Terrorists are everywhere. One of the men behind the recently uncovered plot to massacre soldiers at Fort Dix had access to the base as their local pizza delivery guy (just to tie all current events into pop culture, he worked at a place called Super Marios Pizza), and the rest of the plotters were seemingly … Continue reading
Disasters bring out the best and the worst in people. You can step up to the moment and be a Hero, the guy who helps the crippled lady down the burning staircase. Or you can be the Villain, the guy who muscles women and children out of the lifeboat. In this decade we’ve been feeling … Continue reading
I have to admit that I am stunned by the backlash against Spider-Man 3, a movie that was not great but has great moments, and a film that in no way deserves the amount of outsized hate being unleashed on it at the moment. Certain writers for this very site have compared it to Batman … Continue reading
I’m excited about John Rambo for one simple reason: I want to know how quickly Stallone can destroy all the goodwill he got from me with Rocky Balboa. It’s the man’s curse, it seems, to every now and again make a movie that reminds you why he was a Great White Hope back in ’76 … Continue reading
Oliver Stone’s Wall Street is probably most famous for a line that has wormed its way into the American consciousness: ‘Greed is good.’ The interesting thing about the line is that while it’s attributed to Michael Douglas’ character, Gordon Gekko, he never says it in the movie. Seriously. Go back and watch the film – … Continue reading
Twisted Pictures, the company behind the relentlessly terrible Saw movies, is betting that everything old is new again. They’re among the people taking old, discarded film narrative forms and trying them out again on the Internet. Their first effort is a feature length film that will debut only online, to be called The Internet Killer … Continue reading
This season of Lost has been fantastic, a boon to the fans who stuck out some of the show’s previous lulls. The show has been amping up the drama and the mysteries*, and with the new schedule – wherein Lost is running without repeats through the season finale – Wednesday nights have taken on a … Continue reading
Yesterday I had to spend some time in the Brooklyn Supreme Court building. I won’t tell you why I was there, because making up reasons will be more fun for you, but it wasn’t a great visit. After being there for about an hour I began walking home – it was a lovely day – … Continue reading
I wish I had been in the meeting when the guy in Warner Bros’ art department was told he had to enhance the bust of a 16 year old girl for the poster for the IMAX version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Perhaps he was excited, realizing that years of a … Continue reading
IESB has scored some video taken surreptitiously on the set of Iron Man, and the footage shows a few precious seconds of the Iron Man suit in motion – nothing too spectacular, but you can see that this costume is well made and mobile. Of course these few seconds of footage are buried in 2 … Continue reading