I was sitting in my living room, writing up the National Board of Review winners, when someone knocked on my door. It was a guy with a cake in one hand and a copy of the Gotham Times in the other. I had been delivered my own Joker cake. Some of you have seen the … Continue reading
Getting new Iron Man details feels like waiting for your tax return to arrive. There are perfectly legit reasons for keeping a lot of the film’s details under wraps — I really don’t want to know the whole movie before I sit down in front of it — but in the meantime we’re being fed … Continue reading
Imagine being the guy that has to shop around for projects worthy of Angelina Jolie. The checklist must be longer than a Guns N Roses concert rider, and detailed enough that most potential stories don’t even get past title consideration. She’s played Mariane Pearl, Lara Croft and Grendel’s mum; what’s left to engage the sensibilities … Continue reading
The Golden Compass is an extraordinary movie for one bad reason: it manages to be both rushed and boring at the same time. The film blows forward at a breakneck pace but never thinks to make anything happening on screen in the least bit interesting. By the end of the movie you feel like you’ve … Continue reading
Fans of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, rejoice! New Line has just thrown up an extremely ribald red-band (i.e. R-rated) trailer for Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay! As for everyone else… I actually recommend that you give it a watch. ‘Cuz when you see The Pineapple Express next August, you’ll have … Continue reading
Double your pleasure, Norton-o-philes. The actor, who suddenly cannot be stopped* will be playing dual, genetically identical roles for writer/director Tim Blake Nelson in the flick Leaves of Grass. The picture is billed as a ‘comedic thriller’, an identity readily apparent to anyone who reads descriptions of Norton’s roles: (1) an Ivy League classics professor … Continue reading
Gus Van Sant’s Harvey Milk biopic, bluntly titled Milk at present, got popular in a hurry. Somehow, I think the casting of Sean Penn in the lead role had something to do with that. Though they’re still "in negotiations", I’m pretty confident that the agents/managers/attorneys/dog walkers for Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch and James Franco will … Continue reading
Worlds collide! It makes a lot of sense that, when the time comes to cast a voice actor to make your gibbering creatures come to life, you’d go to someone with a lot of gibbering experience. Enter Mike Patton, who, we’re now told, voiced the creatures crawling around New York in I Am Legend. (Note … Continue reading
Time to break out the Champale once again! Former CHUD superstar Mark Wheaton (aka Smilin’ Jack Ruby) has got another screenplay headed for the big screen! And this announcement is especially gratifying because the script in question, Unfinished Country, has been a passion project for Mark for several years. Set in the Soweto slums of … Continue reading
Slashfilm has gotten a big scoop on the casting for the GI Joe movie, and it’s not news that’s as surprising as Sienna Miller playing The Baroness. In fact, it’s sort of obvious when you think about it: Ray Park has been cast as Snake Eyes. If you wasted your youth bathed in the glow … Continue reading