A month or two ago we ran a story about how Radiohead had been approached to do the score for Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, based on the Philip K Dick novel. The story was either false or the band was too busy in the studio – the short and not so sweet was that … Continue reading
A man wakes up one morning on the D train in Coney Island with no idea who he is. He’s wearing shorts and has a backpack containing a vial of liquid. In his pocket is a phone number he doesn’t recognize and when called, the woman on the other end doesn’t know him. That’s the … Continue reading
This is a pretty fun contest, and one I agreed to run because I think our readership contains some of the most creative people on the web today. The idea is pretty simple – you create a new poster for the video game horror movie Stay Alive (and let’s not be a joker and just … Continue reading
This is a pretty fun contest, and one I agreed to run because I think our readership contains some of the most creative people on the web today. The idea is pretty simple – you create a new poster for the video game horror movie Stay Alive (and let’s not be a joker and just … Continue reading
Every now and again you see a movie whose problems can all be summed up in one moment. In the case of Winter Passing, the directing debut of playwright Adam Rapp, it’s a moment very early on when Zooey Deschanel’s character, Reese, takes her tiny kitten, who has been diagnosed with feline leukemia, to the … Continue reading
I had a chance to talk with Wayne Kramer today, the director of the upcoming and excellent Running Scared. The full interview will run next week, but Wayne spilled some interesting beans about his upcoming projects, including the fact that Thomas Jane is interested in starring in his film Evil Seek – as Satan. The … Continue reading
I had a chance to talk with Wayne Kramer today, the director of the upcoming and excellent Running Scared. The full interview will run next week, but Wayne spilled some interesting beans about his upcoming projects, including the fact that Thomas Jane is interested in starring in his film Evil Seek – as Satan. The … Continue reading
The Eternal Battle Between the Forces of Light and Dark. The Chosen One. The Coming End of the World. These are the basic tropes that populate about 99% of fantasy novels, and for some reason no one seems willing to move beyond them. So the problem becomes how do you make this stuff fresher, and … Continue reading
I made it pretty far into Eight Below without crying, but in the end it’s a losing battle. The theater was filled with the telltale sniffles of weeping moviegoers no more than halfway through this surprisingly wonderful story of survival, and while each tear was more than a little from each eye, Eight Below mostly … Continue reading
A new interview with Brett Ratner at MTV.com is incredibly revealing, and includes the confirmation that X-Men: The Last Stand is the last film for the team, that Ratner claims the shitty pictures we have seen hitting the web recently were taken before he got on the film (anyone else think Matthew Vaughn is going … Continue reading