I’ve been reading Neil Gaiman for two decades now (how is it that I have gotten older and he stays the same?), starting with his work on Sandman, a series that reminds me of Seinfeld in that the farther you get from it the more you realize how impressive and influential it as a whole, … Continue reading
Is "Clobbering Time" like "Smoke-Thirty?" Obviously, it means that it is time to clobber. But The Thing never says "It’s Cry like an Eight-Year-Old Girl Time" or "It’s Gazpacho Time!" Perhaps the only emotion he’s ready to admit to is stark raving violence. Maybe when he gets mad at his wife, Mrs. Thing, it’s like … Continue reading
Sure, it was dying her pubic hair and getting doused in shit that caught everybody’s attention before Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book was released in the US, but it was Carice Van Houten’s masterful performance as a Jewish woman resisting the Nazis by sleeping with an SS officer in WWII Holland that made the movie great. … Continue reading
Ah, the halcyon days of 2000. The Matrix had just come out and blown everybody away. Warner Brothers wanted sequels sooner rather than later, and all of fandom was excited for the promise of even greater action and an expanded scope. It was right about this time that word came that Jet Li was in … Continue reading
I don’t know what happened to No Country For Old Men, Joel and Ethan Coen’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel, at Cannes. All I heard about the film was positive, positive, positive, and then the Cannes jury ignored it. The trailer for the film has appeared on Variety, and I have to say that it … Continue reading
1. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY #939 Sure, their film reviews are hated by geeks. Yes, they follow trends incessantly. And yes, music coverage is generally an afterthought. But it’s surely the most fun weekly read out there, and they have television on lock. Plus, they’ll surprise with every now and then with a great piece on overlooked … Continue reading
I’m surprised that it took this long for one of Aint It Cool News’ ‘spies’ to lose his job over a review posted on that site. The axe fell on a guy named ‘Memflix,’ who has a five month old son and supported him by working as a projectionist for the Malco Theater chain; ‘Memflix’- … Continue reading
From Trois 3: The Escort to I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer to Stomp the Yard, Sylvain White has, in his very young career, demonstrated that he will direct anything provided there’s a steady paycheck in it – which makes him the Winston Zeddmore of the American film industry. In a way, there’s … Continue reading
One of the pluses of Stephen Sommers’s Van Helsing underperforming a few years ago is that it kyboshed the director’s attempt to single-handedly travesty Universal’s "classic monsters" catalogue. Had he succeeded, we wouldn’t have Mark Romanek’s and Andrew Kevin Walker’s The Wolf Man (starring Benicio Del Toro) looming on the horizon. We also wouldn’t have … Continue reading
We’re gearing up to restart the Podcast Train in a big way, but this caboose don’t exactly run on coal. It’s powered by your input, specifically your voicemails. Our last full installment was full of us enjoying your rambling, then promptly mocking it with all we had. We look forward to doing more of that. … Continue reading