The cast list for Star Trek XI reads like a joke, especially the inclusion of Winona Ryder as Spock’s mom (who knew that Sarek was a rocker in his early days?), but the newest casting news almost brings a smile to my face. And then I realized that JJ Abrams is only doing strong casting … Continue reading
Some women just have a certain… undefinable quality that is just so soothing…
Please send letters. Trevor Writes: What about Lord of the Rings? And I know you loved the first two Pirates movies; I would count that in as a very consistent trilogy from recent memory. Nick Replies: Trevor’s referring to my comment in my Ocean’s Thirteen DVD review about that series being the most consistent in … Continue reading
To paraphrase Stephen Colbert: Is Southland Tales a great disaster or the greatest disaster? While Southland Tales won’t end a studio, as Heaven’s Gate did, it’s also a much, much worse movie than that legendary failure. Southland Tales is like Heaven’s Gate, though, in that it seems to be a product of unrestrained hubris, a … Continue reading
If I ever watched an episode of Dragonball Z, it certainly wasn’t on purpose. And if I ever did this detestable thing, I definitely didn’t enjoy it. And I know this to be the Non’s honest truth because, last I checked, Hayao Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon, Mamoru Oshii and Katsuhiro Otomo never put their name to … Continue reading
Fresh off a couple years of doing not very much at all*, Jada Pinkett Smith is about to beef up a couple of the less obvious columns in her IMDB profile. One is ‘writer’, as JPS penned a script called The Human Contract; the second column will be ‘director’, as she’s slated to direct the … Continue reading
Edgar William Jacobi, also known as Edgar William Vaughn, also known as William Edgar Bright, also known as Moloch the Mystic will be played by Max Headroom, also known as Matt Frewer (also known as Gene Kranz!). Okay, so it’s not a terribly pivotal role in Zack Snyder’s film version of Watchmen, but there is … Continue reading
Oliver Stone’s My Lai Massacre film, Pinkville, has run the casting gamut from perfect (Bruce Willis as General William Peers) to intriguing (Channing Tatum as a helicopter pilot who tries to stop the killing) to "we’ll see" (Xzibit as a soldier who feels that the massacre was, on balance, justified). But even if all of … Continue reading
You know that Prince of Persia movie that’s been simmering at Disney for month after month? Well, Disney’s Oren Aviv and Jerry Bruckheimer have offered the directing gig to Mike Newell, the man who is currently awating critical savagery for his Love In The Time Of Cholera. Newell has met with Disney and the ‘Heimer … Continue reading