It looks like Sam Raimi has done his time in the world of Peter Parker and will soon be moving on to a new world – Disc World. The fan fave director has signed on to adapt Terry Pratchett’s Wee Free Men, part of his kid’s book series of Disc World novels. I have never … 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
Rather than focus on all the positive things the internet can be used for (downloading illegal music, multiplayer gaming mayhem, driving directions, porn… probably some other stuff), Lionsgate’s thriller Hard Candy instead concentrates on a disturbing and increasingly real trend. The movie follows a lecherous thirtysomething photographer with reprehensible intentions who uses the internet to … Continue reading
Actress Rosario Dawson might just be perfect: she’s beautiful and multitalented and otherwise gifted (by which I mean she has an extraordinary rack), and she breathed healthy life into a character from the pages of Frank Miller’s comic book Sin City. But if her turn as warrior-whore Gail wasn’t enough to satisfy comic geeks, this … Continue reading
Rather than broaden his filmmaking skills beyond people standing around reciting overwritten dialogue, writer-director Kevin Smith has literally gone back to where he started with Clerks 2. The sequel (which I pray has dropped the idiotic subtitle The Passion of the Clerks) picks up ten puffy years later, with strip mall employees Dante and Randal … Continue reading
The producers of 24 are looking to bring secret agent killerman Jack Bauer from the TV to the movies in a feature film franchise. This is obviously a ridiculous idea – sitting through three hours of King Kong was trying enough, there’s no fucking way I am spending a solid day in a movie theater. … Continue reading
Clint Eastwood’s companion piece to Flags of our Fathers, now titled Red Sun, Black Sand, is finding itself having some logistical issues. The movie will tell the story of the battle for Iwo Jima from the Japanese point of view, a very intriguing concept – two films telling the same story from different sides. I … Continue reading
Though their Grindhouse project is still a vapormovie (I think they may start shooting later this month), directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez are chronicling the experience for a 250 page “companion” book that should theoretically be on shelves before the movie’s tentative September release date. The book info from Rodriguez’s site: An insider’s look into … Continue reading
***UPDATED: Two new cities added!*** Yeah, I complain about the screenings but even I have moments of weakness where I try to keep a toe dipped in the pond and this is one of at least two screenings we’ll be doing in January. As long as I don’t overdo it, I don’t see why we … Continue reading
I recently read an excellent book, Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause, and I was just as fascinated by the general life of that film’s director, Nicholas Ray, as I was in what went into making the film. Ray was a madman and possibly a genius, but also … Continue reading