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Cloverfield [BLU-RAY] (Paramount Home Entertainment, 6.3.2008) Disguised under deliberately goofy, yet deliciously edible-sounding, aliases such as Cheese and Slusho, Matt Reeves' Cloverfield was produced and rushed into theaters under an equally appetizing shroud of secrecy. From last year's incredibly elusive Super Bowl ad to the film's viral marketing campaign, Cloverfield had everybody scratching their heads and drooling in anticipation. Aside from the as-yet untitled title and the Blair Witch-ian visual style, the film's biggest appeal was the enigmatic creature who was last (un)seen hurling the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty onto the crowded streets of New York City. All we knew about the mysterious beast was that it was big and angry. Now that the highy-anticipated project has come and gone, one question has fortunately been answered: Cloverfield was a major success. (continued)

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I'm going right out to

I'm going right out to rent Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors this evening as a way of paying tribute to the great Jerry Orbach, who died Tuesday night in Manhattan of cancer. Orbach's performance as Jack Rosenthal, the criminal-class younger brother of Martin Landau's wishy-washy Judah Rosenthal, is the kind of New Yorker Orbach seemed to actually be -- a Bronx-born guy with a touch of the street, who always talked straight and blunt and cut to the chase. I love it when he says to Landau in that Crimes scene in the Jonah's guest house, "I can't afford to be....aloof." Orbach's Gus Levy in Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City was the same kind of guy, only scrappier and friendlier. Which reminds me: you still can't get Lumet's film on DVD.

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on December 29, 2004 at 3:03 PM

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