Elias Koteas Lets Us In … On His Acting Technique by Brad Balfour What makes Canadian-born actor Elias Koteas so fascinating is that he doesn’t like to play it safe. In his latest film, the vampiric Let Me In, he plays the policeman who discovers the true nature of the mysterious 12-year-old killer Abby (Chloë Grace … Continue reading
RED, WHITE AND BLUE (2010) Starring Noah Taylor, Amanda Fuller, Marc Senter, Nick Ashy Holden, Patrick Crovo, Jon Michael Davis, Sally Jackson and Lauren Schneider. Screenplay by Simon Rumley. Directed by Simon Rumley. Distributed by IFC Films. 104 minutes. Not Rated. Red, White and Blue turns out to be a much different film than we expect … Continue reading
Adrienne Barbeau Love Writes by Ronald Sklar Writers are taught to “write what you know,” so when actress Adrienne Barbeau took her first writing class, she wrote about being eaten alive by rats. “I had just made a low-budget horror film over in Russia,” she tells me from her California home. “I was supposed to … Continue reading
TWO ON A GUILLOTINE (1965) Starring Connie Stevens, Dean Jones, Cesar Romero, Parley Baer, Virginia Gregg, Connie Gilchrist, John Hoyt, Russell Thorson, William Conrad, Billy Curtis, Richard Kiel, Jon Lormer, Joseph Mell, Del Moore and George N. Neise. Screenplay by Henry Slesar and John Kneubuhl. Directed by William Conrad. Distributed by Warner Brothers Archives Collection. … Continue reading
THE WOLFMAN (2010) Starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, Cristina Contes, Geraldine Chaplin, Art Malik, Nicholas Day, Michael Cronin, Roger Frost, David Sterne, David Schofield, Rob Dixon, Clive Russell, Simon Merrells, Mario Marin-Borquez and Asa Butterfield. Screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker. Directed by Joe Johnston. Distributed by Universal Pictures. 103 minutes. … Continue reading
SHUTTER ISLAND (2010) Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Ted Levine, John Carroll Lynch, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley, Elias Koteas, Robin Bartlett, Christopher Denham, Nellie Sciutto, Joseph Sikora and Curtiss l’Cook. Screenplay by Laeta Kalogridis. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Distributed by Paramount Pictures. 138 minutes. Rated … Continue reading
WHITEOUT (2009) Starring Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, Columbus Short, Alex O’Loughlin, Shawn Doyle, Joel Keller, Jesse Todd, Arthur Holden and Steve Lucescu. Written by Jon Hoeber & Eric Hoeber and Chad Hayes & Carey W. Hayes. Directed by Dominic Sena. Distributed by Warner Bros. 101 minutes. Rated R. I have been debating whether … Continue reading
THE FINAL DESTINATION (2009) Starring Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Nick Zano, Haley Webb, Mykelti Williamson, Krista Allen, Andrew Fiscella, Justin Welborn, Stephanie Honore, Lara Grice, Phil Austin, William Aguillard, Brendan Aguillard, Chris Fry, Tina Parker, Cecile Monteyne and Gabrielle Chapin. Written by Eric Bress. Directed by David R. Ellis. Distributed by New Line Cinema. 82 … Continue reading
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (2009) Starring Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs, Amber Armstrong, Randy McDowell, Ashley Palmer and Tim Piper. Screenplay by Oren Peli. Directed by Oren Peli. Distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. 99 minutes. Rated R. Somewhere in the mania to build a gorier mousetrap, the makers of horror films forgot one very basic truism: what … Continue reading
ORPHAN (2009) Starring Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett, Aryana Engineer, Margo Martindale, Karel Roden, Rosemary Dunsmore, Jamie Young, Lorry Ayers, Brendan Wall and Genelle Williams. Screenplay by David Leslie Johnson. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. Distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures. 123 minutes. Rated R. Poor Vera Farmiga. This is the second … Continue reading
