The hair has begun growing back on Timothy Olyphant’s head, but he still has what looks like a very tight buzz cut. He has been bald for the last few months shooting Hitman, an adaptation of the video game about – well, I think the title sums it up. The head had to stay bald … Continue reading
Neil Gaiman has been gearing up the last few months to make his feature directorial debut with an adaptation of his own comic, Death: The High Cost of Living, which sees the anthropomorphic personification of death assume mortal form for one day out of a century (yes, shades of Meet Joe Black). As part of … Continue reading
Yesterday Latino Review broke the news that Warner Bros wanted Robert Rodriguez to direct their remake of Clash of the Titans. Quint from Aint It Cool News was able to get in touch with Rodriguez directly and ask him the deal; according to the director Warner Bros came at him with the movie, he loved … Continue reading
Heath Ledger is taking The Joker very seriously. Talking to The New York Times about his turn as a Bob Dylan in I’m Not There, Ledger revealed the stress of playing the villain in The Dark Knight. It is a physically and mentally draining role — his Joker is a “psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with … Continue reading
O wicked embargo! If only I could tell you about my visit to the Watchmen production offices and the ‘war room,’ pictured above, you would be dazzled. Thrilled. Jealous. But I can’t. The official Watchmen website updated today with a new blog from director Zack Snyder, featuring a couple of pictures of the ‘war room.’ … Continue reading
Poor The Rock. Sure, he had a hit movie this fall with The Game Plan, but his more ambitious efforts don’t seem to work. In fact, not working is the mildest way to put the resounding failure of Southland Tales, a movie that goes down in flames and takes The Rock with it. He tries … Continue reading
When Kelvin at Latino Review tells you he has a scoop from a confirmed source, you can take it to the bank. That’s nice in a world where too many sites run too many half-confirmed or even wholly made up rumors. So when Kelvin sent me an email saying he has the inside story on … Continue reading
This Sunday is a big day for me. Heckler, the movie that marks my big screen debut, is premiering in Los Angeles at the Arclight. I saw the film earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival, and I found it to be funny and interesting, even if I didn’t agree with all of the … Continue reading
It’s bad enough that Spaced, the classic British TV show created by Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, is getting remade for America (Edgar is calling this version McSpaced), but now there are people online who think that the original creators have sold out and that they are somehow involved in this new monstrosity. … Continue reading
I have been considering writing an editorial imploring Joss Whedon to go back to TV. It’s where he belongs, and I don’t mean that in a snarky or mean way; the serialized nature of a television series allows him to play with thematic ideas and evolve characters in ways that cannot happen in a two … Continue reading