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1998 Holiday Movie Preview

By JOSH MASSEY The Red & Black   “Meet Joe Black” goes up against one of the Men in Black, while pigs, bugs and gorillas (oh my!) roam the cinemas. And – oh geez, it’s Jerry Springer. OK, so Hollywood’s holiday season isn’t normal this year. In the past, November and December have been full [...]

Back to the future of flicks

Savannahwood: It seems Savannah has been getting more screen time than Matt Damon. Last year, Robert Altman’s “The Gingerbread Man” and Clint Eastwood’s “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” shot there. And though neither was a hit, Savannah is bustling yet again with filmmakers. Sandra Bullock and Ben Affleck currently are shooting “Forces [...]

IMAX offers icy drama

Entertainment Editor   There’s no better place to beat the heat than at the top of the world. While Athenians are being scorched by the summer, Atlanta is enjoying a run through the snow – or at least it looks like it. The Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s IMAX (maximum image) theater has been playing [...]

‘Mary’ is no plain jane

  There’s something disgusting, something offensive and something downright hilarious about "There’s Something About Mary." The creators of the comparatively tame "Dumb and Dumber" and "Kingpin" have gone below the belt – sometimes literally – for their third film, which casts their warped vision on the genre of romantic comedies. Ben Stiller stars as Ted, [...]

‘Sarajevo’ crew welcomed danger

Entertainment Editor   NEW YORK – Along with many other films, "Welcome to Sarajevo" was lost in the wake of "Titanic" when it was released late last year. Hoping for glory both in critical and financial circles, director Michael Winterbottom and his crew invaded Sarajevo in 1996, not with guns and missiles, but with moviemaking [...]

‘Small’ is big fun

Entertainment Editor   In a summer movie season short on brainpower, "Small Soldiers" comes to the rescue with a creative blast from childhoods past. When the Heartland toy company merges with GloboTech Industries, a new boss (Denis Leary) tells the workers he wants to see something new, something "action." He’s especially impressed with a line [...]

‘Armageddon’ is end of decent filmmaking

  Shallow Impact. Earth is once again in danger of being hit by a giant space rock just two months after "Deep Impact." And "Armageddon" is a fitting title: the film is loud, noisy and an absolutely terrible end to it all. Bruce Willis isn’t so much the star of this disaster flick – he’s [...]

Clooney’s star rises with new movie

  ATLANTA – "Out of Sight" is more than another movie for George Clooney. It may be big-screen career salvation. "I wanted to do something that was a great piece, that I thought was great fun to do," Clooney said in an interview. "I also knew I could be in trouble." The trouble he refers [...]

Clooney’s best film to date is truly ‘Out of Sight’

  A filmmaker must have a lot of faith to call their movie "Out of Sight." That title would be too easy to rip apart if the final product sucked. Well, the faith laid upon George Clooney and director Steven Soderbergh was well deserved, because they have delivered an intelligent, hilarious crime comedy that comes [...]

SNL funny man does ‘Dirty Work’

  ATLANTA – Norm MacDonald is an R-rated man stranded in a PG-13 world. That’s especially apparent after an interview to promote his upcoming PG-13 film "Dirty Work." The chat session, also with his co-star Artie Lange ("Mad TV"), was so peppered with profanity that the final edited version looks like a Cliff’s Notes version [...]

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