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Weekend Box Office For June 13 – 15

#1 The Incredible Hulk from Universal debuts at #1 bringing in $54.5 million. The Incredible Hulk showed in 3505 theaters. Budget was roughly $150 million.

#2 Kung Fu Panda drops to #2 spot bringing in $34.3 million, down 43%. Gross so far is $117,998,000. Kung Fu Panda showed in 4,136 theaters, thats up 22 theaters over last weekend. Budget was roughly $130 million.

#3 The Happening from M. Night Shyamalan debuts in the #3 position this weekend bringing in $30.5 million. The Happening showed in 2986 theaters. It’s production budget was roughly $60 million.

Rounding out the top 10 are:

#4 You Don’t Mess with the Zohan: Weekend Gross: $16,400,000 down 57.4% / Theaters: 3,466 up 4 / Gross $68,790,000 / Budget: $90 million.

#5 Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: Weekend Gross: $13,547,000 down 40.6% / Theaters: 3,804 down 386 / Gross $275,329,000 / Budget: $185 million

#6 Sex And The City: Weekend Gross: $10,185,000 million, down % 52.0 / Theaters: 3,155 down 170 / Gross: $119,919,000 / Budget $65 million.

#7 Iron Man: Weekend Gross: $5,130,000 down 31.4% / Theaters: 2,403 down 528 / Gross $297,428,000 / Budget: $140 million.

#8 The Strangers: Weekend Gross: $4,097,000 down 54.2% / Theaters: 2,410 down 67 / Gross $45,360,000 / Budget: $9 million.

#9 The Chonicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian:  Weekend Gross: $3,004,000 down 46.9% / Theaters: 2,308 down 757 / Gross $131,744,000 / Budget: $200 million.

#10 What Happens In Vegas: Weekend Gross: $1,700,000 down 50.5% / Theaters: 1,422, down 944 / Gross: $75,788,000 / Budget: $35 million

A note on “Gross”: On average, studios will earn approximately 55 percent of the final gross.

Sources:
Box Office Mojo

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John Carter On His Way To The Big Screen

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In January of last year it was announced that Pixar and Disney would  be taking over the rights to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic sci-fi series John Carter of Mars for the big screen. In October of last year, Pixar confirmed that they’re planning on three John Carter of Mars films, the first arriving sometime before 2012. Now The Pixar Blog has confirmed that Andrew Stanton (of Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., Toy Story and A Bug’s Life) is writing the adaptation. 

Quoted from The Pixar Blog: The disclosure came at the end of the short, but extremely enjoyable, discussion (excerpts of which will be published here soon), when a writer from Suite101.com asked about Stanton’s next project, to which Stanton mentioned (not too loudly) ‘John Carter of Mars‘.

Doubting what I’m hearing, I interject, “What is that?” “John Carter of Mars“, Stanton replies. “You’re confirming John Carter? Are you serious?” At this point, I turn my tape recorder back on, “…say that on tape!”, I tell him. Stanton: “I am writing John Carter of Mars right now.” “Oh man, you just doubled my page views!“, I say. Everybody laughs.

The 11-book series centers on John Carter, a Civil War hero from Virginia who while prospecting in Apache country is transported to Mars and finds himself a captive of the savage, enormous and war-like green men from Thark. Eventually, he rises to become the greatest warrior of all time, marries the beautiful Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, raises a family and embarks on numerous adventures. 

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The Pixar Blog

Imdb

 

 

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Theatrical Review: The Incredible Hulk

Scientist Bruce Banner found his cellular structure changed from exposure to Gamma radiation to a point that when he finds himself pushed to a certain anger or excitement becomes the rampaging monster known as the Hulk. Now on the run in South America, his trail is discovered again by the U.S. military, led by General “Thunderbolt” Ross and in his employ is a soldier by the name of Emil Blonsky who thinks that in order to catch the Hulk, it must be on equal ground. Caught in the middle of this is Ross’ daughter Betty who’s in love with Bruce Banner, and when they’re able to meet again, Betty tries to help Bruce get his cure, all while on the run and with Banner trying to keep himself under control.

