ROTTEN TOMATOES: Ian Spelling

IAN SPELLING

Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

Biography: Film Critic, Filmstew.com

Publications: FilmStew.com, Sci-Fi Weekly

Total Reviews: 83

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N/A	Fresh 85%	The Take (2008)	" Actor Interview: Says John Leguizamo: "This [film] is for a point, man. It's the randomness of crimes. Living in this world is frightening."" — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 11, 2008
N/A	Rotten 57%	Married Life (2008)	" Actor Interview - Says Patricia Clarkson: "This was really a great way to come back together with Chris Cooper."" — FilmStew.com Posted Mar 14, 2008
N/A	N/A	Blackout (2008)	" Actor Interview - Says co-star Jeffrey Wright: "Big film or small film, what I like to do is put myself in these places that feel genuine."" — FilmStew.com Posted Feb 8, 2008
N/A	Rotten 42%	The Bucket List (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says producer Craig Zadan: "You�re used to doing 12 takes, 15 takes, depending on what it is. With Jack and Morgan, it�s one or two.�" — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 25, 2007
N/A	Fresh 85%	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says Tim Burton: "I knew an R-rated musical with blood, and the songs are not pop songs, would be a hard sell."" — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 21, 2007
N/A	Rotten 44%	Redacted (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says Brian De Palma: "Fortunately, I am in, shall we say, the sunset side of my career. I�m very happy with the movies I�ve made."" — FilmStew.com Posted Nov 21, 2007
Fresh B+	Fresh 65%	Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)	" The best suicides-meet-in-purgatory-and-fall-in-love romantic comedy-drama ever made. It may also be the only suicides-meet-in-purgatory-and-fall-in-love romantic comedy-drama ever made." — Sci-Fi Weekly Posted Oct 23, 2007
N/A	Fresh 67%	Shoot 'Em Up (2007)	" *Filmmaker Interview - From meeting Clive Owen�s new market price to licensing a Nirvana song, Michael Davis says New Line was fully committed to Shoot Em� Up." — FilmStew.com* Posted Sep 12, 2007
N/A	Fresh 84%	Breach (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says writer-director Billy Ray: "We wound up at $33 million, domestically, which is a huge number for a serious movie like ours.�" — FilmStew.com Posted Jun 11, 2007
N/A	Rotten 27%	Smokin' Aces (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Says Joe Carnahan of his bullet riddled location shoot: "I�m confident that more than one casino habitu� or retiree filled their pants from shock."" — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 18, 2007
N/A	Fresh 65%	Black Snake Moan (2007)	" Filmmaker Interview - Craig Brewer is halfway towards a quartet of films about rap, the blues, country music and r&b. And he has Paramount Pictures to thank for it." — FilmStew.com Posted Mar 1, 2007
N/A	Fresh 94%	Casino Royale (2006)	" Filmmaker Interview - Ten years after her dad's death, Barbara Broccoli is thrilled to have finally tackled the Bond film that "Cubby" always wanted to make." — FilmStew.com Posted Nov 17, 2006
N/A	Fresh 74%	Monster House (2006)	" *Filmmaker Interview - UCLA grad Gil Kenan already has his second feature lined up, thanks to the pre-release buzz of his first, Monster House." — FilmStew.com* Posted Jul 25, 2006
N/A	Rotten 26%	The Omen (2006)	" *Filmmaker Interview - Even though his last two movies have been remakes, filmmaker John Moore draws the line at Casablanca* and Citizen Kane.*" — FilmStew.com* Posted Jun 6, 2006
N/A	Fresh 90%	United 93 (2006)	" Filmmaker Interview - A lot of people to this day still believe that United Flight 93 was shot down by the U.S. military. British filmmaker Paul Greengrass is not one of them." — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 30, 2006
N/A	Rotten 40%	American Dreamz (2006)	" *Filmmaker Interview - If you notice a little bit of Preston Sturges in Paul Weitz�s latest film, American Dreamz, that will suit his reverent pupil just fine." — FilmStew.com* Posted Apr 19, 2006
