Inside Man was Spike Lee’s most successful film, earning 180+ million dollars worldwide. Watching the DVD recently I was still amazed that Spike was able to make a pretty mainstream thriller that still feels very much like a Spike Lee movie – this is a text book example of how a director can apply his … Continue reading
The Last Waltz is the greatest concert film ever made. Period. Someone out there is going to claim that U2 had the greatest, or one of the films about the festivals in the 60s – Newport or Woodstock or Altamont – but the truth is that The Last Waltz is a great concert film because … Continue reading
Last week I revealed to a heart-broken world that Gael Garcia Bernal would not be playing Paz, the super-assassin sent to kill Jason Bourne in The Bourne Ultimatum. Paul Greengrass wasn’t sitting still, though – he leapt into casting action and found himself a new bad guy, Edgar Ramirez. Some of you – very few … Continue reading
After years of speculation about what their next “official” project would be (they didn’t direct all of V for Vendetta*, but their fingerprints are all over it), the Wachowski Siblings have announced that they’ll be writing and directing a live action Speed Racer movie. It’s sort of mind-boggling. Whether you like the last two Matrix … Continue reading
Rob Zombie has given a thematically appropriately timed interview to MTV where he discusses some of the details of his upcoming remake of John Carpenter’s seminal slasher film, Halloween. First of all, Zombie’s fully aware that horror remakes suck; he uses Cronenberg’s The Fly and Carpenter’s The Thing as examples of the few that work, … Continue reading
I don’t even know why I’m running this – let’s chalk this one up to Halloween candy giddiness. I was visiting Deadspin when I came across a particularly strange story – Members of BIRO (Bigfoot Investigators and Researchers Organization) came back from a camping trip in California’s High Sierras with some photos that they claim … Continue reading
Showtime’s Masters of Horror series is back for its second season, with many of the previous Masters returning for another go round and a couple of newcomers trying their hand at the format. Last week I received a DVD with the first three episodes and I have to say that there’s a real mixed bag … Continue reading
Halo is dead, says Wingnut Films. Long live Halo. With the withdrawal of Universal and Fox from the muy expensive video game movie, Microsoft and Peter Jackson’s Wingnut have decided to lay the movie to rest for a little while. But they’ll get a free life, they claim: As was previously confirmed, we deeply regret … Continue reading
After a couple of years of slowly getting around to it, Steven Soderbergh is finally ready to start shooting his movie about Communist guerilla and folk hero Che Guevera, starring Benicio Del Toro. Except that he’s decided his story is big enough for two movies. The first film will be called The Argentine, which is … Continue reading
I thought I was jealous when I didn’t get invited to Prague to visit the set of Hostel: Part 2. Turns out I had just begun to scratch the surface of jealousy – the guys from Bloody Disgusting got to meet the man doing the “cool genre director” cameo that Takashi Miike did in the … Continue reading