[At the end of this I have added a report from a journalist who did go to this screening. Skip down to read that] Why won’t there be a review of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer from me? Ask Tiffany Chen. She’s the insulting woman who stonefaced me at the screening tonight, treating … Continue reading
I’ve been reading Neil Gaiman for two decades now (how is it that I have gotten older and he stays the same?), starting with his work on Sandman, a series that reminds me of Seinfeld in that the farther you get from it the more you realize how impressive and influential it as a whole, … Continue reading
Sure, it was dying her pubic hair and getting doused in shit that caught everybody’s attention before Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book was released in the US, but it was Carice Van Houten’s masterful performance as a Jewish woman resisting the Nazis by sleeping with an SS officer in WWII Holland that made the movie great. … Continue reading
I don’t know what happened to No Country For Old Men, Joel and Ethan Coen’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel, at Cannes. All I heard about the film was positive, positive, positive, and then the Cannes jury ignored it. The trailer for the film has appeared on Variety, and I have to say that it … Continue reading
I’m surprised that it took this long for one of Aint It Cool News’ ‘spies’ to lose his job over a review posted on that site. The axe fell on a guy named ‘Memflix,’ who has a five month old son and supported him by working as a projectionist for the Malco Theater chain; ‘Memflix’- … Continue reading
When I woke up this morning I was missing a friend. Daniel Robert Epstein passed away last night at only 31 years old. And although you may not know it, you lost somebody too – Dan was one of the best interviewers I have ever had the pleasure to know, and he was branching out, … Continue reading
We’ll know by the time the grosses for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer are announced this weekend whether or not The Silver Surfer is going to get his own spin-off movie, but the folks at Fox are feeling very confident at the moment; according to the LA Times they’ve hired J Michael Straczynski … Continue reading
I’m no Oscar prognosticator, but yesterday I saw what I consider to be the first performance that is a lock for a Best Actress nomination – Angelina Jolie in A Mighty Heart. Sure, there are dozens upon dozens of Oscar-bait movies waiting to burst out of the gate this fall, but the actresses in those … Continue reading
The United States is finally getting Danny Boyle’s sci-fi odyssey, Sunshine, in theaters on July 20th (the movie came out in the UK and Australia earlier this year). We’ve been excitedly following the film ever since Boyle mentioned it to me during an interview about his film Millions, and we’re proud to bring you this … Continue reading
Jeff Wells often pisses off the readers of his blog, Hollywood Elsewhere, by blatantly spoiling films that he’s seen very early. Recently he caused a ruckus by discussing an aspect of the ending of No Country For Old Men, which he saw at Cannes. This week he had his readers in paroxysms of rage when … Continue reading