I have always said that I wanted to study martial arts so that I could pick fights at bars. This is the wrong reason to study martial arts. It’s so wrong, in fact, that Jet Li’s new movie is essentially all about that. How do you make a movie about the philosophy behind martial arts, … Continue reading
Saying that Feast is the best film to come out of the Project Greenlight TV show is dim praise indeed… so it’s a good thing that this isn’t the only praise I have for it. Feast is a genuinely fun splatter movie that almost never lets up and definitely never takes itself too seriously. In … Continue reading
Ronny Yu’s career has spanned both sides of the Pacific Ocean, and has included Chinese films like The Bride With White Hair and Hollywood ones like Freddy vs Jason. His latest is Jet Li’s Fearless, the philosophical martial arts movie Li has been wanting to make for years. Set in the time just before WWI, … Continue reading
Even though I write about movies every day sometimes I still miss stuff – and one of the things I missed is that there will be an animated adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s excellent memoir about growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution, Persepolis. And I am only finding out about it because my good … Continue reading
The people who made it into the 300 panel at this summer’s San Diego ComiCon got a real treat in the form of three minutes and change of footage from the film. I was on set last December and we saw some concept footage of what the final film would look like, but watching the … Continue reading
You know your neighborhood is going to hell when Adam Sandler is filming his new movie there. That’s what happened last week when Sandler showed up at the firehouse down the block from me to film scenes for his new movie, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. He also shot scenes at a local … Continue reading
“Jonah Hex” Delivers His Own Brand of Justice in Accessible, Stand-Alone Stories By Sean Fahey Words can’t describe how happy I am that this series even exists, and the fact that it is so well executed makes it that much sweeter. I won’t hide my biases. I’m a huge fan of Westerns and I’ve always … Continue reading
During the end credits of Jackass Number Two Bam Margera, who cries a couple of times in this film, says, “I hope there’s no Jackass 3.” I understand where he’s coming from – this movie has upped the ante so much that I think the only way a third can top it is to intentionally … Continue reading
My copy of Alan Moore and Melinda Gibbie’s kiddie porn comic Lost Girls, about the sex lives of Dorothy Gale of Oz, Alice (from Wonderland) and Wendy Darling of Neverland is on back order from Amazon. I was hoping that this book would serve as the final capstone in the “let’s reimagine our childhood characters … Continue reading
Ed Zwick has a specialty, and that specialty is telling stories about the minority experience through the eyes of the white man. Zwick is drawn to other cultures, and how white people have helped them. Through Zwick we have learned how Matthew Broderick freed Denzel Washington in Glory and how Tom Cruise defended ancient Japanese … Continue reading