The Incredible Hulk is the second major movie from Marvel Studios right on the heels of Iron Man, and it’s also a major re-do from the film that Ang Lee made a few years ago. Now I really like Ang Lee’s movie, but even with that, this is the Hulk film that I think more wanted to see.

Director Louis Letterier has delivered an extremely intense film here, in my opinion, maybe the most intense Marvel super-hero movie yet- loaded with some really cool big-ass action and some really great performances, this one’s right up there with Iron Man and in some ways, in my opinion, even surpasses it.

For a Hulk or Marvel fan, this is loaded with references from the comics, the Marvel Universe and the TV show. It delivers one of the major Hulk villains with Emil Blonsky’s transformation into The Abomination, and it even sets up another one of the Hulk’s major enemies in the process. and it does it all while keeping you involved with some really good performances.

Edward Norton plays Bruce Banner, and again, as much as I liked Eric Bana in the first film, this part was tailor-made for Norton. He’s got great subtleties here, and good intensity when it’s called for. William Hurt plays General Ross, and again as much as I like Sam Elliot in the first film, Hurt does just as good a job. Tim Roth is Emil Blonsky and is certainly up for this, really delivering some real vigor to it. And Liv Tyler plays Betty Ross, and she looks fantastic, is loaded with sincerity and has a quality to her that really brings out good chemistry with Norton (and just about any leading man she works with, I thought she did the same thing with Scott Speedman in The Strangers and I wouldn’t be surprised if just about every leading man who plays opposite of her falls in love with her even just a little bit).

To me anyway, this is how you do it, the origin of the Hulk is set-up in the opening credits and right after that we’re flung into it, with naturalistic character motivations and situations and some extremely exciting action sequences. This is just a helluva lot of fun and in my opinion, one of the best movies of the year… highly, highly recommended, do not miss this…

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Theatrical Review: The Happening

Across the eastern seaboard a strange phenomena is occurring, people are becoming disoriented, stopping dead in their tracks and then have the overcoming urge to kill themselves. This first starts in large populated areas and then moves on to smaller areas of population. It’s first believed to be some sort of terrorist attack but soon we learn that it’s something beyond that. Now we follow high school science teach Elliot Moore and his wife Alma as they try to escape this strange happening…

… and that’s the premise to The Happening the newest movie from director M. Night Shyamalan who’s given us such great movies in the past as The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs and lesser efforts like The Village and The Lady In The Water.

Count The Happening as one of the lesser efforts, and hell, I count it as the worst movie I’ve seen this year thus far, and I thought it would take something to beat Jumper for that title.

Shyamalan’s film presents this immediate threat and yet as short a movie as this is (only 96 minutes) it hardly has any sort of real air of urgency to it and it’s not helped by the fact that it’s poorly cast and maybe features Shyamalan’s most ridiculous characters to date, Elliot and Alma seem more like they should’ve been in some other film (like something from Disney) as opposed to this.

Situations just seem to happen more at Shyamalan’s whim than seeming natural to any sort of story. And while Elliot Moore seems an amiable enough character, the situation that’s set up between him and Alma seems almost petty in these circumstances. It doesn’t help by the fact that Alma is just such a strange character on her own in the first place, and that’s certainly not helped by the fact that she’s played by Zooey Deschanel.

Mark Wahlberg is Elliot and I like Wahlberg, I do… I thought in Boogie Nights he was absolutely terrific and he’s certainly ben fine for me in other movies up to the point of delivering one killer performance in The Departed. But here, he’s just woefully miscast, not really seeming that convincing to me as a science teacher and having a line delivery that’s more sing-songy than anything else. but he’s not the worst of it, no that goes to Zooey (and I pronounce it as zoo-ee) Deschanel who’s just so damn odd in the first place that there’s really nothing to grasp onto here, and it makes you wonder what the hell did Elliot see in her in the first place. but as long as we’re on the subject of unconvincing casting, we can’t ignore John Leguizamo who’s cast as a math teacher friend of Elliot’s who basically delivers his lines in such a mealy-mouthed way, that it seems just like he’s reading the part of this math teacher rather than inhabiting it. And later in the film, Elliot and Alma come across an old woman played by Betty Buckley that literally just comes out of left field as she first seems like a light of salvation to the couple (and the young girl with them) but instead ends up as just… strange. There was one point where Elliot was wandering through her house and the tension builds up and all of sudden she just appears in a white nightgown with menace about her and the only words that came through my head were “and then there’s Maude.”

