It’s just about time for another Resident Evil movie! I probably shouldn’t tell you how happy that makes me. Sony’s shambling, brain-hungry franchise heads into the high desert in just a couple weeks with Resident Evil: Extinction, which title doesn’t exactly fill me with hope. To help get you excited, Sony has created a little … Continue reading
I was fine with The Kite Runner‘s poster conjuring up happy memories of Searching for Bobby Fischer; I am, however, disheartened by the Gump-ian sight of CG kites whisking about the frame in this boilerplate trailer for a movie I no longer want to see. This is the game. Though I will always give David … Continue reading
How were we with Ed Harris’s Pollock? I thought his directorial debut was an emotionally astute examination of the volatile abstract artist – though Martin Scorsese covered that ground better and more tersely in "Life Lessons" (his segment of the hit-miss-hit omnibus New York Stories). I haven’t felt compelled to revisit Harris’s film since its … Continue reading
FYI, I’m a big enough sap to look at this poster and get all teary over the invocation of a completely different movie. And while I doubt it was anyone’s intention to get me wondering when Paramount Home Entertainment is going to cough up a Searching for Bobby Fischer SE, that’s primarily what the above … Continue reading
Wizard magazine has learned from its masters well. Like Stan Lee, whose diahhretically verbose editorials used a lot of words to say very little, the magazine is able to spin a little bit of quoted straw into feature gold. There’s a lot of text flying over there about Gavin Hood’s Wolverine (it’s still so weird … Continue reading
After I finally made the decision to move to LA, I had to figure out how to do it in reality. I hate moving, and most of my big moving experiences had been within sixty miles of New York City. I’ve actually moved as far as seven blocks and found it to be a harrowing … Continue reading
Casting. The Desperate Frontier. This is the phase of pre-production currently faced by J.J. Abrams and the other creatives behind Paramount’s Star Trek reboot. Their hopefully-no-longer -than-one-month mission: to assemble an attractive group of twenty/thirtysomethings who a) remind us of our favorite original Trek characters without b) coming off as banally handsome facsimiles. To achieve … Continue reading
Hey, look what ‘leaked’ on to the internet – a three minute clip from the profanely hilarious (and incredibly smart and sweet) Superbad, the next film from the people behind The 40-Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up. It’s a great scene where Jonah Hill’s character explains why he doesn’t like the girl who Michael Cera’s … Continue reading
After this interview with Fred Dekker wrapped up, we chatted a little bit, and he said something I wish I had caught on tape – watching the newly remastered Monster Squad, he said, he saw details that he had last seen when looking through the viewfinder on the camera on set. Even in 35mm these … Continue reading