Did you go buy Slither yesterday when it was released on DVD? If not, I don’t hate you. Yet. Maybe you need some extra convincing, and I’m happy to do some of that convincing here by bringing you a clip from the DVD’s copious and excellent special features, specifically from the “Bringing Slither’s Creatures to … Continue reading
There is a bizarre and fascinating PR war going on right now centering on Ed Zwick’s new Warner Bros film, Blood Diamond, which has Leonardo DiCaprio teaming up with a Kanye West song to draw attention to some of the evils of the African diamond trade. The diamond industry has been really skittish about this … Continue reading
The Browncoats, a hardcore sci-fi subculture that loves Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity to an incredible (and, if you think hardcore “fandom”* is as creepy as I do, frightening) degree, usually feel like the underdogs. Heck, their name comes from a Confederate States analogue in Whedon’s western meets Star Wars mythology. And to be fair, … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!PUBLISHER: PenguinMSRP: $13.00PAGES: 192 There’s great fun to be had in reviewing an icon of literature. Especially if one, like me, has somehow managed to never read that piece of literature before. I don’t know how I’ve done it, but despite a childhood of reading and a series of creative … Continue reading
There is some hand-wringing going on about Borat, which opens in two weeks. Is it being overhyped? Will it crash and burn, having never crossed over from the “hipster”* audience to the general public? Whatever happens, Sacha Baron Cohen doesn’t seem to be too stressed about it; while he’s making the rounds like mad to … Continue reading
The reports of Tom Cruise’s career death are greatly exaggerated. Take that, Sumner Redstone! After getting dumped from his deal at Paramount and after his fake wife gave birth to the clone of L Ron Hubbard, Cruise is bounding back with three new projects in the pipeline. Variety says that Cruise is looking at three … Continue reading
Ryan Schifrin, director of the awesome Bigfoot movie Abominable (click here the Creature Corner DVD review, and click here for my interview with Ryan), has teamed up with Adam Green, director of the incredibly buzzed about but unseen by me Hatchet (click here for my interview with Adam, and you would click here to read … Continue reading
New pictures from the Vancouver shoot of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer have appeared online, and they’re of a super-powered wedding. The first pics from the wedding between Sue Storm and Reed Richards appeared on the internet a couple of weeks back and showed our heroes happy and celebrating. But this is a … Continue reading
George Clooney and the Coen Brothers can’t get enough of each other. They’re teaming for a third film (yes, third. Everybody remembers O Brother, Where Art Thou?, but Intolerable Cruelty seems to have dropped off the resumes of everyone involved), and this time George is playing a killer. The movie called Burn Before Reading, and … Continue reading
The internet can be really unfair to James Gunn. There are people out there who still really hate him for writing the Dawn of the Dead remake. When I interviewed him for Slither’s theatrical release earlier this year, he told me that he got death threats. That’s especially sad because the DOTD remake is a … Continue reading