This is what happens when I don’t comb through the various emails and alerts that pour in during the week: I miss the set photos from Terry Gilliam’s new movie that have been floating around (albeit quietly) for the better part of this week. First up is a pair of photos from a London community … Continue reading
What follows is a scattershot bit of random thoughts, links, and images that showcase the lunacy that exists in the entertainment world and beyond. Folks who remember my old missives from the old Steady Leak articles should find this kind of stuff familiar. Folks seemed to get a kick out of the first installment, and … Continue reading
2007, the best year for cinema since Deepstar Six and Leviathan revolutionized the medium, is drawing to a close. Critics groups are dishing out awards, the Guilds are nominating their peers, the Hollywood Foreign Press is making seating arrangements, and individual critics are compiling top ten lists that will feature at least one or two … Continue reading
I have to be honest with you: I was disappointed when I visited the editing room of The Ruins. Not in the footage I saw, which was actually bordering on incredible, or what director Carter Smith said, which was just about everything right (the films he used as a point of comparison were Lifeboat and … Continue reading
The site’s been experiencing some rollercoaster activity on the server – we’ve been up and down all day and I’m not sure the ride is completely over yet. Please stick with us, as our host is working on the issue right now. Thanks! Also, when the site is down your emails are not reaching us. … Continue reading
The Signal is a pretty great and definitely unusual small horroresque movie that I caught at this year’s LA Screamfest. When a strange signal begins to be emitted from all broadcast devices like TVs and radios, people start to go psychotically nuts, murdering the shit out of each other. Presented as a triptych of interwoven … Continue reading
It feels good to like a Tim Burton movie again. I’ve spent most of the last decade on the outside of Burton’s films, unable to get past his empty stylistic tics and his obsession with fathers, growing more and more convinced that the guy had turned into nothing so much as an imitation of himself, … Continue reading
Here’s three things you have to remember with the Screen Actors Guild Awards: 1) the actors comprise the biggest bloc of AMPAS voters, 2) they accurately predicted Crash‘s upset of Brokeback Mountain, and 3) they inaccurately predicted Bobby‘s Best Picture nomination. Oh, and one more thing to consider: they went for Little Miss Sunshine over … Continue reading
I’m on the record as saying that the original Hellboy is, in my opinion, one of the lesser Guillermo del Toro movies. Of course when your greater films are masterpieces like Pan’s Labyrinth and The Devil’s Backbone, even your lesser films are pretty fucking good. Now there’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and I must … Continue reading