“The Lone Ranger” Rides Back With Great First Issue By Mark Wheaton “The stump…you cut the tree down to build the house. It doesn’t mean you don’t miss the shade.” Full disclosure: When people talk about their childhood things – “G.I. Joe” toys, the kind of Underoos they favored or, most specifically, the lunchbox they … Continue reading
Phone | Whispering Corridors | A Snake of June | Memento Mori | Face | Koma | Vital | Doppelgänger | The Hillside Strangler | Suspicious River | The Coast Guard | Hoover Street Revival | Sorum | Bush’s Brain | R-Point | Wishing Stairs | Marebito | Pray | Another Public Enemy | Acacia … Continue reading
The day Josh Friedman called me for our interview I was in the lobby of MTV. I don’t normally hang out in MTV’s lobby, but it’s located in the same building as the New York Paramount offices, and I was there to see a movie in their screening room (the atrocious The Last Kiss, if … Continue reading
Despite Christopher Nolan’s claims to the contrary, we have learned from a trusted source that Justin Long, star of Accepted and the ubiquitous Apple Computer commercials, has been cast a Robin the Boy Wonder in The Dark Knight. Our scooper has also given us Long’s audition footage. Click here to watch it until Warner Bros … Continue reading
When Mel Gibson got arrested for drunk driving this summer and it was revealed that he was on to the Zionist conspiracy to start all wars, lots of rumors swirled around his new movie, Apocalypto, which stars non-actors and is filmed in some language Cortez wiped out. Would Disney sell the movie off? Would they … Continue reading
Is this really what people my age are like? Are they as grimly dull and mopey as the characters in The Last Kiss, the movie that takes the shine off Zach Braff’s Garden State? The film follows a quartet of morose motherfuckers who are having some kind of 2/5ths life crisis about their various relationships. … Continue reading
UKGabriel Range In my initial notes, I called Death of a President the scam of the festival. After some reflection, that’s probably too harsh. But it is a waste of a perfectly good controversy, and another blow for the politcally aware audience which wants more films like Fog of War and less of Michael Moore’s … Continue reading
"Witness the birth of fear" the poster warns. Hopefully this isn’t a flick about the casting of Reese Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg because I have a rival project about that at Warner’s. No, this is the prequel to the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Don’t overthink it, your head will hurt. I really dug … Continue reading
I wonder how many times John Cameron Mitchell will have to answer a variation of “If you’re going to have real sex in a movie, why don’t you have real violence?” when he does press for his excellent new film Shortbus? It’ll probably come up in most interviews, and I can’t decide if it reflects … Continue reading
Edward Burns is a guy I cannot help but respect and appreciate. The Brothers McMullen was a great little debut and though it tread similar turf I feel She’s the One is a special comedy I can watch any time thanks to the chemistry of Burns, Mike McGlone and John Mahoney. His subsequent works have … Continue reading