Let me preface this by saying I like baseball as much as movies. I’ve watched just about every Yankees, Braves, and Indians game this season and can watch any baseball game at any time. The months between November and April are probably my most creative but also excruciating to sit through. I’m a baseball idiot … Continue reading
Now this is bound to send fans of the 60s BBC TV show The Prisoner right off their trolley, including the various Hollywood people who have long been attempting to condense the open-ended 17-episode series in a cogent two-hour film. But the show is instead rematerializing once more on British TV — Sky One is prepping a … Continue reading
I can’t imagine sitting down with Courtney Solomon and not asking him about his last film, Dungeons & Dragons. It can be weird asking someone about their shitty previous work – sometimes they seem to deny that the film was no good; other times they just say that the movie made a bundle in pay … Continue reading
The last time I met Richard Dreyfuss things didn’t go well. It was on the set of Poseidon, Wolfgang Peterson’s big budget remake of the 1972 camp disaster classic about a huge cruise ship that gets turned upside down. You can read the whole encounter here, but the short version is this – Dreyfuss punched … Continue reading
The last time I met Richard Dreyfuss things didn’t go well. It was on the set of Poseidon, Wolfgang Peterson’s big budget remake of the 1972 camp disaster classic about a huge cruise ship that gets turned upside down. You can read the whole encounter here, but the short version is this – Dreyfuss punched … Continue reading
Art School Confidential reteams the Ghost World duo of director Terry Zwigoff and writer/cartoonist Dan Clowes. Clowes is much beloved in the alternative comic world for his glorious book Eightball, which has always been among the most accessible of the non-mainstream comics. It’s interesting that life has taken Clowes to Hollywood – he’s currently writing … 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
Fantastic Four 2 could be making up for the Earthbound antics of the first film by getting all cosmic – Variety is reporting that it looks like the Silver Surfer will be in the sequel. And we all know that where the Surfer goes, Galactus can’t be far behind. The deal’s not yet done; the … Continue reading
This review contains minor, unavoidable spoilers. Los Angeles is a weird place, and if you don’t know that firsthand, the movies are always willing to tell you. Hollywood loves turning out movies about itself and its immediate environs, and it’s rare when one of those are really of interest to anyone outside that community. The … Continue reading
“What’s in Rabbit Foot?” someone asks in Mission: Impossible: 3. The answer, my friends, is pure, concentrated MacGuffin. Like any good MacGuffin, Rabbit Foot is the thing that drives the mechanics of this film – in MI3’s case it’s a device (biohazardous, it seems) that evil arms merchant Philip Seymour Hoffman wants, and he’ll kill … Continue reading