Going to Rotten Tomatoes reveals a glorious thing: Martin Scorsese’s The Departed stands at 100% fresh. That’s with only 17 reviews in, but they include many of the big guns – the “Cream of the Crop” section is filling out nicely. And I know a number of critics who will be weighing in shortly will … Continue reading
I guess since he didn’t actually have one in the hand it’s technically alright he went for the two fuller ones in the bush. Or on the beach or whatever.
New casting for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer reveals some interesting new elements of the plot, and as far as I’m concerned completely gives away the ending of the film. I’ll put that discussion after the basic news item so anyone not familiar with the history of the Fantastic Four and Galactus in … Continue reading
When Hot Fuzz, the cop film from the fellas who brought us Spaced and Shaun of the Dead, hits theaters next year it won’t be director Edgar Wright’s first attempt at a British cop film – that would be Dead Right, from 1993, shot when he was just 18. There’s a minute long clip from … Continue reading
When IESB.net sat down with Tom Rothman, head cheese of Fox, he told them that the next few weeks would bring an announcement as to who will be the main villain of Live Free or Die Hard, the movie that returns John McClane to the big screen. He promised that the casting was exciting, and … Continue reading
Double dips are, sadly, a fact of life in the DVD world. Still, the impact can be lessened when a double dip actually has some decent features, or has an unrated director’s cut (or when you didn’t have that DVD in the first place), which is the case with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: … Continue reading
The Bourne Ultimatum, the third film in the best modern spy series (fuck you if you disagree) is shooting now in Tangiers. You gotta love how these films go out there and get the local flavor, filming all over the world. It shows on screen in a way that faking it in Vancouver never could. … Continue reading
Last night I had CNN on in the background and my attention was grabbed by an ad for Kazakhstan. I stopped my reading and started paying attention – was this a new Borat commercial? I had a chance to see Borat at ComiCon and chose to drink instead, a decision I halfway regret now, especially … Continue reading
There are people who dismiss Martin Scorsese’s non-gangster films. Sometimes it feels like they don’t even acknowledge the existence of movies like or Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore or The Last Temptation of Christ or The Age of Innocence. These people are going to be more entrenched in their beliefs after the release of The … Continue reading
Despite all human wisdom to the contrary, there is an actual CHiPs movie in the works. As previously announced, the film will star walking tween starlet deflowerer Wilmer Valderrama as Ponch, the part originally essayed by Erik “You’re a homo.jpg” Estrada. The big question looming over the mental defectives who are actually interested in this … Continue reading