Archive · 2005

June 2005

306 posts

REVIEW: WAR OF THE WORLDS

Steven Spielberg is widely credited as having invented the summer blockbuster. His Jaws was the first film of its kind, a massive and unstoppable ticket-selling machine, just as single-minded as the shark itself. But the blockbusters that have come after have… Continue reading

TRAILER: TRANSPORTER 2

Jason Statham is back for more homoerotic action (come on, even the director thought the first one was pretty gay, and he’s French) in The Transporter 2, although this time he really seems to be more of a chauffeur. Retired from the parcel delivery business,… Continue reading

KOOOOOOONG!

Kong is seen. That's the face of the big ape who is going to rule the end of the year in Peter Jackson's remake of the classic film. Looks pretty good to me – I like his snaggly tooth, and he has a convincing beat up look about him. That sort of look comes… Continue reading

A TRAILER FOR LADY VENGEANCE

The concluding chapter of Chan Park-Wook's astonishing vengeance trilogy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, is almost out in Korea, and the trailer is here. I don't speak a word of Korean (except "jaji", which sounds like "Chachi," and apparently means "dick") but… Continue reading

GOYER IS NOT SO INVISIBLE

Here on our message board discussion of Batman Begins, many people are blaming all the stuff they don't like in the film on David Goyer. There's this impression, it seems, that Christopher Nolan was forced to use some Goyer screenplay and that the director… Continue reading

LA FEMME SUPERMAN

The hottest girl ever named after an animal rights group, La Femme Nikita star Peta Wilson, is going to be appearing in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns in an unknown role. The news broke like the wind on Peta's own site, where the following cryptic blurb… Continue reading

AMAZING SCREW-ON GIAMATTI

Paul Giamatti and Mike Mignola have finally teamed up as the thespian has agreed to voice the lead character in the Sci-Fi Channel cartoon version of Amazing Screw-On Head. The comic, which I haven't read but have been told is quite great, is about a Civil… Continue reading

HERE COME THE PAYNE

The videogame adaptation is climbing back to the top of studio lists, with recent weeks seeing popular properties like Halo, Hitman and Alice hacking their way through development hell. And let’s not forget Uwe Boll’s upcoming Bloodrayne, which we all know… Continue reading

RON #104

All images copyright Nick Nunziata & Lewis Cox III. Do not reprint without permission. * Note: I'm going to include the previous strip above the current one as to preserve some semblance of continuity in case you'd missed or forgotten the last strip. The… Continue reading