Archive · 2007
405 posts
We're doing something a little different with the Upfront this month, highlighting the recent discs from Anchor Bay. For this first week of May, we'd like particularly to draw your attention to the approaching release of Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron.I… Continue reading
Perhaps you're acquainted with Nick Frost's one-man war against hotel plumbing. If not, acquaint yourself before taking in the final installment of a trilogy that does for dessert what 976-EVIL did for Stephen Geoffreys acting career. To see more from these… Continue reading
Earl Dittman wins. He gets his name (even in small print) associated with a massive marketing push and we just get another lousy blockbuster. I'll spend the next few hundred words explaining eactly why, but for the people who just read the first paragraph and… Continue reading
Maybe I'm not the right guy to be bring this segment to you, so apologies in advance.See, while I was charmed by Isla Fisher and her bubbly/psychotic/endearing bit in Wedding Crashers, I can't say that she's on my short list of actresses whose films I'd… Continue reading
Warning: Rambling to follow. Insane amounts of rambling.Part One: VT You guys may have heard that there was a school shooting at Virgina Tech. It was in all the papers. In fact, there were a few intelligently written articles on this very site about the event… Continue reading
Doing this the right way, counting back as it was back in the day. One a day. Discuss it right here. Previous deaths: 100, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 91, 90, 89, 88, 87. Enjoy!* # 86 – The Fellowship of the Ring "…and THIS is for saying that Kid… Continue reading
Yesterday I had to spend some time in the Brooklyn Supreme Court building. I won’t tell you why I was there, because making up reasons will be more fun for you, but it wasn’t a great visit. After being there for about an hour I began walking home – it was a… Continue reading
If you've been reading Jeremy's fantastic Crop Report feature, you'd know that Burn Before Reading, the Coen Brothers' follow-up to the already completed No Country For Old Men, sounds like a pitch-perfect return to form. That's on the page, anyway, and since… Continue reading
We've got a barrage of quick, life-affirming stories for you today; nothing earth-shattering, but consider it a general list of Things you should Know.First, we have Chewer confirmation that the Halo 2 map pack which was released-ish recently is finally… Continue reading
I wish I had been in the meeting when the guy in Warner Bros’ art department was told he had to enhance the bust of a 16 year old girl for the poster for the IMAX version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Perhaps he was excited, realizing that… Continue reading
IESB has scored some video taken surreptitiously on the set of Iron Man, and the footage shows a few precious seconds of the Iron Man suit in motion – nothing too spectacular, but you can see that this costume is well made and mobile. Of course these few… Continue reading
My apologies to Tony Carey… So three more young, work-hungry actors have been scooped up for the Dreamworks/Spyglass/Red Hour production of The Ruins, based on Scott Smith's big beach read of summer 2006. They are Jena Malone, Shawn "Bobby Drake"… Continue reading
