Publisher: William MorrowPages: 280Buy from Amazon! Author Website Why the hell didn’t we get A-Game Ellis with his prose debut? This is just barely his B-Game. Warren Ellis is one of my favorite writers, and Transmetropolitian, flaws and all, is one of my top five comic series ever. I just wanted to get that out … Continue reading
I’m all for cute, conflated credits that brand particular aesthetics like "The Coen Brothers" or "ZAZ", but what in the hell have the horrendously untalented Cormac and Marianne Wibberley done to deserve the official, WGA-approved appellation, "The Wibberleys"? Unless it’s intended as a Mr. Yuck warning to more attentive filmgoers, this is nothing more than … Continue reading
Brought to you by Slusho, the fictitious product you’d like to bore into J.J. Abrams’s head Regarding Henry-style. Farewell to Beauty "In [L’Avventura] Antonioni stands quite apart from the Italian neorealists. He does not try to show life "as it is" but as he sees it. In the sense that his films are intensely personal … Continue reading
Last week, the four leads from the amazingly funny Superbad hit town to promote the film. Andrew Sweeney [whose work in getting this recorded and prepared is phenomenal] and myself met with them on the Superbad Tour Bus at the Warped Tour in Atlanta. Those leads are: Jonah Hill, who plays Seth to vulgar perfection … Continue reading
You need to see Hot Rod just so you can say you were on the Danny McBride bandwagon a year early. 2008 is going to be this guy’s year, as he has an incredible supporting role in Pineapple Express, almost stealing the whole movie from Seth Rogen and James Franco, and Paramount Vantage is going … Continue reading
The Bourne Ultimatum isn’t just the best action movie of the summer, it’s one of the best movies of the year. And it’s a movie that stands up and loudly disproves a lot of long-held assumptions that we all have: that an action film has to be stupid, that a third film in a trilogy … Continue reading
Look, I understand Live Free or Die Hard is doing well and may, in fact, go on to be the biggest earner of the franchise. I get that. But are people really chalking this up to the sterling direction of Len Wiseman? Did they take his name off the embarrassingly bad Underworld flicks? The answer … Continue reading
For computer geeks my age, the entrée to 3-D PC gaming generally came through one of two properties: Castle Wolfenstein 3-D or Doom. When you’re a young teen and the hardest choice you have to make in any given night is whether to kill Nazis or monsters, life is pretty good, right? These two simplistic, … Continue reading
My review of the entire Batman film series.Devin’s infamous review of Batman Begins.A link to a site about goats. Just because. It bothered me then and it bothers me now. The quintessential Batman on film argument on which is the movie which best represents the comic book character. We’re in the wake of the San … Continue reading
Here’s what I know after watching the trailer for the new Ryan Reynolds’ movie The Nines: It’s like The Number 23, but only thirty-nine percent as much. At no point is there a reference to a German girl being raped. So I’m going to have to subtract two stars up front… Hope Davis does creepy … Continue reading