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EIDOS REALLY MOVES ON THE MULTIPLEX

We should have all seen this coming. For years, books have been optioned before they ever hit shelves. Hannibal: Vegan? Not even left Harris’ pen yet, and it’s already a movie. I bought a copy in Chinatown over the weekend. But now we’ve moved into the new age, where other forms of media become film … Continue reading

MEIRELLES IS IN LOVE WITH THE BARD

Despite the fact that Daniel Craig moved on from his upcoming film Blindness, Fernando Meirelles is moving full steam ahead and in directions you might not expect given his rather grim filmography thus far, which includes The Constant Gardener and City of God (and Blindness is every bit as bleak). After that onslaught of onscreen … Continue reading

DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO BE A BANGSTA

Getting paid to do chicks. Short of getting paid to conduct breast exams for the 35 and not obese crowd, could there be anything finer? I dare say no. And Michael Baisden knows it– dude makes a living writing and talking about it. To be honest, I’d never heard of Michael Baisden, who, after surveying … Continue reading

THE DEVIN’S ADVOCATE: RE-WHORE-TERS

Wong Kar Wai. David Cronenberg. Atom Egoyan. Jane Campion. Roman Polanski. Takeshi Kitano. Gus Van Sant. These are some of the people who took the stage at a press conference in Cannes this weekend; all had made one of 33 three minute long ‘Chacun Son Cinema’ (To Each His Own Cinema, Indiewire helpfully decodes) films … Continue reading

HANEKE GOES HEIMAT?

Michael Haneke, that cheery chronicler of abject inhumanity, is frustrating our expectations in new and, hopefully, exciting ways. After the art house success of Caché in 2005, the director blew minds all over the cineaste-sphere when he decided to do an English-language remake of his excellent 1997 mindfuck, Funny Games. Now, with Funny Games ’07 … Continue reading

GOLDIE HAWN: AUTEUR

You might not have noticed (I know I hadn’t), but it’s been a full five years since we last saw Goldie Hawn on the big screen. As a fan of the 1970s ditz icon turned movie star (and longtime shacker-upper with Kurt Russell), I’d be sad about this if I felt Hawn had any interest … Continue reading

GREASE IS THE WORD FOR INDY JR.

A source close to the production of Indiana Jones IV (still, as far as we know, unofficially called Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods, but more on that later) has divulged some information to us about the film’s shooting locations, opening set piece and what kind of a character Shia LaBeouf will be … Continue reading