The terrorists have won! Maybe. Warner Bros has pushed V For Vendetta back to 2006, for reasons they wouldn’t specify. Of course, speculation will run rampant (starting here, I hope!) that the reasoning for the delay is the London bombings of a month ago, which had an uncanny lack of resemblance to the events of … Continue reading
Welcome to the third annual Shout at the Devil! column. It’s your opportunity to be heard, to let me know what you’re thinking, as well as what deep seated mental problems you have. One quick thing before we start this latest edition – you should know how to get in touch with me. Or with … Continue reading
Should the CGI technicians fire up their computers? Ridley Scott has hired Albert Finney to star in his next film, the winetastic A Good Year, opposite Russell Crowe. Of course the last time Scott hired a veteran actor to star alongside Crowe, especially one who is maybe a little saucy, they ended up having to … 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
As the disaster of X3 stops impending and starts just plain old happening, the final roles are being cast. I can’t believe that there are more characters in this film, and more than that, I can’t believe they’re still filling roles with people of whom I’ve heard. Whatever else happens with this movie, it will … Continue reading
There are two ways to approach this story: One would be to just do it from the 9/11 angle, as this is the second film to be explicitly about 9/11 (the first, by dint of being announced first, is Oliver Stone’s untitled Port Authority cop movie). The other would be to come at the story … Continue reading
Dawn of the Dead redirector Zach Snyder has been struggling like a Spartan to get an adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel 300 into production ever since zombies stormed the local mall on fleet undead feet, but now the charge has begun. Miller’s story is a vividly brutal dramatization of the legendary Battle of Thermopylae, … 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
Noah Baumbach was already somebody when The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (which he co-wrote) opened, because his Kicking and Screaming was quite a good flick. With the Wes Anderson collaboration, he became part of something unique in Hollywood. A truly fresh and fun creative arsenal, one which will surely yield more fruit, especially if … Continue reading
The cast of X3 is growing faster than Britney Spears’ hellspawn. Three more actors were added to the production today, including at least one guy who has been killed by a Predator. That would be Bill Duke, who will be playing a member of the President’s cabinet. Early rumors had this character being the guy … Continue reading