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Movie Reviews: “All About Steve”
4 September 2009 1:28 PM, PDT
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All About Steve, starring Sandra Bullock as a crossword-puzzle constructor for a local paper, is generating some of the most caustic comments of the year -- many of them ideally suited for crossword puzzles. "Toothless and tasteless" is the way Claudia Puig describes it in USA Today. Manohla Dargis in the New York Times uses the word "inert" to describe the filmmaking on display here. Kyle Smith in the New York Times warns: "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy review," then describes the movie as "grotesquely unfunny," "brain-stranglingly witless," "a deeply unpleasant, bottomless well of cringe induction," and then the kicker: "It may be the worst Bullock movie I've seen, and I've seen Speed 2: Cruise Control." Peter Howell in the Toronto Star comments that the film should "have gone straight to DVD -- or even better, to landfill." But Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune produces perhaps the best put-down of them all: "There's nothing wrong with All About Steve that a rewrite couldn't fix," he writes, "as long as the rewrite involved a different writer, a different character and a different story."
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Sandra Bullock's "All About Steve" Worst-Reviewed Film Of Her Career
4 September 2009 7:19 AM, PDT
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Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper's golden days this year are behind them. "The Proposal" and "The Hangover" were early summer smash hits. But with the release of "All About Steve," every film critic in town is saying this is a movie you want to know nothing about.
The movie stars Bullock as Mary, a crossword puzzle creator who begins to stalk her TV cameraman crush, Steve, played by Cooper. Ahn movie critic Bill Wine says the movie takes on stalker-like qualities of its own. "From the moment it begins, we just want it to go away and leave us alone," Wine says in his review.
Rotten Tomatoes, a website which averages scores of movie reviews everywhere, says "All About Steve" scored a dismal 0%. Meaning the film failed to garner even one positive review and a collective army of thumbs point down.
"It seems incredible, but the grimly unfunny comedy
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Jason Patric Grudgingly Takes On Comic Book Villain
14 August 2009 7:55 AM, PDT
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Jason Patric, who let us never forget starred in Speed 2: Cruise Control, seems to be holding his nose as he takes a role in The Losers, the Warner Bros. adaptation of the DC comic book. Announcing that he'd be playing a rogue CIA agent in the film, Patric told Variety "Let's face it, the geeks have inherited the world, and if you want to be a player in this system, you have to be willing to do some of this."
Oh, so you're "willing" to do some of this, and by "some of this" you mean act in a movie based on a comic book, which has been the source material for about half of the most successful movies of the last decade. He's "willing" to take the role just like Heath Ledger was willing to take on the Joker, or Hugh Jackman has been willing to throw his
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‘Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ Writer Tapped for Houdini Film
4 June 2009 12:05 PM, PDT
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In March, Screen Rant reported that Summit Media had acquired the rights to the controversial Houdini biography, The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero.
At the time, Summit Media indicated they wanted to produce a more action-oriented story about Harry Houdini, featuring the famous magician as an Indiana Jones-style adventurer. Given Summit’s vision for the film, it is unsurprising to report the company has tapped Jeff Nathanson to write and direct the Houdini movie.
Nathanson, who most recently penned Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, also wrote the screenplays for Brett Ratner’s Rush Hour 2 and Rush Hour 3. Considering that the plot of The Secret Life of Houdini revolved around the magician’s alleged work as a British spy, it is good to see someone experienced in the action genre helming the picture. Of course, Nathanson
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Jeff Nathanson Helming Summit’s Houdini
2 June 2009 9:42 PM, PDT
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Jeff Nathanson has signed to write and direct the adaptation of William Kalush and Larry Sloman's Harry Houdini biography The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero for Summit Entertainment, report the trades.
The book, published in 2006 by Atria Books, made waves at the time for insinuating that Houdini was a spy for Britain and was asked to be an adviser to Czar Nicholas II's court in pre-revolutionary Russia.
The book also portrayed the master escape artist and magician as a debunker of con artists who pretended to be spiritualists, leading to the theory that his death was caused by the spiritual movement as payback.
Summit, hoping to capitalize on worldwide recognition of Houdini's name while potentially launching a franchise, is looking to take a more action-adventure tack -- akin to the one taken by the upcoming Guy Ritchie-Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes movie.
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Five Ticking Time Bomb Flicks That Predate ‘Angels & Demons’
13 May 2009 9:05 AM, PDT
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This week in theaters, Tom Hanks plays a Harvard professor working against the clock to save the fate of the Roman Catholic Church in “Angels & Demons.” When the Pope and his successor candidates begin dropping like flies, the chances of his success start dwindling along with them. A conniving underground society like the Illuminati is always a great way to keep the tension going in the face of a high-stakes doomsday scenario like the destruction of Catholicism. Here are five more time-bomb scenarios that play out with maximum drama on film, earning each of them a spot on the watch list of the MTV Movies Blog.
“WarGames” (1983)
Full-scale thermonuclear war is the doomsday event in the doorway for most of this classic computer-game flick starring a young Matthew Broderick. The kid genius thinks he’s just playing a game when it turns out he’s actually hacked into a government
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- Brian Warmoth
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Tom Hanks and Universal take one small step with Major Matt Mason
25 March 2009 3:59 PM, PDT
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Tom Hanks is set to star in Universal's live-action movie 'Major Matt Mason,' based on the vintage Mattel figure. Variety reports that Graham Yost will pen the script, with Hanks and Gary Goetzman set to produce. Launched in the late sixties, Major Matt Mason was Mattel.s Man in Space. Mason led a group of astronauts who worked on the moon and lived in a space station. Accessories included the Space Crawler, Space Sled and the Space Station. The early models were based on Nasa prototypes and this made the line very popular during the run up to the moon landings. Yost's previous work includes Hard Rain, Speed, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Broken Arrow and several Band of Brothers
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