Archive · 2007
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Stop slobbering over the iPhone for a minute and get riled up with righteous anger. The Director’s Guild of America (DGA) has announced their five Best Director nominees, and the list is, frankly, pathetic. Here are the noms: Bill Condon (Dreamgirls)Jonathan… Continue reading
There are sequels no one is asking for (Barbershop 2, XXX 2, etc.) and then there’s sequels no one asks for because everyone who first saw the movie is dead. Take It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, for example. 44 years after the film debuted, it’s getting… Continue reading
If I had already seen Black Snake Moan, the new Craig Brewer film starring Samuel L Jackson and Christina Ricci, I would tell you that it was extraordinarily unique, uneven and fascinating. If I had already seen the movie I might say that while it doesn’t… Continue reading
I can’t say I’ve been into collecting toys since I hit about 14 years old. However, one of the nice things about keeping track of the movie-related toy market is that it often gives sneak peaks of characters studios haven’t fully divulged yet. Like… Continue reading
While I was in Los Angeles this weekend I hoped to meet up with Leo Grillo, star and producer of the most talked about movie of 2007, Zyzzyx Road, which stars Katherine Heigl and Tom Sizemore and made 30 dollars at the box office. But did it really make… Continue reading
Tonight, He Comes is one of the most unfortunately titled screenplays in a long time, and it’s been hanging around for years. Now it’s finally getting made, with Will Smith playing a middle-aged superhero who lives hard and has some PR problems. Peter Berg is… Continue reading
A first behind the scenes clip from The Boogeyman 2 has popped up on the Ghost House Pictures website, but it doesn’t answer the question of why the hell they are making a sequel to the shitty 2005 Boogeyman, which starred Emily Deschanel before she was… Continue reading
I don’t want to be needlessly cruel to Neil LaBute, a favorite filmmaker of mine, but a recently discovered YouTube video of only the best parts of his 2006 remake of The Wicker Man is the kind of thing that will have tears streaming down your face. Click… Continue reading
The Consumer Electronics Show is happening right now, and IGN Staff (his mother had real foresight to name him that) is on the scene. He visited the Sony booth, and came back with a description of a big Spider-Man 3 fight scene that is playing there. Here’s a… Continue reading
We’ve learned to live with films with similar concepts coming out at the same time – giant asteroid movies, volcano movies, homosexual writers visiting killers in jail movies. Now we may have to start learning to live with movies with similar names coming out… Continue reading
– Alan Rickman, he of the British character actors I’d like to shake hands with and say,“Well done. Thank you”, has jumped on board Tim Burton’s murderous barber flick, Sweeney Todd. If you hadn’t read the news elsewhere, you could simply see "Tim Burton" and… Continue reading
John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus, the sexually explicit follow-up to his awesome rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, was one of my Top Fifteen films of 2006. Mitchell and his cast took some real risks, including engaging in actual sex on screen, but never… Continue reading
