I’m not posting this image because it’s striking or, in fact, any good. Just the opposite, in fact. The Diving Bell And The Butterfly is one of the most impressive films I’ve seen in what’s shaping up to be a truly great year for movies, and I’m frightened that people might see this in a … Continue reading
There’s a sort of hometown loyalty that leads creators to represent their place of origin as a whitewashed paradise where undesirable elements are corralled and neutered, people are pretty and endings are happy, or at least palatable. Then there’s the hometown love you’ll see in Gone Baby Gone, a dark glass through which Ben Affleck … Continue reading
Del Toro. Navarro. Now Guillermo Arriaga, writer of Babel and 21 Grams, is set to get behind the camera for his first feature directing gig, based on his own script The Burning Plain. Call me curious; I’d be less interested in Arriaga if he hadn’t written the amazing Amores Perros and The Three Burials Of … Continue reading
Those go-getters over at MTV have the trailer premiere for Stop Loss, the flick starring Ryan Philippe as a solider given new marching orders back to Iraq on the day he was meant to be discharged. If you’ve missed the past couple years of news, ‘stop-loss’ is the name for a policy which retains troops … Continue reading
You want to see Rose McGowan take a turn or two in the Excessive Machine. I want to see it. Robert Rodriguez gets to see it every night, but he wants to put it on film…publicly. Universal, however, while interested in paying $19.99 for the homemade DVD or $9.99 for the DRM-free digital download, isn’t … Continue reading
Clint Eastwood’s getting his actors in line for The Changeling, the movie he’s making that isn’t a remake of the fun George C. Scott ghost flick from the 1980. (And not to be confused with Changeling sans the definite article, a film whose titular status will probably live up to its original title, which won’t … Continue reading
To drum up interest in 30 Days Of Night, which opens at the end of the week, Sam Raimi took part in a press conference today to discuss the film and also to say that, basically, that he’s not currently involved in the films you’d probably like him to be doing (Spider-Man 4, The Hobbit) … Continue reading
I had to stop and take a few breaths before writing this article, because every paragraph I read in the source story just screamed wrong, wrong, WRONG. Where’s that Kevin Spacey .gif? The basics: as we’ve reported before, Bill Pullman is playing a sorta, kinda version of Philip K Dick in the unauthorized biopic Your … Continue reading
Fresh from his exhausting stint doing not a goddamn thing for the past decade (does The Good Shepherd count?) Joe Pesci is about to live every boy’s dream: he’s going to play fuck/marry/kill with Helen Mirren, Helen Mirren and some unknown actor, all within the confines of a thinly fictionalized Mustang Ranch. Guess which one … Continue reading
You’re not the only one disappointed that the primary way to check the Grindhouse trailers is to watch them on the web. Eli Roth is probably feeling the sting, too, given that Thanksgiving was the best thing he’s ever made. That’s likely part of the reason he’s going ahead with Trailer Trash, which will hit … Continue reading