Do you live near New York City? Are you free Monday, December 5th? Do you want to go to the premiere of King Kong? I know for sure that the answer to at least one of those questions is yes. But they all have to be yes for you to win one of five pairs … Continue reading
I saw The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe this past weekend. My date cried twice, and neither time because of anything I did (which is probably a first for me). The film delivers on many of the hopes I had for it. One of the scenes that was even better … Continue reading
The video game industry rakes in billions and billions of dollars, but it seems like Hollywood hasn’t really exploited it properly. Sure, we’ve seen a bunch of video game adaptations, but not only are they uniformly bad, they’re sort of missing the point. There’s this huge subculture of gamers whose pockets seemed to be stuffed … Continue reading
Chris Columbus’ big screen version of Rent keeps most of the original Broadway cast members – which meant that I had a chance to interview Detective Green from Law & Order. Many fans don’t know that he originated the role of Tom Collins, an HIV+ professor whose lover is the cross-dressing Angel. Wilison Jermaine Heredia … Continue reading
It is finished. The Poseidon Journals are done. It was fun while it lasted, as Warner Bros brought a number of web sites to visit the set of Wolfgang Peterson’s remake of The Poseidon Adventure. For me it was memorable because Richard Dreyfuss punched me, a story I will surely be dining out on for … Continue reading
I’m probably the only guy on the internet who thinks that Christopher Nolan’s film career is on a slight downward path – I think Memento was a wonderful film, if a bit of a novelty, but I think that Insomnia was a fairly trifling movie, and one that doesn’t have the sheer impact of the … Continue reading
It’s important to keep in mind that Brett Ratner is directing X-Men 3 because of Chris Tucker. If Tucker had just come back for Rush Hour 3 earlier when he was supposed to, Ratner would never have had the time to try to introduce mutant hookers to the film franchise. But now Tucker is back … Continue reading
This Thanksgiving, the big family movie is a musical about AIDS, homosexuals, cross dressers and heroin addicts. The Broadway smash Rent is finally getting to theaters after a decade in development, including a time when Spike Lee was going to direct. Chris Columbus is who ended up in the director’s chair, though – the same … Continue reading
Interviewing celebrities is cool. It’s fun to sit next to George Clooney or Matt Damon as they discuss their new film, Syriana (and look for what they had to say later this week). But for me that’s becoming old hat – I’ve interviewed plenty of actors and filmmakers. What the Syriana junket offered that was … Continue reading
Interviewing celebrities is cool. It’s fun to sit next to George Clooney or Matt Damon as they discuss their new film, Syriana (and look for what they had to say later this week). But for me that’s becoming old hat – I’ve interviewed plenty of actors and filmmakers. What the Syriana junket offered that was … Continue reading