UPDATE! I have removed the image from this page because Gary Gray, the "man" who runs realmovienews, sent me this email: Hi Devin,I’m very confused here.I send you a link to our story last week of our Nicole Kidman pics filmingHis Dark Materials.You don’t run it, which is totally fair, you run whatever stories you … Continue reading
I first heard about Shortbus at the first or second Tribeca Film Festival. John Cameron Mitchell was on a panel about sex in film, and he talked about how he was working on a new movie that would be set in a New York City salon (not the beauty type. Think more like intellectuals) and … Continue reading
Terrence Howard wasn’t fond of the music in Hustle & Flow, the movie that earned him an Oscar nomination. He’s a guitar player, and his musical tastes probably run closer to Charley Pride, the man he’s playing when he next teams up with Hustle & Flow director Craig Brewer. Pride was a country singer – … Continue reading
Going to Rotten Tomatoes reveals a glorious thing: Martin Scorsese’s The Departed stands at 100% fresh. That’s with only 17 reviews in, but they include many of the big guns – the “Cream of the Crop” section is filling out nicely. And I know a number of critics who will be weighing in shortly will … Continue reading
New casting for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer reveals some interesting new elements of the plot, and as far as I’m concerned completely gives away the ending of the film. I’ll put that discussion after the basic news item so anyone not familiar with the history of the Fantastic Four and Galactus in … Continue reading
When Hot Fuzz, the cop film from the fellas who brought us Spaced and Shaun of the Dead, hits theaters next year it won’t be director Edgar Wright’s first attempt at a British cop film – that would be Dead Right, from 1993, shot when he was just 18. There’s a minute long clip from … Continue reading
When IESB.net sat down with Tom Rothman, head cheese of Fox, he told them that the next few weeks would bring an announcement as to who will be the main villain of Live Free or Die Hard, the movie that returns John McClane to the big screen. He promised that the casting was exciting, and … Continue reading
Double dips are, sadly, a fact of life in the DVD world. Still, the impact can be lessened when a double dip actually has some decent features, or has an unrated director’s cut (or when you didn’t have that DVD in the first place), which is the case with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: … Continue reading
The Bourne Ultimatum, the third film in the best modern spy series (fuck you if you disagree) is shooting now in Tangiers. You gotta love how these films go out there and get the local flavor, filming all over the world. It shows on screen in a way that faking it in Vancouver never could. … Continue reading
Last night I had CNN on in the background and my attention was grabbed by an ad for Kazakhstan. I stopped my reading and started paying attention – was this a new Borat commercial? I had a chance to see Borat at ComiCon and chose to drink instead, a decision I halfway regret now, especially … Continue reading