We’ve learned to live with films with similar concepts coming out at the same time – giant asteroid movies, volcano movies, homosexual writers visiting killers in jail movies. Now we may have to start learning to live with movies with similar names coming out at the same time. This December it was The Good German … Continue reading
— Alan Rickman, he of the British character actors I’d like to shake hands with and say,“Well done. Thank you”, has jumped on board Tim Burton’s murderous barber flick, Sweeney Todd. If you hadn’t read the news elsewhere, you could simply see "Tim Burton" and know the film stars Johnny Depp and Helena “Thanks for … Continue reading
John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus, the sexually explicit follow-up to his awesome rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, was one of my Top Fifteen films of 2006. Mitchell and his cast took some real risks, including engaging in actual sex on screen, but never took the movie into boring art film territory. The sex in … Continue reading
Thanks to the internet I have seen a video of a man getting fucked to death by a horse. Now that’s an opening sentence. And it’s true*. The now infamous Mr. Hands incident – in which Kenneth Pinyan, known online as Mr. Hands, sustained lethal internal injuries while being fucked by a horse – has … Continue reading
With James Cameron’s pathological tendency to say “I’m going to do this” and then make wet documentaries for going on the past decade, I’ve taken the Indiana Jones stance on about everything he’s said: I’ll believe it when my ass is firmly parked in the theater seat. Incredulity aside, when you hear James Cameron talk … Continue reading
I hope more movie studios take a page from Fox Atomic’s playbook and send out pictures of people who have been massively destroyed as elements of their marketing campaigns. For instance, I think more people would have gone to see Miss Potter if Coming Soon had run an image of Renee Zellwegger wearing her own … Continue reading
Shannon Hall, my wonderful producer from the late, lamented (for the time being?) Filter on G4, sent along a link to an exclusive that the nerd channel is crowing about – they have the first look at the design of the monster from Outlander, the movie where an alien comes to Earth and beats the … Continue reading
Those of you who watch more TV than I do, or who watch it without the aid of a TiVo to skip the commercials, may have already seen this, but it’s news to me. Turns out that Bruce Campbell is the new spokesman for Old Spice, and he stars in a very funny – and … Continue reading
When District B-13 was released in the US last August, the future based actionfest quickly came and went (a total theater bow of 151 and a little over $1 million in ticket sales didn’t help), despite the bone-chipping “Holy jumpin’ Frenchmen! Did you see that?” viral clip that probably made it into your inbox at … Continue reading
This weekend was the junket for The Hitcher, the latest remake from Platinum Dunes. At the junket press conference producers Andrew Form and Bradley Fuller confirmed that they were moving ahead with their remake of Friday the 13th at some point in 2008. But when I talked to them in an exclusive interview – which … Continue reading