Aint It Cool News’ Drew McWeeny is reporting that he has reliable sources telling him that Shia LaBeouf is going to be starring in Indiana Jones IV as the son of Indy. I can’t tell you if he’s playing Indy’s son or just the new Short Round, but I can tell you that I have … Continue reading
No secret – we love Children of Men. In fact, it tied for first place in my Top Fifteen for 2006, and Nick listed it at #4. Universal is gearing up for the DVD release of the film on March 27, and they offered us a cool opportunity – you guys submit questions for director … Continue reading
Ghost Rider is not the worst movie of the year. That’s going to disappoint some people – myself included – but that doesn’t mean it’s a good movie. It’s not even an OK movie. Ghost Rider is, more often than not, terrible – but in a very watchable way. A huge part of that comes … Continue reading
Here’s great news for people who like good movies: Hot Fuzz is off to a killer start in the UK. Universal opened the film there on Valentine’s Day, and it proceeded to make $1.76 million on 500 screens. This doesn’t sound like a lot to us Americans, but when you realize that this is 50% … Continue reading
The big trailer for Grindhouse is out, and I hate to revert to internet movie geek type, but it fucking kicks ass. It is just a terrific trailer, and one that really has the perfect feel of the grindhouse trailers of the day – this trailer could fit quite nicely on any of Synapse Films’ … Continue reading
When I was a kid and my mom or the school would take me to the planetarium, there were a couple of items in the gift shop that always fascinated me to no end. There was astronaut ice cream, the space age treat. There were the pens that could write upside down and in zero … Continue reading
Robert Hanssen is a fascinating man. A patriotic American and FBI agent, Hanssen sold secrets to the Russians for over twenty years. A devout and strict Catholic and family man, Hanssen carried on an affair with a stripper and secretly videotaped sex with his wife. When he was finally arrested in 2001, Hanssen was one … Continue reading
I’ve been eagerly awaiting Zack Snyder’s take on Frank Miller’s 300 ever since I visited the set in December of 2005 and saw the concept video that he used to sell himself to Warner Bros. I had doubts that this would be as special as everyone was claiming, but that video – which was done … Continue reading
Batman gotta have a girlfriend. I don’t know why, but this is a pretty big deal for Hollywood. Every Batman movie has had a love interest, and for all the talk about Christopher Nolan doing the best Batman movie (he didn’t), he still kept with this lame, lame tradition. He is breaking tradition, though, by … Continue reading
You haven’t been to a high school party until you’ve been to a high school party that turns into a three hour stand off with the police and then gets pointlessly memorialized in a New York Magazine* article by a young 20s wunderkind writer. If you want to really have that party be memorable, have … Continue reading