That’s the first picture of The Joker from The Dark Knight, thanks to themykra, from the message boards. The other day we told you about the ‘I Believe In Harvey Dent’ fake campaign site for The Dark Knight. It turns out the speculation was true: the site was part of a viral campaign, as IBelieveInHarveyDentToo.com … Continue reading →
William Gibson’s Neuromancer changed everything. The book introduced (to a wide audience) the term cyberspace, and its cyberpunk attitudes, concepts and styles would be a major influence on art, music and film over the next decades. It’s no stretch to say that without Neuromancer there would be no Matrix films, for instance. Could Neuromancer again … Continue reading →
Michael Moore’s Sicko is currently conquering France at the Cannes Film Festival (but no surprise there), where it’s being called a movie that “opens your emotional pores” (Jeff Wells) and “alternates between comedy and outrage” (Variety). There’s some Sicko-related comedy and outrage happening here at home, as well, where it’s been revealed that the obsessive … Continue reading →
"Bring any weapons?" "Of course not." "You ain’t changin’ nothin’." For about two minutes, the Cannes John Rambo showreel, currently being hosted by our pals over at Ain’t It Cool News, is muted, melancholy and contemplative – a nice companion piece to last year’s Rocky Balboa. Then… well, I don’t know how else to put … Continue reading →
I spent the first half of this week in Bucharest, the capital city of Romania, on a set visit for The Dark Is Rising, the first film from the new Fox-Walden partnership. I’ll be talking about my impressions of Bucharest and its packs of wild dogs and astonishingly hot women in part two of this … Continue reading →
I’m so tired. I’m so tired of throwaway 80s pop culture outliving its expiration date by twenty years or more. I’m tired of living in a world where more people associate ‘Masters of the Universe’ with a homo-erotic toy line and its half-hour cartoon advertisement than with Tom Wolfe. I’m even tired of the hate … Continue reading →
Here’s the kind of Cannes story you wouldn’t expect to hear normally: After an apparently successful screening, MGM is grabbing the new Rob Schnieder movie Big Stan, a prison/martial arts comedy, even though Schneider and crew have already sold off partial rights for the film to HBO. Hell, MGM didn’t just buy it. They’ve committed … Continue reading →
I don’t know how the world of Tom Clancy has entered film limbo – maybe it’s just because I’m one of the people who really thought that The Sum of All Fears was a terrific movie, and that there should have been a whole bunch of Ben Affleck-starring Jack Ryan films by now. But Jack … Continue reading →
Smokin’ Aces wasn’t a flop – it cost about 15 million and made about 35 million – but it wasn’t a smash hit, so Joe Carnahan’s dreams of making a prequel film that focused on the fan-favorite Tremor Brothers, those Mad Max-esque psychopaths, looked pretty unlikely. Until the film hit DVD, that is, where it … Continue reading →