ROTTEN TOMATOES: Rob Blackwelder

Official Websites:
splicedwire.com

ROB BLACKWELDER

""F***in' DARK in here!" Caesar (Joe Pantoliano), "Bound")"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Biography: Once upon a time, Rob was the entertainment editor at a small community college with a kick-*** journalism program. One day he graduated and realized that he could not give up writing about movies, even if he had to hold a day job to do it. Through a friend he got a peanut-paying freelance gig at a podunk newspaper in an overgrown farm town in Northern California, writing one review a week. It wasn't pretty, but it kept him on the mailing lists at the publicity houses. Soon Rob started a web site called Movieolla and before long was being chased by lawyers for the people who make the Moviola editing equipment that is the film industry work horse for cutting and splicing. Hmm, thought Rob, splicing! And thus was born SPLICEDwire (http://www.splicedwire.com), the web site for SPLICEDwire Content Services, which provides movie reviews and features to newspapers, web sites, and other media outlets. Rob was named one of the 10 Best Film Critics of 2003 by the Critic Doctor (http://www.criticdoctor.com/toptenlists/2003.html).

Favorites: RECENT #1 FILMS: 2003: "Lost in Translation" 2002: "Chicago" 2001: "Amelie" 2000: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" 1999: "Run Lola Run" 1998: "Buffalo '66" 1997: "Titanic" 1996: "Breaking the Waves" 1995: "Othello" Robio's FAVORITES list:

Breaking the Waves" (1996, Lars VonTrier)

"What's New Pussycat" (1965, Clive Donner)

"The Thin Man" (1934, Woodbridge S. VanDyke)

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981, Stephen Spielberg) [*} (tie) "His Girl Friday" (1940, Howard Hawks)

"The Seven Year Itch" (1955, Billy Wilder)

"Laura" (1944, Otto Preminger)

"Gilda" (1946, Charles Vidor)

"The Usual Suspects" (1995, Bryan Singer)

"Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" (1991, Pedro Almodovar)

"Dangerous Liaisons" (1988, Stephen Frears)

"The Philadelphia Story" (1940, George Cukor)

"Bound" (1996, Wachowski Bros.)

"Moon Over Miami" (1941, Walter Lang)

Publications: Combustible Celluloid, SPLICEDWire

Critics' Group: San Francisco Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews: 1891
Total QuickRatings: 310

