Southland Tales

  • Theatrical - Limited 2007-11-09
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3/10

Synopsis

A musical/comedy set in 2008 where a three-day heatwave in Los Angeles culminates in a huge Fourth of July party.

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WTF Happened to Southland Tales (2006)

Richard Kelly’s SOUTHLAND TALES had one of the most disastrous film festival premieres on record. Going into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, everyone figured it would be a masterpiece, as the expectations set by the director’s previous film, DONNIE DARKO,...
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Southland Tales

Review Date: Director: Richard Kelly Writer: Richard Kelly Producers: Bo Hyde, Sean McKittrick, Kendall Morgan, Matthew Rhodes Actors: The Rock as Boxer Sarah Michelle Gellar as Krysta Seann William Scott as Roland Plot: This might be the hardest plot outline...

Southland Tales

Review Date: Director: Richard Kelly Writer: Richard Kelly Producers: Bo Hyde, Sean McKittrick, Kendall Morgan, Matthew Rhodes Actors: The Rock as Boxer Sarah Michelle Gellar as Krysta Seann William Scott as Roland Plot: This might be the hardest plot outline...

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INT: The Rock/Sarah Michelle Gellar

In SOUTHLAND TALES, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Dwayne Johnson play a couple of innocents in a world on the brink of destruction. Sarah is a porn star named Krysta Now and Dwayne is a one time action hero suffering from...
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INT: Bai Ling

Bai Ling has a pretty varied career going for her. Ironically, the first time I saw here was on “But Can They Sing?”, one of the many strange (and by strange I mean awful) “reality” contests that tests whether celebrities...
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INT: Richard Kelly

I loved Richard Kelly’s DONNIE DARKO. It was a fascinating trip into the world of time travel and of course, scary bunny costumes. Yet SOUTHLAND TALES was a completely different experience. At times I thought it brilliant, and other times...
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Review: Southland Tales

PLOT: When former action star and current political pawn Boxer Santaros turns up after suffering from amnesia, he is taken in by a porn star and a gaggle of SNL not ready for prime time players. He is taken in...
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EXCL: Southland comic!

It’s been a long, bumpy road for Richard Kelly and his SOUTHLAND TALES. It premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival to abysmal reviews and many wondered whether it would ever be released. But Kelly would not give up and...
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UK Southland poster

SOUTHLAND TALES is an extremely important movie. Not in the sense that it’s going to define Richard Kelly’s career (it’s not, he’s going to be riding DONNIE DARKO for the rest of his life), nor does it have some powerful...
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New Southland poster

After a long reworking process, writer/director Richard Kelly is finally ready for us to see his second enigmatic opus SOUTHLAND TALES. Judging from the trailer, this looks exponentially more trippy than DONNIE DARKO but it does look fairly intriguing, if...
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Southland trailer!

Normally I wouldn’t be so excited to see a trailer of a film most critics destroyed (including our own JoBlo), but Richard Kelly has reportedly been very hard at work trying to fix the problems with SOUTHLAND TALES. After over...
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Southland Tales poster

After what can only be described as a Ross and Rachel-esque will-it-or-won’t-it be released in theatres back and forth, definitive proof that Richard Kelly’s SOUTHLAND TALES will hit theatres on November 9th, is finally here. The team over at Cinematical...
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