It’s hard for me to get angry about the steady stream of puerile, unfunny flicks that arrive each year courtesy of Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison productions. These movies simply aren’t worthy of notice much less ire, and I think if they’d go ahead and eliminate the middleman by sending them straight to cable and calling … Continue reading
The distressingly large game geek contingent that continually argues the Metal Gear series as an example of masterful storytelling is about to get an extra shot of legitimacy. Series creator Hideo Kojima has been talking up movie possibilities for a while now, and Sony Pictures (providing an assist to SCEA with one of their only … Continue reading
JoBlo is running some images from this summer’s Marvel Comics movies. There are two pictures from Spider-Man 3, but they have been online in the past – they’re from a Spider-Man image book that should hit with the film (probably a Visual Guide type book. There are a ton of images leaked from it). But … Continue reading
Give me a Douglas Coupland book over a novel about a hardbitten PI or a chosen one questing to save the kingdom any day of the week. It’s exciting that Coupland has made the jump into screenwriting, as so many of his peers have lately, and it’s even more exciting that the movie, Everything’s Gone … Continue reading
Empire Online has just premiered what I would have to term a fucking incredible Internet-only trailer for Hot Fuzz, the new film from the team behind Shaun of the Dead. Click here to see this monumental ode to the action movie teaser – my personal favorite bit is that all of the guns get screen … Continue reading
Shattered Glass was one of the strongest directorial debuts in memory. Not only did writer/director Billy Ray craft a suspenseful and intriguing story about a guy basically plagiarizing and bullshitting, he managed to get the only good performance out of Hayden Christensen ever. For that feat alone, Ray should be guaranteed a spot in the … Continue reading
Spies Like Us, John Landis’ 80’s cold war comedy starring Dan Akroyd, Chevy Chase and Donna Dixon’s bouncing mammaries, is getting a shot at becoming relevant in the 2000s.Warner Brothers and Imagine will be distributing/producing a remake and has tapped Eurotrip/Cat in the Hat writers Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg and Dave Mandel work out the … Continue reading
The original title for this article was ‘Biel beats off Lohan’. Then I realized that (a) it wasn’t quite right and (b) we don’t have the bandwidth to support the number of hits we’d get from Dave Davis alone. Not that it matters anyway, since this is really just another excuse to run a partially … Continue reading
You expect the director of Germany’s submission for the Best Foreign Film Oscar to have a German accent. Not this time. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, the director of The Lives of Others, was born and is from Germany, but he spent some very formative years in the United States. In New York City, in fact … Continue reading
Sean Penn has officially joined the cast of What Just Happened?, the adaptation of Art Linson’s insider look at making movies in Hollywood, mostly focusing on putting together and shooting The Edge. Which was a good movie but would have been better had it featured the guitarist from U2 fighting a bear instead of Hannibal … Continue reading