Archive for May, 2008

Cannes 2008: Our Complete Coverage (Flix99.com)

Cannes 2008: Our Complete Coverage In chronological order: James Toback’s Tyson Indiana Jones premiere, and Everything is Fine In the market: Uwe Boll goes to Vietnam How to throw a renegade karaoke party in Cannes In the market: Sex and Breakfast Raymond Depardon’s La Vie Moderne James Gray’s Two Lovers Che distribution speculation, […]

Cannes Links 05/15/08 (Flix99.com)

Cannes Links 05/15/08 I’m running off to the airport shortly and will be away from the computer until Friday afternoon Cannes time, but here’s a quick look at the news coming out of the festival as of Thursday morning: Un Conte de Noel, Surveillance, and The Pleasure of Being Robbed have been picked up. […]

Silver Surfer Short Film: Cutting Edge CG Circa 1994! (Flix99.com)

Silver Surfer Short Film: Cutting Edge CG Circa 1994! On a somewhat related note to this week’s Forgotten Films feature on Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., here’s another strange Marvel oddity from the mid-90’s. Jay sent me a link to this strange 5-minute short film showcasing an impressive (although horribly clunky by today’s standards) […]

Monday Morning Box Office Report - May 26, 2008 (Flix99.com)

Monday Morning Box Office Report - May 26, 2008 The return of Indiana Jones drummed up just as much business as expected, if not more over the weekend, with the movie unearthing $101 million, making it possibly the second biggest memorial day weekend opening of all time. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian was […]

‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ Invades Theaters…What Did You Think? (Flix99.com)

‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ Invades Theaters…What Did You Think? You already heard the opinion of some of my MTV colleagues, and now that “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” has finally arrived, it’s your turn. So tell us what you thought! Did the return of Marion blow […]

Cannes Links 05/15/08 (Flix99.com)

Cannes Links 05/15/08 I’m running off to the airport shortly and will be away from the computer until Friday afternoon Cannes time, but here’s a quick look at the news coming out of the festival as of Thursday morning: Un Conte de Noel, Surveillance, and The Pleasure of Being Robbed have been picked up. […]

Cannes Market Watch: Able Danger (Flix99.com)

Cannes Market Watch: Able Danger A self-described 9/11 cover-up “spoof”, starring a SXSW vet, screens in the Marche.

At this point in the festival, it’s hard for me to make room in my schedule for films screening purely in the market when there’s competition stuff to see at the same time (although I did see Olivier […]

Indiana Jones and the Backlash Despite Getting Mostly Favorable Reviews (Flix99.com)

Indiana Jones and the Backlash Despite Getting Mostly Favorable Reviews Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is apparently good, but it’s bad, but it’s familiar, but it’s boring, but …
I hope that title isn’t too long. It certainly isn’t much longer than the actual title of the latest Indiana Jones movie, which […]

Jean-Claude Van Damme As Himself. Clip of the Day. (Flix99.com)

Jean-Claude Van Damme As Himself. Clip of the Day. Variety points to a teaser for J.C.V.D., a tongue-in-cheek Jean-Claude Van Damme biopic starring the faded action titan as himself, which will be hyped at this year’s Cannes Market. According to the teaser’s YouTube page, the clip was put together for last year’s Cannes Market; […]

In The Shadow of the Moon trailer (Flix99.com)

In The Shadow of the Moon trailer Well a new trailer has been released for the upcoming documentary In The Shadow of the Moon. I am not really this infatuated with the moon but I gotta give props to the people who will probably be debunking all the theories that men didn’t land on the […]