The producers of 24 are looking to bring secret agent killerman Jack Bauer from the TV to the movies in a feature film franchise. This is obviously a ridiculous idea – sitting through three hours of King Kong was trying enough, there’s no fucking way I am spending a solid day in a movie theater. … Continue reading
Clint Eastwood’s companion piece to Flags of our Fathers, now titled Red Sun, Black Sand, is finding itself having some logistical issues. The movie will tell the story of the battle for Iwo Jima from the Japanese point of view, a very intriguing concept – two films telling the same story from different sides. I … Continue reading
I recently read an excellent book, Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause, and I was just as fascinated by the general life of that film’s director, Nicholas Ray, as I was in what went into making the film. Ray was a madman and possibly a genius, but also … Continue reading
It looks like my “Going for Brokeback” piece was written a week or two early. Just this weekend Brokeback Mountain, well on its way to being the frontrunner for the Academy Awards, became the center of two controversies. One is stupid. A movie theater in Utah reneged on showing the film after it had been … Continue reading
I guess there are no hard feelings that Tim Burton will be working with Jim Carrey in the upcoming Ripley’s Believe It or Not movie – the director and his longtime leading man Johnny Depp are looking at working together a sixth time, adapting Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. This, … Continue reading
The trailer for Paul Greengrass’ Flight 93 has just about no footage from the actual film in it, yet it’s one of the most effective teasers I have ever seen. There’s a realness to the snippets of conversations and broadcasts you hear, and knowing the final outcome of the passengers’ last stand, that last bit … Continue reading
There were two things that surprised me about Eli Roth’s Hostel – one was the direction the film took, which I wasn’t expecting from the ads. The other was the fact that I liked it. Both of these surprises hit me about halfway through the film. I won’t spill too much on the film’s plot, … Continue reading
Scooper Max Rockatansky has supplied us with the first hi-res image of Davey Jones from the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest. A different version of this pic – way less clear – had been making the rounds before, but now in hi-res you can make out every single tuber sadly growing … Continue reading
Scooper Max Rockatansky has supplied us with the first hi-res image of Davey Jones from the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest. A different version of this pic – way less clear – had been making the rounds before, but now in hi-res you can make out every single tuber sadly growing … Continue reading
Unless it’s about the character from Zelda or a chain, Disney’s newly announced The Missing Link is probably going to hit at a sensitive time in America. By which I mean the New Dark Ages, where people actually have to go to court to get God thrown out of biology class. There’s no word on … Continue reading