Frank Miller doesn’t look that well. He’s sort of blotchy, and his voice is raspy. He’s sucking on a lozenge, and I can’t tell if he had a long night or is just coming down with something. Happily, Miller slowly seems to come into his own, and by the evening, when he joins us for … Continue reading
24 hours after my first viewing of Hot Fuzz I am still chuckling over small moments and big jokes. I’m not allowed to write a review of the film yet, but I don’t think anyone is going to mind that I tell you that Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost do not suffer from … Continue reading
The Green Zone is where, in the days after the fall of Iraq, Paul Bremer and his gang of Coalition Provisional Authority goons tried to run the rebuilding of the country. Here’s an image of just how doomed to failure this was: every meal, every day, served in the Green Zone cafeteria, which was staffed … Continue reading
The Fountain took six years to get made, and Darren Aronofsky isn’t looking to wait that long before he gets to his next film. Universal is fast-tracking Black Swan – a (I swear to God) ballet thriller – to be the director’s next project. A ballet thriller, huh? The movie is being written by John … Continue reading
It’s easy to hate Courtney Love, or to at least be disgusted by her. But I’ll tell you one thing – she’s treated Kurt Cobain’s legacy and music like something that should only be given out in small amounts, which I think has been the right idea. We don’t have Come As You Are playing … Continue reading
Is Rob Zombie’s Halloween a production in trouble? Has the film been delayed as Zombie goes back to the word processor to hammer out a new draft of the script? Will it not make the original August 31st release date? Is this all a way of having the movie come out on the obvious day … Continue reading
Here’s a way to make someone feel important: ignore not one but two phone calls from Michael Bay while talking to him. My one on one with Andrew Form and Brad Fuller – two thirds of Platinum Dunes, the other third being Bay – came at the end of the day at the junket for … Continue reading
Jon Favreau has logged back into MySpace. He doesn’t log in for the same reasons I do – to see how 17 year old girls fill their newly expanded to 300 picture profiles – he comes on to give us the good news about his upcoming Iron Man, which is just two weeks from being … Continue reading
Pierce Brosnan has got a pretty bitching post-Bond career going on. The Matador was just a terrific movie, and he was amazing in it. His next film is the western Seraphim Falls, which I have seen, and it’s a film that makes you wish for a full-scale revival of the genre. Now he’s going to … Continue reading
John Moore has avoided the remake trifecta. Moore last directed the near-Van Santian remake of The Omen, and before that he had rebuilt Flight of the Phoenix. Now he’s in talks to direct Material Breach, a thriller that’s more or less original. The movie, based on a script by Don Winston, who used to be … Continue reading