While doing a phone interview with New York City morning DJs Scott and Todd, Prison Break star Dominick Purcell (also known as Blade: Trinity‘s awful Drake) was asked if it was true that he would be playing Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk, the sequel/reimagining to Ang Lee’s Hulk. “Uuuuhhhhhhmmmmm,” Purcell said. Take that as … Continue reading
Midnight Cowboy is one of the great films. It’s a movie that’s heartbreaking, funny, honest, full of great lines and has a young Bob Balaban as a shy gay guy getting beat up in a Times Square grindhouse bathroom. It’s a movie that I love to revisit because of the depth of character and the … Continue reading
Wes Craven’s first legit film, Last House on the Left (he shot some porno loops when he first started), is one of the meanest, most unpleasant films you’ll ever see. Could a remake be as nasty? It’s easy to look at Alex Aja’s remake of The Hills Have Eyes and say yes, but that original … Continue reading
I thought that Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer was a pretty rotten name for Fantastic Four 2, but now I’m looking at that title with fond nostalgia – Superhero Hype is reporting that the film has a new moniker, and it’s the awful Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. First of all, that … Continue reading
The film version of Hairspray: The Musical is just a few weeks from starting up in Canada, and there are big changes happening in the casting – Jim Broadbent, who was set to play Wilbur Turnblad, father of dancing fat girl Tracy, has left the film and Christopher Walken has taken the role. Once upon … Continue reading
The poster for Martin Scorsese’s new movie, The Departed is here, and while I sort of like it (and sort of don’t like it), one thing I notice is that Scorsese’s name is in tiny print. It’s even smaller than his name on the Gangs of New York poster, which I thought was pretty durn … Continue reading
Last night Francis Ford Coppola came to the Los Angeles DGA to flog the new 2 disc Apocalyse Now: The Complete Dossier DVD (a really great DVD set, but not one that can claim to be complete. While it includes the original and Redux cuts and lots of extra features, it does not have Hearts … Continue reading
Eli Roth is gearing up Hostel 2, which will pick up moments after the first film ended. This time the movie will focus on a trio of girls seeing the sites in Europe until they get sliced and diced by nasty and sadistic rich dudes. Jay Hernandez, the broken hero of the first Hostel, will … Continue reading
Snakes on a Plane stinks. Badly. No, I haven’t seen the movie. No one has. New Line is holding the film from critics, which isn’t really all that surprising – this is not a movie that is going to be built on its glowing reviews (although it is shocking that they didn’t even screen it … Continue reading
Matt Dillon wants to be taken seriously. At the New York press day for his new film, Factotum, he was very interested in talking about the ins and outs of his character, Hank Chinaski, the alter ego of sodden writer Charles Bukowski. He wanted to talk about how he inhabited the character, how he did … Continue reading