Last week the big news, or so it seemed, was that Warner Bros announced they would go all Blu-Ray. The format war is over, was the consensus, and Blu-Ray has Betamaxed HD-DVD. But to me this was a minor skirmish in a bigger conflict, one whose eventual victor has barely begun to enter the fight. … Continue reading
William Gibson’s proto-cyberpunk novel Neuromancer is one of those books I have no real wish to see lifted to the screen. Not to preserve my own love for the book, which has finer points, but isn’t any significant favorite. Rather, like past efforts to make Gibson’s stuff come alive onscreen, it’s that a Neuromancer film … Continue reading
The WGA strike is about to hit home for a whole new audience. NBC has cancelled the televised Golden Globes ceremony, originally set to air next Monday, January 13. Suddenly several new segments of the entertainment industry will need to find a new way to prey on creative types, at least for the evening. With … Continue reading
It took him a few years, but Michael Showalter is finally getting an opportunity to follow up his sublime 2005 non-hit, The Baxter. And while I find it terribly difficult to get excited over the remake of a "German comedy" (let’s see, there’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Stationmaster’s Wife and what else?), anything … Continue reading
I’m transcribing my phone interview with David Fincher right now, and he didn’t mention a Fight Club musical to me, and we even talked about that movie! I guess I don’t have the kind of interview skills that MTV’s Josh Horowitz does, as he got The Finch (I call him that now, we’re budz) to … Continue reading
I’m 34 years old and I had trouble getting out of bed this morning. Which is really pathetic when you realize that a man twice my age, Ridley Scott, has the energy to add yet another project to his slate, which seems to be constantly growing. Scott has told the Washington Post that he wants … Continue reading
UPDATE: Variety is reporting that Olga Kurylenko, the hot Ukranian chick from Hitman, has been cast as the female lead (i.e. love interest) in Bond 22. I don’t know how I feel about Daniel Craig getting Timothy Olyphant’s sloppy seconds, but I do know how I feel about Olga, and you’ll thank me right now … Continue reading
Perhaps that official Indy 4 comic book cover was more revealing than I initially thought. For anyone who’s been following the copious online coverage of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, it should come as no surprise that the casting of Shia LaBeouf might serve a purpose other than pandering to a … Continue reading
In order to take a break from writing about movies I don’t actually want to see, I thought I’d share the scant new details about a little flick that could turn out to be a 2008 highlight. I’ve covered Mammoth briefly before, and the brevity has been due only to creator Lukas Moodysson’s reticent nature. … Continue reading
I saw Zodiac for the first time almost a year ago, at the beginning of February 2007. The film stuck with me, even as a cavalcade of bona fide masterpieces were released into theaters, and I always knew it would make my top ten list at the end of the year. But it wasn’t until … Continue reading