After Ole’ Nunz’ impassioned rant against the upcoming CG/live action hybrid Alvin & The Chipmunks movie a few weeks back, I chuckled and then promptly readied myself to repress all memory about this latest mistake from Tim Hill, esteemed director the second Garfield movie. But I knew that one crucial piece was missing from this … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
Just five weeks before the remake of Bunny Lake Is Missing starts shooting, Reese Witherspoon has dropped out. The film, which is being directed by CHUDdy Buddy Joe Carnahan, is now without its star… and one of its producers, a role Witherspoon was also filling. This development puts everyone in a bad place. Five weeks … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, Aint It Cool News broke the story that Shia LaBeouf would be appearing in Indiana Jones IV as Indy’s son. We quickly corroborated that story, and it hit the web in a big way. But of course Variety likes to pretend that only they generate news (like… Zyzzyx Road, perhaps), … Continue reading
Gentle giant Alex Riviello at our si(ni)ster site, Creature Corner, has scored the scoop of the millennium. At least it is to me – Alex has uncovered the fact that there is a Street Trash 2 in the planning. And even bigger than that, original director Jimmy Muro is coming back to make it. First … Continue reading
I have seen 300 twice now, and the second viewing was crucial. Not because it was on an Imax screen – a very impressive way to watch the film – but because I came into the theater without the kind of expectations I had my first time through. I knew that 300 wasn’t as crazy … Continue reading
For just 11 million dollars, Korean director Joon-ho Bong did with The Host what the folks behind the Godzilla remake couldn’t accomplish with ten times the budget – he made a wonderful monster movie that’s exciting, funny and emotionally involving. The Host is a terrific film, and I guarantee that it’s going to end up … Continue reading
Thirty seconds after I wrote an oblique Tom Waits joke into an article about The Return, I hit on another news item that actually features the guy. Expect a lot more Waits jokes in the future if they’ll always conjure up new film appearances by my favorite voice. Waits is among the cast members of … Continue reading
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the end of Marvel Civil War and issue 25 of Captain America. Steve Rogers is dead. If you’re not a comic book reader, you probably know him better as Captain America, the World War II super soldier who was frozen and thawed out in the modern world. Recently things … Continue reading