Here’s a hint for potential remake strip-miners. If you want to tackle the work of a revered director, don’t start with one of their most personal movies. Remake Bringing Out The Dead, not The Age Of Innocence. Dive into Dressed To Kill, not Blow Out. Wrap your new shit around Nemesis, not Dangerously Close. And … Continue reading →
An old and trusted scooper named Tailgunner Joe has just dropped some info into my lap, and after taking a spin around Google, I’m convinced it’s news: James Wong, formerly of The X-Files and the man behind Final Destination and The One, is writing and directing the live action version of Dragon Ball, which is … Continue reading →
Somehow, I think Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes are overthinking their long-in-development remake of Friday the 13th. For whatever reason, the same company that rushed through slipshod redos of The Amityville Horror and The Hitcher – I could throw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in there, but I kinda liked Marcus Nispel’s visceral variation on … Continue reading →
Before we all have yet another laugh at Wesley Snipes’s expense, let’s first look back to the early 1990s when he was an boundlessly talented young actor knocking it out the box in movies like New Jack City, King of New York, Mo’ Better Blues and Neal Jimenez’s excellent (and inexplicably ignored) The Waterdance. It’s … Continue reading →
When I was growing up, the letter column was always my favorite part of a comic book – I would often skip right to the end to read what the creators had to say for themselves. Now it’s my turn. Of course those columns would appear monthly, while who even remembers the last time I … Continue reading →
Let’s start the rumor mill: was the American remake of The Eye, directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud in their first American work, too good or smart or moody or without sufficient cheap jump scares for Lionsgate? Whatever the reason behind it, the studio has called in filmmaking giant Patrick ‘Dracula 2000‘ Lussier to … Continue reading →
It looks like Wolverine, which is shooting in Sydney, Australia starting in December, is getting a new script. Fox has brought in Skip Woods to retool David Benioff’s take on the film, and sources tell IGN that this is ‘more than a polish.’ Apparently Fox liked Woods’ script for Hitman so much (they certainly couldn’t … Continue reading →
I liked the first National Treasure. Not enough to ever see it again or buy the DVD or anything, but enough to give it a passing grade of 7/10 in my review. I found the movie to be charmingly old fashioned at its core, but I wonder how much charm the sequel to the surprise … Continue reading →
Mimi Leder was already a seasoned, Emmy Award-winning director when Steven Spielberg tapped her to helm Dreamworks SKG’s first feature film, The Peacemaker. Some honor that proved to be. Gushing that "her camera has wings" (based on two seasons of work for the moderately groundbreaking ER), Spielberg essentially set Leder up to fail by stranding … Continue reading →
You know you’re a lazy motherfucker when you can’t even get around to completing your own ego-stroking series of pictures from your latest foreign trip. And forget about the travelogue! Well, friends, my promise to you is that I will complete this ego stroke. Today I bring you the first half of my pictures from … Continue reading →