Location: Oakland, CA

CELEBRITY INTERVIEWS ONLY

Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Silver City (2004)	" SPLICEDwire interviews John Sayles" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Sep 18, 2004
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)	" SPLICEDwire interviews writer-director Kevin Conran" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Sep 18, 2004
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004)	" SPLICEDwire interviews John Cho & Kal Penn" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Jul 30, 2004
Saved! (2004)	" "I was really excited to see these important questions being asked in a film that was made for young people. And I loved the humor..."" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted May 28, 2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)	" The Charlie Kaufman before me today is a noticeably more relaxed guy whose laugh comes more easily -- even if it's still accompanied by the same wan smile..." — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Apr 25, 2004
Hidalgo (2004)	" 'You wanna go out there?' Viggo Mortensen says ten seconds after his publicist leaves the room..." — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Mar 4, 2004
Monster (2003)	" I'm having such a hard time making up bullst complicated excuses for why I thought it was a great idea. Because the truth is, I just thought she was great.*" — SPLICEDWire* INTERVIEW Posted Dec 29, 2003
Monster (2003)	" The most dangerous thing you can do for an actor is believe in them, because then there�s nothing they won't do." — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Dec 29, 2003
Elf (2003)	" *People come up to me and say, "I've seen 'A Night at the Roxbury' like 20 times!" And I'm like, "Really?* I'm so sorry."*" — SPLICEDWire* INTERVIEW Posted Nov 10, 2003
The Singing Detective (2003)	" (Robert Downey Jr.) can give you all the darkness of this man, but he's so lovable on some level that no matter how much you want to turn off to him, you can't." — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Nov 10, 2003
Phone Booth (2003)	" I love the "shock value" of Colin Farrell. He's 26! He smokes! He drinks! He fks women! Oooo! Ooo! He's a normal young man � get him! � Schumacher in SPLICEDwire's interview*" — SPLICEDWire* INTERVIEW Posted Apr 22, 2003
Head of State (2003)	" What would he do if he were president? "Sell one of the Carolinas to raise some cash." - Chris Rock interview @ SPLICEDwire.com" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Apr 3, 2003
Spider (2003)	" I knew the movie was going to be subjective, but that's when I really started to think it was beyond that -- it was expressionistic, you know?" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Mar 6, 2003
Gerry (2003)	" ...We had our own little rules: No traditional coverage, no traditional screenplay and to shoot in continuity..." — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Mar 6, 2003
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)	" She tells me she's written the perfect script and that I'm the perfect director for it. And I said to her, 'Lady, I hear that every day in this town' -- Philip Noyce interview" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Feb 15, 2003
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2003)	" *Before I met her, I did not see Amélie.* My choice of Audrey was not because of Amélie. -- Laetitia Colombani interview*" — SPLICEDWire* INTERVIEW Posted Feb 15, 2003
Adaptation (2002)	" CREATIVE LISCENCEES: Writer Charlie Kaufman, director Spike Jonze talk of taking liberties with fact and fiction in 'Adaptation'" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Dec 21, 2002
Bowling for Columbine (2002)	" In a confrontational interview, Michael Moore, the tenacious filmmaker of 'Bowling for Columbine' defends his documentary methods" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Oct 18, 2002
Knockaround Guys (2002)	" Q: I'll bet you're glad "Lord of the Rings" was a success, because if it had tanked your movie would probably be sitting on a shelf. A: Almost as glad as Peter Jackson!" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Oct 14, 2002
The Four Feathers (2002)	" "The studios kept sending more producers," says director Shekhar Kapur. "But what answers could I give except �Don�t worry� when you�re just shooting by your instincts?"" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Sep 20, 2002
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002)	" As I enter the room, Alva laughs, "He brought his deck in for us to sign so he can sell it on eBay this afternoon!" No way! I've had this thing since I was 13." — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Sep 2, 2002
S1m0ne (2002)	" "I take a dig at pretentious directors -- like me!" say writer-director Andrew Niccol in this SPLICEDwire interview." — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Aug 23, 2002
Sunshine State (2002)	" John Sayles talks to SPLICEDwire about "Sunshine State"" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Jul 3, 2002
Windtalkers (2002)	" SPLICEDwire interviews John Woo, Christian Slater and Roger Willie" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Jun 14, 2002
The Sum of All Fears (2002)	" SPLICEDwire interviews Leiv Schreiber" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Jun 2, 2002
Insomnia (2002)	" Christpher Nolan talks to SPLICEDwire about "Insomnia"" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted May 23, 2002
National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)	" SPLICEDwire interviews Ryan Reynolds" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Apr 26, 2002
The Rookie (2002)	" SPLICEDwire interviews Dennis Quaid & Jim Morris" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Apr 3, 2002
Big Trouble (2002)	" SPLICEDwire interviews Dennis Farina" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Apr 3, 2002
The Brotherhood of the Wolf (2002)	" MARK OF THE 'WOLF': SPLICEDwire interviews actor Mark Dacascos" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Mar 14, 2002
Black Hawk Down (2001)	" 'HAWK' TALK: SPLICEDwire interviews director Ridley Scott" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Mar 14, 2002
In the Bedroom (2001)	" CHARACTER RECOGNITION: SPLICEDwire interviews actor Tom Wilkinson" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Mar 14, 2002
Mulholland Dr. (2001)	" LYNCH'S LATEST HIGH VOLTAGE LASS: SPLICEDwire interviews Naomi Watts" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Mar 14, 2002
Pi�ero (2001)	" BEN, GERMANE: SPLICEDwire interviews Benjamin Bratt" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Mar 14, 2002
Scotland, PA (2002)	" MONKEYING WITH 'MACBETH': SPLICEDwire interviews actor James LeGros" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Mar 14, 2002
We Were Soldiers (2002)	" WALLACE 'SOLDIERS' ON: SPLICEDwire interviews director Randall Wallace" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Mar 14, 2002
The Time Machine (2002)	" IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT 'TIME': SPLICEDwire interviews Samantha Mumba" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Mar 14, 2002
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)	" FROM 'HEATHERS' TO HARTNETT: SPLICEDwire Q&A with director Michael Lehmann" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Mar 14, 2002
Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)	" 30 minutes with co-stars & co-writers Jennifer Westfeldt & Heather Juergensen" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Mar 14, 2002
A Walk to Remember (2002)	" Mandy Moore interview & interview photo gallery" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Jan 23, 2002
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)	" SPLICEDwire's Rob Blackwelder Q&As Kevin Smith" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Aug 22, 2001
The Deep End (2001)	" SPLICEDwire Q&A with Tilda Swinton for "The Deep End"" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Aug 15, 2001
Our Song (2001)	" SPLICEDwire interview with star Kerry Washington" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Aug 8, 2001
The Others (2001)	" Interview with Alejandro Amenabar for "The Others"" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Aug 8, 2001
The King is Alive (2001)	" interview with director Kristian Levring for "The King Is Alive"" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Jul 10, 2001
Fast Food, Fast Women (2001)	" Interview with Louise Lasser for "Fast Food, Fast Women"" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Jul 10, 2001
The Princess and The Warrior (2001)	" Interview with "The Princess & the Warrior"/"Run Lola Run" star Franka Potente" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Jul 10, 2001
A Knight's Tale (2001)	" Interview with director Brian Helgeland" — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted Jun 23, 2001
The Center of the World (2001)	" Sometimes we would leave a camera...on a tripod and almost leave the room. The sound guy was hiding behind the bed so they couldn't even see him..." — SPLICEDWire INTERVIEW Posted May 4, 2001

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