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2007 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• Pause & Rewind

  published December 27, 2007

  Blade Runner: The Final Cut (Warner Bros.) — It's the collector's-set briefcase that seals the deal, a gunmetal-gray case that... More >>

• Singular Sensation

  published December 20, 2007

  Once (Fox) Easily the year's most perfect pop album — damned good movie too, the finest "musical" of the past 20 years.... More >>

• Moolah for Mullahs

  published December 20, 2007

  Hell of a thing, getting Mike Nichols to adapt the yer-kiddin'-me story of Charlie Wilson, the congressman from Lufkin, Texas, who damn... More >>

• Killer Climax

  published December 13, 2007

  The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal) The final installment in the Bourne-again trilogy is the one in which the CIA assassin's true... More >>

• Knocked Up

  published December 13, 2007

  Juno marks the second film for director Jason Reitman and the first for screenwriter Diablo Cody, author of the Pussy Ranch blog, which has... More >>

• Cellar Beware

  published December 6, 2007

  The Girl Next Door (Anchor Bay) If the horror of Saw was a poblano pepper, this here is the habañero. Derived... More >>

• Touch of Evel

  published November 29, 2007

  Hot Rod (Paramount) Andy Samberg, best known for stuffing his dick in a box on Saturday Night Live, is Rod... More >>

• What a Toad

  published November 29, 2007

  Hard to believe that it's been 20 years since the release of The Princess Bride, if only because it hasn't aged a day — the mark of... More >>

• Jungle Fever

  published November 22, 2007

  Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Paramount) At last available on DVD, Eleanor Coppola's 1991 documentary about her... More >>

• Once Upon a Time

  published November 15, 2007

  The Princess Bride: 20th Anniversary Edition (MGM) As far as anniversary-edition DVDs go, The Princess Bride is... More >>

• The Kids Were All Right

  published November 8, 2007

  Sesame Street: Old School Volume 2 (Genius) On the heels of the Electric Company boxed sets, which were at once... More >>

• Alien: The Fatherhood

  published November 1, 2007

  John Cusack, who more or less began his career sneaking a peek at Molly Ringwald's panties in Sixteen Candles, has finally become an... More >>

• A Bitter End

  published November 1, 2007

  No End in Sight (Magnolia) Charles Ferguson's debut doc, easily the most important in a year full of notable fact-gathering... More >>

• The Force Is Strong With This One

  published November 1, 2007

  Rick McCallum had nothing to do with the original Star Wars. He was just 23 years old when it was released in 1977 and chasing his first... More >>

• Honey for Nothing

  published November 1, 2007

  Alas, there's only so much you can do with talking bugs that hasn't already been covered in A Bug's Life, Antz, and The... More >>

• Dan in Reel Life

  published October 25, 2007

  Dan in Real Life has this much going for it: It is not the worst Steve Carell film of 2007. That honor, of course, goes to... More >>

• The Boys Are Back

  published October 25, 2007

  Directors Series: Stanley Kubrick (Warner Bros.) Most of the old Kubrick DVDs were crap: full-screen editions with poor... More >>

• Genuine Fake Robots

  published October 18, 2007

  Transformers (DreamWorks) No doubt, Michael Bay's slam-bang action-figure commercial doesn't play nearly as well on TV, no matter how... More >>

• The Fix Is In

  published October 11, 2007

  It will, no doubt, be said time and again of Michael Clayton: best John Grisham adaptation ever. Except, of course, it did not... More >>

• Golden Age, Porcelain Throne

  published October 11, 2007

  "Will you leave your kingdom to a heretic?" That was the question posed to a dying Queen Mary in 1998's Elizabeth, director Shekhar Kapur's... More >>

• The Spy Who Shagged Yee

  published October 11, 2007

  "Beautiful" and "cruel" — that's how director Ang Lee describes Eileen Chang's 1979 short story about obsessive love and effortless betrayal... More >>

• You'll Laugh Dying

  published October 11, 2007

  You Kill Me (Genius) Funny thing seeing Philip Baker Hall in You Kill Me, as he's already played the role of a... More >>

• Perfect Score

  published October 4, 2007

  "This is a mockumentary, right?" I've been asked that question at least a dozen times since The King of Kong: A Fistful of... More >>

• Fist Things First

  published October 4, 2007

  Caligula: Imperial Edition (Penthouse) (Spoiler alert: Fisting!) One day back in the swingin' '70s, somebody mentioned... More >>

• Shoot 'Em Up

  published September 27, 2007

  The Kingdom is the first film from Peter Berg since the actor-turned-director's Friday Night Lights, which spawned an acclaimed, if... More >>