I’ve seen Steve Buscemi around a lot, but the Charlotte’s Web junket was the first time I ever interviewed him. We live in the same area in Brooklyn, and while we have some other local celebs – Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams, Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany – Buscemi is more like a local guy … Continue reading
That Guillermo del Toro is a sneaky one. This summer I sat down with him for an extensive interview, and one of the subjects that came up was his current reading. What are you watching these days? What are you reading these days?Del Toro: I’m reading mostly Tarzan novels right now. I’m reading the entire … Continue reading
The Good German is an easy movie to admire. Soderbergh is attempting to capture the look and the feel of film from the 40s, and he does it. The Good German doesn’t just imitate these movies, it is one of them; Soderbergh isn’t just aping the camera moves and lighting, he understands it completely and … Continue reading
I just got off the phone with Joe Carnahan (it’s the Smokin’ Aces press day) and he is so excited about the questions that have been coming in. He’s having a blast, and he’s looking forward to answering more of your questions. Drop them to me at devin@chud.com with Smokin’ Joe Carnahan in the subject … Continue reading
Just when I thought I could close the “WTF?!?!?!” file for 2006, Twitchfilms reports that the movie version of Iris Chang’s powerful The Rape of Nanking, a non-fiction account of Japanese atrocities in WWII, is filming next month. Under the direction of Simon “One of the worst directors working on Earth” West. Nazi Germany gets … Continue reading
"He now fights with the thrill of sky boarding and the kill of jujitsu! Sky jitsu! Sky jitsu! That’s actually ripped off from a trailer I saw years ago, for this movie Gymakata. They go, ‘The thrill of gymnastics!’ and then they show some guy flipping. ‘The kill of karate!’ And I love how they … Continue reading
You can now see the teaser trailer for Live Free or Die Hard, the resurrection of Bruce Willis’ famous franchise, by clicking here. As a teaser there’s not much indication of what the heck this movie is about beyond stuff slamming into other stuff – cars into concrete, trucks into cars, people into cars, cars … Continue reading
With Casino Royale a major, absolute smash success (no matter what the delusional Daniel Craig Is Not Bond people think), the attention of everybody behind James Bond has turned to a sequel. Casino Royale was the last Ian Fleming James Bond book that had been untouched by the films… or was it? I didn’t know … Continue reading
At this point I would give up on ever seeing Factory Girl, a film about the life of Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick. First, the film was rumored to have been wrested from director George Hickenlooper’s control by Harvey Weinstein, who has been re-editing and forcing reshoots (I’ve read rumors of up to 40 pages … Continue reading
All of the critic awards this week were just prelude to this, the real kick-off to Oscar fever: the Golden Globes nominations. The Golden Globes are, essentially, a joke – they’re given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a nobody group who only recently stopped accepting expensive gifts from studios – but they’re seen … Continue reading