Rumors swirled (and continue to swirl) around Factory Girl, the Weinstein Co movie about Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol that I reviewed here last week. Director George Hickenlooper was recently in New York City for a Factory Girl press day, and he addressed some of these rumors. The biggest rumor about Factory Girl was that … Continue reading
In 2005 Steven Spielberg deftly and depressingly gave us a microcosmic view of the Mossad (Israel’s intelligence agency) as it related to the events of Munich. Now it’s Sandler’s turn because, man! Is that Mossad ever funny!Actually, it’s more a comedy threesome, as Sandler is colluding with Judd Apatow and Robert "Triumph the Insult Comic … Continue reading
If you’re excited to see Peter Berg and Michael Mann’s The Kingdom, please take a moment to find another April release to see instead. After testing through the roof in multiple screenings, Berg’s action picture about an FBI trio (Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper) investigating a bombing in the Middle East has been pushed … Continue reading
What the hell is going on with JJ Abrams and Star Trek XI? Last week Latino Review announced that he was off the project. Paramount denied. Last night they reiterated that he was off the project, and even announced the movie he was doing instead, a film called Cloverfield, which they say is a horror … Continue reading
If you frequent our message boards, you may have noticed that things have been wonky for a couple of days – especially if you’re using Internet Explorer as your browser. We also had some database issues with the site, but those have been cleared up; now we’re waiting for the tech types to figure out … Continue reading
Trojans don’t just make condoms. They make pretty sneaky tactics too!
After a couple years of publishing, the Hard Case Crime imprint has made a name for itself among old-school crime aficionados. It has a great strategy: resurrect lost works by authors like Lawrence Block, Ed McBain and Mickey Spillane and present them alongside new fiction, all wrapped in sexy new covers for a reasonable price. … Continue reading
“This is madness!” ”THIS… IS… A…COMPETITION!” Coming in a few weeks is Zack Snyder’s take on Frank Miller’s 300 – the epic story of 300 Spartans who stand between Greece and a massive invading army of Persians. Snyder has taken Miller’s imagery and reproduced it onscreen, much like Miller and Robert Rodriguez did with Sin … Continue reading
After the announcement that Shawn “I hate and shit upon the very concept of cinema” Levy would be directing a movie based on The Flash, many comic nerds thought we had reached rock bottom. Oh, how naïve. There’s always worse. Like Joel Schumacher directing a movie based on Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. Don’t worry, it won’t … Continue reading
This is still in the not-quite-concrete/rumor stage, as the source for this story is gossip haven TMZ.com, but reportedly Tom Cruise looks to do a flick with Ben Stiller tentatively called The Hardy Men, which of course would be based on the Hardy Boys detective novel series. Except that they’re grown-up now, see? What’s interesting … Continue reading