A few new details have emerged on the latest installment of the puppet/pig mask franchise Saw. While there was never any doubt Saw IV was coming, Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures have given official word Darren Lynn Bousman, director of Saw II and III, will begin filming in Toronto, the city of tax breaks, on April … Continue reading
Slowly but surely, the ensemble drama set amidst the backdrop of the war in Afghanistan/Global War on Terror/World Wars 3-6, Lions for Lambs, is filling out on its way to production. Already, the Robert Redford-directed flick sports Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Derek Luke (Antwone Fisher, Glory Road ), Michael Pena (Crash, World Trade Center), and … Continue reading
We’re less than a week away from the 79th annual Academy Awards, the awards ceremony most likely to make me get angrier and angrier over the course of four hours. Last year I actually got to my feet and yelled obscenities at my television when Crash got the Best Picture Oscar. This year looks like … Continue reading
We’ve seen lots of onscreen dramas regarding the major battles of World War II, but one of the least covered aspects of the period involved a smaller, but just as brutal conflict that kicked off when Japan invaded China just a few years prior. The Sino-Japanese War was actually a rather one-sided conflagration where Japan … Continue reading
Ever since departing the ABC mystery drama Lost – and considering how the show has spiraled, especially for supporting characters, she probably left at the perfect time – not a lot has been heard from Maggie Grace. Technically, she had a starring role in the wretched The Fog, but for the sake of this article … Continue reading
South by Southwest has a competition for the best fake exploitation-style trailer, in honor of the Rodriguez/Tarantino Grindhouse. Aint It Cool News has links to all the contestants on YouTube, and while some – like Emmanuel, Prisoner of Frankenstein – are cute or interesting, only one is brilliant. That’s Cong of the Dead, and while … Continue reading
The whole Snakes on a Plane fiasco proved something that should have been obvious long ago (at least as long ago as Shock Treatment, the awful sequel to Rocky Horror Picture Show) – you can’t create a cult film. The marketing campaign can’t tout your movie as a cult film. A cult movie has to … Continue reading
1. PREMIERE – MARCH ’07 As the biggest, regular US movie mag still out there, this baby strikes a nice balance between pure entertainment and real filmmaking goodness. Unless you’re looking at the odd theme issue, chances are that there will be enough meat from across the Hollywood spectrum to make this worth a buy … Continue reading
Fresh off his feel-good epic abortion documentary, Lake of Fire*, Tony Kaye is seating himself in the director’s chair for Blackwater Transit, a crime film starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson that will shoot in New Orleans. You might remember Kaye as the director of American History X, which he disowned after Ed Norton … Continue reading