In 2011 the Three Gorges Dam will become fully operational and will be the largest hydro-electric power station on Earth. It will also have displaced one and a half million people whose homes are now or will be underwater as the dammed-up Yangtze River floods. As the water creeps higher, luxury boats catering to foreign … Continue reading
Time Crimes could possibly be retitled The Idiot’s Guide to Time Travel – which isn’t a complaint or a put down of the movie. Hector is a hapless schlub who is moving into his new house; when we first meet him he’s coming home from the store without having closed his car’s hatchback, and has … Continue reading
Cloverfield is audacious. That’s a word I certainly didn’t think I would be using in conjunction with a movie that I have been sort of dreading, a movie wrapped in a nonsense blanket of mystery marketing. Here’s the answer to the mystery: Cloverfield is about a big monster who attacks New York City and the … Continue reading
I’m coming to you from Park City Utah, home of the Sundance Film Festival… and of me, for the next ten days. I’ve been in town for the last four hours and I have learned something important about this tiny ski community: It is so fucking cold. It’s 11 degrees right now, and it just … Continue reading
Hey JJ, You probably know me as the guy who saw the Cloverfield trailer early and who leaked the final name of the movie. You may also know me as a guy who has been highly skeptical of that same movie, especially of the viral marketing, which I found annoying, stupid and overbaked*. I write … Continue reading
I am finishing up my packing for the big move to Studio City, and right after that I’m flying off to Utah for Sundance, which means you’ll be seeing very little of me around here until maybe Friday. It’s just as hard for me to leave you as it is for you to see me … Continue reading
The Wire‘s Jimmy McNulty is one of the great characters in television history, and while you have to lay a lot of that at the feet of creator David Simon and his team of insanely talented writers, you must leave room in your praise for Dominic West, the man who gives McNulty his soul. Fans … Continue reading
How do you, with a straight face, make a movie about a group of buddies taking their terminally ill friend to break into Skywalker Ranch to see Episode I before it comes out (and before he dies)? Unless the film ends with Cancer Boy seeing the bad film and using it to make his peace … Continue reading
Any hope you had of Spielberg doing Interstellar next… throw it away. There’s more casting going on for The Trial of the Chicago 7, and a great source behind the scenes indicates to me that this movie is going forward ASAP. This source has also thrown me some scraps: the names of a couple of … Continue reading
Last week IGN ran some GI Joe casting news, following on the heels of the announcement that Marlon Wayans would be playing Roadblock… a character the trades said would be the leader of the GI Joe team. IGN confirmed that Duke would be in the movie, and they said that the producers were after Sam … Continue reading