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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 VERY DEARLY DEPARTED

We don’t run a lot of links to other sites when they get photos from films. I don’t find that too interesting, honestly, and when we score exclusives – unless they’re really early – I don’t send the link around to other sites. But I am running this link because it is an excuse to … Continue reading

HE’S LIKE AQUAMAN, BUT MORE NAKED

The next Marvel movie has been announced, and it’s going to be… Sub-Mariner. Yes, one of Marvel’s oldest characters and perennially one of the company’s third stringers, Namor will be coming to screens in all his green Speedo and nothing else glory. And it’s happening soon – Jonathan Mostow, who you may recall as the … Continue reading

CLASH OF THE TARTANS!

Phone | Whispering Corridors | A Snake of June | Memento Mori | Face | Koma | Vital | Doppelgänger | The Hillside Strangler | Suspicious River | The Coast Guard | Hoover Street Revival | Sorum | Bush’s Brain | R-Point | Wishing Stairs | Marebito | Pray | Another Public Enemy | Acacia … Continue reading

MAC MAN JUSTIN LONG CAST AS ROBIN!

Despite Christopher Nolan’s claims to the contrary, we have learned from a trusted source that Justin Long, star of Accepted and the ubiquitous Apple Computer commercials, has been cast a Robin the Boy Wonder in The Dark Knight. Our scooper has also given us Long’s audition footage. Click here to watch it until Warner Bros … Continue reading

NOT BAD FOR A JEW-HATING DRUNK

When Mel Gibson got arrested for drunk driving this summer and it was revealed that he was on to the Zionist conspiracy to start all wars, lots of rumors swirled around his new movie, Apocalypto, which stars non-actors and is filmed in some language Cortez wiped out. Would Disney sell the movie off? Would they … Continue reading

WHY IS EVERYBODY HUGGING?

I wonder how many times John Cameron Mitchell will have to answer a variation of “If you’re going to have real sex in a movie, why don’t you have real violence?” when he does press for his excellent new film Shortbus? It’ll probably come up in most interviews, and I can’t decide if it reflects … Continue reading

CITY OF GOD DIRECTOR GETS BLINDNESS

Usually when you hear that a great novel that helped earn its author the Nobel Prize is being made into a movie, you would get a little nervous. Especially when that book is Jose Saramago’s Blindness, a novel that is easily imaginable as a movie, but not easily imaginable as a good movie. In Blindness … Continue reading

A FOUNTAIN OF REACTION

The saga of Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain continues. When I walked out of my screening many months ago, I was elated – I had just seen a masterpiece. It didn’t even occur to me at the time that this film could divide audiences; what I had seen was so beautiful, so touching and so truthful … Continue reading

MASTER AND DRAGON COMMANDER

After adapting two of the most beloved properties of the Twentieth Century – remaking The Great Muppet Caper as Meet the Feebles and adapting As I Lay Dying into Dead Alive – Peter Jackson is turning his attention to a much lesser known property, Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series of fantasy novels. The books reimagine the … Continue reading