Epic Week

Press screenings for the New York Film Festival began last week, meaning my life is now busy as all get-out. Still, the past few days were made bearable by the fact that I managed to see one great film (Assassination of Jesse James), as well as a couple (Chuck, Kingdom) that were so bad, they were ridicule-worthy.

NYFF:
The Darjeeling Limited (Slant magazine)

This Weekend:
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Slant magazine)
Good Luck Chuck (Slant magazine)
Sydney White (Slant magazine)

Future Weekends:
The Kingdom (Slant magazine)

Check by later this week for a slew of new stuff, including more reviews from the NYFF (like the Blade Runner reissue)...

Comments

[rob]

Am very excited to see what you think about the new Blade Runner (without seeing it yet myself, of course). Hopefully you'll be able to check out RE3 when all the hellfire has passed over. I myself didn't much like the first two but I felt this one was pretty worthwhile as a piece of popcorn junk, so hopefully your faint praise of the second will spill over into this one as well. It was a bloody good time in my book.

[dennis]

Faint praise? Schager's RE2 review was a veritable lovefest. =D

[Andres Zambrano]

I'm still surprised at the way some critics basically scowled at "Jesse James". When I read Nick and Scott Tobias's review at The Onion, it was a pretty much, to me, a sign that this one was to go down good. Then that indignant E! Online review came up. I haven't seen the film yet, but it still is a must see for me.