Ian Buckwalter

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• Posted Out of Frame: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans to DCist
  Baby did a bad, bad thing: Lieutenant McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) during a reflective moment in the midst of his usual drinking, leching, and lying. It's difficult to enter into Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans expecting a comedy. That's despite a title more ridiculous and unwieldy than even a CSI spin-off would accept, and a trailer that features star Nicolas Cage waxing rhapsodic on his lucky crack pipe, and instructing some henchmen to...
• Commented on Popcorn & Candy: Unfinished Business
  You and me both, pal. And Rodriguez has already finished shooting; they're in post now, and they've set a release date for April of next year....
• Posted Popcorn & Candy: Unfinished Business to DCist
  DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno Lost in La Mancha proved that documentaries about aborted films could be compelling films in their own right. Failure is magnified when there are millions of dollars — and million-dollar egos — on the line, so it's no wonder that the drama of dashed filmmaking makes for compelling viewing. In that spirit comes...
• Favorited Photo of the Day: November 16, 2009 on DCist
• Posted Out of Frame: The Messenger to DCist
  The Messenger starts with loss, as Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) has one last bittersweet meeting with his girlfriend, who met another man while he was off to war. It's a gentle way of ushering the audience into a movie that is all about loss on a larger scale. For soon after his return from the war, with injuries that nearly took away an eye and his ability to walk, Montgomery is assigned...