It was with a heavy heart that we learned earlier this year that Capcom was shutting the doors on Clover Studios, the development house responsible for great games such as Okami and Viewtiful Joe, as well as oddities like God Hand. We sometimes forget, though, that "shutting the doors" in studio-speak isn’t equivalent to "shutting … Continue reading
Jeff Nathanson, who wrote Steven Spielberg’s look at a con man and check forger, Catch Me If You Can, is going back into the world of lying with a movie about the rise and fall of Milli Vanilli. No, this is not a Behind the Music special – Nathanson is making a real movie at … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
Will Arnett played a rather inept magician in Arrested Development, but in real life, the guy appears to be a rather talented alchemist, as he’s transformed the cred generated from that show into a prolific big screen career quite unlike anyone else on the show. Checking the scorecard, he’s prominently featured in a couple of … Continue reading
The scariest thing about most episodes of Masters of Horror so far has been the fact that professional filmmakers were behind them, but the Joe Dante segments have been refreshing change-ups from the general incompetence on display. Which is ironic, since Dante’s film career has been, as the French might say, merde for the last … Continue reading
The Polish Brothers seem like they work slowly – it’s been eight years since Twin Falls Idaho, with The Astronaut Farmer only the third feature to follow their debut. But with acting and writing gigs for other filmmakers, plus their own research, their output isn’t as surprising. Neither is their focus on Americana, which has … Continue reading
Billy Bob Thornton has played a lot of down home characters, but none so approachable and determined as Charles Farmer, who bucks NASA and the FAA to build his own rocket and explore space in his own way, on his own time. You’re old enough to remember the moon landing. Yes. When Neil Armstrong and … Continue reading
I don’t think I had a better time at the movies last year than when I sat down to watch Crank. It’s an action film with a cool concept, no doubt, and even cooler execution of said concept. Virtually every frame of the film bursts with insane energy, and it builds to an ending that … Continue reading
Due to a technical issue, this roundtable with Virginia Madsen isn’t as long as it could have been. But most of the second half of the interview dealt with spoilers about The Astronaut Farmer or general discussion about The Number 23, which needs no more discussion. You’re missing out on a good anecdote about Madsen … Continue reading
When THUD reported on the March 5th premiere date for the NBC I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-The Departed crime drama The Black Donnellys, there was a lot of buzz about how the announcement didn’t come with a return date for the show it was replacing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. At the time, I said that we shouldn’t … Continue reading