Russ Fischer

RAMBO MIGHT COME HOME AGAIN

This wasn’t a big box-office weekend for anyone but Fox*, who had four films in the top ten with Juno hitting $100m and Alvin going over the freakin’ top to hit $200m. I don’t use that phrase lightly; Sly Stallone’s Rambo beat his arm wrestling opus by only a couple million this weekend. Rambo pulled … Continue reading

THE SHUTDOWN OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS

UPDATE: The New York Times has a piece on Parnassus, and though the tone is hardly optimistic, it presents the possibility of the film going forward either by recasting Ledger or reworking based on the completed footage. Either direction seems highly unlikely. Then again, given the high profile of Ledger’s story, consider that the producers … Continue reading

If They Blog, Kill 'Em: Shoot Me Up

I had to walk away from FTP file transfers, control panel settings and PM’d requests from one writer after another asking me to sort out flawed permission settings. Birthing pains, man. Love the new site. Hate being in labor for days and days. The end result will be so worth it, even if several of … Continue reading