A year ago I never would have believed I’d be actively anticipating D.J. Caruso’s next picture. But Disturbia had a power to get me behind his work that The Salton Sea didn’t, ambitious and occasionally excellent as it was. Caruso and Shia LaBeouf turned out to be a good pair, and their follow-up, Eagle Eye, … Continue reading
The marketing types over at Marvel and Paramount must run campaigns accorting to the burlesque playbook, because their angle for Iron Man is all about the tease. Here’s another photo from the flick, and…it looks a lot like one of the first revealed shots we drooled over last year. It’s a great-looking shot that does … Continue reading
The fall schedule of the Los Angeles Opera, which begins September 6, is one of those things that makes me temporarily insane enough to reconsider moving to LA. I’m not any sort of opera aficionado, but I am fascinated by Robert Wilson (the company is reviving his version of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly) and how can … Continue reading
The cast is starting to come together for the version of Solomon Kane that Samuel Hadida is producing. We’ve known for a while that James Purefoy is the title character. Now we know that distinguished gents Max Von Sydow (a name attached to the flick for a while, too) and Pete Postlethwaite will share the … Continue reading
William Gibson’s proto-cyberpunk novel Neuromancer is one of those books I have no real wish to see lifted to the screen. Not to preserve my own love for the book, which has finer points, but isn’t any significant favorite. Rather, like past efforts to make Gibson’s stuff come alive onscreen, it’s that a Neuromancer film … Continue reading
The WGA strike is about to hit home for a whole new audience. NBC has cancelled the televised Golden Globes ceremony, originally set to air next Monday, January 13. Suddenly several new segments of the entertainment industry will need to find a new way to prey on creative types, at least for the evening. With … Continue reading
In order to take a break from writing about movies I don’t actually want to see, I thought I’d share the scant new details about a little flick that could turn out to be a 2008 highlight. I’ve covered Mammoth briefly before, and the brevity has been due only to creator Lukas Moodysson’s reticent nature. … Continue reading
Real news about movies you (should) care about has been thin since before the holidays. So for some, the prospect of sitting through long, rather poorly produced ‘news reports’ in different languages to continue the Cloverfield monster tease might seem like a good way to kill part of an hour. More power to them; I’m … Continue reading
Dust off your old Kingpin/Michael Clarke Duncan soapboxes; a black man has been signed to play a white character in G.I. Joe. Marlon Wayans is now on board as Ripcord who, if you had his file card handy, you’d recall is just Wallace Weems when he’s in the shower. That’s a DC Comics reject name … Continue reading
UPDATE: Moriarty is claiming that a ‘very high-ranking’ mole has said that Latino Review’s story is "absolutely false". The mole states that Routh is still WB’s choice for any standalone film, as evidenced by conversations "as recently as a few weeks ago."*** Latino Review is frequently on the money and it’s a slow news day … Continue reading