Archive · 2007

June 2007

345 posts

THOU SHALT WATCH THIS TRAILER

I've been curious to see The Ten for a while – it's Wet Hot American Summer / The State‘s David Wain basically giving the finger to Kieslowski for nintety minutes by making loosely connected comedy sketches based (sorta) on the Ten Commandments. Even if… Continue reading →

THE INVASION HAS BEGUN

At this point I think I’m more interested in a movie about the behind the scenes dealings on The Invasion, Warner Bros’ updating of Invasion of the Body Snatchers than the actual film being released; original director Oliver Hirschbiegel didn’t make the… Continue reading →

TEA TO GHOST TOWN

Any Tea Leoni fans in the house? News for you: the steady drip that's been Leoni's output since '91 will remain remarkably consistent. The wife of Mulder has been cast with Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear in prolific writer and Spielberg go-to-guy David… Continue reading →

300 DAYS OF NIGHT?

Every time I look at the teaser poster for 30 Days of Night, I see 300. It's the red, and the splatters, and the font. Oh, and the pose. The ‘based on the graphic novel' tag has nothing to do with it, though. 30 Days of Night is indeed based on the… Continue reading →

ZACK SNYDER TAKES THE FIFTH

MTV News asked Zack Snyder about the Watchmen casting rumors that recently popped up on Aint It Cool News: will Patrick Wilson play Nite Owl, Keanu Reeves play Dr. Manhattan and Jude Law play Ozymandias? Snyder’s cagey. "Um — you know what? I would say… Continue reading →

PREACHING TO PAY TELEVISION

Last night I snarked a little bit about Scott Collura's encounter with Mark Steven Johnson published in IGN, which ended with a tease about forthcoming Preacher news. Scott took it well, and has already emailed with a link to the Preacher article. (Which had… Continue reading →

CONTEST: LOVECRAFT AND MORE!

More contests! Just you try and escape our generosity. A little while ago, I got the chance to review this great disc from Lurker Films' HP Lovecraft collection. The company's doing such a great job of promoting films from weird masters; we just had to get in… Continue reading →