Niki Caro’s last film, Whale Rider, is a favorite of mine. It’s a triumphant story of the empowerment of one Moari girl in New Zealand, but it’s the kind of film that makes you feel like a better person just for having watched. North Country is also about the empowerment of a single female, but … Continue reading
Doom, the latest video game turned into a movie, presents us with a cinematic first. In the film a character dies and then gets a free life. It’s during the much vaunted “first person shooter” scene – our hero is overtaken by an enemy and knocked down. In a truly amazing moment of bizarre filmmaking, … Continue reading
Congratulations are in order for Aint It Cool News’ Drew McWeeny (aka Moriarty) and his writing partner, Scott Swann, who have sold another script. This one is called Invasion, and it’s a horror script built around a home invasion – either the real thing, or the Ice-T record. Todd Garner and Mike Fleissare producing the … Continue reading
Sir Ridley Scott is shopping around a new Encyclopedia Brown franchise, setting up an auction for the movie rights to the popular series of books about the boy detective. Sadly, Donald J. Sobol, the old man who writes those things, is less than pleased.One thing at a time. Producer Howard Deutsch bought the multimedia rights … Continue reading
Masters of Horror is the new show that’s making me consider getting Showtime. It’s a simple, but great concept – get together the best horror directors, give them a budget and one hour to tell a story where they don’t have to worry about the MPAA and all that jazz, and see what happens. The … Continue reading
There are a couple of landmark films in my life, and one of those has to be Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. I was impressed that this film was so nasty, so bleak – and so good. At that point in my Fangoria-subscribing life, I just assumed horror films had bad actors and nonsense … Continue reading
Brian Helgeland’s A Knight’s Tale is a favorite movie of mine – I think it’s wonderful and fun and just really well-made. I actually love the integration of 70s rock into the period piece. So I get excited when the guy says that he has an idea for a sequel. Of course whether that sequel … Continue reading
There’s big news on Rocky VI today in the pages of Variety – the film is greenlit at Sony, and it is being called Rocky Balboa. Stallone has given some hints about the plot, which will have a widowed, old Rocky climbing back into the ring for one last fight. "There’s a computer fight between … Continue reading
Dark Horizons, home of that Aussie spunk Garth Franklin (I think I used his term correctly), reports that some fairly major reshoots have been happening on Superman Returns – mostly of action sequences. Bryan Singer and his crew have decided to rejigger some of the action moments because they too closely resemble other recent films, … Continue reading
I was hoping that I could tell whether the next Harrison Ford movie, Manhunt, would be any good based on the director chosen. Now a director has been hired – and I remain baffled. Manhunt is about the 12 day search for the man who shot Abraham Lincoln (I won’t spoil it for you by … Continue reading