Archive · 2006

April 2006

212 posts

REVIEW: SILENT HILL

Many years ago some friends and I shared rent on a dingy practice space with one of those goth/metal bands that now litter MySpace. You know the ones: homemade backdrop with thorny roses, economy size mascara. They left their lyric book on an amp one day and… Continue reading

TO BOLDLY NOT GO AWAY

I keep checking the calendar to make sure I didn't slide back in time about three weeks to the beginning of April, but nope… this is apparently not a hoax. After making his feature directing debut on what is reportedly one seriously kickass espionage… Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 4.21.06

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… Continue reading

DVD REVIEW: FILMS OF FAITH

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Home VideoMSRP: $29.98RATED: NR and GRUNNING TIME: Nun: 152 mins/Shoes: 162 mins/Fatima: 102 minsSPECIAL FEATURES:• Shoes of the Fisherman vintage featurette• Theatrical Trailers The Nun's Story (1959) The Pitch "I… Continue reading

HOTTIE vs. ZOMBIE

Zombie western. That's a horror amalgam genre fans have been anxiously awaiting, and it looks like we're finally getting it with a flick called Wanted: Undead or Alive. Unfortunately, it stars spastic SNL graduate Chris Kattan. But on the positive side, the… Continue reading

AUTOBOTS AND ACTORS

Michael Bay's future blockbuster Transformers is getting ready to film, and we're starting to hear names of the people portraying characters whose alternate forms aren't cars and radios and oversized handguns. Gawky youngster Shia LaBeouf (Holes, Constantine)… Continue reading

WRESTLING WITH CONVICTS

Aside from The Rock™, Roddy Piper and… Tiny Lister, not a lot of guys have successfully shifted between professional wrestling “sports entertainment” and feature films. Yet another actor-athlete bounding from the homoerotic faux-violence of the ring into the… Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 4.20.06

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… Continue reading

ED HARRIS IS GONE, BABY

UPDATE: We originally reported this way back on 3/26/06, and it's now officially hitting Variety. See, we do get some valid scoops every now and then! Ben Affleck is getting ready to make his directing debut with an adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel Gone… Continue reading