Rob Batchelor, Author at We Got This Covered

Homeland Review: “Staying Positive” (Season 3, Episode 6)

Everything is a series of human relationships. Our every waking moment involves us taking part in some sort of human relationship, even the loneliest among us. Homeland has always revolved around pivotal relationships, more than one at a time. In the beginning, it was the relationship between Brody and his family, Brody and Carrie, and Carrie and Saul. This relationship triangle has formed the basis of the show up to now in basic terms, but what happens when those central tenets change? What happens when the pivots bend? Or even break?

Rob Batchelor Nov 4, 2013

Larry Charles To Direct Robert Redford In A Walk In The Woods

Larry Charles has signed on today to direct Robert Redford and Nick Nolte in an adaptation of Bill Bryson's best selling memoir A Walk In The Woods. The film will tell the story of an aging travel writer who decides to hike the 2000 mile Appalachian trail, accompanied by an old friend whom he doesn't quite get along with. What begins as a regular buddy movie becomes something deeper, and the trail slowly comes to represent how they see each other.

Rob Batchelor Nov 1, 2013

The Addams Family To Return As An Animated Film, Without Tim Burton

MGM is currently in negotiations with the good folks at BermanBraun, Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun to bring back The Addams Family. Pamela Pettler, who has plenty of experience in family-friendly horror in the form of Corpse Bride and Monster House, is pegged to write the screenplay for the animated film.

Rob Batchelor Oct 31, 2013

First Images Of Carey Mulligan In Far From The Madding Crowd

He had huge success with false paedophile-thriller The Hunt, but Thomas Vinterberg has always been an enormously talented Dutch filmmaker. He's been working for a long time actually, associated at first with the Dogme 95 movement. But ever since the success of The Hunt, he's slowly become more "internationally known" - as in, "known in America."

Rob Batchelor Oct 31, 2013

Homeland Review: “The Yoga Play” (Season 3, Episode 5)

So last week's Homeland unveiled the grand plan. At least, that there was a grand plan. Saul and Carrie are actually working together against the Iranians, and when we thought she was offering her services to them, she was actually going undercover in their operation.

Rob Batchelor Oct 28, 2013

Hurricane Katrina Thriller Hours Finally Gets A Trailer

It debuted in March at South by Southwest, but the first trailer for Hours, directed by Final Destination 5 screenwriter Eric Heisserer and starring Fast and the Furious' very own Paul Walker, has finally appeared online. The film was announced ages ago, 2011 in fact, but it's only just received a release date, along with the trailer.

Rob Batchelor Oct 24, 2013

David Fincher Averaging “Fifty Takes Per Scene” On Gone Girl

David Fincher's a unique filmmaker with a style all his own; uncompromising and methodical in his approach to directing actors and crew. That reports are emerging from the set of Gone Girl, via the redoubtable Southeast Missouran, of the director requiring multiple takes of seemingly innocuous scenes is entirely unsurprising, given his previous history in this area of behaviour. When it results in movies like Zodiac,or The Social Network though do we really care about how many times Fincher wants to redo the scene? Do we really?

Rob Batchelor Oct 24, 2013

New Girl Review: “Keaton” (Season 3, Episode 6)

I think I went slightly overboard with last week's New Girl. It's not a bad thing to have an episode that treads water, in fact, it's vital to the quality of the show. It's necessary to have a few average episodes, to allow the really great ones to shine through. The US sitcom is a strange beast, with between twenty and thirty episodes per season, aiming for at least one hundred total for syndication - could you imagine trying to maintain greatness for one hundred episodes? Even Seinfeld had weak episodes. Even Seinfeld. The fact that this week's episode is a real doozy makes me feel even worse.

Rob Batchelor Oct 23, 2013