2007, the best year for cinema since Deepstar Six and Leviathan revolutionized the medium, is drawing to a close. Critics groups are dishing out awards, the Guilds are nominating their peers, the Hollywood Foreign Press is making seating arrangements, and individual critics are compiling top ten lists that will feature at least one or two … Continue reading
Here’s three things you have to remember with the Screen Actors Guild Awards: 1) the actors comprise the biggest bloc of AMPAS voters, 2) they accurately predicted Crash‘s upset of Brokeback Mountain, and 3) they inaccurately predicted Bobby‘s Best Picture nomination. Oh, and one more thing to consider: they went for Little Miss Sunshine over … Continue reading
When the invite for The Great Debaters press day hit my inbox, I made two immediate requests: 1:1 interviews with Denzel Washington and Nate Parker. I was fairly certain that Denzel would decline, but, hey, it never hurts to ask. As for Nate, whom I’d never seen in anything before, I was going on the … Continue reading
In its most ludicrous decision since the censoring of the one-sheet for Michael Winterbottom’s The Road to Guantanamo (exclusively unveiled by CHUD back in ’06), the MPAA has rejected the poster for Alex Gibney’s Oscar short-listed documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side, because its depiction of torture "is not suitable for all audiences". At issue … Continue reading
I’ll never give up on Chow Yun-Fat, but I have completely given up hope that he’ll ever make a decent English language film. Actually, I remember kinda liking James Foley’s The Corruptor, but let’s not get into that now. Rather, let us slouch in collective dismay at the news that the one-time coolest man in … Continue reading
Once upon a time, Stephen Sommers’s G.I.J.O.E. was threatening to go all A-list on us with the casting of George Clooney as Duke. Actually, that was never going to happen, but it’s fun to remember ridiculous casting rumors. Now that the production has lowered its sights, they’re finally making headway in filling out some of … Continue reading
Several years ago, Brad Pitt dropped out of Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain, which prominently featured the mythic tree of life. Now, he’s dropped out of Kevin MacDonald’s State of Play to (maybe) star in Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life. I’m sure Aronofsky’s made his peace with Pitt’s abrupt departure (which almost killed his passion project … Continue reading
Our sworn enemies over at IGN have scored a pair of Hellboy II exclusives, the first of which is viewable to your right. See that guy on the far left? That’s Johann Kraus, everyone’s favorite psychic glob of ectoplasm (he’ll be voiced by Thomas Kretschmann, best known as "Roscoe" in SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2)! And … Continue reading
It was looking bleak there for a moment, but, deep down, did anyone really think The Hobbit would get made without Peter Jackson’s creative input? As for whether he’ll direct… But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The big news today is that New Line and Jackson have "settled all litigation relating to the Lord … Continue reading
It would appear that Jim Carrey is entering another one of his quality filmmaking phases, which is a happy occasion for anyone who prefers Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to, say, The Number 23 (the reverse isn’t psychologically possible, is it?). Currently, he’s starring in Yes Man, a formulaic romantic comedy that has a … Continue reading