If you were a vampire, where would you want to live? Why, as far north as possible, where the sun is only out for half the year. That’s the brilliant basic concept of Steve Niles’ 30 Days of Night, a graphic novel about a small Alaska town beset with bloodsuckers during the wintry months. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
It’s another Jarecki and another documentary. The good news is that the Jarecki clan are three for three – Andrew has Capturing the Friedmans while Eugene has Why We Fight. Welcome young Nick Jarecki, just 26, and already the author of a book and the director of a compelling film about one of cinema’s oddest … Continue reading
I have a zillion interviews to transcribe today, but I had to take time out of that to bring you this most exciting piece of news. While Paramount may be dropping the ball on the Star Trek franchise, the fans just won’t let it die. Especially the gay ones. Star Trek: The Hidden Frontier has … Continue reading
John Cameron Mitchell’s next film, Shortbus, made quite a stir when it debuted at the Cannes Film Festival – the largely improvised movie features scenes of real people engaging in real, explicit sex. There was actually a minor bidding war over this movie – which can never play on TV, and will never be carried … Continue reading
There is one film I am eagerly anticipating this year more than any other. One film that I believe will run the whole gamut of emotional responses from laughing to dry heaving: Jackass Number Two. Even the title is a wonderful feces reference. The trailer for Jackass Number Two is here, showing us some moments … Continue reading
The Lady in the Water has no twist ending. Seriously. And to prove it, M Night Shymalan is reading you the children’s book he has written to go with the film. Lady in the Water began as a bedtime story he told his children, and while the movie is an expansion of the tale, the … Continue reading
I have been working my way through the John Wayne/John Ford DVD box set this week, and I have come to the conclusion that the Western is the best film genre of all. Not only can you tell any story you want in a Western, but the conventions of the genre are so easy to … Continue reading
The long awaited film version of Sweeney Todd could be awaited not much longer – Tim Burton is delaying his next film, Ripley’s Believe it Or Not, for a year, and is looking to reteam with Johnny Depp on the tale of a murderous barber and his landlady who makes his victims into meat pies. … Continue reading
Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim books are the best comics being published today. For one thing, they’re the only comics I’ll read on the subway – Scott Pilgrim and his adventures are completely hip and funny. In fact the only embarrassing thing about reading a Scott Pilgrim digest on a subway filled with cute girls … Continue reading
IT’S YOUR LAST DAY TO ENTER! THIS CONTEST ENDS TOMORROW, WHEN THE DVD IS RELEASED IN STORES! It’s a pretty safe bet that many of you did not see Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, a truly wonderful and transcendent film that operates on you in much the same way Wyld Stallyns’ music did on the universe … Continue reading