The Rodriguez/Tarantino exploitation smashup Grind House continues to collect familiar faces in its extensive cast, which now includes puppy-eyed Lost castaway Naveen Andrews. In Planet Terror (or Project Terror, we’re still not sure which), Rodriguez’s half of the horror double-feature, Andrews (he’s dreamy!) will play a military scientist helping battle the murderous "sickos" unleashed by an experiment … Continue reading
Last week when Russell Crowe dropped out of Baz Luhrmann’s unnamed Australian period epic, the question was who can fill his shoes? It turns out that the new star brings his own footwear – and they’re tap shoes. Yes, the Aussie actor who has managed to maintain the schizophrenic public image of feral mutant killing … Continue reading
No, not the guy from the MC5, but I bet he would like us a bunch too if he knew us. The Wayne Kramer our title refers to is the director of one of my favorite films of the year, Running Scared – which just hit video! Click here to buy it from CHUD. Kramer … Continue reading
When Nic Cage latches onto something, look out! For years he was kooky for comic books, which ultimately landed his ass on the Hellcycle for Marvel’s Ghost Rider flick. Now he really seems to be into Asian material (and not just his young Korean wife, nuh-HAH!) — he’s expressed interest in the proposed Oldboy remake, National … Continue reading
Real headz know the deal: long before Terry O’Quinn was Lost on a desert island, he was marrying into seemingly perfect families, and when they didn’t measure up knocking them off and moving on. That was the concept behind his character in the classic 1987 horror film The Stepfather, which Screen Gems is now remaking. … Continue reading
Kevin Bacon is upping his tough-guy quotient in Death Wish Death Sentence, the new film from Saw’s James Wan. It’s based on the novel by Brian Garfield, about a man whose family is viciously attacked in a gang initiation ritual and who takes revenge. Garfield also wrote the novel Death Sentence Death Wish, about a … Continue reading
Word came from Cannes that the Weinsteins were looking to remake Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, and that they were interested in Zhang Ziyi for the film. Now they’ve signed the actress to a three picture deal, which she’ll begin with a new version of Mulan. Most of us know Mulan as a Disney cartoon based … Continue reading
Last year I flipped for Kontroll, the debut film from Hungarian filmmaker Nimrod Antal (my review is here), and I’ve been waiting for his follow-up. It turns out that ol’ Nimrod is going to be traveling to the USA for his next film, a thriller called Vacancy, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Luke Wilson. In … Continue reading
When fratboy director Len Wiseman got the nod for the fourth Die Hard movie, many of us assumed that it was because John McTiernan was up to his neck in legal troubles as part of the Pelicano case, where he had been lying to the FBI (oops!). It turns out that might not be the … Continue reading
A Prairie Home Companion, opening this Friday, is a really wonderful film, a movie that makes you think maybe the Academy was a year premature when they gave Robert Altman that honorary Oscar – he could legitimately have won it for this movie. Today was the press junket for the film here in New York … Continue reading