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We could simply cut and paste stories from Variety, but we don’t. We’re too amazing for that. We RETYPE articles from Variety…

THE FUTURE, FOUGHT

Damn me, but I still get excited at the prospect of more X-Files material, whether it be film or show or homosexual fanfic. Speaking of, Home was loosely based on my childhood. David Duchovny has been talking to folks about the possibility of the film again, this time claiming that a script is going to … Continue reading

BEOWULF SCORES!

Managing one’s expectations for Robert Zemeckis’s performance capture rendition of Beowulf is easy: just recall the front-to-back awfulness of The Polar Express! That film was Zemeckis at his autopilot worst. Though a technical marvel and occasionally thrilling amusement park ride if viewed in IMAX 3-D (pity the suckers who suffered through it in 2-D), The … Continue reading

CATE AND CROSS, DYLAN AND GINSBERG

Had the below clip of Cate Blanchett inhabiting the body of a twenty-four-year-old Bob Dylan following the troubadour’s electric transgression at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival appeared before I began categorizing the year’s remaining films, I would’ve bumped Todd Haynes’s I’m Not There up to "Sure Thing" status. Because something is happening here, and I … Continue reading

DAILY NEWS ROUNDUP 7/13

— Yesterday, I bemoaned Walden‘s continued onslaught of YA fiction adaptations. For some reason, they’re not listening, and that may be well and good. Walden has just added Tim Robbins as a secretive inventor in addition to Martin Landeau, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Harry Treadway to their upcoming adaptation of City of Ember. The title sounds … Continue reading

CYBERTRON DAYS REVISITED

There’s no question whether there will be a sequel to Transformers; the real query is what it will be about*. If the guy who does the voice of Bumblebee (ie, delivers one line in the film) is right, the plot of the sequel is being set up in a special feature on the Transformers DVD … Continue reading

1-18-08 PUTS UP A SMOKESCREEN

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know you’re all burned out on viral marketing, and thus this is merely an official dispatch. The 1-18-08 site has added a third, brand new photo as seen above, and apparently in the midst of all this Chtulu/Voltron/Parasite/MechaGodzilla/Jet Jaguar/? craziness, somebody’s barbeque got out of control. Or the Broadway musical version … Continue reading

IS PIXAR RESTARTING CARS?

There’s a rumor going around about Pixar’s upcoming slate – could the animation studio be putting out two sequels in a row? According to a Pixar blog*, Cars 2 will be released the year after Toy Story 3. This could possibly push John Carter of Mars back another year, to 2012. According to the site, … Continue reading

MICHAEL MOORE DEFENDS BEARS

Now that Michael Moore has gone after the nation’s health with his excellent (and bi-partisanally acclaimed) Sicko, he’s going after our nation’s mental health: his next film might be about crazy gay-hating Christians. “I think it’s a very ripe subject for someone like me to make a movie about. Simply because we are not there … Continue reading

LIONSGATE VS GOD

Bill Maher teaming up with Larry Charles (most recently the director of Borat, among many other funny things) for a documentary about world religion is great news for those of us who are not afraid to THINK about faith and God, and not just accept the knee-jerk inane teachings of our parents. The fact that … Continue reading

INTERNATIONAL (FE)MALE

Naomi Watts. The gal’s pulled down some pretty great performances and projects to slather her resume with– especially Babe: Pig in the City (not to mention Stay and The Ring 2*). My buddy and I always argue about her level of hotness (I’m in the ordinarily lovely camp**- he’s in the "hotness with cute little … Continue reading