Every single day of the week, a new Graboid 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 as obscure as obscure gets. So read the news, read the reviews, … Continue reading
The Skeleton Key Ghost Stories contest is underway! You still have time to enter to win an amazing prize pack that includes a 27 inch TV, a DVD player, and a 10-pack of Universal horror DVDs to enjoy on your new set up! Here’s how the contest works – people send in their ghost stories … Continue reading
Let the race begin! I got a “For Your Consideration” DVD copy of Madagascar today, and a special DVD player that will play specially encrypted Disney DVDs yesterday. That’s right – awards season is in full swing, but it’s all really leading up to the Big One, the Oscars. And the march to Oscar night … Continue reading
People are up in arms about Oliver Stone doing a 9/11 movie. They’re afraid that he’ll insert some conspiracy theory. There’s also the usual nonsense of “too soon!,” which is just so meaningless. Thoughtful art cannot come too soon. I guess people think banal songs and murals are cool after a tragedy, but not movies. … Continue reading
There are four posters being premiered for V For Vendetta this week, and the first has appeared on Aint It Cool News. The rest will be popping up on sites like MTV.com and UGO – the cold, heartless corporare sites that the studios like to work with. The poster is great. It’s got a real … Continue reading
Tideland took a beating at the Toronto Film Festival. I didn’t get a chance to see it, but I heard some pretty rotten stuff about it from those who did, and no one bought the rights to the film. But still it soldiers on, and there is still a number of rabid fans who would … Continue reading
I’ll keep this brief. This isn’t a requiem or a review. It’s just me taking a moment to say that if you live near one of the 169 screens now showing Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and you haven’t yet seen it, you’re missing an opportunity. Not just to see a good movie; this season is … Continue reading
Takashi Shimuzu directed this film in eight days, just before beginning work on his own remake of his Ju-On: The Grudge. In this film a cameraman explores the urban legends surrounding spirits that haunt the Tokyo subway system. Marebito is coming to the US in a limited release on December 9th, and this is the … Continue reading
Nice, America. You’ve cost Keanu Reeves a job. The actor was going to be playing Sinbad the Sailor in a new movie directed by Rob Cohen, but Sony has shitcanned the film because of the box office performance of Cohen’s last film, the sublime nonsense thriller Stealth. "It didn’t seem like a good idea for … Continue reading
Yeah, I know that the title refers to an Al Pacino line and that this piece is about Robert DeNiro. DeNiro, who has been wandering through the desert for the last few years, may have recently found a way out. Or maybe not – it’s hard to tell until the movies are released. He’s starring … Continue reading