Maybe it’s because I’ve been waist deep in Warner Bros’ John Wayne/John Ford box set the last two weeks, but The Hidden Blade, the new film from Twilight Samurai director Yoji Yamada, really reminded me of one of Ford’s more elegiac Westerns. Hidden Blade is set at the twilight of the age of samurai, as … Continue reading
We’re still almost a year (gah!) away from seeing the results of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s experiment in gratuitous mayhem, but they’re already talking about building another Grind House. Rodriguez recently bumped his gums about the flick, verifying that he and Tarantino are operating second camera on each other’s half of the double feature … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: WarnerMSRP: $19.98RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 100 min.SPECIAL FEATURES:• Director’s Commentary• Additional Scenes• Screen Tests The Pitch “It’s Married to the Mob meets Sanjuro. Pity about the language barrier.” The Humans Diane Keaton (Hanging Up), Paul Sorvino (Knock Off), Maury Chaykin (Money For Nothing), Bob Balaban (2010: The Year We Make … 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
The big Licensing Show has been going on here in New York City – it’s the place where studios trot out their licensing friendly films (ie, I don’t think any of the Re-Animators made it here) and try to get companies to put their characters on lunch boxes, in Happy Meals and stenciled on the … Continue reading
It could be a wacky rumor or it could be the casting stroke of genius we’ve been waiting for – The Insider says that JJ Abrams wants Matt Damon to play Captain Kirk in his new, rebooted Star Trek. And by The Insider I mean the glossy celeb TV show, not fat Russell Crowe. JJ … Continue reading
Here’s something nifty, particularly for readers of my sporadic Underground column: an independent sci-fi short film with some rather snazzy looking homebrewed special effects and obvious talent on display. It’s called The Ore, and is made by a guy who not only knows his stuff and this site, but someone whose work I’ve previously given … Continue reading
Give me 500cc of independent movies, stat! Ah. Okay, I feel a little better now. I know in the last edition of this column back in, um… April, I said I was going to be a little more regular with the Underground, but best intentions and all that. I do still have a few movies … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Bros. Home EntertainmentMSRP: $14.98 RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 110 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Tour of Krypto’s spaceship• Unaired promo The Pitch "Laika, come home!" The Humans Sam Vincent, Michael Daingerfield, Brian Dobson. The Nutshell Poor Krypto gets launched into space (presumably as a test to see if the rocket for Kal-El … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: MiramaxMSRP: $29.99RATED: PG-13RUNNING TIME: 108 min.SPECIAL FEATURES:• Feature Commentary by the Director, Producer and Editor• Making-Of• Training Bart the Bear• Still Gallery The Pitch “It’s The Horse Whisperer meets Legends of the Fall. Hey. Wake up!” The Humans Robert Redford (Indecent Proposal), Jennifer Lopez (Monster-In-Law), Morgan Freeman (Along Came … Continue reading