In The Dark Knight Batman takes a trip to the Orient*, but he won’t be doing any swimming. The production is moving to Hong Kong to get some inscrutable footage, some of which was to include Batman dropping out of a plane into Hong Kong’s harbor and then climbing out. Yeah, I have no idea … Continue reading →
JJ Abrams’ new Star Trek flick which, like Devin I’d really like to see work, continues to experience the WTF casting malady. The latest symptom has Winona Ryder cast as mother to Zachary Quinto’s Spock. What do you say to that? That she’s a scene-stealer? I try to come up with a decent joke and … Continue reading →
Somewhere in any top ten list of ‘important’ authors from the past fifty years resides Don DeLillo. Composer of novels that are somewhere between those of Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth, his books tell the story of the 20th and 21st centuries in a unique, if occasionally long-winded fashion. As dense as his work is, … Continue reading →
I can’t say I dig everything he’s been doing, but Mark Wahlberg is on a hell of a roll. Fresh from The Departed he had Shooter and We Own The Night, and he’s already jumped to The Lovely Bones and, um, Shyamalan’s The Happening. Now there’s a new addition to his burgeoning slate: Max Payne, … Continue reading →
Yesterday was the big brouhaha about Rob Zombie directing a remake of 1980s C-movie C.H.U.D., from whence the very name of this site comes. I told you how some people in the world of horror news poo-poo’ed the concept, but then Johnny Butane claimed to confirm it, saying he had spoken to Rob himself. Well, … Continue reading →
My biggest worry with Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones has been that the tone might not match up to the haunting beauty of the screenplay. As we all know, Jackson has a tendency to go garish with his situations and characterizations; this is fine for The Frighteners or even Heavenly Creatures, … Continue reading →
Last night I was hobnobbing with the elite of the horror movie news scene at the premiere party for P2 (I didn’t go to the movie, I just ate their food and drank their rum. And watched Wes Bentley and Rachel Nichols totally take off together), and someone told me that Billboard had announced that … Continue reading →
The trailer for Valkyrie, the Tom Cruise in a Nazi uniform and eyepatch movie, has debuted at Yahoo! movies. It’s one of those trailers that gives the whole movie away, but I guess there’s no harm in that, since anybody with a brain knows the plan to kill Hitler failed. There are three things I … Continue reading →
Looking at the cast list of Star Trek XI I see that the only person who I find really exciting is Eric Bana as the bad guy. If the rest of the bridge crew had been better cast I might have been psyched about Simon Pegg as Scotty, but he’s surrounded by third rate actors … Continue reading →
Guillermo del Toro has added another item to his already heaping plate of future projects. He’ll be writing, directing and producing a movie version of an obscure British TV series, The Champions, for United Artists. The Champions ran for 30 episodes from 1968 to 1969, and it was about a secret UN trio called Nemesis … Continue reading →