In the end, Shyamalan is trying to hit you with an environmental message, but it just sort of flounders around, oh some explanations are given thanks to televised reports, but again, they just seemed tacked in simply to move things along more than anything else. This floundering message combined with unconvincing characters and some really stilted dialogue right now results in the worst movie of the year… see it at your own risk…

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BSP Episode 064: Geek Movies from the Eighties

Tony #2 and Adam prove to Tony how deep and broad their knowledge of movies from the 80s is.

Note: This shouldn’t imply that these movies are the best, just movies that bring back fond memories.

A complete list of films will follow.

New Segment:
Booster Seat Producers: Kung Fu Panda

Next week:
The Goonies (with a special guest host)

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The $80 million film The Battle of Red Cliff is the most expensive Asian movie ever and it has been forced to stop production after a stuntman was killed and six people injured in an accident on set, Variety reported Tuesday. The movie by John Woo is adapted from China’s classic novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and tells the story of an epic battle waged in the year 280, in which thousands of ships decided the course of Chinese history. According to the report, the 23-year-old stuntman was killed when a fire broke out Monday on the set in northern Beijing after a boat rammed into the set of an ancient warship. The accident was the latest is a series of setbacks including lead actor Chow Yun-fat leaving the production.

MTV.com reports that Adam Beach has just finished production on the animated Turok movie and will now be going into production on the feature film which should lens in a couple years. “We’re about to set up meetings to develop a script and put it out there,” Beach is quoted. “I’ll have to beef up, and be a good guy, and save the world!” Turok has his origins in comic books but is perhaps more widely known today as the star of several popular video games. 1997’s Turok: Dinosaur Hunter is credited as being one of the earliest blockbuster first person shooters for the N64.

According to Variety, Leonardo DiCaprio will produce and star in the upcoming film about video game pioneer Nolan Bushnell, the man responsible for commercializing the medium with Atari in the 1970s. The movie will focus on the life of Bushnell in forming and turning Atari into the 2 billion dollar company it became at its height in 1982, before crashing two years later as video games went bankrupt in 1984. No production or release dates have been announced.

CNET reports that the Motion Picture Association of America is seeking a deal with the Federal Communications Commission which will get the latest Hollywood movies on TV much sooner after their original release. But the catch is in exchange for the faster release, the MPAA wants the FCC to change its rules to allow the industry to prevent these movies from being recorded on DVRs and viewed on some high-definition TVs. The MPAA filed its petition last week. The FCC is currently asking for comments on the proposal, and it could make a decision on the petition later this summer.

Mashable reports that Disney announced today an expansion of its media offerings on its free Xtreme Digital (XD) online network. ABC television network and Disney have introduced a staged rollout of full-length movie streams to Web viewers following their original network showing on the Wonderful World of Disney on Saturday nights. Disney XD is currently displaying Finding Nemo, with Monsters Inc., Haunted Mansion, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Princess Diaries 2, Freaky Friday, and Peter Pan to follow. While ABC networks only show movies on Saturday nights, visitors to the XD website will be given the opportunity to view weekly movies on demand the full week after they’re aired, Monday through Friday.

FirstSHowing.net reports that there is a Smurfs movie now officially in the works at Sony. J. David Stem and David Weiss, writers for the last two Shrek films, are in negotiations to write the screenplay. According to First Showing producer Jordan Kerner secured the rights in 2002 and has been developing it at Paramount, however Sony has separately decided to get it into production as a hybrid live-action feature. 

Variety reports that Millennium Films is going remake Alexandre Dumas’ tale of The Three Musketeers. The new picture will trace how swordsmen Athos, Porthos and Aramis first banded together. D’Artagnan, last member of the Musketeers, will be introduced later in the first movie or in a second installment. The Dumas novel is still in the public domain.

