The first trailer for the John Moore-directed Max Payne has been revealed to the interweb: For some reason, this seems better the second or third time you watch it. As trailers go, it’s nicely paced and edited, with some good shots on view without (seeminly) giving too much away. It helps that it has Marilyn Manson’s [...]

Poor, poor, interesting Mark Wahlberg. Appearantly, the last truly hard man left in the world that is (appearantly, comparitively) a Hollywood full of wusses. And when Wahlberg is good, he is very very good (Boogie Nights, Three Kings, The Departed, I Heart Huckabees), but when he is bad…… well, thats just the thing. Even though [...]

While I was watching this movie I found it compelling. But by the end I felt like it was missing something. I don’t know what. Joaquin Phoenix is Bobby Green, the manager of a popular night club. He’s also the brother of Joseph Grusinsky (Mark Wahlberg) and the son of Albert Grusinsky (Robert Duvall)–both New York [...]