The coolest thing about Transformers was the teaser for Cloverfield. Or the Untitled J. J. Abrams Project. Or, as the title may now actually be, 1-18-08. A website bearing that name and URL (1-18-08.com) has surfaced featuring only a still from the teaser watermarked with the date. And Paramount’s marketers aren’t as geek-friendly as Warner … Continue reading
There are plenty of reasons to read Stuart Jeffries’s Dennis Hopper profile for The Guardian, and "Oh Don Piano" news on a potential third installment in the dry-docked Speed franchise is not one of them. But here we are anyway, floating the possibility of a follow-up to the infamously unwatchable Speed 2: Cruise Control just … Continue reading
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Emily Blunt possesses one fine piece of posterior. Less universally acknowledged, though nonetheless true: Maggie Grace is smokin’, Maria Bello is aging splendidly and likes it on the stairs, and Amy Brenneman will get you killed if you feel the heat coming around the corner. Not true at … Continue reading
We’re at the half-year mark. Six months of cinema has been bequeathed upon us. I count four films deserving of masterpiece status, and two hopefuls. Hot Fuzz, Knocked Up, Grindhouse, and Zodiac represent (to me) the cream of the crop (Once and Ratatouille are as yet unseen by me, but I hope to remedy that … Continue reading
Perhaps the scariest thing about Joshua was the feeling I got at the end that I had just sat through some kind of weird gay panic movie. As the movie came to its conclusion I found myself more than a little gobsmacked by what writer and director George Ratliff had ended his movie with: the … Continue reading
Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of the best selling novel, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, has gained a couple of men to go with the No. 1 Ladies. David Oyelowo, from Last King of Scotland, Idris Elba, aka Stringer Fuckin’ Bell from The Wire,Tony Award winners Winston Ntshona and John Kani and Die Another Day’s Colin … Continue reading
We’ve all been dying to get into the sex lives of a bunch of shallow women entering their 50s, and now we can! The movie version of Sex and the City is going to finally happen after a couple of years of hemming and hawing on the parts of everyone involved. This is standard practice … Continue reading
Robert Zemeckis is completely smitten with the motion capture process, it seems, as he is lining up to make his third movie in a row with mocap. This time it’s going to be a new take on A Christmas Carol, the immortal Charles Dickens story, with Jim Carrey in the role of Scrooge. It’s also … Continue reading
Sure, the poster for the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie looks a little like Chipmunkz ‘n Tha Hood, but remember where these characters came from: goofy novelty rock ‘n roll records made by Ross Bagdasarian. Alvin wanted a hula hoop, the big fad of 1958; if Bagdasarian was recording his voice sped up today, … Continue reading