/Film reports that Louis Leterrier told  SOS Hollywood, the scene in the upcoming The Incredible Hulk movie in which the Captain America cameo was to occur was actually cut from finished film: “There’s a point when Bruce Banner gives up on his quest for the cure and decide to kill himself. So he travels far North and reaches the Arctic Circle. You might have seen bits of it in some of the promos. The result was a very dark and strong scene, which Marvel, me and everyone else’s considered to be too hard for young audiences to take, so we’ve cut it. Having that said, when Bruce arrives at his destination he meets up with Captain America! At some point this week, we will make it available on the internet – but I cannot tell you where or when – and the material will definitely be on the DVD.”

Sources:
Variety
MTV.com
Game Pro
CNETNews.com
Mashable
FirstShowing.net
MovieWeb
/Film

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New Releases For The Week Of June 9, 2008

Tuesday, June 10

Otis: Unrated. A half dozen teenage girls have disappeared, discovered a month later murdered and mutilated. When a new victim, 16 year old Riley Lawson, finds herself trapped and tortured in a basement prison by the psychopath Otis (Bostin Christopher), she resolves to do whatever she has to in order to stay alive. She finally escapes and informs her parents and younger brother where she was held. Bypassing the FBI agent assigned to the case, the Lawson’s conspire to take their revenge and kill the man who kidnapped their daughter…but circumstances begin to spin beyond their control when Otis’s brother arrives on the scene. Raw Feed (Warner Bros.)

Wednesday, June 11

Encounters at the End of the World: G. One thousand men and women live together under close quarters and harsh conditions in Antarctica, risking their lives and sanity in search of cutting-edge science. THINKFilm

Friday, June 13

The Incredible Hulk: PG-13. The Incredible Hulk combines a well-developed character storyline with incredible action and fun. In this new beginning, scientist Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) desperately hunts for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him: The Hulk. Living in the shadows and cut off from a life he knew and the woman he loves, Betty Ross (Liv Tyler), Banner struggles to avoid the obsessive pursuit of his nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt), and the military machinery that seeks to capture him and brutally exploit his power. As all three grapple with the secrets that led to The Hulk’s creation, they are confronted with a monstrous new adversary known as The Abomination (Tim Roth), whose destructive strength exceeds even The Hulk’s own. Universal Pictures, Marvel Studios

The Happening: R. Mark Wahlberg plays a man who takes his family on the run when the world turns upside and a cataclysmic natural crisis threatens to end the world. 20th Century Fox

Savage Grace: Unrated. Julianne Moore stars in this dramatization of the Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case, which happened in a posh London flat on Friday 17 November 1972. The bloody crime caused a stir on both sides of the Atlantic and remains one of the most memorable American Tragedies. Based on the Natalie Robins book. IFC First Take

Poultrygeist: Unrated. Shot and screened on 35mm, the film blends the feather ruffling politics of Fast Food Nation, the satire of Shaun of The Dead and the show-stopping musical numbers of Spring Awakening to skewer the fast food industry, limousine liberals, and almost everyone else in American society. Troma Entertainment

Quid Pro Quo: Unrated. A semi-paralyzed radio reporter is sent out to investigate a story that leads him into an odd subculture and on a journey of disturbing self-realization. Magnolia Pictures

My Winnipeg: Unrated. Anchored throughout his life to the snowbound, sleepy Canadian city of Winnipeg, Maddin travels headlong into his past to forge a new path to freedom. Drawn by the bittersweet pull of family, he returns to his unconventional childhood home, a split level apartment cum beauty parlor, and moves right back in. Recruiting actors to spar with his “real” mother (played by ’40s noir legend Ann Savage) atop the actual floorboards of his memory, he re-creates awkward moments from his adolescence. Spiraling out to the surrounding city and its peculiar locations and history, he re-imagines a notorious semi-nude civic pride event, a jazz-age séance ballet, a macabre frozen horse photo op, and “If Day,” when the whole town pretends that the Nazis have invaded. All the while Maddin travels deep into his own nostalgia, searching for an elusive way out of Winnipeg. IFC Films

