I did not see Tony Jaa’s film Tom Yum Goong in its original form, but there was no way to miss the bleeding gashes inflicted on the movie by the Weinstein Company as they turned it into The Protector. The film is often completely incoherent, with characters dropping in and out of the story at … Continue reading
Last year I had dinner with Frank Miller. It was an interesting experience, and will one day make for a good page or two in my memoirs. Frank was funny, and nice, and vocal about being more hawkish than Donald Rumsfeld. He also threatened to fight me when I said I saw the influence of … Continue reading
Here’s a personal note to Russ Lucas, who’s heading up to the Toronto Film Festival but couldn’t get tickets to Werner Herzog’s Rescue Dawn: You probably won’t be the only guy missing it, buddy. There was a rumor floating around over the weekend that has been getting more and more solidified that the film will … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
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It turns out that this year’s most interesting Superman movie has the Man of Steel’s brains painting the walls of his Los Angeles bedroom. Hollywoodland, once known by the far superior title Truth, Justice and the American Way before Warner Bros shit their red underoos, tells the story of the rise and death of 1950s … Continue reading
Ding, dong, the Wizard is dead, let The Trials of Shazam! begin. By Graig Kent It’s almost inconceivable that at one point the adventures of Captain Marvel used to outsell those of Superman (and everyone else in fact), especially considering the character hasn’t been able to sustain a prolonged series since DC comics sued the … Continue reading
I’m willing to bet that David Slade never had an awkward silence in his life. The guy can TALK, and talk he does on the new video “webisodes” about the pre-production of his Vampire$ vs Northern Exposure film, 30 Days of Night. Slade is, of course, the director of kiddie rape/revenge picture Hard Candy. His … Continue reading
Last week I told you about The Battle in Seattle, a movie that sounds like it would be about boxing but is in fact about the 1999 anti-WTO protests in Starbucks City. Charlize Theron was the first name attached to the film, which makes some sense, as her boyfriend Stuart Townsend is writing and directing. … Continue reading
Growing up, I never realized that the Godzilla I watched on Saturday afternoon TV – the black and white original film – wasn’t the same movie Japanese audiences had seen. The Japanese film Gojira had been recut for American audiences, and Raymond Burr had been inserted into the action to give us gaijin someone to … Continue reading