We’re less than a week away from the 79th annual Academy Awards, the awards ceremony most likely to make me get angrier and angrier over the course of four hours. Last year I actually got to my feet and yelled obscenities at my television when Crash got the Best Picture Oscar. This year looks like … Continue reading
We’ve seen lots of onscreen dramas regarding the major battles of World War II, but one of the least covered aspects of the period involved a smaller, but just as brutal conflict that kicked off when Japan invaded China just a few years prior. The Sino-Japanese War was actually a rather one-sided conflagration where Japan … Continue reading
Ever since departing the ABC mystery drama Lost – and considering how the show has spiraled, especially for supporting characters, she probably left at the perfect time – not a lot has been heard from Maggie Grace. Technically, she had a starring role in the wretched The Fog, but for the sake of this article … Continue reading
South by Southwest has a competition for the best fake exploitation-style trailer, in honor of the Rodriguez/Tarantino Grindhouse. Aint It Cool News has links to all the contestants on YouTube, and while some – like Emmanuel, Prisoner of Frankenstein – are cute or interesting, only one is brilliant. That’s Cong of the Dead, and while … Continue reading
The whole Snakes on a Plane fiasco proved something that should have been obvious long ago (at least as long ago as Shock Treatment, the awful sequel to Rocky Horror Picture Show) – you can’t create a cult film. The marketing campaign can’t tout your movie as a cult film. A cult movie has to … Continue reading
1. PREMIERE – MARCH ’07 As the biggest, regular US movie mag still out there, this baby strikes a nice balance between pure entertainment and real filmmaking goodness. Unless you’re looking at the odd theme issue, chances are that there will be enough meat from across the Hollywood spectrum to make this worth a buy … Continue reading
Fresh off his feel-good epic abortion documentary, Lake of Fire*, Tony Kaye is seating himself in the director’s chair for Blackwater Transit, a crime film starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson that will shoot in New Orleans. You might remember Kaye as the director of American History X, which he disowned after Ed Norton … Continue reading
Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 Ghost Rider $44,500,000 $44,500,000 1 2 Bridge to Terabithia $22,075,000 $22,075,000 1 3 Norbit $16,802,000 $58,884,000 2 4 Music and Lyrics $14,000,000 $19,529,000 1 5 Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls $12,100,000 $17,793,000 1 6 Breach $10,371,000 $10,371,000 1 7 Hannibal Rising $5,465,000 $22,127,000 2 8 … Continue reading
The ad campaign for this year’s Oscars has been about famous movie quotes. There’s not a day goes by where I don’t see a cab with “FRODO!” on the roof. It’s not a terrible campaign, and I get where they’re coming from with it, but it’s lifeless in print. Now the Academy has unveiled a … Continue reading
Aint It Cool News’ Drew McWeeny is reporting that he has reliable sources telling him that Shia LaBeouf is going to be starring in Indiana Jones IV as the son of Indy. I can’t tell you if he’s playing Indy’s son or just the new Short Round, but I can tell you that I have … Continue reading