Archive · 2005

July 2005

228 posts

FROM CLONE WARS TO CLEAVAGE

We heard a couple of months ago that award-winning Star Wars editorr andd soundd designerr Ben Burtt was packing up his box of sci-fi sounds and leaving Lucasfilm for a new future at Pixar, but he’s also stepping behind the camera for an FX-fueled flick based… Continue reading →

SNEAK ONTO THE ISLAND

Are you excited about the movie being touted as the "smart Michael Bay film?" Can't wait to see The Island, starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson? The good news is that Dreamworks is doing a massive sneak preview tomorrow night – they sent me a list… Continue reading →

LEAK LETTERS #16

Mailbagsukidoji: The Steady Leak may not be so steady these days, but your letters have been, so I must share them and answer them so that the wheels keep turning on this crazy little bitch. Feel free to ask whatever about whomever or whatever, and I'll do my… Continue reading →

ONE FAT PIRATE

Have I used that headline already? Possibly. With this gig there's really only so many witty headlines you can come up with in relation to a single news story, but the same news stories will often surface again and again. Two biggies are both related to the… Continue reading →

REVIEW: MURDERBALL

Wheelchair rugby. It sounds like a contradiction in terms. The game is played in post-apocalyptic wheelchairs on basketball courts, as squads of quadriplegic smash into each other to get possession of a ball and deliver it to the other team’s goal line. Fast… Continue reading →

REVIEW: DARK WATER

Movies are like alchemy. If they were like chemistry, you could add the right ingredients – great actors, a promising director with visual style – and get what you would expect, a good movie. But because movies need some transmutive magic the end result is… Continue reading →

REVIEW: CRONICAS

What is the journalist’s responsibility? Is it to get the best story or is it to help people? This is the question that haunts John Leguizamo in his first Spanish speaking role in Cronicas. A hotshot reporter for a pan-Latin America news station, Leguizamo… Continue reading →