2003, Top cow Story: Mark Millar Art: JG Jones As Batman once put it: “Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot.” Which probably explains why they always lose. That, and no matter how impenetrable Thanos, Darkseid or Victor Von Doom believes his recently renovated fortress to be, no matter how impeccably ingenious his new scheme, […]
2007 Director: Jason Reitman Script: Diablo Cody Cast: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons, Olivia Thirlby When sixteen year old Juno MacGuff finds she is pregnant, she does not cry nor panic. Instead, she breaks into a chain of hip and intelligent quips worthy of a feminist […]
2007 Dir: Richard Kelly Script: Richard Kelly Cast: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Justin Timberlake, Wallace Shawn, Miranda Richardson, Mandy Moore, Kevin Smith, John Larroquette, Jon Lovitz Hollywood’s underside is littered with the bodies of freakish, lifelong dreams that seemed like a good idea at the time, but retrospect should […]
2008 Director: Doug Liman Script: David S. Goyer, Jim Uhls, Simon Kinberg Cast: Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Bilson, AnnaSophia Robb, Max Thieriot Film trailers just cannot be trusted. Take Jumper for instance, which promised an epic science fiction tale focussed on a war between “jumpers” (individuals able to teleport) and the […]
2007 Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson Script: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Dillon Freasier Loosely based on Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil! Paul Thomas Anderson’s most recent effort is an epic portrait of prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis), an animal of a man whose lust for power is unhindered by any degree of […]
Dir: Pete Travis Script: Barry Levy Cast: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Edgar Ramirez, Ayelet Zurer It’s 24 by way of Rashomon in this high concept thriller, which sees the assassination of William Hurt’s American president during a summit in Spain. Vantage Point offers the same incident from multiple perspectives; […]