Depending on your point of view, 13 Assassins is either very familiar or very unusual. For those with even a casual knowledge of Japanese cinema, the film is immediately recognizable as a remake of the better than average The Thirteen Assassins, a film that was a lesser riff on Seven Samurai. As a remake of […]
Monthly Archives: May 2011
When most critics and film nerds speak enthusiastically about the films Harold Ramis has written or directed, they usually wax nostalgic for comedies like Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, Stripes, Animal House, or Groundhog Day. There’s good reason to celebrate those films, they are all legitimately funny and hold up today when many comedies from the late ‘70s […]
Written by Larry Cohen Considering Larry Cohen’s ability to coax strong performances out of his casts at the same time that he embraced the absurdity of his often ridiculous, lurid plots, it’s not a surprise that his scripts, when directed by others, would result in the occasional bad movie. That Sidney Lumet, one of the […]
I suppose it’s almost a miracle that writer/producer/director Jake Kasdan is still allowed to make movies. From Zero Effect to Freaks and Geeks to Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Kasdan has brought his apparent jinx to several films and TV series over the past fifteen years. Perhaps he’s still allowed to work because the […]
Obsessive Movie Nerd 