It figures that the week my grandfather dies and my mother suddenly shows up, I’d get more assignments than ever. Not that I’m complaining, but the timing was very weird. Anyway…
E! review of THE STEPFATHER: “The original is notable for being a breakthrough role for Terry O’Quinn, nowadays best known as John Locke on Lost. The remake is notable for nothing whatsoever.”
E! review of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE: “If you ever loved the book as a kid or parent (or both), you will cry. Yes you will. Don’t fight it.”
LA Weekly round-up of SCREAMFEST LA: “It may be a sign of trying times for horror that this year’s Screamfest Horror Film Festival includes a few selections that don’t really belong to the genre at all…”
LA Weekly interview with PARANORMAL ACTIVITIES director Oren Peli: “in an information-age rarity, he doesn’t have a Wikipedia entry, and his IMDB page is absent any biographical information, though it does state that he worked on a video game called NFL Xtreme.”
LA Weekly capsule review of CREATING KARMA: “There are bad movies that fall short of their ambition, and there are bad movies that simply don’t try, but every once in a while, along comes something so aggressively in-your-face awful that you start vehemently giving the screen the finger five minutes into it, and don’t stop till the end credits have mercifully brought the thing to a halt.”
