I am not a huge fan of the Broadway production of John Waters’ Hairspray (I’m not a huge fan of the original movie either), but I do like the resurgence of the movie musical, so I had my fingers crossed for the results of the big leap back to film when the musical becomes a … Continue reading
I’ve started fresh with the Graboid, going for a more polished and tougher perspective. If you get them from now on it’ll be because you’re an astute fan of movies. I’m not going to make it easy and it’s going to be from something I either like or find it fun to put on the … Continue reading
*Note from Dave: Devin originally reported this on Monday 9/26, but apparently a lot of our readers missed it, judging by the number of news submissions for it that we’ve received since then. Once again, with less feeling: Sam Raimi has struggled mightily to keep the lid on just who the villains are for the … Continue reading
People often say to me, they say, “Dave, you need to do more of your Underground columns, because my foreign cinema selections live and die by your very word!” Or something along those lines. But the truth is, lately there just haven’t been that many new movies from overseas (that I’ve been able to get … Continue reading
I’ve started fresh with the Graboid, going for a more polished and tougher perspective. If you get them from now on it’ll be because you’re an astute fan of movies. I’m not going to make it easy and it’s going to be from something I either like or find it fun to put on the … Continue reading
You knew this was going to happen – with The 40 Year Old Virgin pulling in $100 million and Wedding Crashers catching twice that, every lemming studio exec is groping for a raunchy (and more importantly, inexpensive) R-rated comedy they can turn into box office Cialis. New Line has firmly placed their covetous hands on … Continue reading
I have to tell you that I am flat out amazed that there is going to be a movie based on The Monkey Wrench Gang. Edward Abbey’s classic 1975 novel (buy it here!) is about a group of people who sabotage industrial development – it’s like a comic novel with Earth First! as the heroes. … Continue reading
When you’re a long dead rapper who keeps releasing records that sell well, how can you possibly top yourself? By becoming a screenwriter, of course. In a move that will surely make thousands of struggling screenwriters flat out apoplectic, Insomnia Media Group has bought a script Tupac Shakur wrote back in 1995. Shakur intended to … Continue reading
This should probably fall under the aegis of THUD, but I don’t want to hijack Devin’s irregular feature any more than he feels compelled to resuscitate my equally sporadic Underground column, so pretend the following news is more than just television related. The Sci-Fi Channel has graciously approved a new series that actually does not … Continue reading
New York City Chewers, there’s a great opportunity coming your way. Park Chanwook, the brilliant director of Joint Security Area, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and the upcoming Lady Vengeance, will be doing his first ever US in-store appearance this Thursday. He’ll be signing copies of Oldboy at Tower Records – the one on 4th … Continue reading