REVIEWED THIS WEEK: – The Winter Men #1– Hero Squared #1– Ultimates Annual #1– Hiroshima Atomic Holocaust #1– At the Seams TPB– Captain America #8– When Zombies Attack #1– Hero at Large #1 For the Love of Mother Russia, Read “The Winter Men” By Sean Fahey In many ways, Wildstorm’s new mini-series The Winter Men … Continue reading
Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Four Brothers $20,700,000 $20,700,000 1 2 The Skeleton Key $15,700,000 $15,700,000 1 3 Dukes of Hazzard $13,000,000 $57,400,000 2 4 Wedding Crashers $12,000,000 $164,000,000 5 5 Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo $9,400,000 $9,400,000 1 6 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory $7,200,000 $183,700,000 5 7 March of the Penguins … Continue reading
Although only about a hundred of you actually saw it in theaters, you’ve probably heard tons of raves for the Thai martial arts flick Ong-Bak (make up for it now by ordering the DVD RIGHT HERE!). It made my best of 2004 list, and it features the kind of stunning and brutal stunts (unassisted by … Continue reading
Now that he’s catapulted himself to movie star status with the quiet character piece 2 Fast 2 Furious and remained there with recent work in Four Brothers, singer-turned-actor Tyrese Gibson is taking center stage in Rogue Pictures’ action flick Waist Deep. The oft-shirtless Tyrese will play a highly oxygenated ex-convict named O2 who wants to … Continue reading
Director Marc Forster, who somehow coaxed an Oscar-winning performance from Halle Berry in Monster’s Ball and took another swing at a gold man with Finding Neverland, now has a thriller called Stay on the way. The movie stars Ewan McGregor, prolific dish Naomi Watts, and an oily Ryan Gosling, who’s still waiting to be the … Continue reading
Given the progressively creaky state of the Bond franchise, it’s no surprise that studios are trying to inject life into the spy genre with the likes of the recently resurrected The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and the XXX “franchise” (which sadly seems to have come to an end with the brilliantly awful XXX: State of the … Continue reading
The devil is returning once more in the form of precocious preteen, and this time he’ll be the (sorta) offspring of Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles in the remake The Omen 666. For those out there who have somehow never seen the Richard Donner original, it starred Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as an upper-class … Continue reading
Nic Cage finally got his comic book movie out of his system with Ghost Rider, but he’s moving right into another flick that sounds sorta like a superhero. Cage is starring in Neil LaBute’s currently shooting remake of The Wicker Man, an update of the truly bizarre 70s film that followed a policeman searching for … Continue reading
I like a good skewering of Hollywood, at least when it’s done well — Bowfinger, State and Main, Living in Oblivion, The Player, HBO’s Entourage, or even the late lamented TV series Action!. Filmmaker Jake Kasdan has his own indie satire in the works called The TV Set, pulling back the curtain on the process of making … Continue reading
Unlike the events of 9/11, which filmmakers are just now collectively daring to approach nearly four years later, there’s no such waiting period for tragedy affecting other parts of the globe. So… tsunami movie! The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and resultant tsunami killed over 300,000 and affected millions of unfortunate people in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, … Continue reading