First off, I just want to commend Michael Fleming for kicking off his Variety article concerning the below with "Got Milk?". Goddamn, he’s good. If you’ve been following the career of Bryan Singer, you’ll know that the comic book adapting filmmaker has long been circling The Mayor of Castro Street, a project based on Randy … Continue reading
We’ve been hearing about the ways the internet was going to change movie making for quite some time, and besides giving pimply nerds the ability to steal films before they open in theaters, I haven’t seen that promise borne out… until recently. It seems that some great comedic types have been turning to the web … Continue reading
Are you seated? Well, can you get seated? I have some shocking news that may forever alter the way you prepare peas. Nikki Finke, the tough-as-nails Deadline Hollywood Daily editor who once punched her way through the steel hull of a trash barge with her bare fists just for the story, has received word from … Continue reading
For the next day until Friday, April 13th, I’ll be watching and reviewing the movies in the Friday the 13th franchise from the very first through Jason X (I’m up in the air about including Freddy vs Jason). I’ll be counting kills, observing the bad behavior that gets teenagers killed at Camp Crystal Lake, chronicling … Continue reading
Here’s why I need a CrackBerry: While I was out at a screening a scoop landed in our mailbox, as well as the mailboxes of many of our friendly competitors and colleagues. As such we find ourselves going for the silver when it comes to this scoop: According to our trusted and beloved insider source, … Continue reading
Hey guys, I hope you week went well, and you filled out those tax forms and shit. Let’s see how wrong I am this week THE MOST INTERESTING FILM OF THE WEEK We are in the off-season. Though you can now release a film any time of the year and have a nine-figure hit, January, … Continue reading
The just-done-broke news that Rob Marshall will direct Nine, a live action rendition of Maury Yeston’s stage musical rendition of Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2, for The Weinstein Company is cause for both delight and concern. The delight comes in knowing that I’ll finally get to see an actual production of Nine, which swiped the 1982 … Continue reading
Lonely Hearts is not a bad movie. It’s more often than not a pretty good one; well made and filled with some excellent performances. Yet the movie never quite clicks, perhaps because it insists on telling two stories – one that is dramatic and one that slowly peters out, neither of which complement each other. … Continue reading
As long as Mike White is working in Hollywood there’s still some hope for the movies. He’s got a unique sensibility and an incredible range – the same guy who creeped me out beyond belief with Chuck and Buck also wrote the funny and heartwarming School of Rock. His new film – his directorial debut … Continue reading
How did it take this long for Dino De Laurentiis to finance another romp in the space age boudoir with Barbarella? The character, a creation of French comic book artist Jean-Claude Forest, is a liberated gal who gallivants about the cosmos in various states of undress – in other words, the favorite pastime of such … Continue reading