Ben Garant’s Reno 911!: Miami was tolerable because it at least delivered on the modest promise of the TV show, i.e. it featured bizarro sights like Paul Rudd as a Scarface-like drug lord torturing a hostage with a weed whacker. On a yacht. Prompting one of this year’s more memorable snatches of dialogue: "Who brings … Continue reading
Ah, pay cable. The great equalizer. Sure, it takes a certain something special to get a major studio to finance your film, then like it enough to release it with lots of prints and advertising. But suppose you got a film fulla stars and you still ain’t got that magic? There’s still no reason to … Continue reading
The next Punisher movie has a title, and it’s not the previously bandied about The Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank (as awful a movie title as I could imagine); the new film will be called The Punisher: War Zone, which will be familiar to all Marvel Comics fans who were reading in the 90s. I find … Continue reading
Zack Snyder has a list and is ticking off projects guaranteed to get people up in arms. Remake the greatest zombie film ever? Check. Piss off the entire nation of Iran? Check. Tackle the pinnacle of comic books? Check. Now he’s going after none other than Mr. Ray Bradbury… well, okay, maybe Bradbury isn’t quite … Continue reading
James C. Strouse’s Grace is Gone got a jolt of Awards season legitimacy a few weeks back when Clint Eastwood volunteered to compose a brand new score for the drama about a husband who’s left to raise his two daughters after his wife is killed whilst serving in the Iraq War. The film garnered generally … Continue reading
The Crop: Voltron The Studio/Production Company: 20th Century Fox/New Regency The Director: Agnes Varda (Unconfirmed) The Writer: Justin Marks The Actors: Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum, Martin Sheen and Paul Sorvino (Also Unconfirmed) The Premise: Five years after the Robeast apocalypse, the fate of the Earth, nay the entire universe, rests on the shoulders … Continue reading
In an announcement that shocked absolutely no one, it’s been revealed that Owen Wilson has dropped out of Tropic Thunder. In case you’ve been using your internet for important things, like following the Gonzalez resignation or the US Government’s latest attempts to spark a war with Iran, Wilson tried to do himself in over the … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: CFP DomesticMSRP: $12.98RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 90 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• None The Pitch “It’s like V for Vendetta, if you subtract the political relevance.” The Humans An assortment of 9/11 survivors, theorists, and experts. And one lunatic with a copy of Adobe Premier. The Nutshell Did you know someone (not pointing … Continue reading
Hollywood has a message for you: that man laying on the sidewalk, the one wearing pants caked in his own shit, he could be a genius. He could be a wounded soul who has been beaten down by the world but who has vast stores of wisdom and knowledge and plain old horse sense to … Continue reading
Remakes are your friend! Sometimes, anyway…