Todd Haynes’ brilliant new film, I’m Not There, was once subtitled Suppositions on a Film Concerning Bob Dylan. I think that subtitle goes a long way to letting you know what kind of movie this is: non-linear and without a specific through-line… or a through-Dylan. Six actor play Bob, or aspects of him, and there’s … Continue reading
It’s the dumb movie equivalent of getting the Beatles back together*: Jordana Brewster has signed on to reprise her role of Mia, Vin Diesel’s sister, in The Fast and The Furious 4. With this, the old gang, including Diesel and Paul Walker, are back together as we never dared hope they would be. And all … Continue reading
It isn’t just the internet that sometimes gets it completely and totally wrong; earlier this week The Denver Post reported that Robert Knepper, the infamous T-Bag from Prison Break, was going to star in the remake of The Birds for the fine people at Platinum Dunes. The problem is: Platinum Dunes never even met with … Continue reading
G-Force, the upcoming Bruckheimer CGI/live action hybrid whose basic concept really reminds me of Grant Morrison’s WE3 (also in film development) but you know, for kids, now has its lead characters. Or their voices, anyway. Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi and Tracy Morgan (diversity!) have signed on to deliver the nuanced vocals of a group of … Continue reading
Now that’s how to work a crowd.
Frank Darabont’s The Mist is far from a flawless work: its first act relies on contrived conflict to set its ideologically (and theologically) diverse characters against each other; the basic conventions of the narrative will be overly familiar to anyone who’s seen "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"; and, on a strictly superficial level, … Continue reading
I have no inside information on the upcoming shaky handheld monster opus Cloverfield. I couldn’t even tell J.J. Abrams from a guy at open mic poetry night at my local coffee shop and he probably thinks CHUD.com is a gay fetish site [and he’d be RIGHT] but after downloading the hi-rez version of the trailer … Continue reading
Remember way back when there was a rumor about Frank Darabont possibly being involed in a television miniseries remake/continuation of The Thing? I don’t think I imagined that. Well, regardless of all of that Frank Darabont has his The Thing. It’s called The Mist. In fact when I look back on this harrowing and unforgettable … Continue reading
We’ve seen movies begin taking the loss this week as a result of the strike: Shantaram and Nine are delayed, and if rumors are true, Oliver Stone’s Pinkville is dead, dead, dead forever. One fil that keeps getting mentioned as being right on the edge of getting axed is George Miller’s Justice League, but the … Continue reading