Have you been waffling about going to San Diego Comic Con this year?* Sure, you’re thinking, I could go to Con and meet actors and comic creators, be among the first to see footage from upcoming exciting movies, fill the holes in my collections of geek crap for only moderately gouged prices and possibly finally … Continue reading
Perhaps the scariest thing about Joshua was the feeling I got at the end that I had just sat through some kind of weird gay panic movie. As the movie came to its conclusion I found myself more than a little gobsmacked by what writer and director George Ratliff had ended his movie with: the … Continue reading
Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of the best selling novel, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, has gained a couple of men to go with the No. 1 Ladies. David Oyelowo, from Last King of Scotland, Idris Elba, aka Stringer Fuckin’ Bell from The Wire,Tony Award winners Winston Ntshona and John Kani and Die Another Day’s Colin … Continue reading
We’ve all been dying to get into the sex lives of a bunch of shallow women entering their 50s, and now we can! The movie version of Sex and the City is going to finally happen after a couple of years of hemming and hawing on the parts of everyone involved. This is standard practice … Continue reading
Robert Zemeckis is completely smitten with the motion capture process, it seems, as he is lining up to make his third movie in a row with mocap. This time it’s going to be a new take on A Christmas Carol, the immortal Charles Dickens story, with Jim Carrey in the role of Scrooge. It’s also … Continue reading
Sure, the poster for the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie looks a little like Chipmunkz ‘n Tha Hood, but remember where these characters came from: goofy novelty rock ‘n roll records made by Ross Bagdasarian. Alvin wanted a hula hoop, the big fad of 1958; if Bagdasarian was recording his voice sped up today, … Continue reading
About 95% of my belongings are in boxes right now, and I’m hoping that a couple of grand makes its way from my saving account at one bank to my checking account at another so that my payment to the moving company (I’m using ‘moving pods’ – if the experience is good, the company will … Continue reading
In The Traveler, John Twelve Hawks introduced readers to a dangerous world inspired by the modern technology that monitors our lives. Under constant surveillance of the ‘Vast Machine,’ a sophisticated computer network run by a ruthless group, society is mostly unaware of its own imprisonment. Gabriel and Michael Corrigan, brothers who were raised "off the … Continue reading
One movie apart was all they could take. The cast list for Woody Allen’s next film, to be shot in Spain, has been released, and headlining once again is Scarlett Johansson. Rounding out the cast is Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Kevin Dunn, Chris Messina, Zak Orth and Pablo Schreiber. The cast was announced … Continue reading