Jim Cameron showed where his heart is by calling Harry Knowles for Valentine’s Day and delivering some scoops on his next movie, Avatar, which is apparently filming without a director of photography. I always thought that Cameron would do away with the human cast before he did away with the DP. You should head over … Continue reading
Jeff Nathanson, who wrote Steven Spielberg’s look at a con man and check forger, Catch Me If You Can, is going back into the world of lying with a movie about the rise and fall of Milli Vanilli. No, this is not a Behind the Music special – Nathanson is making a real movie at … Continue reading
The scariest thing about most episodes of Masters of Horror so far has been the fact that professional filmmakers were behind them, but the Joe Dante segments have been refreshing change-ups from the general incompetence on display. Which is ironic, since Dante’s film career has been, as the French might say, merde for the last … Continue reading
It’s been a decade since there’s been a new Francis Ford Coppola movie in theaters*. In the meantime he’s conquered the worlds of pasta sauce and wine, but he spent most of the last ten years on the quixotic quest to make Megalopolis, his dream story about a city of giant sharks. That film fell … Continue reading
There are a number of things that make David Fincher’s Zodiac a masterpiece. I can’t go into them all here, but one of the main weapons Fincher has is his cast, and one of the best performances in that cast comes from Mark Ruffalo. He’s always been a great actor, but he’s been flying just … Continue reading
JJ Abrams wants to be involved in all of your geek properties. He almost did a Superman movie, he’s one of the guys behind Lost, one of the biggest geek shows on TV, and he’s in charge of Paramount’s next Star Trek film. How can he follow this up? By getting into the Dark Tower … Continue reading
You can’t always tell much about a movie from the trailer. You can tell even less from the teaser. But that doesn’t stop most of us from leaping to conclusions when we see one, and I have to say that if the teaser for Underdog is representative of the tone and attitude of the actual … Continue reading
Ioan Gruffud, best known to you as Mr. Fantastic in the Fantastic Four movies, is also starring in Amazing Grace, a movie about the English slavery abolition movement that features the single cheesiest trailer I have ever seen. Gruffud’s been doing a press tour in the States for that film, and while I was out … Continue reading
The collapse of Enron is a compelling story of greed and betrayal of trust in modern America… if you can get your head around the whole thing. There’s some serious math and financial hoohah going on here, and even after watching the excellent and informative documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room I don’t … Continue reading