To The Limit: Unrated. Thomas and Alexander Huber rank as two of the best mountain climbers of our time. Now the two Huber brothers have set out to break the record in speed climbing the 1,000 foot vertical “Nose” of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, California. Featuring breathtaking footage of the mountains of Patagonia and Yosemite National Park, Academy Award winner Pepe Danquart follows the Huber brothers to locations never before reached by a film crew. To the Limit is a portrait of two competitive brothers who go to the very edge of the possible, physically and psychologically. First Run Features

Red Roses And Petrol: R. The dark comedy explores the complex dynamics of love, life and the loss of a family member with delightfully scathing humor and surprising plot twists. The family of Enda Doyle (Golden Globe nominee Malcolm McDowell) gathers in Dublin for their patriarch’s eventful wake. A university librarian, poet and rascal, Enda’s legacy includes a trail of unresolved issues, a dysfunctional family, and a disturbing mystery. World Wide Motion Pictures Corporation

Chris And Don: A Love Story: Unrated. The true-life story of the three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. From Isherwood’s Kit-Kat-Club years in Weimar-era Germany (the inspiration for his most famous work) to the couple’s first meeting on the beaches of 1950s Malibu, their story is brought to life by a treasure trove of multimedia. Bachardy’s contemporary reminiscences (in the Santa Monica home he shared with Isherwood until his death in 1986) artfully interact with archival footage, rare home movies (with glimpses of pals W.H. Auden, Igor Stravinsky and Tennessee Williams), reenactments, and whimsical animations based on the cat-and-horse the pair used in their personal correspondence. Zeitgeist Film


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Weekend Box Office For June 6 – 8

#1 Kung Fu Panda the Dreamworks animated feature starring Jack Black debuts in the #1 spot bringing in a cool $60 million. Kung Fu Panda showed in 4114 theaters. Budget was roughly $130 million.

#2 You Don’t Mess with the Zohan debuts in the #2 position this weekend bringing in $40 million. Zohan showed in 3462 theaters. It’s production budget was roughly $90 million.

#3 Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull falls to #3 this weekend bringing in $22.8 million, down 49% from last week. Total income so far is $253,026,000. Crystal Skull showed in 4,190 theaters, down 74. It’s production budget was roughly $185 million.

#4 Sex And The City tumbles to the #4 spot after debuting at #1 last weekend. Sex took in $21.3 million, down % 62.6, and showed in 3,325 theaters, thats up 40 theaters over last weekend. Production cost roughly $65 million.

Rounding out the top 10 are:

#5 The Strangers: Weekend Gross: $9,289,000 down 55.8% / Theaters: 2,477 up 11 / Gross $37,646,000 / Budget: $9 million.

# 6 Iron Man: Weekend Gross: $7,522,000 down 44.5% / Theaters: 2,931 down 719 / Gross $288,893,000 / Budget: $140 million.

#7 The Chonicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian:  Weekend Gross: $5,527,000 down 56.5% / Theaters: 3,065 down 736 / Gross $125,846,000 / Budget: $200 million.

#8 What Happens In Vegas: Weekend Gross: $3,400,000 down 49.1% / Theaters: 2,366, down 720 / Gross: $72,230,000 / Budget: $35 million

#9 Baby Mama: Weekend Gross: $779,000 down 64.5% / Theaters: 922, down 862 / Gross: $57,904,000 / Budget: $30 million

#10 Made Of Honor: Weekend Gross: $775,000 down 59.5% / Theaters: 740, down 1,165 / Gross: $44,660,000 / Budget: $40 million

A note on “Gross”: On average, studios will earn approximately 55 percent of the final gross.

Sources:
Box Office Mojo

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Gale Launches MovieRetriever.com

Farmington Hills, MI (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 4, 2008 — Love movies? Looking for the next movie to watch but tired of the same old movie sites? Then you’ll love MovieRetriever.com, a new web site that combines the attitude of VideoHound’s Golden Movie Retriever, the definitive guide to movies on DVD and VHS, with the latest community features, such as rating movies, writing movie reviews, sharing your favorite movie lists, and following the entertainment blogs, to create a unique online experience for movie lovers.

