What the hell is going on with JJ Abrams and Star Trek XI? Last week Latino Review announced that he was off the project. Paramount denied. Last night they reiterated that he was off the project, and even announced the movie he was doing instead, a film called Cloverfield, which they say is a horror … Continue reading
If you frequent our message boards, you may have noticed that things have been wonky for a couple of days – especially if you’re using Internet Explorer as your browser. We also had some database issues with the site, but those have been cleared up; now we’re waiting for the tech types to figure out … Continue reading
After a couple years of publishing, the Hard Case Crime imprint has made a name for itself among old-school crime aficionados. It has a great strategy: resurrect lost works by authors like Lawrence Block, Ed McBain and Mickey Spillane and present them alongside new fiction, all wrapped in sexy new covers for a reasonable price. … Continue reading
After the announcement that Shawn “I hate and shit upon the very concept of cinema” Levy would be directing a movie based on The Flash, many comic nerds thought we had reached rock bottom. Oh, how naïve. There’s always worse. Like Joel Schumacher directing a movie based on Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. Don’t worry, it won’t … Continue reading
This is still in the not-quite-concrete/rumor stage, as the source for this story is gossip haven TMZ.com, but reportedly Tom Cruise looks to do a flick with Ben Stiller tentatively called The Hardy Men, which of course would be based on the Hardy Boys detective novel series. Except that they’re grown-up now, see? What’s interesting … Continue reading
Before 2006, I would have probably ranked Iron Man somewhere in the low 3000s in the list of Marvel characters I cared about, nestled comfortably between The USAgent and Night Thrasher. Aside from the “Armor Wars” storyline, where they explored his crisis of conscience at having inadvertently becoming an international arms dealer, it seemed like … Continue reading
Who doesn’t love serial killers? And doesn’t everybody adore World’s Fairs? So it stands to reason that putting the two of them together would be a slam dunk. That’s what Erik Larson (no Savage Dragon) did with his nonfiction book The Devil in the White City, which parallels the stories of the architect of the … Continue reading
Oliver Stone did his 9/11 movie and lo, it stunk. I rewatched World Trade Center recently, and then again with Stone’s commentary, and the banality of the whole thing was evident. Stone took a story suited for a TV movie and never figured out how to do anything more with it. In fact, while watching … Continue reading
Box Office Mojo, bastion of all box office number references, has either been doing some deductive reasoning or has the inside track on George Lucas and friends.The site has posted a release date for the long-rumored, much skepticised Indiana Jones IV: May 22, 2008. Variety reported back on January first that with the completion of … Continue reading
Is Warwick Davis plotting against Peter Dinklage? Once upon a time if a character in a movie was a dwarf or a halfling or a midget or even just a tiny monster, Davis was the guy who got the call. Now it’s all about Dinklage. Actually, this is not a bad idea for a movie … Continue reading