Archive · 2007
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November '06 was a pretty big month for video games, primarily thanks to the drooling/panting anticipation of the XBOX 360 exclusive Gears of War. The merits of the game can be debated all day long by brand loyalty soldiers and the people who love to incite… Continue reading
After a good bit of time idling and doing practice laps, Speed Racer appears to be picking up a decent bit of momentum as it prepares to head into a major box office battle where it’ll take endless left turns with the likes of Iron Man and the next Narnia… Continue reading
The rights to The Green Hornet, a character best known today for his 1960s TV that introduced America to Bruce Lee in the racially insensitive role of Kato, have been bouncing around Hollywood for years now. Universal had him, but they decided that a comic… Continue reading
Tom Cruise’s United Artists is looking more like a way to get the publicity-challenged actor work more than anything else*. The newly revived UA made Lions for Lambs, a Robert Redford drama about the military, its first production, and Cruise got a job in… Continue reading
Cineastes the world over have been rejoicing at the news that Francis Ford Coppola is back making movies – and back making personal movies – with Youth Without Youth, based on a novel by Mircea Eliade. Expectations have been tempered, though, as Coppola has… Continue reading
Who would win in a fight between a swarm of locusts and Hilary Swank? That's a rough one, 'cause Hilary lookin' DUFF! The Reaping is the Oscar winner's horror flick, finally being released after a bit of a date change two-step, the tale of a woman who has… Continue reading
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was one of the biggest film surprises I got last year. Based loosely on writer/director Dito Montiel’s own experiences growing up in ethnically mixed Astoria, Queens in the 1980s, the movie is a perfectly evocative glimpse… Continue reading
UPDATED AT THE BOTTOM! When his son Goro was named director of the upcoming Ghibli Studios adaptation of Ursula K Le Guin's Tales From Earthsea, fears about Hayao Miyazaki's retirement grew. Would the most celebrated living animator give up active creative… Continue reading
One of my favorite bits in Hot Fuzz involves Adam Buxton playing a small town journalist. I wasn't very familiar with the guy before the film, but have developed a keen interest in him since. That interest has turned to complete and total fandom with this… Continue reading
The legend of blues guitarist Robert Johnson is a neat enough one from far enough away. You have a young, ambitious kid who sells his soul to the Devil for limitless talent at playing Delta blues. He gets his wish, but dies after doing just 41 recordings, an… Continue reading
Tonight is the series premiere of the new sketch comedy show, The Whitest Kids U Know. The show, which is produced by Jim Biederman, aka one of the guys behind The Kids in the Hall, is pretty goddamn hilarious. I’ve had a chance to see the first episode,… Continue reading
If you grew up in England during the '80s, Margaret Thatcher might be at least one of those things in your mind. Since I grew up in the States, I know her more from the parodies and commentaries in comics by Berkely Breathed and Dave Sim. Granted, Sim's take… Continue reading
