Snake Plissken. RJ MacReady. Jack Burton. Wyatt Earp. Kurt Russell’s been all of these guys, and any fanboy worth his salt knows and loves at least a couple of the great films Russell’s been involved with over the years. I was flown to LA to have round two with Richard Dreyfuss, but the real excitement … Continue reading
Is there a full-blown Peckinpah revival coming on? Warner Bros just released a very nice four film set of his greatest Westerns, and Tommy Lee Jones recently directed a fairly explicit homage in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Now Dead Man’s Shoes arrives on US shores (fucking finally), and it’s hard not to see … 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
Some of the more notable elements of Michael Mann’s influential and distinctly 1980s Miami Vice TV series appear to be have found their way into the new feature, specifically the expensive cars, questionable but fashionable facial hair, cigarette boats and undercover agents getting romantically entangled with criminals. Curiously absent: pet alligator. I’m still not quite excited about this … Continue reading
Brilliant Brit triumvirate Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are still hammering away on Hot Fuzz, the follow-up to their fried gold slice Shaun of the Dead. This time they’re pointing the homage gun at cop movies, with Pegg as a super detective who gets transferred to a sleepy England town and uncovers all … Continue reading
I’m about as interested in another Indiana Jones movie as Harrison Ford is in rising above mediocrity, but that doesn’t stop the principals from mentioning their vaporsequel at every possible opportunity. George Lucas is the latest info-blower, chatting up the film’s status while ignoring any semblance of irony and taking a shot at bombastic summer action fare … Continue reading
This review contains lots of spoilers.By the end of Poseidon the eponymous cruise ship lies on the bottom of the ocean, and so, I hope, does the reputation of director Wolfgang Petersen. The man made a fantastic movie (mini-series really) 21 years ago – Das Boot – and has been coasting on it ever since. … Continue reading
Color me out of the loop. A new concept art piece from MEG hit the internet and I was none the wiser. Many of you will not be surprised at that. TV Guide ran a piece today that indicates one of the things slowing our film down is the increasing costs of the [do we … Continue reading