I don’t know if this is the official teaser poster for Neil Labute’s upcoming remake of The Wicker Man, but I hope it is. It’s pretty damn cool. A reader who obviously is fond of The X-Files sent this image in and it looks legit enough to pop on the site as a possibility.The original … Continue reading
My office is near City Hall in Manhattan, and I am used to walking outside and seeing big protests and parades and official nonsense of all sorts. But last year I saw the most bizarre thing yet – corporate mascots marching in front of City Hall, all campaigning to be voted the best by consumers. … Continue reading
This past weekend I contributed to my own growing case of tinnitus by blasting Black Sabbath’s Iron Man again and again on my iPod shuffle. It just felt like the right song to listen to while walking around my neighborhood. It may not be the best song to be playing in the halls of New … Continue reading
I’ve started fresh with the Graboid, going for a more polished and tougher perspective. If you get them from now on it’ll be because you’re an astute fan of movies. I’m not going to make it easy and it’s going to be from something I either like or find it fun to put on the … Continue reading
We already learned valuable economics lessons at hero school with the X-Men movies and Disney’s minor hit Sky High, but it must be time to focus on the martial arts curriculum. Sure, Asian films have already thoroughly covered such territory with Volcano High and My Schoolmate the Barbarian and others, but now the Weinsteins want in on … Continue reading
First Look: Writer Brian Azzarello Brings a Noir Sensibility to the Western in “Loveless” By Sean Fahey As genres go, the Western is more versatile than most people give it credit. It’s more about themes than conventions. Renewal. Independence. A frontier where you can reinvent yourself and escape your past. Makes no difference whether that … Continue reading
Harry Knowles has a very fascinating review of Uwe Boll’s BloodRayne up at Aint it Cool. It’s not fascinating because of the movie or the review itself, but because Harry saw the movie with Dr. Boll in attendance, and had a chance to hang out with him afterwards. Boll actually talked shit on Spielberg’s War … Continue reading
What do I like the best about these new stills from James Gunn’s Slither? I like how many of them are people reacting in utter horror to things. This makes me feel very good about the slime quotient of this film, which I wasn’t really doubting in the first place anyway. It’s no secret that … Continue reading
I don’t know if there’s a modern book that I did not get as much as I did not get Life of Pi. The book’s apparently a classic, a wonderful tale about a boy and a tiger who are trapped on a lifeboat together. It’s supposed to be this whole thing about God and about … Continue reading