John Woo’s filmic return to Asia, The Battle of Red Cliff, will be the most expensive Asian movie ever, with a budget of at least 75 million dollars. At least it would technically be the most expensive if it was one movie – the film is being split into two two hour movies. For Asians, … Continue reading
Note: Technically, this review is for the UK release of Hot Fuzz. This technicality is meaningless, as both the UK and US cuts are identical. UK Chewers can see Hot Fuzz opening this week. US readers will have to wait until April 20th. We’ll have another review, by one of the other writers, at that … Continue reading
I’m finding it hard to get outraged today. Maybe it’s because my apartment is so cold, or maybe it’s because I didn’t have enough coffee today. Either way, I just can’t bring up the bile right now, even when faced with two different George Lucas news items that would normally have me quite annoyed*. First … Continue reading
This week some of my colleagues finally saw Ghost Rider; I should have been there, but family business kept me in New York. I haven’t heard back from anyone yet, but I imagine that responses will fall into two categories: “That was shit” or “That wasn’t the ball-pounding experience I feared.” That second one is … Continue reading
You’re not going to be happy about this, but Hot Fuzz has been moved back a week to April 20. This might really be good news, though, as Focus/Rogue says “This new date gives us a prime position to aggressively launch the film here in the US.” Could this mean that the movie will be … Continue reading
JoBlo is running some images from this summer’s Marvel Comics movies. There are two pictures from Spider-Man 3, but they have been online in the past – they’re from a Spider-Man image book that should hit with the film (probably a Visual Guide type book. There are a ton of images leaked from it). But … Continue reading
Give me a Douglas Coupland book over a novel about a hardbitten PI or a chosen one questing to save the kingdom any day of the week. It’s exciting that Coupland has made the jump into screenwriting, as so many of his peers have lately, and it’s even more exciting that the movie, Everything’s Gone … Continue reading
Empire Online has just premiered what I would have to term a fucking incredible Internet-only trailer for Hot Fuzz, the new film from the team behind Shaun of the Dead. Click here to see this monumental ode to the action movie teaser – my personal favorite bit is that all of the guns get screen … Continue reading
Shattered Glass was one of the strongest directorial debuts in memory. Not only did writer/director Billy Ray craft a suspenseful and intriguing story about a guy basically plagiarizing and bullshitting, he managed to get the only good performance out of Hayden Christensen ever. For that feat alone, Ray should be guaranteed a spot in the … Continue reading