Last night Francis Ford Coppola came to the Los Angeles DGA to flog the new 2 disc Apocalyse Now: The Complete Dossier DVD (a really great DVD set, but not one that can claim to be complete. While it includes the original and Redux cuts and lots of extra features, it does not have Hearts … Continue reading
Nicolas Winding Refn isn’t a household name, and probably never will be. You don’t find mainstream fame by making uncompromising crime films that are both phsyically and emotionally brutal. His movies Bleeder and Fear X (with John Turturro, co-written by Hubert Selby Jr) got some attention outside his native Denmark and surrounding Europe. Ironically, it’s … Continue reading
While we all wait patiently for Rattan Gentleman, Neil Labute’s The Wicker Man will just have to do. As everyone knows, this is a remake of the Pagan cult classic starring Edward Woodward (TV’s The Equalizer) and Christopher Lee (TV’s Count Dooku) with Nicolas Cage and Ellen Burstyn playing hero and villain, respectively. It’s an … Continue reading
Director David R. Ellis is probably one of the most mellow Hollywood veterans I’ve ever met, a real Southern California surfer type complete with rich tan and abundant usage of terms like “radical”. He’s been an actor, stunt coordinator and second unit director on everything from Nightbeast to The Wraith to Harry Potter, before shifting … Continue reading
Eli Roth is gearing up Hostel 2, which will pick up moments after the first film ended. This time the movie will focus on a trio of girls seeing the sites in Europe until they get sliced and diced by nasty and sadistic rich dudes. Jay Hernandez, the broken hero of the first Hostel, will … Continue reading
Snakes on a Plane stinks. Badly. No, I haven’t seen the movie. No one has. New Line is holding the film from critics, which isn’t really all that surprising – this is not a movie that is going to be built on its glowing reviews (although it is shocking that they didn’t even screen it … Continue reading
Matt Dillon wants to be taken seriously. At the New York press day for his new film, Factotum, he was very interested in talking about the ins and outs of his character, Hank Chinaski, the alter ego of sodden writer Charles Bukowski. He wanted to talk about how he inhabited the character, how he did … Continue reading
***WARNING*** Good day. Since so much of our site’s content is lost in other designs, hampered by ad code messing with the pages, or surrounded by gas and low on evil, I’m going to start reprinting them for new eyes. You’ll see classic Smilin’ Jack Ruby, stuff from me when I was relevant, early Devin, … Continue reading
I just came from the DVD store (seriously, how can J&R Music World not have the 2-disc V For Vendetta yet? It’s been sold out since day one) and I didn’t notice this film on the shelves, but I know I would have made an impulse buy if I had. After all, it stars Sam … Continue reading
**UPDATE** The thirteenth installment is now on the web at your local Podcast station. 46 minutes worth. Justin and I drove to the Sweetwater Brewery and drank some 10:30am beer and spoke with Broken Lizard geniuses Steve Lemme and Kevin Heffernan about Beerfest and other odd stuff. All apologies for the sound quality. A lot … Continue reading