Peter

I thought Deadwood was a pretty solid success for the network? What gives...

The Hollywood Reporter says Reba will return mid-season for a 13 episode run.

As for picking up Invasion...I'd say not a chance...

Wow, that was a fast pickup on the tip.

Anyways, it's damned good news for us fans of the show. I just really, really, really hope ratings are strong enough to let it go the distance. Nothing would be more cruel than cutting the mystery off midseason...

Nice catch, Vince. There's no way that was a coincedence...

It's all about Boy Meets Grill with Bobby Flay...

Martha, your review is the only I've read of Lady Vengeance which has made me rethink my take on it. Damned good write up.

It's been a couple months since I first visted it, but now I want to go back for a much more serious stay. I wasn't a fan of the way in which Park tried to emulate Jeunet and micromanage more than a handful of quirky side characters. It works in Amelie and a Very Long Engagement, but I didn't think it worked as well here.

And despite the film's climatic scene of communal brutality, it's a fairly soft film compared to its brothers and without the raw shoving power of those two films. As the bookend of the trilogy, and the only to deal with a woman's revenge, in several ways I thought it was Park's way of saying a lady's vengeance is more pure and beautiful than a man's. The social/sexual implications of such a take are up for grabs, but either way it was certainly interesting to see.

Great review.

"News flash: horror movies don't have to make sense, and they sure as hell aren't trying to impress you with Shakespearean linguistic skills."

News flash: good movies have to make sense, regardless of what genre they are. I'm tired of bad movies using the "but we're making a horror movie, it doesn't have to be good" excuse.

What critics are complaining because they didn't "get" it? How could anyone not "get it" when the movie grinds to a halt to explain itself....

To Silent Hill's defense, the movie was screened for critics in the UK, Germany and other parts of Europe, just not America.

But...I think Scott was a lot more lenient on the movie than he should have been.

Alright, I'll give you credit for that last line, which is dead on, but comeon'! The movie doesn't just have a few editing and scripting problems, it is morbidly obese with them. Anytime the film threatened to get scary, Gans' cuts to Sean Bean wandering around perfectly safe reality. The narration towards the end slams the movie to a halt faster than the film's actual end credits do.

The production design was phenomenal, but that's not enough to save the movie. Once again, as soon as a very cool creature was introduced, bam!, cut away to something completely unrelated and never return to it. Gans' took the isolation and loneliness right out of the game, which is something he specifically said he wasn't going to do, making him a flat out liar.

All they had to do was show Red Pyramid every few minutes and the movie would have been golden. But no, he gets less than 4 minutes of screen time. His two scenes are easily the best in the film, and he could have carried the rest of it by himself.

Gans' and Avary made the wrong turn at nearly every interesection.

I was a rabid Roth fan (I even registered my site with the intention of turning it into a Roth-centric blog) until Hostel came out. I thought it was a complete waste, but I still have a ton of respect for the guy and am still a great, great fan.

Like I've said many times, I think he has it in him to just blast one out of the park, but I highly doubt Hostel 2 will be it.