Here’s unexpected news – the Joker in The Dark Knight will not be silly like Cesar Romero! OK, we all saw that coming, but for many it’s comforting to hear it reiterated. Christopher Nolan gave an interview to Mean Magazine (hey, I write for those guys) for The Prestige, but of course things got around … Continue reading
In October of 2002 I campaigned for Christian Bale to get the role of Batman. It happened, though I’m sure my pleading had as much to do with the eventual outcome as the position of the sun, the color of grass, or the value of the Euro. It was obvious simply by looking at the … Continue reading
Kevin Smith hit Australia to promote the bankrupting of his creativity, Clerks II, and the boys at Moviehole got him to talk about his upcoming horror film. Apparently the whole movie will be made up of Smith’s wife kissing Brian O’Halloran. That’s the only conclusion I can draw when Smith says the movie will be … Continue reading
The Crypt-O-Gram message board discussion. Two challenges this time, one easy and one … not. The Easy One: Here is a list of two-word film titles, each word of the title has the same number of letters. I’ve given you the first letter of each word. How many of them can you name? (There may … Continue reading
How did Hunter S Thompson do it? How did he get so royally fucked up on so many chemicals and still turn in vaguely journalistic pieces? Did he just make a lot of it up? Thompson’s not really a favorite of mine when it comes to his work, but I do like his legend. The … 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
Here’s some awesome news: Scott Glosserman’s Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, one of my favorite movies of the year so far (and one that I reviewed here) is finally getting picked up. Scott tells Fangoria that while the papers aren’t signed, things should be more concrete “really soon. We’re hoping for an … Continue reading
Is Elvis still alive? And if so, can he turn his hands into gleaming metal blades that can cut through almost everything? That’s the mystery at the core of Lonely Street, which begins filming in Los Angeles today. Here’s the synopsis: The storyline follows ‘Bubba Mabry’ (Jay Mohr), a bumbling private dick hired by ‘JG’ … Continue reading