There’s officially a new chapter in the seemingly endless saga of the making of the Watchmen movie – as has been rumored for some time now, Zack Snyder, director of the Dawn of the Dead remake and the upcoming nudity epic 300, has signed on to direct the film. The big news is that Alex … 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
Possibly the only thing more amazing than Michael Winterbottom’s prolific filmmaking is how good these films often are; he’s not turning out random pieces of crap, and even when the films don’t work, they’re usually worth seeing (except for 9 Songs. God was that terrible). This year Winterbottom has the distinction having directed two of … Continue reading
I was so excited to write my review of Wassup Rockers because I was going to be the guy who went on and on about how similar this movie is to The Warriors, which seems to be a film that haunts me in an almost Freudian way. Imagine my disappointment when I read an interview … Continue reading
Matt Fraction writes comic books they way comic books should be written – without restraint. He thinks big. He doesn’t reign in his imagination. And, most importantly, he has fun with the medium. In this interview Matt and I talk about all things Fraction and all things comics. Sean Fahey: So, you’ve got a lot … Continue reading
Maybe it’s because I’ve been waist deep in Warner Bros’ John Wayne/John Ford box set the last two weeks, but The Hidden Blade, the new film from Twilight Samurai director Yoji Yamada, really reminded me of one of Ford’s more elegiac Westerns. Hidden Blade is set at the twilight of the age of samurai, as … Continue reading
We’re still almost a year (gah!) away from seeing the results of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s experiment in gratuitous mayhem, but they’re already talking about building another Grind House. Rodriguez recently bumped his gums about the flick, verifying that he and Tarantino are operating second camera on each other’s half of the double feature … 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 big Licensing Show has been going on here in New York City – it’s the place where studios trot out their licensing friendly films (ie, I don’t think any of the Re-Animators made it here) and try to get companies to put their characters on lunch boxes, in Happy Meals and stenciled on the … Continue reading
It could be a wacky rumor or it could be the casting stroke of genius we’ve been waiting for – The Insider says that JJ Abrams wants Matt Damon to play Captain Kirk in his new, rebooted Star Trek. And by The Insider I mean the glossy celeb TV show, not fat Russell Crowe. JJ … Continue reading