Archive · 2007
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In true rock ‘n roll fashion, the breakup of Guitar Hero developer Red Octane with their franchise and publisher Activision is creating some fallout. Three former Red Octane employees, who have gone on to found their own development house, are being… Continue reading
The distressingly large game geek contingent that continually argues the Metal Gear series as an example of masterful storytelling is about to get an extra shot of legitimacy. Series creator Hideo Kojima has been talking up movie possibilities for a while… Continue reading
JoBlo is running some images from this summer’s Marvel Comics movies. There are two pictures from Spider-Man 3, but they have been online in the past – they’re from a Spider-Man image book that should hit with the film (probably a Visual Guide type book.… Continue reading
Give me a Douglas Coupland book over a novel about a hardbitten PI or a chosen one questing to save the kingdom any day of the week. It’s exciting that Coupland has made the jump into screenwriting, as so many of his peers have lately, and it’s even more… Continue reading
Empire Online has just premiered what I would have to term a fucking incredible Internet-only trailer for Hot Fuzz, the new film from the team behind Shaun of the Dead. Click here to see this monumental ode to the action movie teaser – my personal favorite… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Lion's GateMSRP: $19.99RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 90 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: director's commentary stills gallery trailers The Pitch The Amityville Horror meets The Lady In White. The Humans Alexandra Holden, Sid Haig, Bill… Continue reading
Shattered Glass was one of the strongest directorial debuts in memory. Not only did writer/director Billy Ray craft a suspenseful and intriguing story about a guy basically plagiarizing and bullshitting, he managed to get the only good performance out of… Continue reading
Spies Like Us, John Landis' 80's cold war comedy starring Dan Akroyd, Chevy Chase and Donna Dixon's bouncing mammaries, is getting a shot at becoming relevant in the 2000s.Warner Brothers and Imagine will be distributing/producing a remake and has tapped… Continue reading
The original title for this article was ‘Biel beats off Lohan'. Then I realized that (a) it wasn't quite right and (b) we don't have the bandwidth to support the number of hits we'd get from Dave Davis alone. Not that it matters anyway, since this is… Continue reading
You expect the director of Germany’s submission for the Best Foreign Film Oscar to have a German accent. Not this time. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, the director of The Lives of Others, was born and is from Germany, but he spent some very formative years… Continue reading
Sean Penn has officially joined the cast of What Just Happened?, the adaptation of Art Linson’s insider look at making movies in Hollywood, mostly focusing on putting together and shooting The Edge. Which was a good movie but would have been better had it… Continue reading
When I was a kid and still read Stephen King* his story The Mist was one that really seemed perfect for cinema. It's the essential horror setup: a bunch of people, some sane, some not, are trapped inside a supermarket while their town is enveloped in an… Continue reading
