Archive · 2006
168 posts
A lot of you aren’t going to like hearing this, but getting excited about a Fraggle Rock movie will make you exceptionally suspect. If you have kids at least you can pretend that you’re excited that your kids will have a chance to get into something you liked… Continue reading
Sanity reared its head in Hollywood today as Fox and Universal pulled out of the Xbox video game movie Halo after its budget rocketed to a rumored 200 million dollars. A representative for executive producer Peter Jackson made a carefully worded denial of… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: LionsGateMSRP: $26.98RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 92 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: • None The Pitch “It’s like As I Lay Dying meets Pulp Fiction, with ghosts!” The Humans Takako Fuji, Ryoto Koyama, Yuuko Daike The Nutshell There is a… Continue reading
I'm not going to waste much time here other than to tell you that these amazing pictures are available in much bigger form if you click on them. Some of these will make incredible wallpapers. Continue reading
Running With Scissors reminded me a lot of Terry Gilliam’s Tideland in that it’s about a group of mostly repulsive characters and how they collectively abuse a child, and how it’s supposed to be funny and/or uplifting and meaningful. I blame The Simpsons –… Continue reading
The Coppola clan is well represented in Marie Antoinette: director Sofia hired her brother Roman to shoot second unit, and she brought in her cousin Jason Schwartzman, son of Francis Ford Coppola’s sister Talia Shire, to play Louis XVI, doomed King of France.… Continue reading
I figured out the ending of The Prestige about halfway through the movie. I don’t tend to be the brightest guy when it comes to solving cinematic puzzles like this, so this probably means that either the film is incredibly obvious or that it just plays… Continue reading
Frank Darabont, you sneaky man. A few months ago I asked the man point blank about his long-awaited adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist and he indicated that it was sort of in limbo. It's been one of those things I think we've been discussing since this… Continue reading
Things are getting serious with North Korea. They detonated a nuclear device last week and are threatening to detonate another one. Kim Jong Il believes the world has declared war on his country. Condi Rice has flown to Seoul in a last-ditch attempt to broker… Continue reading
When Christopher Nolan said that he wanted to base The Dark Knight’s Joker more on the villain’s early appearances, he wasn’t kidding. It turns out the guy who co-created the Joker may be working on the movie. Daniel Robert Epstein was taking the rings off… Continue reading
In a lot of ways Steven Soderbergh’s new WWII movie The Good German is the quantum mystery in this Oscar season – no one has seen it yet, and so, like Schrodinger’s cat, it remains a contender and not at the same time. Now the box is beginning to really open;… Continue reading
Sadly, I did not get to see Guillermo del Toro while he was in town for the New York Film Festival, which featured Pan’s Labyrinth as the closing night film. He was just too busy, and by the time he got to the party for his movie on Sunday night he was… Continue reading
