Bonnie Hunt is one of those people who should be more famous. Yet it seems like the comedienne can’t catch a break – she’s starred in a succession of cancelled TV shows over the years (none of which are coming to DVD any time soon, she told me after this interview; not even The Building, … Continue reading
Zak Penn is getting back in the director’s chair for a follow-up to his brilliant mockumentary, Incident at Loch Ness. This time the subject is poker, and the movie is called The Grand; once again the film will be improvisational, with a cast of terrific actors playing real poker games. The story is about an … Continue reading
There’s one thing that no one can deny about Robert Altman: he gets good casts. He’s packed his latest, A Prairie Home Companion, with some of the top notch talent working today, and it paid off. The movie’s a joy in the kind of way a movie only can be when the cast is truly … Continue reading
The Coen Bros’ next movie promises to be a break from their recent output and actually be good – it’s an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s recent novel No Country for Old Men, a modern day Western. Here’s the plot, courtesy of Publishers Weekly: In 1980 southwest Texas, Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, … Continue reading
Last week when Russell Crowe dropped out of Baz Luhrmann’s unnamed Australian period epic, the question was who can fill his shoes? It turns out that the new star brings his own footwear – and they’re tap shoes. Yes, the Aussie actor who has managed to maintain the schizophrenic public image of feral mutant killing … Continue reading
No, not the guy from the MC5, but I bet he would like us a bunch too if he knew us. The Wayne Kramer our title refers to is the director of one of my favorite films of the year, Running Scared – which just hit video! Click here to buy it from CHUD. Kramer … Continue reading
Real headz know the deal: long before Terry O’Quinn was Lost on a desert island, he was marrying into seemingly perfect families, and when they didn’t measure up knocking them off and moving on. That was the concept behind his character in the classic 1987 horror film The Stepfather, which Screen Gems is now remaking. … Continue reading
Kevin Bacon is upping his tough-guy quotient in Death Wish Death Sentence, the new film from Saw’s James Wan. It’s based on the novel by Brian Garfield, about a man whose family is viciously attacked in a gang initiation ritual and who takes revenge. Garfield also wrote the novel Death Sentence Death Wish, about a … Continue reading
Word came from Cannes that the Weinsteins were looking to remake Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, and that they were interested in Zhang Ziyi for the film. Now they’ve signed the actress to a three picture deal, which she’ll begin with a new version of Mulan. Most of us know Mulan as a Disney cartoon based … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Bros.MSRP: $39.98RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 525 Minutes SPECIAL FEATURES: • Nothing The Pitch "Hey, you know how Friends was really popular? Let’s spin it off! Which one doesn’t have a viable big screen career or drug problem?" The Humans Matt LeBlanc, Drea DeMatteo, Andrea Anders, Paulo Costanzo. Guest stars … Continue reading