Before 2006, I would have probably ranked Iron Man somewhere in the low 3000s in the list of Marvel characters I cared about, nestled comfortably between The USAgent and Night Thrasher. Aside from the “Armor Wars” storyline, where they explored his crisis of conscience at having inadvertently becoming an international arms dealer, it seemed like … Continue reading
Who doesn’t love serial killers? And doesn’t everybody adore World’s Fairs? So it stands to reason that putting the two of them together would be a slam dunk. That’s what Erik Larson (no Savage Dragon) did with his nonfiction book The Devil in the White City, which parallels the stories of the architect of the … Continue reading
Oliver Stone did his 9/11 movie and lo, it stunk. I rewatched World Trade Center recently, and then again with Stone’s commentary, and the banality of the whole thing was evident. Stone took a story suited for a TV movie and never figured out how to do anything more with it. In fact, while watching … Continue reading
Box Office Mojo, bastion of all box office number references, has either been doing some deductive reasoning or has the inside track on George Lucas and friends.The site has posted a release date for the long-rumored, much skepticised Indiana Jones IV: May 22, 2008. Variety reported back on January first that with the completion of … Continue reading
Is Warwick Davis plotting against Peter Dinklage? Once upon a time if a character in a movie was a dwarf or a halfling or a midget or even just a tiny monster, Davis was the guy who got the call. Now it’s all about Dinklage. Actually, this is not a bad idea for a movie … Continue reading
Rian Johnson’s follow-up to Brick has been slowly percolating behind the scenes. Months ago we learned that Rachel Weisz had signed on to The Brothers Bloom, Johnson’s take on a con man movie. Now there’s finally new casting, and it was worth the wait. Rian emails us from freezing cold Belgrade (it’s not so warm … 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
Good work, Mr. Sutherland. Kiefer Sutherland is such a survivor I think that cockroaches and rats build little shrines to him. He fucking DID it, parlaying the seemingly trapping role of Ace Merrill (oh, and Jack Bauer) into a true A-List career, the odiferous The Sentinel notwithstanding. 24 still manages to deliver, even though it … Continue reading
Fangoria was always one of two dirty magazines for me as a kid. The first was Cosmo – you know, before I discovered it wasn’t filled with naked ladies, but just the cleave-heavy one on the front. Fangoria, on the other hand, never blueballed. I knew if I saw some dude with an axe in … Continue reading
If you’ve been hanging around these parts for a little while, you’ll remember that I did extensive interviews with Paul Greengrass when he was set to direct an adaptation of Watchmen (way back when it was still set up at Paramount). When that project didn’t happen we stayed in touch and I ended up doing … Continue reading