Concept: a man’s family is brutally killed in a gang initiation (I am assuming his family was not, in fact, becoming members of the Black Gangster Disciples, but rather were innocents). The man then hunts down the gang members and inflicts the death penalty on them one by one. That’s the concept of Death Penalty, … Continue reading
The first picture of Steve Carrell from Evan Almighty has appeared in the pages of USA Today, Official Newspaper of the Dumbening of America. It looks like Carrell has gone full on Old Testament here – and speaking of testaments, it’s a testament to his commitment to this role that he would allow his hair … Continue reading
It’s almost fascinating to watch Art School Confidential slowly start coming apart before it finally crashes and burns. Almost fascinating – it’s actually very disappointing to know that the Dan Clowes and Terry Zwigoff, men behind Ghost World (and individually Dan Pussey and Bad Santa), have stumbled so badly with this one. What sinks Art … Continue reading
Written by Nick Cave, John Hillcoat’s The Proposition is a bleak story set in Australia’s early days, and in the untamed deserts that seem to be very analogous to the American West. Guy Pearce is an outlaw whose younger, soft brother is captured by the authorities and will be hung – unless Pearce finds his … Continue reading
I can’t imagine sitting down with Courtney Solomon and not asking him about his last film, Dungeons & Dragons. It can be weird asking someone about their shitty previous work – sometimes they seem to deny that the film was no good; other times they just say that the movie made a bundle in pay … Continue reading
The last time I met Richard Dreyfuss things didn’t go well. It was on the set of Poseidon, Wolfgang Peterson’s big budget remake of the 1972 camp disaster classic about a huge cruise ship that gets turned upside down. You can read the whole encounter here, but the short version is this – Dreyfuss punched … Continue reading
The last time I met Richard Dreyfuss things didn’t go well. It was on the set of Poseidon, Wolfgang Peterson’s big budget remake of the 1972 camp disaster classic about a huge cruise ship that gets turned upside down. You can read the whole encounter here, but the short version is this – Dreyfuss punched … Continue reading
Art School Confidential reteams the Ghost World duo of director Terry Zwigoff and writer/cartoonist Dan Clowes. Clowes is much beloved in the alternative comic world for his glorious book Eightball, which has always been among the most accessible of the non-mainstream comics. It’s interesting that life has taken Clowes to Hollywood – he’s currently writing … Continue reading
Fantastic Four 2 could be making up for the Earthbound antics of the first film by getting all cosmic – Variety is reporting that it looks like the Silver Surfer will be in the sequel. And we all know that where the Surfer goes, Galactus can’t be far behind. The deal’s not yet done; the … Continue reading
This review contains minor, unavoidable spoilers. Los Angeles is a weird place, and if you don’t know that firsthand, the movies are always willing to tell you. Hollywood loves turning out movies about itself and its immediate environs, and it’s rare when one of those are really of interest to anyone outside that community. The … Continue reading