ones easily associated with David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley), a divorced, womanising professor who is forcefully attracted to a student, the Cuba-born Consuela Castillo (Pen�lope Cruz).
When he finally gets close enough to talk to her at a party, she begins to tell him about her family and her interests, and he muses to himself that he is only enduring the chat because he wants to 'f--- her'.
Since Elegy (15) is based on Philip Roth's short novel The Dying Animal, it comes as little surprise to find ourselves in the unabashed territory of male sexual desire."
It could be his air of worldly knowledge, certainly, but more likely the human wisdom and kindness that accrue with age. The latter two qualities, however, are not ones easily associated with David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley), a divorced, womanising professor who is forcefully attracted to a student, the Cuba-born Consuela Castillo (Pen�lope Cruz).
When he finally gets close enough to talk to her at a party, she begins to tell him about her family and her interests, and he muses to himself that he is only enduring the chat because he wants to 'f--- her'.
Since Elegy (15) is based on Philip Roth's short novel The Dying Animal, it comes as little surprise to find ourselves in the unabashed territory of male sexual desire."
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