I may have gotten to the age where I don’t find fart gags as funny as I once did, but putting a foreign language in a well-known actor’s mouth still makes me break down laughing. This has colored my first viewing of the German trailer for Oliver Stone’s entry in the 9/11 film festival, World … Continue reading
Superman already took Bryan Singer away from the X-Men films. Will he now take the director away from his long-planned Logan’s Run update? It’s looking more and more likely as Warner Bros is panting to get Superman Returns II into production in 2007. Which, by the way, is an interesting contrast to the still-not-getting-started Batman … Continue reading
It’s with incredible pride that we bring you the uncensored version of the one sheet for Michael Winterbottom’s stunningly important film, The Road to Guantanamo. The little elf who slipped this one into our inbox didn’t elaborate, but my assumption is that the MPAA isn’t going to look favorably on an image of a man … Continue reading
If there’s one thing I learned from The Great Space Coaster, it’s that no gnus is good gnus. And in the case the no news is that Universal’s proposed remake of the modern Korean classic Oldboy remains trapped in limbo. By now I must assume that you know that Oldboy is the second film in … Continue reading
The last time I interviewed Thomas Haden Church, I noted how well he projects. Talking to him on the phone from his Texas ranch the other week it occurred to me that the guy could probably conduct his side of the interview without telecommunications. The junket for Over the Hedge, the new CGI cartoon from … Continue reading
BUY IT NOT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Markham Street FilmsMSRP: $27.98RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 72 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• The Detroit Music Scene and the Big 8• Funky Chicken on Swingin Time• Did You See the Bullet Hole? (a 20/20 confession)• Behind closed doors and on-the-air at the private 2002 Big 8 Reunion• Swinghammer Time! (The soundtrack recording … Continue reading
Snake Plissken. RJ MacReady. Jack Burton. Wyatt Earp. Kurt Russell’s been all of these guys, and any fanboy worth his salt knows and loves at least a couple of the great films Russell’s been involved with over the years. I was flown to LA to have round two with Richard Dreyfuss, but the real excitement … Continue reading
Is there a full-blown Peckinpah revival coming on? Warner Bros just released a very nice four film set of his greatest Westerns, and Tommy Lee Jones recently directed a fairly explicit homage in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Now Dead Man’s Shoes arrives on US shores (fucking finally), and it’s hard not to see … Continue reading