My opinion on the National Board of Review changed when I interviewed Roy Frumkes, writer of the immortal classic Street Trash, and learned that he was a member. I went from thinking that the NBR was a pointless, starfucking group to thinking it was a pointless, starfucking group with at least one guy who finds … Continue reading
An adults only trailer for Funny Games – Michael Haneke’s apparently shot for shot remake of his own 1997 film – has popped up online. And over the last couple of days the new poster for the movie, which you see to the right of this, also showed up. The poster is terrific, and is … Continue reading
I was sitting in my living room, writing up the National Board of Review winners, when someone knocked on my door. It was a guy with a cake in one hand and a copy of the Gotham Times in the other. I had been delivered my own Joker cake. Some of you have seen the … Continue reading
The Golden Compass is an extraordinary movie for one bad reason: it manages to be both rushed and boring at the same time. The film blows forward at a breakneck pace but never thinks to make anything happening on screen in the least bit interesting. By the end of the movie you feel like you’ve … Continue reading
Slashfilm has gotten a big scoop on the casting for the GI Joe movie, and it’s not news that’s as surprising as Sienna Miller playing The Baroness. In fact, it’s sort of obvious when you think about it: Ray Park has been cast as Snake Eyes. If you wasted your youth bathed in the glow … Continue reading
Entertainment Tonight, an oasis in the television landscape for true hardcore cineastes, has scored the first behind the scenes footage from Speed Racer showing Matthew ‘Foxy’ Fox in his full Racer X costume. Unsurprisingly, Racer X looks like he just escaped from an S&M dungeon in The Castro; the Wachowskis are bringing their personal touch … Continue reading
There have been a lot of Flash games created to promote one movie or another, and we’ve brought you plenty of links to them in the past, but I don’t think any of them have been as much fun as the Michael Myers Rampage game, available right now on the Halloween remake website. In the … Continue reading
Superhero Hype! has the official The Dark Knight teaser poster, and it’s a pretty interesting design. Not something I’d want to hang on my wall, exactly, but it’s certainly different. I wonder if people who don’t know the film features The Joker will exactly get what it is that they’re looking at. And is that … Continue reading
A lucky few Los Angelenos had the opportunity of a lifetime last night: to see Dewey Cox perform. Sony took over the Sunset Strip’s historic Roxy for a show that would kick off the Cox Across America tour, where Dewey Cox and his band, The Hard Walkers, will bring their greatest hits to a select … Continue reading
Sunday I was at the inaugural night of the Wright Stuff festival at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles; it’s a two week series programmed by Edgar Wright, the overly talented man behind Spaced, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. The double feature was greatness: Bugsy Malone, the 30s era gangster musical starring … Continue reading