Articles by Will Sloan

The Love Guru

Marco Schnabel

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2008

Mike Myers reportedly spent four-and-a-half years soul-searching and researching Eastern philosophy to develop the character of Pitka, "Ind...

The Forbidden Kingdom

Rob Minkoff

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2008

For those of us who bow at the altar of action classics like Drunken Master II and Once Upon a Time in China, the announcement of the first...

JCVD

Mabrouk El Mechri

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2008

Anyone who has spent too much time on YouTube has most likely stumbled across footage of action star Jean-Claude Van Damme accidentally spr...

Fox Horror Classics, Vol. 2

PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2008

Somebody at the Fox marketing department needs a stern talking to. Of the three films in Fox Horror Classics, Vol. 2, only one (Dr. Renault...

Edison & Leo

Neil Burns

PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2008

The villain of Neil Burn’s stop-motion fantasy Edison & Leo is an inventor named George T. Edison. Yes, George T. Edison. The fact that he...

Examined Life

Astra Taylor

PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2008

"An unexamined life is not worth living,” says the Plato quote that begins Astra Taylor’s Examined Life. In this National Film Board co-pro...

Heaven On Earth

Deepa Mehta

PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2008

In the opening scenes of Heaven on Earth, we learn that Chand (Preity Zinta), a young Indian woman, will move to Canada for an arranged mar...

Il Divo

Paolo Sorrentino

PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2008

Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo begins with an "Italian glossary” that defines several key Italian political terms from the early ’90s. I apprec...