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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here.
I’m going to look over some DVDs that I’ve received for review over the last 2 weeks. Two have yet to see release and the rest hit last week. Let’s look at the new ones first.
I had never seen David Mamet’s HOUSE OF GAMES. Criterion sent me a review copy. Anything Criterion gets put in the Must Watch Now stack and it helped that the cover showed a poker table under the title and David Mamet’s name. I do love my poker and my Mamet, so it jumped to the front of the stack.
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Greetings AICN, MiraJeff here with a look at "Disturbia," a movie I had high hopes for but ultimately felt a little let down by.
Although critics will be quick to claim Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" as the film "Disturbia" most tries to emulate, it's arguable that Joe Dante's "The 'burbs" is the heavier influence. D.J. Caruso's teen thriller may not be as darkly comic as that underrated Tom Hanks film but it gets almost as many laughs thanks to some fishy third act hijinx. To be fair, "Disturbia" is a nice little suspense yarn about a home-confined teenager named Kale (Shia LaBeouf) who suspects his neighbor (David Morse) is a serial killer. The familiar premise immediately invites comparisons to the 1954 Jimmy Stewart classic, but it'd be unfair to enter "Disturbia" with such lofty expectations. The truth is you should expect little more than a fun but contrived B-movie.
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
Memflix has contributed a few times before, and I think we’re going to be posting a look at local Memphis film from him sometime in the near future.
For now, though, he’s got a review of DJ Caruso’s new film, and I’m praying with crossed fingers that Caruso nails this one. I like him as a filmmaker, but he’s been hamstrung by some lame material recently. Is this one a step up?
Memflix coming back at you with a look at Disturbia. I just got home from a screening and wanted to throw out an early word.
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Hey folks, Harry here... Due to other business activities, I haven't really seen much at SXSW yet, but Monday, I plan on diving in. I really really enjoy DISTURBIA quite a bit, but it's a very small film - and it's important to go into it expecting just to see a good movie, and let it surprise you. DJ Caruso did a great job. Here's what the darling of AICN, Annette Kellerman, had to say about it...
Hey everyone! Annette Kellerman here, back with a vengeance with my first review for this years' SXSW film festival. This is my favorite week of the year-so many great movies to see, it almost hurts! I'm trying once again to break my record of 31 films during the fest, and I couldn't have warmed up with a better film than DISTURBIA.
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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a brief review of DISTURBIA, my first film at SXSW '07.
I'm going to be brief, but I'm also going to split my review into two parts. Part one is completely safe, touching on very little of the plot, and part two will be a little more in-depth and spoilery.
PART ONE
I picked DISTURBIA as my first movie of the fest (costing me THE LOOKOUT, the big opening night film... but one that I hear was only okay) because of DJ Caruso's SALTON SEA and Shia LaBeouf in the lead. Caruso's SALTON SEA was a great film, one that I still think holds up. Outside of his first project, the Frank Darabont scripted throwback to Roger Corman crazy road chase movies BLACK CAT RUN, SALTON SEA is the best stuff he's done and I think LaBeouf is a fascinating actor, on the cusp of reaching super stardom.
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Hey folks, Harry here... I recently had a chance to check out DISTURBIA by D.J. Caruso for Dreamworks. When I got contacted about seeing the film early - for consideration to do some sort of "event" with - I wasn't very interested. A friend who had read the script was very down on the film, but I figured what the hell I'd see because of D.J. Caruso's involvement - his career had been spotty, but I was a very big fan of THE SALTON SEA.
About a week before I got to see it, I finally saw the trailer... and I was dreading seeing the film. The trailer seems to sell the film as just a "teenage REAR WINDOW" and I didn't think that was very interesting at all. Add to that I didn't know much about the cast besides Carrie Anne Moss and David Morse - both of whom I like - but knowing this was supposed to a Teenage REAR WINDOW - I knew they'd have smaller parts.
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