Watching the violence escalate in the Middle East, as Israel advances further into Lebanon and Hezbollah missiles strike farther past the border and Hamas continues to agitate, my mind turns to the same thing all of America is thinking about – Battle for the Planet of the Apes. The fifth film in the groundbreaking series … Continue reading
There’s about 40 almost perfect minutes in 13 Tzameti, a big chunk of the film that will have you on the edge of your seat and your fingernails in shreds. Sadly, that 40 minutes comes after almost a half hour of true tedium and just before an overly obvious finale. But still! How many movies … Continue reading
What’s in a name? Is a good movie with a bad name still a good movie? It is, and while I Like Killing Flies has about the worst name since The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Crazy Mixed Up Zombies, it’s still a very good, very funny and gloriously New York movie. … Continue reading
I’m not a very big fan of Infernal Affairs. Shoot me. Please don’t. To me it was an above average flick that was made beloved more for the fact that it was as polished as a Hollywood picture but it wasn’t made in Hollywood than because it’s some latter day Lethal Weapon. It was smart, … Continue reading
Scarlett Johansson is not lacking attention or press coverage. In fact, she’s reached a point where there’s as much talk about her talent as her hotness. Don’t get me wrong, her looks definitely merit the magazine covers and commercial endorsements, but her acting abilities will keep her working a lot longer. This week she takes … Continue reading
Last week I sat down in Vegas with Brett Ratner as he was doing a cameo on X3 writer Zak Penn’s new improv poker comedy, The Grand. I ended up talking with Ratner for well over an hour, and the conversation is funny, fascinating and revealing. You have to talk to a guy for a … Continue reading
I love the Mayans. Love them to death. Thankfully they don’t know me or sill roam the Earth or else they’d have me sliced and diced and on my way into the sacrifice dumpster faster than you can say "Cortes was a prick". I also love the really crazy things they did in the name … Continue reading
While writing about this makes me feel almost as foolish as when they announced a Slinky movie (they really did), the fact that someone will make millions from this idea merely leaves me queasy. Empire Pictures and Transcience Corp. are working on an animated feature film starring The Amazing Sea Monkeys, those wee beasties that … Continue reading
As Asian horror goes, One Missed Call was fairly generic, especially considering it came from psychotic director Takashi Miike. One thing in the remake’s favor is director Eric Valette (yeah, a French guy doing an American remake of a Japanese movie), whose last film Malefique was a rather taut little horror accomplishment. Though she’s probably … Continue reading
It must be sort of depressing to be Simon Pegg, in a way. I mean, while I’m sure he’s delighted with the quantity of projects now being offered to him, let’s face it — the odds of him continually finding more material as brilliant as Spaced and Shaun of the Dead (and Hot Fuzz, we … Continue reading