N/A	Fresh 74%	Little Manhattan (2005)	" *Celebrity Interview - Thirteen-year-old Josh Hutcherson has high hopes for his newest DVD and upcoming features such as R.V.* and Bridge to Terabithia.*" — FilmStew.com* Posted Apr 6, 2006
N/A	Fresh 73%	V For Vendetta (2005)	" Filmmaker Interview - "Not to sound conceited," says former assistant director James McTeigue. "But I guess I was really ready to do something.�" — FilmStew.com Posted Mar 17, 2006
N/A	Rotten 23%	Freedomland (2005)	" Filmmaker Interview - When a director also happens to be a current and former studio executive, the conversation can quickly go from his picture to the big picture." — FilmStew.com Posted Feb 17, 2006
N/A	Fresh 85%	Howl's Moving Castle (2005)	" It�s your typical Hollywood success story: a pair of unpublished screenwriters end up writing English-language versions of Japanese films, without speaking the language." — FilmStew.com Posted Feb 6, 2006
N/A	Rotten 51%	The Producers (2005)	" It�s not every day that a 51-year-old woman gets to make her Hollywood directing debut at the helm of a $45 million production." — FilmStew.com Posted Jan 3, 2006
N/A	Rotten 29%	Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)	" Celebrity Interview - Jim Carrey has no problems with his $20 million-plus salary bracket, because he says whenever warranted he gives big chunks of it away." — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 27, 2005
N/A	Fresh 83%	King Kong (2005)	" *Celebrity Interview - Colin Hanks has a new rule. After his turns in Orange County* and now King Kong, he�ll only make movies in which Jack Black is a co-star.*" — FilmStew.com* Posted Dec 22, 2005
N/A	Rotten 35%	Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)	" *Filmmaker Interview - The memories of this Geisha* director include working with actors who spoke no English and being struck by the showbiz flavors of the Geisha world.*" — FilmStew.com* Posted Dec 7, 2005
N/A	Rotten 48%	Rent (2005)	" *For a while, filmmaker Chris Columbus seriously considered adapting the hit musical Rent* with pop stars such as Justin Timberlake in two. Then he met the original cast.*" — FilmStew.com* Posted Dec 1, 2005
N/A	Fresh 93%	The Warriors (1979)	" Filmmaker Interview - To fans of the 1979 cult classic, this is anything but a surprise: director Walter Hill is no sentimentalist." — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 17, 2005
N/A	Rotten 43%	Freaked (1993)	" Celebrity Interview - Alex Winter was all set to unleash a wacky $10 million comedy for Fox back in 1993 until his biggest supporter, Joe Roth, walked off the lot." — FilmStew.com Posted Aug 4, 2005
N/A	Rotten 40%	The Island (2005)	" Celebrity Interview - For the very versatile British actor Sean Bean, the key to playing villains in films like The Island is not to consciously buy into their madness." — FilmStew.com Posted Jul 26, 2005
N/A	Rotten 40%	The Island (2005)	" Celebrity Interview - Despite working on The Island for a mere two days, Michael Clarke Duncan finds himself in New York City promoting it." — FilmStew.com Posted Jul 21, 2005
N/A	Fresh 73%	War of the Worlds (2005)	" Filmmaker Interview - Right now, special effects wizard Dennis Muren is leading the charge at ILM to do more in less time and still do it better than the competition." — FilmStew.com Posted Jun 29, 2005
N/A	Fresh 73%	War of the Worlds (2005)	" Filmmaker Interview - For what amounts to basically Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind, the pied piper of Hollywood veered more on the side of a post-9/11 world." — FilmStew.com Posted Jun 28, 2005
N/A	Fresh 60%	Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)	" Celebrity Interview - Martin Freeman headlines the most quintessentially British film made by a Hollywood studio since the heyday of Peter Sellers." — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 29, 2005
N/A	N/A	The Bob Newhart Show - The Complete First Season (1972)	" Celebrity Interview - In the pilot episode, Dr. Jerry Robinson was a fellow psychiatrist. But in the end, the guy who played him made out like a bandit as a TV director." — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 13, 2005
