Archive · 2007
316 posts
Fresh off a couple years of doing not very much at all*, Jada Pinkett Smith is about to beef up a couple of the less obvious columns in her IMDB profile. One is ‘writer’, as JPS penned a script called The Human Contract; the second column will be ‘director’,… Continue reading
Edgar William Jacobi, also known as Edgar William Vaughn, also known as William Edgar Bright, also known as Moloch the Mystic will be played by Max Headroom, also known as Matt Frewer (also known as Gene Kranz!). Okay, so it's not a terribly pivotal role in… Continue reading
Oliver Stone's My Lai Massacre film, Pinkville, has run the casting gamut from perfect (Bruce Willis as General William Peers) to intriguing (Channing Tatum as a helicopter pilot who tries to stop the killing) to "we'll see" (Xzibit as a soldier who feels… Continue reading
Things have been crazy this last week, so I will just list the DVDs and what is on them. As a note, the Princess Bride DVD has new, never seen features but is weak compared to last year’s special release of the movie. Close Encounters of the Third Kind has… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: ShochikuMSRP: $21.99RATED: UnratedRUNNING TIME: 119 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: Making of Ashura Video Effects of Ashura Interactive Program Notes Original Theatrical Trailers The PitchBlade meets My Demon Lover meets… Continue reading
You know that Prince of Persia movie that's been simmering at Disney for month after month? Well, Disney's Oren Aviv and Jerry Bruckheimer have offered the directing gig to Mike Newell, the man who is currently awating critical savagery for his Love In The… Continue reading
I always liked the aspect in The Big Lebowski that the story of the Dude was a modern legend, that it somehow came upon a mysterious stranger to tell us the story. Myth is important, it keeps things interesting, and that's why so many legends endure the ages.… Continue reading
Bond Girls are a phenomenon of their own devising. They come with enormous hype at casting time, but when it's all said and done, their roles never seem to leave a mark beyond the film's expiration date and the Bond-verse they inhabit. As such, their casting… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Home VideoMSRP: $65.98RATED: Not RatedRUNNING TIME: 417 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Audio Commentaries• Documentaries• Featurette• Music Only Track• Music and Effects Only Track• Private Snafu shorts• Mr. Hook shorts•… Continue reading
This is Spinal Tap completely ruined the mystery of Stonehenge for me, but I'll give the elaborately stacked group of rocks another shot if Ridley Scott's interested in divining their purpose. The big question here is "if", since Scott has a tendency to… Continue reading
There's a lot of buzz around a young woman named Diablo Cody, and for good reason: her screenwriting debut, Juno, is completely fucking terrific. Cody manages to walk the line of being indie and precious and giving her characters quirky, perhaps overstylized… Continue reading
Frankenstein's Monster. Dracula. Freddy Krueger. Leatherface. Godzilla. Henry Kissinger. These are some of the monsters whose names get evoked every year at Halloween, the monsters with the highest Q ratings and maybe their own personal publicists. But there… Continue reading
