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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…

WILLIAM H. RE-ANIMACY

It’s nice to see that a few acting awards aren’t enough to scare William H. Macy away from the gratuitously grotesque. The increasingly busy guy will lend his prodigious lobes to House of Re-Animator, the fourth flick in the Lovecraftian series of revived cadavers. Macy will play a bumbling United States President who croaks during … Continue reading

WORLD TRADE CENTER – DER TRAILER

I may have gotten to the age where I don’t find fart gags as funny as I once did, but putting a foreign language in a well-known actor’s mouth still makes me break down laughing. This has colored my first viewing of the German trailer for Oliver Stone’s entry in the 9/11 film festival, World … Continue reading

BRYAN SINGER WILL NOT RUN?

Superman already took Bryan Singer away from the X-Men films. Will he now take the director away from his long-planned Logan’s Run update? It’s looking more and more likely as Warner Bros is panting to get Superman Returns II into production in 2007. Which, by the way, is an interesting contrast to the still-not-getting-started Batman … Continue reading

HELLBOY, THE RIGHT HAND OF ‘TOON

While Hollywood’s flying fickle finger of fate ultimately determines whether Hellboy manifests in the cinematic flesh once more, we can feel secure in the knowledge that the red-skinned demon will continue fighting monsters in one form or another. In addition to the recently announced Hellboy videogame (on which the movie’s writer-director Guillermo del Toro and … Continue reading

FANTASTIC FORWARD

Marvel and Fox seem to have the mutant power of flinching when it comes to release dates for their Fantastic Four franchise. The sequel to the comic book flick with the half-accurate title will again fail to utilize the marketing synergy of the name’s numerology, shifting away from the planned July 4th 2007 opening. The … Continue reading

M. N’AINT DRYAMALAN

Everyone has their take on the works of M. Night Shyamalan. Especially furious extraterrestrials who enjoy a nice glass of water. Mine has been repeated ad nauseum on here, but I have problems with his stuff but at the same time am sometimes in awe of what he’s capable of. Despite their flaws, Signs and … Continue reading

COHEN SWEEPS THE LEG

Since last summer’s actioner Stealth slammed into the earth with all the velocity of declining box office receipts, director Rob Cohen’s been keeping a relatively low profile (thanks in part to his big-budget Sinbad movie with Keanu Reeves getting put into dry-dock). But he hasn’t lost his affinity for people punching and kicking each other while shitty … Continue reading