N/A	Rotten 53%	Melinda and Melinda (2005)	" Celebrity Interview - Radha Mitchell has a little film called 10 Tiny Love Stories to thank for the first real Oscar buzz of her career." — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 1, 2005
N/A	Fresh 61%	Incident at Loch Ness (2004)	" Filmmaker Interview - From the beginning, screenwriter Zak Penn envisioned his $1 million directorial debut as having no hope of making its money back on the big screen." — FilmStew.com Posted Mar 10, 2005
N/A	Rotten 22%	Little Black Book (2004)	" Celebrity Interviews - While Holly Hunter has defied most of the rules for a Hollywood actress, co-star Brittany Murphy is still working to move past labels such as �perky.�" — FilmStew.com Posted Jan 5, 2005
N/A	Fresh 82%	Ray (2004)	" Celebrity Interview - The recent death of Jamie Foxx's grandmother is the only thing that can put a damper on what is likely to be a busy awards season." — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 1, 2004
N/A	Fresh 94%	Spider-Man 2 (2004)	" *Filmmaker Interview - Despite ten hours of DVD extras, Sam Raimi says he still prefers to watch Spider-Man 2* and other films in a crowded movie theater.*" — FilmStew.com* Posted Nov 30, 2004
N/A	Rotten 5%	Christmas with the Kranks (2004)	" Filmmaker Interview - Chris Columbus is already looking ahead to next year's Thanksgiving release project with Revolution Studios - Rent." — FilmStew.com Posted Nov 30, 2004
N/A	Fresh 91%	Kinsey (2004)	" Celebrity Interview - A decade after his turn as Oskar Schindler, actor Liam Neeson looks to be a sure bet for his second Best Actor nomination for Kinsey." — FilmStew.com Posted Nov 22, 2004
N/A	Fresh 76%	Dawn of the Dead (2004)	" Celebrity Interview - After taking time off to design jewelry, Academy Award winning makeup artist David LeRoy Anderson is thrilled to be back in the Hollywood fold." — FilmStew.com Posted Nov 16, 2004
N/A	Rotten 49%	Alfie (2004)	" Celebrity Interview - Joe Sullivan, Alfie Elkins, Errol Flynn. All three are handsome womanizers and all three are part of a spectacular breakout year for Jude Law." — FilmStew.com Posted Nov 4, 2004
N/A	Rotten 48%	Shall We Dance? (2004)	" Celebrity Interviews - At the respective ages of 55 and 58, Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon display an undeniably comfortable command of their craft." — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 18, 2004
N/A	Fresh 88%	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)	" Filmmaker Interview - It was the movie no one wanted to make. Ten years later, it�s a highly anticipated DVD featuring a week�s worth of audio commentary from Frank Darabont." — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 5, 2004
N/A	Rotten 30%	Broken Lizard's Club Dread (2004)	" Celebrity Interview - When it comes to his own DVD collection, Broken Lizard troupe member Paul Soter prefers the dread of horror." — FilmStew.com Posted Sep 28, 2004
N/A	Rotten 31%	The Forgotten (2004)	" Celebrity Interview - Actress Julianne Moore has been on a roll ever since the 2002 one-two punch of Far From Heaven and The Hours." — FilmStew.com Posted Sep 27, 2004
N/A	Rotten 49%	Vanity Fair (2004)	" Celebrity Interview - With his film and her upcoming role as June Carter, Reese Witherspoon proves she is ready to do much more than look pretty in pink." — FilmStew.com Posted Sep 3, 2004
N/A	Rotten 49%	Vanity Fair (2004)	" Filmmaker Interview - Focus Features happened upon one of William Makepeace Thackeray�s biggest fans when they hired Indian-born director Mira Nair." — FilmStew.com Posted Sep 1, 2004
N/A	Fresh 77%	The Lost Boys (1987)	" Celebrity Interview - Corey Feldman made his debut at age 3 and went on to be Frog brother, a Goonie and a reality show contestant. It really has been a surreal life." — FilmStew.com Posted Aug 10, 2004
N/A	Fresh 82%	The Manchurian Candidate (2004)	" *Celebrity Interviews - Denzel, Meryl and director Jonathan Demme all agree. The Manchurian Candidate* is more relevant than ever.*" — FilmStew.com* Posted Jul 29, 2004

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