It's been said that James Mangold's 3:10 To Yuma remake is as much of a straight-up, no frills, no bullshit action western as we're going to see any time soon. And I'm perfectly OK with that. So why is the poster so packed with frills and bullshit? Did an… Continue reading →
My familiarity with the Jonah Hex character is mostly limited to the episode of Batman: The Animated Series that focused exclusively on Hex squaring off with Ra’s al Ghul in the Old West over a crazy domination scheme involving fancy dirigible technology. But… Continue reading →
Although there’s been a good bit of anticipation for it, substantial looks at Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited has been hard to come by. We’ve gotten a photo here and a poster there, but even the plot details aren’t fully illuminated at this point… Continue reading →
Among the many comic book adaptations gestating in Hollywood right now, Y: The Last Man has collected a bit more dust than most. Based on the Brian K. Vaughn comic, the story of a young man who manages to survive a virus that wipes out everything else on the… 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, 86, 85, 84, 83, 82, 81, 80, 79, 78, 77. Enjoy!* # 76 – Deep Rising Once again… Continue reading →
It's been four years since Carl Franklin directed his last feature, the above-average thriller Out of Time (worth watching for its crackerjack second act alone). Though toplined by Denzel Washington, the film limped to a $40 million domestic gross, i.e. $10… Continue reading →
"I had to stand up for myself alone. And you know what they did to me. Until all men stand up for what they believe in, the same damn thing can happen to any one of you!"– B. Pusser The in-depth speculation which has fast-tracked this four-part series to… Continue reading →
Warning: the following story may be 100% fake. Over on the ARG message board at unfiction.com, there's a poster who claims to have seen…a poster. But no mere one-sheet, this. The image in question, hung for sale between Transformers and 30 Days of Night… Continue reading →
Well, after a few weeks of total crap for releases, we are coming to the end of July and this week we are getting hit hard with quality releases. Hope you saved all that DVD money, because your gonna need it this week with Zodiac, The Host and Perfume – The… Continue reading →
This review has spoilers. Don't read it if you have not read the book. Obviously this makes it useless as a review, but this is the seventh book in a massively popular series, and if you don't know if you're going to want to read it already, no review will… Continue reading →
A year after hosting the panel of the 2006 San Diego Comic Con (and two months after launching the biggest film to date of 2007), you'd expect Sony to cut back on their Spider-Man plans for this year's big geek festivities (btw, Saturday is completely sold… Continue reading →