This doesn’t do much for the "leave it the fuck alone" camp, but it’s certainly better than the previous alternative… I think. According to Variety, Zak Penn has pulled rewriting duty on Joel Silver’s The Dirty Dozen remake, which will hopefully be a page one overhaul since Scott Rosenberg’s first pass was… lacking. Let’s see… … Continue reading
There are plenty of reasons to read Stuart Jeffries’s Dennis Hopper profile for The Guardian, and "Oh Don Piano" news on a potential third installment in the dry-docked Speed franchise is not one of them. But here we are anyway, floating the possibility of a follow-up to the infamously unwatchable Speed 2: Cruise Control just … Continue reading
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Emily Blunt possesses one fine piece of posterior. Less universally acknowledged, though nonetheless true: Maggie Grace is smokin’, Maria Bello is aging splendidly and likes it on the stairs, and Amy Brenneman will get you killed if you feel the heat coming around the corner. Not true at … Continue reading
Hollywood may be on Operation Holiday Shutdown, but the town is still abuzz over some breaking bit of news over at Variety: Transformers has made some money. A whole bunch of it, actually. And inside sources at Dreamworks/Paramount are indicating that more money will be made throughout the week. Debuting all over the country last … Continue reading
Spike Lee does a lot of talking. In the past, this has gotten him into a lot of trouble; he is an intemperate conversationalist who too often sees a proffered microphone as an opportunity to vent about whatever’s bothering him at that precise moment. For example, at an Ohio University lecture back in the 90s, … Continue reading
Taking shameless advantage of his friendship with Guillermo del Toro (and, as we all know, del Toro does not make friends easily), Neil Gaiman has traveled to Budapest and posted the very first, and very unofficial, pics of Hellboy 2 to his official website. This unfortunate episode only grows more sordid when you realize Gaiman … Continue reading
When I first experienced the cinema of Edward Yang (at New York City’s cramped Cinema Village) in late 2000, I had no idea I was also witnessing its culmination. How could I? Yang’s works were rarely screened in the United States and never properly distributed; he was an unknown quantity to anyone outside of the … Continue reading
What are you feelings on Michael Bay? Is he our greatest living orchestrator of vehicular pandemonium, a merely proficient action filmmaker or the Great Satan of Hollywood? Whatever you believe, I can guarantee you this: Michael Bay doesn’t give a shit. The more time I’ve spent around Bay, the more I’ve realized that he lives … Continue reading
Robert Redford’s Lions for Lambs (based on a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan) is one of this year’s highly-touted "Let’s Talk About Terrorism" movies. It is a tripartite narrative juxtaposing both political and academic wrangling over the country’s foreign policy against the plight of two Army Rangers who idealistically enlisted after 9/11. As the soldiers … Continue reading