The trailer for Valkyrie, the Tom Cruise in a Nazi uniform and eyepatch movie, has debuted at Yahoo! movies. It’s one of those trailers that gives the whole movie away, but I guess there’s no harm in that, since anybody with a brain knows the plan to kill Hitler failed. There are three things I … Continue reading
Looking at the cast list of Star Trek XI I see that the only person who I find really exciting is Eric Bana as the bad guy. If the rest of the bridge crew had been better cast I might have been psyched about Simon Pegg as Scotty, but he’s surrounded by third rate actors … Continue reading
Guillermo del Toro has added another item to his already heaping plate of future projects. He’ll be writing, directing and producing a movie version of an obscure British TV series, The Champions, for United Artists. The Champions ran for 30 episodes from 1968 to 1969, and it was about a secret UN trio called Nemesis … Continue reading
Frank Langella is making the rounds promoting his latest movie, Starting Out in the Evening, and as will happen when you place anyone in a room with a bunch of internet writers, he’s spilling on his next projects*, including The Box and Frost/Nixon, but what I’m interested in is what he had to say about … Continue reading
Yesterday, I covered convention floor of the Video Game Expo, which you can read here. This part covers the panel discussions and the movie Moral Kombat. The first panel was the video game journalism panel, featuring “the Video Game Doctor” Bill Kunkel, Ray Ledda, VP of Ziff Davis and Susan Arendt of Wired’s Game|Life. There … Continue reading
BUY IT HERE AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!PLATFORM: PSP, PS2, WiiESRB RATING: M for Mature!PUBLISHER:: Rockstar GamesDEVELOPER: Rockstar (Note: This review is based on the PSP version) It’s funny how things work out. I was more pissed than anyone upon hearing the news about Manhunt 2‘s gutting by the ESRB and by forces overseas (see here … Continue reading
Before superstations and home video, horror-movie hosts were a staple of local broadcast TV. Obscure genre flicks could be licensed in bulk, drawing a few extra advertising dollars from waterbed companies and giving insomniacs something to watch besides a test pattern. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, I studied schlock at the feet … Continue reading
So what’s up with the publicity still of the Des Moines Priapsis Players community production of Heat? Actually, it’s one of four stills of the Pacino / De Niro team-up Righteous Kill, a movie that’s only about a decade too late. Empire Online has the exclusive pics, one of which demonstrates that, yes, you can … Continue reading