Archive · 2006

June 2006

209 posts

INTERVIEW: MATT FRACTION

Matt Fraction writes comic books they way comic books should be written – without restraint. He thinks big. He doesn’t reign in his imagination. And, most importantly, he has fun with the medium. In this interview Matt and I talk about all things Fraction and… Continue reading →

REVIEW: HIDDEN BLADE, THE

Maybe it’s because I’ve been waist deep in Warner Bros’ John Wayne/John Ford box set the last two weeks, but The Hidden Blade, the new film from Twilight Samurai director Yoji Yamada, really reminded me of one of Ford’s more elegiac Westerns. Hidden Blade is… Continue reading →

DVD REVIEW: PLAN B

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: WarnerMSRP: $19.98RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 100 min.SPECIAL FEATURES:• Director’s Commentary• Additional Scenes• Screen Tests The Pitch “It’s Married to the Mob meets Sanjuro. Pity about the language barrier.” The Humans Diane… Continue reading →

DAILY GRABOID 6.22.06

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 →

GOOD KIRK HUNTING?

It could be a wacky rumor or it could be the casting stroke of genius we’ve been waiting for – The Insider says that JJ Abrams wants Matt Damon to play Captain Kirk in his new, rebooted Star Trek. And by The Insider I mean the glossy celeb TV show, not fat… Continue reading →

CONTEST: THE ORE DVD

Here's something nifty, particularly for readers of my sporadic Underground column: an independent sci-fi short film with some rather snazzy looking homebrewed special effects and obvious talent on display. It's called The Ore, and is made by a guy who not… Continue reading →

DAVE'S UNDERGROUND

Give me 500cc of independent movies, stat! Ah. Okay, I feel a little better now. I know in the last edition of this column back in, um… April, I said I was going to be a little more regular with the Underground, but best intentions and all that. I do still… Continue reading →