Samuel L. Jackson, Kangol-topped as always, sauntered into San Diego Comic Con with all the swagger of a man possessing the sizeable stones to star in a movie with a title as unpretentious as Snakes on a Plane. As has become almost customary, Jackson plays an authority figure who does a significant amount of pointing … Continue reading
Midnight Cowboy is one of the great films. It’s a movie that’s heartbreaking, funny, honest, full of great lines and has a young Bob Balaban as a shy gay guy getting beat up in a Times Square grindhouse bathroom. It’s a movie that I love to revisit because of the depth of character and the … Continue reading
Wes Craven’s first legit film, Last House on the Left (he shot some porno loops when he first started), is one of the meanest, most unpleasant films you’ll ever see. Could a remake be as nasty? It’s easy to look at Alex Aja’s remake of The Hills Have Eyes and say yes, but that original … Continue reading
I thought that Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer was a pretty rotten name for Fantastic Four 2, but now I’m looking at that title with fond nostalgia – Superhero Hype is reporting that the film has a new moniker, and it’s the awful Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. First of all, that … Continue reading
The film version of Hairspray: The Musical is just a few weeks from starting up in Canada, and there are big changes happening in the casting – Jim Broadbent, who was set to play Wilbur Turnblad, father of dancing fat girl Tracy, has left the film and Christopher Walken has taken the role. Once upon … Continue reading
I have fear in my heart when I see a People Magazine quote on anything that isn’t People Magazine. I can’t trust the opinion of a critic who shares page space with weekly articles about how Lindsay’s teats are doing. It scares me almost as much as when Larry King offers his endorsement. Or Tom … Continue reading
I never played Flatout. I thought it was a French game, pronounced "Flatooo". Actually, I was knee deep in Need for Speed Underground and Burnout incarnations to give another racing game the time of day. Then I heard about the "Ragdoll Olympic" aspect to the game and was immediately thrilled to play the sequel. Of … Continue reading
Puzzle #4 is, I think, the most difficult one yet. I’ve stepped it up on the clues. Some of them are downright evil. But fair.Always fair. Or some of them may be really, stupidly easy … you never know.Am I messing with your brain, or being really straight-forward knowing you’ll THINK I’m messing with your … 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
The poster for Martin Scorsese’s new movie, The Departed is here, and while I sort of like it (and sort of don’t like it), one thing I notice is that Scorsese’s name is in tiny print. It’s even smaller than his name on the Gangs of New York poster, which I thought was pretty durn … Continue reading