Hot on the heels of the teaser poster for 30 Days of Night is the full trailer, which gives you the whole story in a nutshell. Alaska. A month without sunlight. Josh Hartnett. Vampires. Trenchcoats? OK, I have faith in David Slade because Hard Candy was cool, but trenchcoats? Is there a vampire named Louis … Continue reading
I’ve been curious to see The Ten for a while — it’s Wet Hot American Summer / The State‘s David Wain basically giving the finger to Kieslowski for nintety minutes by making loosely connected comedy sketches based (sorta) on the Ten Commandments. Even if the title reminds me too much of that horrible pre-show ‘entertainment’ … Continue reading
Every time I look at the teaser poster for 30 Days of Night, I see 300. It’s the red, and the splatters, and the font. Oh, and the pose. The ‘based on the graphic novel’ tag has nothing to do with it, though. 30 Days of Night is indeed based on the graphic novel of … Continue reading
Last night I snarked a little bit about Scott Collura’s encounter with Mark Steven Johnson published in IGN, which ended with a tease about forthcoming Preacher news. Scott took it well, and has already emailed with a link to the Preacher article. (Which had actually been published when I wrote the article last night — … Continue reading
I’m one of the few people, I think, that genuinely likes The Last Man On Earth, the 1964 film version of Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend shot in Italy and starring Vincent Price. Sure, The Omega Man is fun to watch with a group, but the first act of Last Man is a good depiction … Continue reading
There’s no place to be a journalist, especially a freelance one, like New York City. The sheer number of ‘press events’ held to promote everything from movies to DVDs to flat screen TVs, phones and video games is staggering. And they’ve all got free food and alcohol. Seriously, it’s like going to ‘brunch’ by hitting … Continue reading
What do you want from a movie featuring Danny Ocean and friends? Are you looking for a clockwork heist, or a light glimpse into the cult of personality that surrounds Clooney, Pitt, et al? Stung by the dismissal of Ocean’s Twelve, Soderbergh and company have gone light on the self-referential jokes (though they’re still here, … Continue reading
Kevin Smith has finished the script for his next next film (remmber, he’s doing the low-budget flick Red State before anything else) and now we know the title: Zack And Miri Make A Porno. Never one for subtlety or misdirection, the script is about exactly what you think it’s about. From the LA Times: “A … Continue reading
I can’t make any bones about my feelings for Tideland, and I don’t think anyone would argue with me that The Brothers Grimm is barely watchable, much less Terry Gilliam himself. But those two projects don’t change the fact that Gilliam is among the most interesting filmmakers alive, and I get a little thrill every … Continue reading
Sometimes you’ll look back at a movie that’s a few years old and have a real head-thumping moment of realization. Like, in 2001 I saw Jump, Tomorrow which at the time was a well-written, slightly too self-aware indie in the same mold as so many other well-written, self-aware indies. Now I look at it and … Continue reading