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
As the disaster of X3 stops impending and starts just plain old happening, the final roles are being cast. I can’t believe that there are more characters in this film, and more than that, I can’t believe they’re still filling roles with people of whom I’ve heard. Whatever else happens with this movie, it will … Continue reading
I try to avoid too much hype whenever I can help it, which is no easy feat in this gig. Whether succumbing to it myself from advanced buzz or dispensing it here on the site through various recommendations… either way it tends to lead to a degree of disappointment for somebody. With the Korean movie … Continue reading
There are two ways to approach this story: One would be to just do it from the 9/11 angle, as this is the second film to be explicitly about 9/11 (the first, by dint of being announced first, is Oliver Stone’s untitled Port Authority cop movie). The other would be to come at the story … Continue reading
Left Turn is the second daily comic strip for CHUD.com, one which will be debuting on Monday, September 6th. A 180 degree shift from RON, this is an R-rated and totally serious crime epic written by yours truly with art by Simon Wright.People die all the time. It’s part of the game. For some reason … Continue reading
Dawn of the Dead redirector Zach Snyder has been struggling like a Spartan to get an adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel 300 into production ever since zombies stormed the local mall on fleet undead feet, but now the charge has begun. Miller’s story is a vividly brutal dramatization of the legendary Battle of Thermopylae, … Continue reading
So the junket for The 40 Year-Old Virgin went down about two weeks ago here at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills (an uber swank hotel with a breakfast spread that could’ve saved Somalia) and myself along with a whole slew of reporters got the chance to sit and talk to both Steve Carell (The … 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
Noah Baumbach was already somebody when The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (which he co-wrote) opened, because his Kicking and Screaming was quite a good flick. With the Wes Anderson collaboration, he became part of something unique in Hollywood. A truly fresh and fun creative arsenal, one which will surely yield more fruit, especially if … Continue reading
Noah Baumbach was already somebody when The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (which he co-wrote) opened, because his Kicking and Screaming was quite a good flick. With the Wes Anderson collaboration, he became part of something unique in Hollywood. A truly fresh and fun creative arsenal, one which will surely yield more fruit, especially if … Continue reading