Here’s a hint to you international travelers in the audience: don’t stay at the Radisson SAS in Belfast. The internet has been out in the hotel for 24 hours now, which has been incredibly frustrating for someone who, you know, writes on the internet. Fuck these people. In the meantime, here are my pictures from … Continue reading
In a few hours I will be boarding a plane for the longest flight of my life, going from LAX to Heathrow. Once that 12 hour flight is over, I’ll hop on another plane that will take me to Belfast, Ireland, where I’ll be visiting the set of City of Ember, the next family movie … Continue reading
Shooting on Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Watchmen has quietly gotten under way in Vancouver, and a Watchmen fan site, Watchmencomicmovie.com, has scored some pics from the production. The photos were taken at Nat Bailey Stadium last week, where Snyder was filming a scene where Dr. Manhattan meets John F Kennedy. Visible in the pictures is … Continue reading
We all know how Hollywood operates: a movie makes a zillion dollars and the studio is announcing a sequel before the Sunday box office receipts are tallied. Especially when the film in question is seen as the flagship of a new franchise, and the filmmakers have been on the record talking about where they’d like … Continue reading
It’s late and I’m exhausted, so let’s make this quick: the Iron Man trailer is online a day early, and it can be seen in Quicktime. It’s more or less a re-edited version of the Comic Con footage… but that stuff was totally kick-ass, after all. Click here to watch the trailer (while it lasts).
It looks like Bryan Singer has not only lost the race to make a Harvey Milk biopic, he’s lost it HARD: Gus Van Sant has lined up Sean Penn to play the gay martyr and possibly Matt Damon to play his Twinkie engorged killer. Maybe. Van Sant is looking at starting production in San Francisco … Continue reading
There’s something I keep hearing people say about Superbad that gives me pause; they compliment the movie on its soundtrack, which they say keeps it from being dated. Some people say it’s part of the movie’s attempt to be timeless. In fact, I seem to come across a lot of people talking about movies being … Continue reading
The Orphanage has been a big hit on the festival circuit (well, with everyone except our own Russ Fischer, who gave it a 5 out of 10 in his review right here), so it was only a matter of time before this Spanish ghost story got picked up for an English language remake. The Orphanage … Continue reading
Naomi Klein’s book No Logo is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the corporate driven world in which we live (and serve as serfs). Her new book looks promising and disturbing; Shock Doctrine explores how Milton Friedman’s concepts of economic shock therapy – using natural and manmade catastrophes and society’s stunned response to … Continue reading
Obsessed With Film seems to be the only site getting solid information about the Justice League movie, even if it isn’t the kind of earth shattering casting news that makes up the bread and butter of scoop-driven websites. Last week they were the first with the fact that casting agents had been hired for the … Continue reading