One thing that I’ve noticed about big families is that they usually break down into two camps: the talkers and the watchers. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, ‘Wait – I’m going to go into hip-hop.’ Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it’s just pouring off the screen. Because they don’t often get a chance to work, and when they do, they don’t usually get a chance to work with other black people. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
8 Mile’ could do without an unnecessary class swipe. In a final throwdown, Rabbit clowns a competitor by revealing that the guy went to suburban Detroit Cranbrook, one of the finest private schools in the country. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that group’s 20/50 vision also had it tsking its disapproval about Michael Keaton as Batman and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
When Bruce Lee gets his cameo in ‘The Green Hornet’ – as one of the drawings in Kato’s notebook – it clarifies what the film is: an unrealized sketch. A sketch can afford to allude to a point of view. Moviemakers need to show their point of view, something this shrug of a movie never gets around to doing. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
The stoic drama ‘A Somewhat Gentle Man’ is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that match Stellan Skarsgard’s complexion. It’s a low-blood-pressure version of the kind of thing James M. Cain used to do in his sleep, and its filmmaking accomplishment is as minimalist as its narrative ambition is minimal. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
The kind of filmmaking excitement that director Peter Weir brings to movies is bone deep. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
Natalie Portman’s approach to acting demands that she wears her heart on her sleeve so explicitly, the heart becomes the whole garment – a crimson chemise with streaks of blue veins running across it. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
In period films, it always helps to have someone built to carry a sword, and Channing Tatum clearly hasn’t missed a workout for the past two years, so he fits the bill in that regard. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
