Richard Kelly’s follow up to Donnie Darko, Southland Tales, received an incredibly venomous reception at the Cannes Film Festival this year – you get the impression that a video of a Chinese woman in high heels stamping on kittens would have gone over better. The film was said to be too long and boring and … Continue reading
Is history repeating itself? Once upon a time Sean Connery left the James Bond franchise, saying he would never again play the role. Roger Moore was brought in for an increasingly campy series of films, but 12 years later Connery was back as Bond in Never Say Never Again. Only it wasn’t part of the … Continue reading
Timothy Leary lived one of the great lives of the late 20th century. His journey from psychologist to drug guru and countercultural figurehead is fascinating. Leonardo DiCaprio certainly seems to think so – his production company, Appian Way, has hired Obie-winning playwright Craig Lucas and Timothy Leary archivist Michael Horowitz to write a biopic about … Continue reading
It’s been a few years since I fit a trip to Montreal’s Fantasia into the hectic summer schedule (it takes place around the same time as Comic Con) but I’m anxious to head up there again, and movie line-ups like this year’s festival add to that anxiety. For those who don’t know, Fantasia is a superb … Continue reading
WARNING! Many potential spoilers are below! Do not continue if you want your Spider-Man 3 experience to be as cold as ice, man! You saw that up there about the SPOILERS, right? Just making sure. By now you’ve probably checked out the snazzy trailer for Spider-Man 3 (RIGHT HERE), but it only gave a few … Continue reading
Dear reader, it’s possible that you and I may not always agree. There’s a good chance that many of you are big fans of the Saw films, and I think that they’re horrible crap. But I respect you, even if I don’t like your opinion, so here’s the teaser poster for Saw III, which I … Continue reading
UPDATE: THR has since changed their story to state that it was only announced at Cine Expo, so this may not be rushed for 2007 after all. Either way, it looks like Wolverine is still slowly entering a solo berserker rage. Did Fox learn a valuable lesson after dragging their feet for so long getting … Continue reading
Harry Potter fans are patiently awaiting the seventh and final book in the series, which I have been told hasn’t even been started yet. Although it has been finished – JK Rowling has long said that she had written the final chapter of the final book years and years ago (the last word of the … Continue reading
Jeremy Bolt and Paul WS Anderson have been working together for years now, ever since Anderson’s first feature, Shopping. The duo are producing the new Resident Evil: Extinction (Anderson wrote it; it’s being directed by Highlander’s Russell Mulcahey), and Bolt had just arrived on set from location shoots on the day that my group of … Continue reading