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Review: The Proposal
Filed under: Comedy », Romance », New Releases », Disney », Theatrical Reviews », Summer Movies »
I love watching Sandra Bullock, who is enjoyable even in the lamest of films. And sadly, there are so many lame movies starring Bullock, and so few that I would enjoy watching more than once -- Infamous is a rare exception. After I saw Speed, I said that I thought Bullock could be this generation's Carole Lombard, but unfortunately the actress has not yet found her Howard Hawks or Ernst Lubitsch. The Proposal is yet another Bullock-starring formulaic romantic comedy with little to offer except sparkling performances, and not just from Bullock.
Margaret Tate (Bullock) is the terror of the Manhattan publishing office where she's editor-in-chief, and even her charming assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds) is scared of her. Her Achilles heel turns out to be that she's ... Canadian, and she's about to be deported for a year due to some visa problems. So Margaret hurriedly declares that she's engaged to Andrew, who's American. You don't have to have seen Green Card to guess the rest of the story.
Disney Bans Smoking In Its Films
Filed under: Deals », Disney », Celebrities and Controversy », Politics », Miramax »
It was just this past May when Patrick Walsh blogged that the MPAA was going to start using smoking as a consideration of a film's rating. Just a few months later, Disney seems to be following suit, declaring a ban on smoking in future films. Chief exec Robert A. Iger wrote a letter to US congressman Edward Markey about the subject, which the congressman has made public. Iger claimed that smoking in future Disney films would be "non-existent." He also says that anti-smoking announcements would show up before any future film where smoking is shown. Personally, I'm not sure how he can have it be both non-existent AND showing up, unless he means future films already in production only. While Markey is calling this "a really important first step," I'm waiting to see something actually happen with it. The letter also states that Disney would "discourage" depictions of smoking in films that get released under Touchstone and Miramax. It's going to be axed, then deterred and then discouraged? Sounds to me like making "effort" in word only, not in deed.
If you like the billowing, cloud of cinematic smoke, Film Forum has a NYC Noir series coming up, which has a bit of a celebration of smoke, because really, what's old-school noir without the cancer stick? Organizer Bruce Goldstein told The Reeler: "I love images of people smoking, and I think [others] find it attractive, even if they don't smoke -- they find it sexy in old movie images. It's so iconic, not only for film noir but for old movies. What's better than a femme fatale with a cigarette dangling out of her mouth? What better image?"
Killer crocs! Head for the hills!
Filed under: Action », Horror », Thrillers », Casting », Fandom », Newsstand »
Though you may have managed to make it until
today without hearing the news, I feel compelled to tell you that a movie about a giant, killer crocodile is currently
filming in Australia. It's called Rogue
and, while it surely will never approach the awesomeness that was Anaconda (the former's tragic lack of Ice
Cube assures that), it nevertheless is very likely to be crappy, campy goodness. In fact, Touchstone Pictures is so
incredibly excited about the idea of oversized, deadly crocs that they're going to make their own damn movie about
them. Primeval, Touchstone's newly-announced project, tells the heart-warming story of "a news producer, reporter and cameraman who travel to South Africa on an assignment to bring back alive a 25-foot croc named Gustave." Yes, you read that right: his name is Gustave. Apparently the team is shocked that the creature would rather snack on humans than hang out with them, and things get even worse when (get this) "a feared warlord targets them for death." Warlords? A deadly crocodile named Gustave? Screw Rogue, man, Primeval is where it's at!
The movie, which will star Orlando Jones and Dominic Purcell, will begin shooting in South Africa in April. There's no word yet on who will play Gustav.
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