Clint Eastwood’s companion piece to Flags of our Fathers, now titled Red Sun, Black Sand, is finding itself having some logistical issues. The movie will tell the story of the battle for Iwo Jima from the Japanese point of view, a very intriguing concept – two films telling the same story from different sides. I … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: Warner Brothers MSRP: $19.98 RATED: NR RUNNING TIME: 94 Minutes SPECIAL FEATURES: • Commentary by Nick Redman, David Weddle, Paul Seydor and Garner Simmons • A Justified Life: Sam Peckinpah and the High Country • Trailers (This is part of the brilliant new Sam Peckinpah box set. Get … Continue reading
Though their Grindhouse project is still a vapormovie (I think they may start shooting later this month), directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez are chronicling the experience for a 250 page “companion” book that should theoretically be on shelves before the movie’s tentative September release date. The book info from Rodriguez’s site: An insider’s look into … Continue reading
***UPDATED: Two new cities added!*** Yeah, I complain about the screenings but even I have moments of weakness where I try to keep a toe dipped in the pond and this is one of at least two screenings we’ll be doing in January. As long as I don’t overdo it, I don’t see why we … Continue reading
I recently read an excellent book, Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause, and I was just as fascinated by the general life of that film’s director, Nicholas Ray, as I was in what went into making the film. Ray was a madman and possibly a genius, but also … Continue reading
It looks like my “Going for Brokeback” piece was written a week or two early. Just this weekend Brokeback Mountain, well on its way to being the frontrunner for the Academy Awards, became the center of two controversies. One is stupid. A movie theater in Utah reneged on showing the film after it had been … 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
Sean’s Best of 2005 (5) Captain America (Marvel) Writer Ed Brubaker brings a "Sleeper"-esque espionage sensibility to the Cap relaunch, and transforms the adventures of the last boy scout into one of Marvel’s most intelligent and suspenseful ongoing series. From the first issue on, Brubaker has put Cap through the ringer, ultimately showing the underlying … Continue reading
Sean’s Best of 2005 (5) Captain America (Marvel) Writer Ed Brubaker brings a "Sleeper"-esque espionage sensibility to the Cap relaunch, and transforms the adventures of the last boy scout into one of Marvel’s most intelligent and suspenseful ongoing series. From the first issue on, Brubaker has put Cap through the ringer, ultimately showing the underlying … Continue reading
Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Hostel $20,100,000 $20,100,000 1 2 Narnia $15,400,000 $247,500,000 5 3 King Kong $12,400,000 $192,500,000 4 4 Fun with Dick and Jane $12,200,000 $81,300,000 3 5 Cheaper by the Dozen 2 $8,300,000 $66,400,000 3 6 Munich $7,400,000 $25,200,000 3 7 Memoirs of a Geisha $6,000,000 $39,700,000 5 8 … Continue reading