Tara Chace Heads to Iraq in Queen & Country By Mark Wheaton “What they have isn’t conclusive. You two will have to find a smoking gun that the CIA can present to the White House and the Pentagon after the fact, justifying the action.” “Queen & Country” returns. Thank friggin’ God, right? What’s even better … Continue reading
When Nic Cage latches onto something, look out! For years he was kooky for comic books, which ultimately landed his ass on the Hellcycle for Marvel’s Ghost Rider flick. Now he really seems to be into Asian material (and not just his young Korean wife, nuh-HAH!) — he’s expressed interest in the proposed Oldboy remake, National … 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
Real headz know the deal: long before Terry O’Quinn was Lost on a desert island, he was marrying into seemingly perfect families, and when they didn’t measure up knocking them off and moving on. That was the concept behind his character in the classic 1987 horror film The Stepfather, which Screen Gems is now remaking. … Continue reading
Kevin Bacon is upping his tough-guy quotient in Death Wish Death Sentence, the new film from Saw’s James Wan. It’s based on the novel by Brian Garfield, about a man whose family is viciously attacked in a gang initiation ritual and who takes revenge. Garfield also wrote the novel Death Sentence Death Wish, about a … Continue reading
Word came from Cannes that the Weinsteins were looking to remake Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, and that they were interested in Zhang Ziyi for the film. Now they’ve signed the actress to a three picture deal, which she’ll begin with a new version of Mulan. Most of us know Mulan as a Disney cartoon based … Continue reading
I think you’d have to really do some searching to find someone who slept with Frank Sinatra AND Woody Allen, so it was a special day when I had the chance to meet Mia Farrow. Obviously what defines Farrow isn’t her hard to pin down taste in men but her acting, including in a string … Continue reading
I get to Times Square about once a week. It isn’t by choice, but rather the nature of Manhattan’s screening rooms in relation to the subway. I had always assumed that Times Square, which during the last decade has morphed into the opening of Blade Runner, would be the place where I would see the … Continue reading
In the original 1976 The Omen, Father Brennan meets Robert Thorn in a park to deliver to him a message about the infernal heritage of his son, Damien. When the two split up, Brennan is left alone and the wind rises. Soon the trees are shaking as the wind howls, and lightning bolts are spitting … Continue reading
Last year I flipped for Kontroll, the debut film from Hungarian filmmaker Nimrod Antal (my review is here), and I’ve been waiting for his follow-up. It turns out that ol’ Nimrod is going to be traveling to the USA for his next film, a thriller called Vacancy, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Luke Wilson. In … Continue reading