Ed Driscoll DEBUNKING DAVID MAMET. David Mamet made his name by writing edgy plays with crackling dialogue in the early 1980s, and then contributing that same ear for incredible dialogue to mainstream...
Ed Driscoll CRUISE TO CRUISE AGAIN: The Internet Movie Database is reporting that Tom Cruise will be remaking that hoary old Roger Corman 1970s exploitation flick, Death Race 2000. In a way, this...
Ed Driscoll RESTORING CLASSIC MOVIES: Interesting article on the incredible efforts going into restoring It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World by Robert Harris, who helped restore Lawrence of Arabia, Spartacus,...
Ed Driscoll EBERT, YOU MAGNIFICENT SONOFAB**CH, I READ YOUR REVIEW! Roger Ebert has an insightful review of Patton as part of his "Great Movies" series. Ebert notes: The most famous scene is the first...
Ed Driscoll Nina and I saw Gunga Din on Friday night at the Stanford Theater in Palo Alto. What a fun movie--and one that there's no way could be made in these PC times. Unless of course, the producers...
Ed Driscoll LIVE BY POLITICAL CORRECTNESS/DIE BY POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: I didn't watch the Oscars last night (my wife, "Group Capt. Mandrake", and another friend and I went to see "Black Hawk Down"...
Ed Driscoll As I said earlier, I saw Black Hawk Down with a couple of friends and my wife on Sunday night. I had seen it previously, when it first came out, and loved it. I was surprised when the...
Ed Driscoll THE RAZZIES: With all of the talk about the Oscars, I've seen little in Blogland about the Razzies, their annual competitors, who handout awards for the worst films in Hollywood. This...
Ed Driscoll DUDLEY MOORE DEAD AT 66: The Washington Post is reporting that Dudley Moore, "who became an unlikely Hollywood heart-throb portraying a cuddly pipsqueak whose charm melted hearts in "10"...
Ed Driscoll GEEZ, BILLY WILDER DIED AS WELL YESTERDAY. The Internet Movie Database's home page says: "In an unbelievable boost to those who love to claim that famous people die in threes, Variety...
Ed Driscoll OUR SOURCE WAS THE NEW YORK TIMES: Actually, a reader tipped us to this--The Times has a semi-regular column where they get a director to watch a classic film and comment on it. This time,...
Ed Driscoll TREKKIES UPDATE: As I said here, we watched Trekkies earlier this week. The Digital Bits has an extensive interview with the film's director, Roger Nygard, including how the strange...
Ed Driscoll A while back, I mentioned Black Hawk Down, and that it would be coming out on DVD. Here are the details, from The Digital Bits:We've gotten details on Columbia TriStar's Black Hawk Down...
Ed Driscoll A friend of ours invited Nina and I to see Kissing Jessica Stein today. What a fun movie--with the feeling of a hip Gen-X Annie Hall, the sort of film Woody Allen used to make in the...
Ed Driscoll GEORGE WILL ON HAMBURGERS, CARS AND DEMOCRACIES: Sounding remarkably like my wife's post yesterday on hamburgers and freedom, George Will (by way of Stephen Green's VodkaPundit site)...
Ed Driscoll Roger Ebert buries The Last Waltz,which is being released to theaters as part of its 25th anniversary: Drugs are possibly involved. Memoirs recalling the filming report that cocaine was...
Ed Driscoll My wife and a friend of ours and I saw Robert Altman's latest film, Gosford Park today. She liked it, I wasn't as crazy about it, but it was a reasonably pleasant couple of hours. The...
Ed Driscoll THE EMPIRE HITS A TRIPLE: Hey, at least it doesn't strike out. Bill Hunt of The Digital Bits gets a sneak preview of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones:Okay... right now you're...
Ed Driscoll "GANGS OF NEW YORK": There's trouble on the set of Martin Scorsese's new film, "Gangs of New York", according to Matt Drudge, who has a sneak preview of a July Esquire article. Here's...
Ed Driscoll WAR & POPCORN: Looking for something to rent from Blockbusters? Several National Review Online writers pick the best war films of all time. I'd add "Full Metal Jacket", and "Apocalypse...
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