Remember that time you fell in love with that girl in the Dungeons and Dragons IRC chat room and she ended up being a 400 pound man who jerked off into stuffed versions of Cthulu? Whoa, how embarrassing was that? Probably almost as embarrassing as asking Lexi Alexander, the director of the new Punisher movie, … Continue reading
10) I will be there! Say hi or take a swing at me, depending on your feelings. 9) Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, the first film on tonight’s double feature, is about a record producer based on Phil Spector. And despite being shot almost 40 years ago, the film is eerily prescient about Spector’s … Continue reading
Even a werewolf needs some love, and in Mark Romanek’s updating of the Universal classic The Wolf Man, he might be getting it from smoking hot Emily Blunt. A trusted source tell me that the role of Gwen, the Wolf Man’s love interest, has been offered to the eminently smashable actress, for whom I have … Continue reading
In every Indiana Jones movie, Indy comes up against some sort of vermin or creepy crawly: snakes, slimy bugs, rats. So what’s in store for him in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Ants, according to Lego. And possibly giant ones. Dennis Bruhn, who says he has one of the largest collection … Continue reading
Paramount’s not showing the opening of Cloverfield to you, probably because that’s all boring get to know the characters stuff. Instead they’re showing the first five minutes of the monster’s attack on New York City, starting from a NY1 news report seen at a party going all the way to massive destruction in the streets. … Continue reading
On Sunday morning I was at a friend’s place in Studio City and I saw one of the notices that get put up when filming is being done in your area (it’s so much better organized than in New York, where you never knew what the hell was happening when a TV show or movie … Continue reading
Here’s the international teaser poster for The Dark Knight, which comes from Omelete. Is it just me or does Batman look like he’s been grounded and is whistfully looking out at the playground he’d rather be in?
There was recently an excellent fracas when IESB ran a story claiming that Star Trek XI‘s time travel plot would be using the Guardian – the donut shaped time portal from classic original Trek episode City on the Edge of Forever – as the mechanism to send some Romulans and Old Spock back to the … Continue reading
It’s the latest thing in movie marketing: show the audience a big clip from the beginning of the movie. This obviously only works if the beginning of your movie is strong, and I think they’re fudging it anyway – the AVP-R clip was the first ten minutes crammed into five, and the new clip from … Continue reading
There are few movies as completely perfect as Groundhog Day. I remember seeing the film in theaters and being blown away by how dark it got and how that darkness made the ending not just palatable but flat out deserved – this is a lesson more movies could learn. And over the years it’s been … Continue reading