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Posted on 07.23.2008 in Demoted and Film News & Reviews | 0 CommentsWe’ve already got The Promotion, but just in case you were itching for more man-on-man office wars, a whole new battling duo is on the way. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Michael Vartan and David Cross are going to play “bitter tire store rivals” in a new comedy called Demoted, that American Pie 2 helmer J.B. Rogers will direct from actor and writer Dan Callahan’s screenplay.
In a step down from his character’s success on Big Shots, Vartan will play a guy named “Rodney McAdams, a hotshot Treadline Tires sales associate who delights in tormenting his less-than-cool colleague, Ken (Cross).” But wait — before you think Cross is being relegated to another role where he just gets tormented and takes it, or has a fear of nudity, read on: “When their boss suddenly dies, Ken is promoted and assigns Rodney to a secretarial job as payback, giving the male chauvinist a taste of his own medicine.” You just don’t cross the Cross!
Source: cinematical.com
‘Rogue’ Review by Bloody Disgusting
Posted on 07.01.2008 in Film News & Reviews and Rogue | 0 CommentsCrocodiles! I’ve always found them to be rather bad movie monsters. Same thing with snakes, you know the big, fat Anaconda-franchise-kinda snake. I know crocodiles and snakes are prehistoric super-killers with millions of years of evolution in their favour and in real life are as scary as waking up with your mouth full of spiders, but unlike sharks for instance, I’ve always thought crocodiles lacked on-screen character. They are too thin, too clumsy looking, too lifeless, simply not intimidating to look at. No matter how many times some scientist with a secret agenda or wildlife guy has tried to build momentum by telling us just how daaaaaangerous and ferocious these giant, lumpy lizards are, I’ve never really been scared once they got on screen and started eating people.
Leave it to Greg McLean to change my perspective. Here’s a croc that’s scary! Here’s a croc that has motivation! Here’s a filmmaker who knows his shit! He winked at it in Wolf Creek, using characterisation and a slow start to make the horror and violence hit that much harder, but in Rogue McLean steps up and takes seat as a full fledged master of suspense. It’s wonderful to see a monster movie that knows exactly what it is and exactly what it wants. There’s no unnecessary filler, no distracting love story, nothing but a slow building ride that ends up more thrilling than the ones that start at 100mph.
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