License to Ill
After a week of being under the weather, I'm still struggling to get myself healthy. Nonetheless, a few new review links for this Friday night, before I pass out early yet again...
Today:
Drillbit Taylor (Slant magazine)
The Hammer (Slant magazine)
Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File (Slant magazine)
New Directors/New Films:
Soul Carriage (Slant magazine)
Epitaph (Slant magazine)
Megane (Slant magazine)
"Is the golden age of Judd Apatow already waning?"
Is it ever. My money is on him and Will Ferrell collaborating on 20 projects in the first three months of 2009.
I will give them this much credit though: at least they're sticking to comedy.
Posted by:Joe Grossberg | March 22, 2008 at 09:34 AM
It won't take until 2009 - this May's "Step Brothers" is an Apatow-produced Ferrell comedy. Trailer looks pretty decent, too.
Posted by:Nick | March 22, 2008 at 12:25 PM
Wow, that does have some potential. I stand corrected.
Posted by:Joe Grossberg | March 24, 2008 at 08:01 AM
Hehe: http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/03/15294.html
Posted by:Joe Grossberg | March 24, 2008 at 03:13 PM
That's pretty funny. But the scoring system - at least in New York magazine - is seriously flawed if it thinks that Talladega Nights is a bad Apatow film. I'd argue that it's the best of all those films, save perhaps for Superbad...
Posted by:Nick | March 24, 2008 at 10:26 PM
That system is cute and all, but they're F-O-O-L-S if they think that movies can ever be reduced to math. I think my preference would go:
1. Anchorman
2. Talladega Nights
3. Superbad
4. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
5. Knocked Up
And those are neck-and-neck one and all. Haven't seen "Walk Hard" yet.
Posted by:rob | March 25, 2008 at 03:32 PM