It’s been eight years since Francis Ford Coppola last directed a movie. Or five if you count Supernova. But the last official FFC film was The Rainmaker, which was actually pretty good, if a touch generic for one of his films. Hey, at least it wasn’t Jack. Coppola’s been busy enough in the intervening years, … Continue reading
Devin: Serenity is going to come out and it’s going to do what it does. If it does well, you’ll come back for more, but either way I am sure Serenity II wouldn’t be the next thing you do. Is there another original project that you have percolating?Whedon: Well, there’s there’s Wonder Woman obviously. But … Continue reading
Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four | Day Five | Day SixDay Seven| Day Eight | Day Nine Next year I’ll format things differently when it comes time to post reviews and notes — this daily collection is getting tiresome. In the meantime, and since its Friday, the least I … Continue reading
In July, when Nick and I were up in Toronto to get a little Silent Hill love, we got to have dinner with producer Don Carmody. (And a bunch of other people. We’re not so special.) This guy has done a million films, from Porky’s to Chicago. He’s also got some serious horror under the … Continue reading
I guess it makes sense that New Line would want a sequel to this summer’s comedy smash The Wedding Crashers, but much like the other comedy blockbuster The 40 Year Old Virgin, the film just doesn’t seem to lend itself to sequalization. But I’m probably just not thinking big enough. Maybe a Wedding Crashers sequel … 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
With guys like Steve Carell carrying the comic baton, Jim Carrey seems to be working on retiring his manic shtick and becoming all actorly. Joining the guy who gave him orange hair and squeezed him into a green body sock might not seem like the best way to go about it, but read on! Carrey … Continue reading
Despite all the grousing we do around here about Hollywood’s reliance on the past, there are occasionally movies that could conceivably benefit from an update. For example, the 80s flick The Star Chamber had a great premise but ended up being a pretty mediocre film. G’head, remake it! Let’s Get Harry? Put it back on … Continue reading
I just came from a press screening of the new Park Chanwook film, the third in his revenge-themed trilogy that began with Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and continued with Oldboy. Until today the new film was to be known in the United States as Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, but just before my screening Tartan, who … Continue reading
Earlier this year I had a chance to see one of 2005’s best horror films at the NY Asian Film Festival – the movie is called Three… Extremes, and it features short films from Park Chanwook, Takashi Miike and Fruit Chan. It’s like a Pan-Asia League of Genius! I’ll tell you right up front that … Continue reading