The new site from Gale, part of Cengage Learning, is dedicated to everything movies from “the Hound’s” point of view including, movie reviews and ratings for more than 28,000 films, unusual movie lists, community recommendations, and in-depth information on more than 100,000 actors, directors, screenwriters and more. The site features critically-acclaimed movie reviews from Gone with the Wind to Iron Man” and a one-of-a-kind movie browsing experience. Offering unique movie lists like “Air Disasters” and “Wedding Hell” – as well as the ability to create and share your own lists – you will never watch movies the same way again.

“Gale is excited to launch MovieRetriever.com, a unique new offering combining the fun movie ratings and reviews from the esteemed VideoHound franchise with those created by your friends and co-workers,” said Pat Sommers, President of Gale. “The site brings together the best of what consumers love about the VideoHound’s Golden Movie Retriever book with the great community engagement that people expect on the Web today: in-depth information about the movies you love, refreshing movie reviews and bone ratings from the Hound’, and features that let you add your own opinions, share them with other folks who love movies and see movies in an entirely new way.”

Just like your favorite DVDs, the site is packed with special features.

 

  • See what “the Hound” has to say about new movie releases
  • Share your movie Wags (loves) and Woofs (hates) and find other people with similar tastes
  • Keep up with the world of entertainment by following our wildly entertaining and informative blogs
  • Create and share your own outrageous movie lists
  • Contribute to next year’s VideoHound’s Golden Movie Retriever book Sign up online to see how.

“MovieRetriever.com is for everyone ranging from the occasional movie renter in need of a recommendation, to those obsessed with movies,” said Doug Cohol, Director of Web Product Management at Gale. “Whether the last movie you saw was E.T. or Sex and the City: The Movie, there is something for you to read about or voice your opinion on at MovieRetriever.com. You can even create and share your own movie lists, like ‘Movies with overly blatant product placements,’ if you’d like.” 

About Cengage Learning and Gale
Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, reference centers, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world’s information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs – from homework help to health questions to business profiles – in a variety of formats – books and eBooks, databases and microfilm. For more information visit: www.cengage.com or www.gale.cengage.com.

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Washington Post's Hornaday Blasts "Stuck" And "Mother Of Tears"

Ann Hornaday, staff writer for the Washington Post, lambasted Dario Argento’s Mother of Tears: The Third Mother and Sturart Gordon’s Stuck saying that she “didn’t get” either one and further calling the movies “sheer torture” to watch.

Of Mother of Tears (the third in a series by Argento) she said “I don’t get why, in Mother of Tears, I’m supposed to find some kind of taboo thrill in watching a young woman being strangled by her own intestine. I don’t get that Argento can write some of the most wooden dialogue and elicit some of the most risible performances to be seen in a movie (think The Da Vinci Code with an even more cockamamie mythology), but still get credit as some kind of auteur because of the ingenious weapon he creates to impale two eyeballs at once.” “To the inevitable defense that Argento’s work is simply camp, I would say that anything this aggressively hateful forfeits the right to be called camp. As Susan Sontag rightly observed, even camp at its most outlandish reveals some truth about the human condition.”

Of Stuck Hornaday said “Compared to the myriad perversions on display in Mother of Tears (culminating in the film’s star, Argento’s daughter Asia, almost drowning in a sea of sewage and cadavers — grazie, papa!), the degradations of the flesh in Stuck look almost endearingly modest.” “Although Gordon clearly has something to say about poverty, class mobility and throwaway lives, whatever substance might have oozed through Stuck is quickly stanched, to let flow the blood, gore and attempts at erotic humor (a catfight between Suvari and a naked rival played for laughs).”

In closing Hornaday said “There are things to value in Stuck, including the lead and supporting performances, and Gordon’s taut thriller-like pacing. But, like Mother of Tears, I don’t get it. I don’t get what fascinates Gordon and Argento — both men in their 60s — about thinking up new ways to inflict pain. I don’t get what’s “ingeniously nasty” about watching people suffer and die. I don’t get the “gonzo artistry” of murdering a woman by way of a symbolic rape with a sword. I don’t get why that’s entertaining, edifying, endorsed by the cinematic canon or even remotely okay.”

Stuck, rated R opened Friday May 30 and Mother of Tears, unrated opened Friday June 6.

Source:
WashingtonPost.com