Michael Winterbottom is one of my favorite directors, but I don’t know that I could tell you what makes a Winterbottom film a Winterbottom film. And that’s why I like him so much – he jumps from place to place, style to style, and genre to genre. He’s an exciting director to follow because you … Continue reading
Read the first part of the set visit, with an interview with director Michael Bay, here. There are a number of different kinds of vehicles on the downtown Los Angeles street where Transformers is shooting: there are the ones that have been tossed about in whatever explosions and battle have torn up the road, and … Continue reading
A source close to the production of Indiana Jones IV (still, as far as we know, unofficially called Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods, but more on that later) has divulged some information to us about the film’s shooting locations, opening set piece and what kind of a character Shia LaBeouf will be … Continue reading
That’s the first picture of The Joker from The Dark Knight, thanks to themykra, from the message boards. The other day we told you about the ‘I Believe In Harvey Dent’ fake campaign site for The Dark Knight. It turns out the speculation was true: the site was part of a viral campaign, as IBelieveInHarveyDentToo.com … Continue reading
William Gibson’s Neuromancer changed everything. The book introduced (to a wide audience) the term cyberspace, and its cyberpunk attitudes, concepts and styles would be a major influence on art, music and film over the next decades. It’s no stretch to say that without Neuromancer there would be no Matrix films, for instance. Could Neuromancer again … Continue reading
Michael Moore’s Sicko is currently conquering France at the Cannes Film Festival (but no surprise there), where it’s being called a movie that “opens your emotional pores” (Jeff Wells) and “alternates between comedy and outrage” (Variety). There’s some Sicko-related comedy and outrage happening here at home, as well, where it’s been revealed that the obsessive … Continue reading
I spent the first half of this week in Bucharest, the capital city of Romania, on a set visit for The Dark Is Rising, the first film from the new Fox-Walden partnership. I’ll be talking about my impressions of Bucharest and its packs of wild dogs and astonishingly hot women in part two of this … Continue reading
I’m so tired. I’m so tired of throwaway 80s pop culture outliving its expiration date by twenty years or more. I’m tired of living in a world where more people associate ‘Masters of the Universe’ with a homo-erotic toy line and its half-hour cartoon advertisement than with Tom Wolfe. I’m even tired of the hate … Continue reading
I don’t know how the world of Tom Clancy has entered film limbo – maybe it’s just because I’m one of the people who really thought that The Sum of All Fears was a terrific movie, and that there should have been a whole bunch of Ben Affleck-starring Jack Ryan films by now. But Jack … Continue reading
Smokin’ Aces wasn’t a flop – it cost about 15 million and made about 35 million – but it wasn’t a smash hit, so Joe Carnahan’s dreams of making a prequel film that focused on the fan-favorite Tremor Brothers, those Mad Max-esque psychopaths, looked pretty unlikely. Until the film hit DVD, that is, where it … Continue reading