It’s been five years between films for Joe Carnahan, the man who directed the modern classic undercover cop movie Narc; his new film, Smokin’ Aces – a balls to the wall action madhouse unlike anything you’ve seen before, and with a killer cast – hits early next year. But it won’t be another half decade … Continue reading
In less than a month you’ll be able to find out which side you are on in the great The Fountain debate – will you agree with the folks who booed the film (or did they? Read on) at the Venice Film Festival, or will you be with yours truly, thinking it’s one of the … Continue reading
A couple of weeks back Gael Garcia Bernal was offered the role of a super-assassin hunting down Jason Bourne in The Bourne Ultimatum, Paul Greengrass’ second go round with Matt Damon as the amnesiac super-spy. Yesterday was the New York City press day for Bernal’s newest film, Babel, which reteams him with his Amores Perros … Continue reading
Did you go buy Slither yesterday when it was released on DVD? If not, I don’t hate you. Yet. Maybe you need some extra convincing, and I’m happy to do some of that convincing here by bringing you a clip from the DVD’s copious and excellent special features, specifically from the “Bringing Slither’s Creatures to … Continue reading
There is a bizarre and fascinating PR war going on right now centering on Ed Zwick’s new Warner Bros film, Blood Diamond, which has Leonardo DiCaprio teaming up with a Kanye West song to draw attention to some of the evils of the African diamond trade. The diamond industry has been really skittish about this … Continue reading
The Browncoats, a hardcore sci-fi subculture that loves Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity to an incredible (and, if you think hardcore “fandom”* is as creepy as I do, frightening) degree, usually feel like the underdogs. Heck, their name comes from a Confederate States analogue in Whedon’s western meets Star Wars mythology. And to be fair, … Continue reading
There is some hand-wringing going on about Borat, which opens in two weeks. Is it being overhyped? Will it crash and burn, having never crossed over from the “hipster”* audience to the general public? Whatever happens, Sacha Baron Cohen doesn’t seem to be too stressed about it; while he’s making the rounds like mad to … Continue reading
The reports of Tom Cruise’s career death are greatly exaggerated. Take that, Sumner Redstone! After getting dumped from his deal at Paramount and after his fake wife gave birth to the clone of L Ron Hubbard, Cruise is bounding back with three new projects in the pipeline. Variety says that Cruise is looking at three … Continue reading
Ryan Schifrin, director of the awesome Bigfoot movie Abominable (click here the Creature Corner DVD review, and click here for my interview with Ryan), has teamed up with Adam Green, director of the incredibly buzzed about but unseen by me Hatchet (click here for my interview with Adam, and you would click here to read … Continue reading