Archive · 2006
209 posts
I’ve been a fan of Danny Leiner’s for some time now – I think his broad comedies Dude, Where’s My Car and especially Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle have some brilliance in them, and I suspected that there was more to Leiner than these two films let on.… Continue reading
The Set Up…It's been over a half of a year since one of these ugly dogs graced this here site. I kept writing and rewriting a farewell letter that never came. Part of it was because I felt there was a conflict of interest aspect I had to tiptoe around… Continue reading
Finally. Richard Linklater’s anticipated Philip K. Dick adaptation A Scanner Darkly (Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson) is finally coming to theaters in all its Rotoscoped glory. I hated the piss out of Waking Life’s coffeehouse… Continue reading
The internet is hungry for news, and websites will jump on any little thing that sounds like it can be spun out into a story. If Johnny Depp says he would be happy to do three more Pirates films, suddenly there’s a second trilogy. If Jude Law says he would… Continue reading
Summers are now incomplete without at least one superhero movie, and Marvel is hoping Shell-head is as popular as Web-head. They’ve already slotted their upcoming Iron Man movie into the May 2nd weekend in 2008, the exact same spot Spider-Man 3 will swinging… Continue reading
Vin Diesel has crippled the film Black Water Transit by suddenly pulling out only weeks before shooting starts. Diesel was set to head to Chicago to shoot the $30 million cop action film, but has instead opted to not head to Chicago to shoot the $30 million… Continue reading
After four years of development, Sony has put James Mangold’s remake of 3:10 to Yuma in turnaround, just months before he was to start filming. There’s no word on why Sony is dropping the picture – it stars Russell Crowe and is being directed by the guy… Continue reading
There’s officially a new chapter in the seemingly endless saga of the making of the Watchmen movie – as has been rumored for some time now, Zack Snyder, director of the Dawn of the Dead remake and the upcoming nudity epic 300, has signed on to direct the… Continue reading
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
Possibly the only thing more amazing than Michael Winterbottom’s prolific filmmaking is how good these films often are; he’s not turning out random pieces of crap, and even when the films don’t work, they’re usually worth seeing (except for 9 Songs. God was… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Dark Sky FilmsMSRP: $19.98RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 89 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Commentary by the director and cameraman• Retrospective featurette• Still gallery• Theatrical trailers The Pitch Four startling tales of terror… Continue reading
I was so excited to write my review of Wassup Rockers because I was going to be the guy who went on and on about how similar this movie is to The Warriors, which seems to be a film that haunts me in an almost Freudian way. Imagine my disappointment when I… Continue reading
