To paraphrase Stephen Colbert: Is Southland Tales a great disaster or the greatest disaster? While Southland Tales won’t end a studio, as Heaven’s Gate did, it’s also a much, much worse movie than that legendary failure. Southland Tales is like Heaven’s Gate, though, in that it seems to be a product of unrestrained hubris, a … Continue reading
If I ever watched an episode of Dragonball Z, it certainly wasn’t on purpose. And if I ever did this detestable thing, I definitely didn’t enjoy it. And I know this to be the Non’s honest truth because, last I checked, Hayao Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon, Mamoru Oshii and Katsuhiro Otomo never put their name to … Continue reading
Fresh off a couple years of doing not very much at all*, Jada Pinkett Smith is about to beef up a couple of the less obvious columns in her IMDB profile. One is ‘writer’, as JPS penned a script called The Human Contract; the second column will be ‘director’, as she’s slated to direct the … Continue reading
Edgar William Jacobi, also known as Edgar William Vaughn, also known as William Edgar Bright, also known as Moloch the Mystic will be played by Max Headroom, also known as Matt Frewer (also known as Gene Kranz!). Okay, so it’s not a terribly pivotal role in Zack Snyder’s film version of Watchmen, but there is … Continue reading
Oliver Stone’s My Lai Massacre film, Pinkville, has run the casting gamut from perfect (Bruce Willis as General William Peers) to intriguing (Channing Tatum as a helicopter pilot who tries to stop the killing) to "we’ll see" (Xzibit as a soldier who feels that the massacre was, on balance, justified). But even if all of … Continue reading
Things have been crazy this last week, so I will just list the DVDs and what is on them. As a note, the Princess Bride DVD has new, never seen features but is weak compared to last year’s special release of the movie. Close Encounters of the Third Kind has every version of the film, … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: ShochikuMSRP: $21.99RATED: UnratedRUNNING TIME: 119 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: Making of Ashura Video Effects of Ashura Interactive Program Notes Original Theatrical Trailers The PitchBlade meets My Demon Lover meets William Shakespeare’s Romeo & JulietThe HumansSomegro Ichikawa, Rie Miyazawa, Kanako Higuchi, Atsuro Watabe, Takashi Naito, Erika Sawajiri The NutshellBlade goes … Continue reading
You know that Prince of Persia movie that’s been simmering at Disney for month after month? Well, Disney’s Oren Aviv and Jerry Bruckheimer have offered the directing gig to Mike Newell, the man who is currently awating critical savagery for his Love In The Time Of Cholera. Newell has met with Disney and the ‘Heimer … Continue reading
I always liked the aspect in The Big Lebowski that the story of the Dude was a modern legend, that it somehow came upon a mysterious stranger to tell us the story. Myth is important, it keeps things interesting, and that’s why so many legends endure the ages. Craig McDonald understands this, that character should … Continue reading