G-Force, the upcoming Bruckheimer CGI/live action hybrid whose basic concept really reminds me of Grant Morrison’s WE3 (also in film development) but you know, for kids, now has its lead characters. Or their voices, anyway. Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi and Tracy Morgan (diversity!) have signed on to deliver the nuanced vocals of a group of … Continue reading
Now that’s how to work a crowd.
Frank Darabont’s The Mist is far from a flawless work: its first act relies on contrived conflict to set its ideologically (and theologically) diverse characters against each other; the basic conventions of the narrative will be overly familiar to anyone who’s seen "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"; and, on a strictly superficial level, … Continue reading
I have no inside information on the upcoming shaky handheld monster opus Cloverfield. I couldn’t even tell J.J. Abrams from a guy at open mic poetry night at my local coffee shop and he probably thinks CHUD.com is a gay fetish site [and he’d be RIGHT] but after downloading the hi-rez version of the trailer … Continue reading
Remember way back when there was a rumor about Frank Darabont possibly being involed in a television miniseries remake/continuation of The Thing? I don’t think I imagined that. Well, regardless of all of that Frank Darabont has his The Thing. It’s called The Mist. In fact when I look back on this harrowing and unforgettable … Continue reading
I obviously bookmark the wrong blogs because I missed the fact that, last week, Michael Showalter used My Old Kentucky Blog to announce the reformation of the much-missed comedy troupe The State, and that the comedians would be making a movie. "I’d like to be the first to announce on My Old Kentucky Blog that … Continue reading
We’ve seen movies begin taking the loss this week as a result of the strike: Shantaram and Nine are delayed, and if rumors are true, Oliver Stone’s Pinkville is dead, dead, dead forever. One fil that keeps getting mentioned as being right on the edge of getting axed is George Miller’s Justice League, but the … Continue reading
The Golden Compass is New Line’s Hail Mary pass* for the holidays. It’s a big, super expensive film without stars and whose storyline is difficult to summarize in a blurb. So how do you sell it? FIGHTING POLAR BEARS! Below is a clip from a fight between the good guy polar bear and the bad … Continue reading
In the next couple of hours you’ll be seeing positive reviews for Frank Darabont’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist popping up on the site (mine will be the one that found the ending awesome, not emotionally shattering. I may be screwed up in the head), but in the meantime enjoy the strangest press release … Continue reading