In just over 24 hours the word about Zyzzyx Road has spread across the internet, and my inbox has been inundated with emails. I haven’t even had a chance to call the folks at Leo Grillo Productions yet and already many new facts have surfaced – including an eyewitness report from someone who saw the … Continue reading
NTDOWN
There are so many things about Heroes that are remarkable: that such a middling show could be so big, that a mass audience could take to series heavily influenced by comic books, that comic fans wouldn’t mind grossly obvious stealing from better comic book stories just because the show is popular. But most shocking of … Continue reading
My ban on writing Indiana Jones IV-related pieces didn’t last long, huh? I have to admit – I never thought I would see this picture actually getting off the ground, but on the first day of this glorious New Year, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford backed up what George Lucas said at the Rose Parade … Continue reading
Buried at the end of a fawning Variety profile of Roy Lee, the guy behind pretty many of the shitty Asian film remakes that have hit America over the last few years, is a sentence that proves that the planned Universal remake of the fantastic Korean monster movie The Host will be completely neutered: Having … Continue reading
I was recently in Times Square, and the massive outdoor posters for Apocalypto and Stomp the Yard are very close together on the north side of 42nd Street just off 8th Avenue. Moments later I came across the poster for Night at the Museum, and it was hard to not notice that these three posters … Continue reading
Babel is what Crash could have been if Paul Haggis were a better director. Alejandro González Iñárritu and longtime partner Guillermo Arriaga once again bring a fractured narrative to an otherwise straightforward story that contains supposedly deep commentary about the human condition. This is probably the last time they’ll be doing this, since Arriaga and … Continue reading
I didn’t plan on quitting reading monthly comics in 2006, it just sort of happened that way. This is probably something that happened to a lot of people this past year, and the reason for many of us are certainly the same: Marvel and DC Comics. Before this year I had been reading comics for … Continue reading
Somewhere out there – possibly reading this very article – are the members of a most exclusive fraternity. These people (I think there may be three of them) may not know each other. They may not know they belong to such a tiny club. But they played a pivotal role in movie history: these people … Continue reading