When fratboy director Len Wiseman got the nod for the fourth Die Hard movie, many of us assumed that it was because John McTiernan was up to his neck in legal troubles as part of the Pelicano case, where he had been lying to the FBI (oops!). It turns out that might not be the … Continue reading
The Loews Motor Speedway is enormous. It’s humongous. It’s gigantic. It’s even approaching vast. For some of my dear readers this is not news, but I’m an inveterate New York City boy, and I never even imagined that I would ever watch a NASCAR race on television, let alone visit one of the tracks where … Continue reading
A Prairie Home Companion, opening this Friday, is a really wonderful film, a movie that makes you think maybe the Academy was a year premature when they gave Robert Altman that honorary Oscar – he could legitimately have won it for this movie. Today was the press junket for the film here in New York … Continue reading
The Loews Motor Speedway is enormous. It’s humongous. It’s gigantic. It’s even approaching vast. For some of my dear readers this is not news, but I’m an inveterate New York City boy, and I never even imagined that I would ever watch a NASCAR race on television, let alone visit one of the tracks where … Continue reading
The usual routine for a junket is to assemble at some glitzy hotel, where rooms are cleared out and beds are replaced with tables. For Pixar’s Cars junket, though, we went to North Carolina, to the Loews Motor Speedway (for more on that, click here). The interviews were done in the skyboxes maybe five or … Continue reading
I have to admit that I first became aware of Liev Schreiber in Scream. I probably should have been on the ball sooner – he’s turned into one of the great American actors, on screen and on stage. He’s also recently tried his hand at directing with Everything is Illuminated, the #12 film on my … Continue reading
UPDATED! Rob Zombie has written a MySpace message to the fans explaining just what’s up with his take on Halloween. Skip to the end for that. The Halloween franchise is born again, and in a most unexpected way – Dimension Films has turned to feel-bad auteur Rob Zombie to write, direct, music supervise and produce … 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
USA Today has an article about the possible upcoming X-Men spin-off films, including the Wolverine and Magneto movies Fox has been talking about for about ever. There were two other concepts that really caught my eye, though, and the most interesting was David O. Russell working on an Emma Frost movie. David O. Russell is, … Continue reading
The appeal of Batman vs Superman isn’t about the physical fight. All Frank Miller hokum aside, Superman would wipe the floor with Batman in nanoseconds if push came to shove. What’s interesting about these guys going head to head is how they represent such different sides of the same coin – the darker Batman operates … Continue reading