Doris Burn’s inspirational and whimsical illustrated tale Andrew Henry’s Meadow was one of my favorite books as a young spud, so the news that the guy who made Wild Wild West is turning it into a movie makes my brain bleed a little. Barry Sonnenfeld, who by my count has directed one exceptional film (that’d … Continue reading
Now this is bound to send fans of the 60s BBC TV show The Prisoner right off their trolley, including the various Hollywood people who have long been attempting to condense the open-ended 17-episode series in a cogent two-hour film. But the show is instead rematerializing once more on British TV — Sky One is prepping a … 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
Well, it seems that Lucasfilm has heard the cries of elder nostalgic Star Wars fans everywhere and responded accordingly. Either that or this was their intention all along as yet another way to use the Dark Side of the Force and levitate cash from pockets. Regardless, the original unaltered, un-enhanced Star Wars movies will be coming to DVD this … Continue reading
Can you get too much of a good thing? Disney hopes the hell not, because not only do they have a sequel to their adaptation of theme park ride Pirates of the Caribbean coming this summer, they’ve got a third one already aimed squarely at next summer, when Pirates of the Caribbean: Fear of a Black … 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
Just the other day we got the rather exciting news that actor, filmmaker and Matt Murdock buddy Jon Favreau will be tuning up the machinery for Marvel and Paramount’s Iron Man movie. To stay that much closer to the fans (but still with the relative comfort buffer of data), Favreau is chewing a zeitgeist bite … Continue reading
I’m still not the biggest fan of Superman (give me a Power Girl movie), but judging by the new trailer for Superman Returns the Last Kryptonian seems to be safe in the hands of Bryan Singer, who ditched Marvel’s mutants to play with the beefstick in the blue tights. Singer’s megabudget update of the classic … Continue reading
After the massive recent box office success of action-chick flicks like… Aeon Flux? Ultraviolet? Bloodrayne? Uhh… Hmm. After the impressive comic book sales of recently re-launched cold-blooded hottie Red Sonja (and fantasy titles in general), Millennium and Emmett/Furla have decided to make the character flesh once again with a new $25 million feature that can … 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