When I was but a young man playing Super Mario Bros, I thought that if you felt actual pain every time you lost a man, you would probably play better. Then I realized no one would want to play a game like that. But they might like to go see a movie about it! Stay … Continue reading
The least interesting thing about superheroes are pretty much always the superheroes. Superhero comics are endlessly juvenile power fantasies, which makes their continued patronage by old men (like myself) all the more embarrassing. But what people like Alan Moore realized years ago was that the most interesting things about superheroes are what they say about … Continue reading
The least interesting thing about superheroes are pretty much always the superheroes. Superhero comics are endlessly juvenile power fantasies, which makes their continued patronage by old men (like myself) all the more embarrassing. But what people like Alan Moore realized years ago was that the most interesting things about superheroes are what they say about … Continue reading
Michael Crichton, don’t read this! Paramount’s Specialty Division has picked up the Al Gore global warming film, An Inconvenient Truth. The film got a standing O from an audience of liberals and commies at Sundance, all of whom are far too willing to swallow the anti-business line that somehow pollution is bad. What rubes! An … Continue reading
Avi Arad has revealed that he doesn’t expect to see Captain America hitting the silver screen until 2009, giving the new Marvel Studios only three years to crank out sequels before the world ends in 2012 (ask the Mayans). The really bad news is that if the film has Cap hunting Osama Bin Laden, that … Continue reading
I recently commented on director Ridley Scott’s Spielbergian/Fincheresque creative vicissitude, and here he is just a couple weeks later proving my point. He just started development on the espionage movie Penetration and the Iraq abduction story The Invisible World, but apparently he’s shoving them aside to defibrillate a previously flatlined project. Scott has now decided … Continue reading
We recently heard that New Line was attempting to rush everyone’s favorite sex-hating mass murderer Jason Voorhees back into theaters before the end of the year, and now Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production company is helping polish the machete for a new Friday the 13th movie. But before you roll your eyes at the prospect … 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
Though it’s getting a little overused, the "faux documentary" can be a good way for filmmakers to circumvent budgetary limitations and provide an interesting narrative device (see Interview with the Assassin or Incident at Loch Ness for examples). The new indie Behind the Mask (not to be confused with the unnecessary Hannibal Lecter prequel) has taken … Continue reading
Mailbagsukidoji: Hey folks, I want to make this a weekly, YES A WEEKLY part of the site but I can’t do it alone, no. I need YOUR HELP! So, for the love of all that is holy, click that FEEDBACK link on the bottom of every page and send me your comments, concerns, kudos, and … Continue reading