Few would argue against the fact that former spouses James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow were the front runners going into Saturday night’s Directors Guild Awards. The DGA ultimately awarded “The Hurt Locker” and director Kathryn Bigelow for Outstanding Directorial achievement on a late Saturday night at the Hyatt Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. Also taking home an award was Louie Psihoyos for Best Documentary Director for “The Cove.”
I know, it’s not Brando and Kazan but which of these productions would you be most interested in seeing? Polls close on Friday, then I’ll be here to give my thoughts on the competition. Happy voting.
After making headlines as arguably the most controversial film of the Sundance Film Festival this year, IFC Films acquired U.S. distribution rights for director Michael Winterbottom’s “The Killer Inside Me.”
What makes a film so appalling that it transitions from ordinary ineptitude into the sublime; beyond cult status (and all reason) and into that surreal place where you really can’t believe what you’re watching? RT’s regular contributor Michael Adams has a pretty good idea: as part of his new book ‘Showgirls, Teen Wolves and Astro Zombies’, he spent an entire year seeking out the greatest atrocities cinema has ever unleashed, watching more than 400 bad movies in a quest to to find the worst film ever made. Along the way, he spoke with such bad movie aficionados as John Landis,…
Some people like fine wine, Bergman and turtlenecks. Others prefer to rummage through society’s trash can until their hands are filthy with wonderful mess. Film critic and Rotten Tomatoes’ contributor Michael Adams belongs firmly to the second group. As if to prove his instability, he set out on a quest to find the Worst Film Ever Made, which involved watching more than 400 horrible movies in their entirety — in one year — while also finding time to host a TV show, edit Empire magazine and appear in George Romero’s “Survival of the Dead”. The results are chronicled in his…