I meant to run this piece about a month and change ago, when it was closer to the midpoint of the year. But you know what? I don’t mind running it now, because we’re a few weeks away from the beginning of the prestige season (let alone the release of The Prestige), and it’s all … Continue reading
Universal’s genre subsection Rogue Pictures is really getting into comics – they’ve already got the horror book Hack/Slash in feature development thanks to producers Daniel Alter and Adrian Askariah, and those same guys have now brought them Devil’s Due’s WWII action title Lost Squad. I haven’t read the series yet since I’m a “trade waiter” … Continue reading
Having reanimated the long-troubled 70s street thriller American Gangster and reunited with his Gladiator cohort Russell Crowe, director Ridley Scott is now amassing an abundance of additional actors. Desperately in search of cred, Scott has gathered raptors Common, TI and The RZA, who’ll have to retcon some rhymes to fit the pre-Sugarhill Gang era in … Continue reading
Barry Eisler, if he so chose, could probably kill me in a dozen different ways. He’s had a multitude of different careers ranging from the spy section of the CIA to Silicon Valley, and his latest is as a novelist of the brilliant John Rain series. Rain is an assassin who is incredibly paranoid and … Continue reading
Polish movie posters are the best thing since the Earth was built by aliens and left cooking in the sun long enough so people thought they were civilized and followed the rules of a God. Let’s just say this… if there is a God, chances are good that he made his daily wage designing polish … Continue reading
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are coming back to live action films for the first time in years. They have two new movies lined up, one of which sounds like it’s got a real shot at being a classic. The first of the two is My All-American, a high school comedy, which should be interesting … Continue reading
Catwoman, Nightwing & Robin: the current shape of the Batman Family is a sort of amorphous blob By Graig Kent I’m more of a fan of the has-beens and also-rans. Rarely do Superman and Batman excite me as much as, say, Blue Beetle or Firestorm. I can enjoy a good Supes or Bats yarn as … Continue reading
Good CHUD friend and all around yellow peril Mike Kim sent me a link to a French website that seems to have among the first pictures from the Day of the Dead remake, including a shot of Ving Rhames in his Rhodes outfit. This bugs me on a couple of levels. First of all, Ving … Continue reading
Every now and again you come across a performance so good that it elevates the movie it’s in. Ryan Gosling gives one of those performances in Half Nelson, and his acting has successfully tricked a number of critics into thinking that the movie is anything but an After School Special done up in gritty indie … Continue reading
I guess Karl Urban has made his peace with being the only actor in modern memory being typecast in Viking roles. His “break out” performance was in the Lord of the Rings movies, where he played essentially a Viking on horseback, and his next film to be released will have him starring in Dances With … Continue reading