I went to see Where the Wild Things Are on Saturday, but it was sold out. Ay-ay-ay. That was a surprise! I mean, anticipation for this movie seemed pretty high, but anticipation for lots of movies seems high, especially when... CONTINUE READING THE VIDEOGUM MOVIE CLUB: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE»
Posted on October 19, 2009 in
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Tags: Catherine Keener | Chris Cooper | Dave Eggers | Forest Whitaker | James Gandolfini | Lauren Ambrose | Mark Ruffalo | Maurice Sendak | Max Records | Spike Jonze | Where The Wild Things Are
New Where the Wild Things Are trailer, you guys: I think these trailers are sending the wrong message. I love them so much that I am fully expecting this movie to "fix" everything. I don't even know what that means!... CONTINUE READING WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE IS NOT THE ANSWER, PROBABLY»
Posted on August 7, 2009 in
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Tags: Catherine Keener | James Gandolfini | Mark Ruffalo | Spike Jonze | Where The Wild Things Are
Last week members of the blind community announced that they would be boycotting the movie Blindness (although how you boycott a movie no one cares about, I DON'T KNOW) because they thought that it promoted negative stereotypes against people with... CONTINUE READING WHERE IS THE BLIND COMMUNITY'S PROTEST AGAINST THE BLINDNESS VIRAL WEB CAMPAIGN?»
Posted on October 9, 2008 in
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Tags: Beastie Boys | Blindness | Bonnaroo | Coachella | Fleet Foxes | Jose Saramago | Julianne Moore | Mark Ruffalo
The novelist José Saramago won the Nobel Prize in 1998 following the publication of his book Blindness, which has just been adapted into a movie starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo. It's a beautifully written but terrifying dystopian allegory about... CONTINUE READING SOMETIMES A VAMPIRE IS NOT JUST A VAMPIRE (NOT THAT THE BLIND COMMUNITY ARE VAMPIRES)»
Posted on October 1, 2008 in
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Tags: Blindness | Jose Saramago | Julianne Moore | Mark Ruffalo | Protests | TV On The Radio
Mark Ruffalo is directing a movie! Variety reports that this fall filming will begin on Mark's directing debut, Sympathy For Delicious, starring James Franco, Chris Thornton, and himself. Mark Ruffalo is perfect and whatever he does will be perfect: Thornton,... CONTINUE READING MARK RUFFALO'S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT SOUNDS "DELICIOUS"»
Posted on August 5, 2008 in
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Tags: James Franco | Mark Ruffalo
The trailer has been released for The Brothers Bloom (October 24), a madcap caper movie about two grifters pulling one last big con, and getting the tables turned on them by their beautiful mark. Sound ten times of familiar? Who... CONTINUE READING THE BROTHERS BLOOM LOOKS DERIVATIVE, AWESOME»
Posted on July 25, 2008 in
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Tags: Adrien Brody | Mark Ruffalo | Rachel Weisz | The Brothers Bloom
Blindness trailer, guys: In the kingdom of the blind, Julianne Moore is wrong. So many scarier things. For example: aliens. For example: sharks. For example: alien sharks. I read Blindness: The Book, and there's a reason that José Saramago won... CONTINUE READING NO, JULIANNE MOORE, THE ONLY THING MORE TERRIFYING THAN BLINDNESS IS ZOMBIES»
Posted on April 23, 2008 in
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Tags: Blindness | Julianne Moore | Mark Ruffalo | Zombies
