Roving ex-army cop Jack Reacher (how come tough guys are never named Stanley or Purvis?) has settled at Paramount, who snapped up the rights to his latest adventure. The studio has grabbed Lee Child’s latest Reacher novel One Shot, which finds the long-running thriller series’ reticent hard-hitting hero investigating a former Gulf War sniper accused … Continue reading
It’s not often that a historical drama gets a sequel. Often because the story is pretty much finished. But the great film Elizabeth, which introduced me to the luminous Cate Blanchett many years ago, didn’t follow the arc of the monarch’s whole life, so there’s plenty of room for a part 2. The film, Elizabeth: … Continue reading
Every day I get a couple of emails, filled with various degrees of venom and proper English, decrying my negative review of Batman Begins. It is, I am forcefully told again and again, the best comic book movie ever. (Of course I have to take my correspondant’s words on that, as most of them are … Continue reading
Cameron Crowe is one of my favorite filmmakers, which is sort of a weird thing – his movies often drip sentimentality, an emotion that I tend to think ruins an otherwise good film. But there’s something so good natured and honest about his stuff – it’s telling that Billy Wilder was his favorite filmmaker, but … Continue reading
I was afraid to run this for fear of it being a fake and people laughing at me and pointing. Then I got confirmation from the man himself, whom after saying "where did you get that, fucker?" said that it was indeed the first little bit of material on Pan’s Labyrinth, his next. Apparently, EMPIRE … Continue reading
City of God was released to the public here in the States back in 2003 (it was released internationally and in festivals in 2002), and what director Fernando Meirelles accomplished with that film is nothing short of phenomenal. From it’s unflinching look at crime and Brazilian life to the sheer visceral nature of its filmmaking … Continue reading
We’re a week away from the arrival of the possibly life changing trailer for Peter Jackson’s King Kong film, but as is always the case tidbits are already starting to leak out. The movie news site Movienewz (who has a spell checker these days?) showcased a clip of TV video with a few beautiful seconds … Continue reading
Ridley Scott seems to be taking a page from the playbook of fellow Alien movie helmer James Cameron and submerging himself for a new film. Scott will dip into the depths for an adaptation of the bestselling true subaquatic adventure tale Shadow Divers, about a pair of divers who discovered a sunken WWII German U-Boat … Continue reading
According to website Internapse, the image you see above is what Ghost Rider will look like in the upcoming film of the same name. It comes from a banner at "the licensing show," wherever and whatever that is. Skull… check. Flaming… also check. Leathers… yup. It’s certainly a nice painting of what Ghost Rider looks … Continue reading
I know that there’s really no way to avoid it, but lots of the imagery found here in the new Chronicles of Narnia one sheet just screams Lord of the Rings. Though, with the brilliant minds at Weta hard at work on this sucker, I suppose it’d be difficult for it not to. Still, that … Continue reading