Ronny Yu’s career has spanned both sides of the Pacific Ocean, and has included Chinese films like The Bride With White Hair and Hollywood ones like Freddy vs Jason. His latest is Jet Li’s Fearless, the philosophical martial arts movie Li has been wanting to make for years. Set in the time just before WWI, … Continue reading
Even though I write about movies every day sometimes I still miss stuff – and one of the things I missed is that there will be an animated adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s excellent memoir about growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution, Persepolis. And I am only finding out about it because my good … Continue reading
The people who made it into the 300 panel at this summer’s San Diego ComiCon got a real treat in the form of three minutes and change of footage from the film. I was on set last December and we saw some concept footage of what the final film would look like, but watching the … Continue reading
You know your neighborhood is going to hell when Adam Sandler is filming his new movie there. That’s what happened last week when Sandler showed up at the firehouse down the block from me to film scenes for his new movie, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. He also shot scenes at a local … Continue reading
During the end credits of Jackass Number Two Bam Margera, who cries a couple of times in this film, says, “I hope there’s no Jackass 3.” I understand where he’s coming from – this movie has upped the ante so much that I think the only way a third can top it is to intentionally … Continue reading
My copy of Alan Moore and Melinda Gibbie’s kiddie porn comic Lost Girls, about the sex lives of Dorothy Gale of Oz, Alice (from Wonderland) and Wendy Darling of Neverland is on back order from Amazon. I was hoping that this book would serve as the final capstone in the “let’s reimagine our childhood characters … Continue reading
Ed Zwick has a specialty, and that specialty is telling stories about the minority experience through the eyes of the white man. Zwick is drawn to other cultures, and how white people have helped them. Through Zwick we have learned how Matthew Broderick freed Denzel Washington in Glory and how Tom Cruise defended ancient Japanese … Continue reading
Fox will do anything to make money – even court Christians. The same corporation that brings you Temptation Island is also bringing you FoxFaith, a new specialty film division aimed specifically at Evangelical Christians. The idea is to tap into that Passion of the Christ market, to get the holy rollers who think the cinema … Continue reading
Gabrielle Union, is you is or is you ain’t the lead female in I Am Legend? IESB.net says you are, but blackfilm.com says nay – that the role of Anna, a human survivor Will Smith’s character stumbles upon in a post-apocalyptic vampire world, will actually be played by Alice Braga, niece of Sonia Braga and … Continue reading