How will Batman wreak massive structural damage on the city he’s sworn to protect in The Dark Knight? What will he ride in when he puts the lives of innocent civilians in immediate danger during a poorly thought-out chase? A weird motorcycle, it seems. Called The Batpod, the bike has two massive wheels which have … Continue reading
It’s not been a great couple of weeks for Eli Roth. Not only has his Hostel Part II underperformed to the point of flopping and leaving theaters in the next week or so, his next project, an adaptation of Stephen King’s Cell, has been delayed until at least next year. On his MySpace blog Roth … Continue reading
The Watchmen news has begun pouring in since last night’s revelation by Paddy Considine that Jackie Earle Haley has been offered the role of Rorschach. Over at Aint It Cool, Moriarty’s sources told him that Jason Patric is being asked to play Dr. Manhattan (Keanu Reeves balked at the paycheck) while he hints that the … Continue reading
There’s been a lot happening behind the scenes of Watchmen in the last couple of weeks. Zach Snyder is going to start filming this fall in Vancouver, and he’s got his pre-production team working on storyboards and other art. Meanwhile, casting has been happening, and official announcements should start hitting soon. But there’s one bit … Continue reading
Adam Sandler has made some of the worst, most juvenile and unfunny comedies of the last few years, and even in his ‘feel good’ movies has been unable to get past his angry frat boy in desperate need of medication persona. Mitch Albom has written some of the hokiest, sappiest books filled with confectionary spirituality … Continue reading
The modern Western tends to be a sweeping, poetic epic – the genre is not commercially viable, so when people make Westerns they make them with the most artistic of intentions. Which is too bad, because the Western is a fun genre, one that lends itself to action and exciting gunplay. Sure, the best of … Continue reading
Earlier this week I ran an interview with Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime in the Transformers cartoon as well as the new Michael Bay movie. In the intro to that interview, I said this: “Cullen’s Prime is good voice work, and it doesn’t have the over the top silly quality of Frank Welker’s … Continue reading
When Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 came out there was a ripple of hope in my liberal circle of friends: this movie was going to make a difference. After four years of dealing with a man who was manifestly the worst president in history, a year after getting into a war that we knew was a … Continue reading
Out in Budapest Guillermo del Toro has begun principal photography on Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. Ron Perlman, Selma Blair and Doug Jones are all back, and they’re joined by a bunch of new cast members, who are part of the sequel’s much more epic story. I enjoyed Hellboy but didn’t fall for it as … Continue reading
The Entertainment Weekly that hits the stands tomorrow has a picture of the new Batman suit from The Dark Knight (corporate synergy – Warner Bros owns both!), and someone has scanned the page in and sent it to Superhero Hype!. You can see the image to the left here – to see what those numbers … Continue reading