PETA has written a letter to Speed Racer producer Joel Silver saying that they’ve heard reports of animal abuse on the set of the Wachowski-directed adaptation of a crummy cartoon. "We are in receipt of information that may upset you," PETA wrote. "We’ve received several troubling complaints from people who have been on the ‘Speed … Continue reading →
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has turned down Oliver Stone’s request to make a documentary about him. Seems that Stone, despite being a popular whipping boy for idiot conservatives in America, is still too Satanic for our Persian enemies-in-waiting. Says the LA Times: "It is true that [Stone] is known as a dissident in the U.S., … Continue reading →
Since last fall, George Romero has been back in Canada, shooting Diary of the Dead in and around Toronto. In case you missed news of the flick, this isn’t Dead movie number five in a chronological sense. Diary follows a group of students who were making a movie in the woods at the time of … Continue reading →
Less than a year ago, Jamie Lee Curtis claimed that she was done with acting, and after watching only bits of Christmas With The Kranks, I’m pretty certain that acting feels the same way about her. Zero sum game then, all good. But today she’s making a move. Not even a vaguely entertaining one like … Continue reading →
Last week I ran a piece about unemployed Superman Brandon Routh being very, very eager to get back in the cape and tights… and also star in a Justice League movie. Some readers took exception to that, possibly members of the Twinks4Routh club. They felt it was mean-spirited of me to poke fun at the … Continue reading →
I can’t imagine this counts as good news: Rob Zombie and the cast and crew of the Halloween remake have gone back and done seven days of reshoots, during which they shot a new ending and six new death scenes. According to Bloody-Disgusting.com the deaths and ending are more gruesome than before, and really push … Continue reading →
When I first experienced the cinema of Edward Yang (at New York City’s cramped Cinema Village) in late 2000, I had no idea I was also witnessing its culmination. How could I? Yang’s works were rarely screened in the United States and never properly distributed; he was an unknown quantity to anyone outside of the … Continue reading →
It’s always been obvious that the Will Smith superhero movie Tonight, He Comes would get a new name – that title is just fucking awful. But who would have guessed that the film would actually get a title that was even worse? The movie, a softened version of a script about a hard-drinking superhero who … Continue reading →
Frighteningly omnipresent celebrity gossip website TMZ.com has snapped some pictures of Benicio Del Toro as he prepares to play Larry Talbot, aka The Wolf Man, in the upcoming remake of the Universal monster classic, and either Benicio is going Method on us and finding out what it’s like to get all hairy, or Larry’s gonna … Continue reading →
While the Wachowski’s version of Speed Racer is already doing laps in Berlin, new faces keep getting added to the cast. The latest: Richard Roundtree, known to a generation of moviegoers as Shaft, the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks. A less lucky generation knows him as the old dead … Continue reading →