Every time I walk into a DVD shop I cannot help but go past the HD-DVD and BLU-RAY sections just to see the latest and greatest in uselessly overpriced media we don’t really want or need. It’s not like DVD was too damn grainy for us or these new formats allow us to see a … Continue reading
Note from Nick: The Newsletter resumes its weekly magic and madness next Thursday. Plan everything in your life and your loved ones’ lives accordingly. Here’s a quick hello from our new gentleman, Joe Lavers… WARNING: The following may or may not make a whole lot of sense. Read at your own risk. The big news … Continue reading
Shattered Glass was one of the strongest directorial debuts in memory. Not only did writer/director Billy Ray craft a suspenseful and intriguing story about a guy basically plagiarizing and bullshitting, he managed to get the only good performance out of Hayden Christensen ever. For that feat alone, Ray should be guaranteed a spot in the … Continue reading
You expect the director of Germany’s submission for the Best Foreign Film Oscar to have a German accent. Not this time. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, the director of The Lives of Others, was born and is from Germany, but he spent some very formative years in the United States. In New York City, in fact … Continue reading
It’s worth it sitting down with self-obsessed starlets and dimwitted action directors to finally get a chance to talk to someone like Eric O’Neill. Eric isn’t a movie star, and he’s not a screenwriter, and he’s only been involved with one movie – the true story of how he helped crack America’s largest spy case. … Continue reading
Trojans don’t just make condoms. They make pretty sneaky tactics too!
“This is madness!” ”THIS… IS… A…COMPETITION!” Coming in a few weeks is Zack Snyder’s take on Frank Miller’s 300 – the epic story of 300 Spartans who stand between Greece and a massive invading army of Persians. Snyder has taken Miller’s imagery and reproduced it onscreen, much like Miller and Robert Rodriguez did with Sin … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
I don’t know what this site would be today without Smilin’ Jack Ruby. Working the screening and junket circuit in LA, he helped the site straddle the line between fanboyism and professionalism, and many of the contacts I have today in the film business started with him. Without his lead, I don’t know if I … Continue reading