Former Secretary of the Navy (under Ronald Reagan) James Webb seems to have just caught Tank on TBS and has come up with a new movie loosely based on it. Called Whiskey River, the film will be about a young man who fights in Iraq and is wounded and sent home. As he is recuperating, … Continue reading
I guess the good news is that Stephen Sommers is off the remake of When Worlds Collide, a film about another planet invading Earth’s personal space. I say I guess because I didn’t care about the project anyway, so having him on it meant that he wasn’t going to be wrecking something I was excited … Continue reading
In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Robert Redford and Paul Newman proved themselves to be one of the all time great screen duos. They reteamed only once, for The Sting (which is getting a new DVD, by the way). "All these years went by and nobody came up with any ideas that were anything … Continue reading
The blessed respite from Star Trek may be ending. The franchise, which really appeals to lonely 40 year olds, has been on hiatus since the miserable prequel TV series Enterprise was cancelled, but now the work on the next film has slowly begun. Band of Brothers writer Erik Jendreson has handed in his first draft … Continue reading
Original reports had Oscar-nominated actress Shohreh Aghdashloo playing Dr. Rao in the upcoming X3 film. Dr. Rao was a character who played a role in Joss Whedon’s first story arc on Astonishing X-Men, someone who had found a “cure” to mutants and who was working with an alien with the incredibly awful name of Ord … Continue reading
I won’t deny that I like romantic comedies, especially when they’re done well (which is very rare in the last decade or two). But one of the things that bugged me in most of the romantic comedies I have seen is that there’s always a guy who has to lose out so the hero can … Continue reading
They warned us it would happen. They warned us that insidious Hollywood product would overcome indigenous films, sort of like rabbits being introduced to Australia. The Memory of a Killer, the latest import from Belgium, and winner of many Belgian awards and possibly waffles, is a perfect example of rote Hollywood fare being produced in … Continue reading
If you were to ask me what was the least likely TV show to be made into a film, I would probably tell you to leave me alone. If you persisted, though, I might say that Battle of the Network Stars, the 1970s “athletic” competition between B-list TV stars, would be untranslatable. It seems like … Continue reading
Crash. Magnolia. Short Cuts. A sampling of the movies that are about how the lives of strangers in LA intertwine. Now that genre will be reaching its pinnacle as Emilio Estevez writes and directs – stop rubbing your eyes, I said Emilio writes and directs – a movie about how the lives of LA strangers … Continue reading
How do you make the story of an FBI agent’s betrayal of his country dull as hell? I don’t know, but it happened with the TV miniseries Master Spy, starring William Hurt as real life spy Robert Hanssen. Hollywood is going to try to wash that taste out of my mouth with the film Breach, … Continue reading