Russ Fischer

1,523 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 →

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 →

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 →

I AM A TRAILER

I'm one of the few people, I think, that genuinely likes The Last Man On Earth, the 1964 film version of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend shot in Italy and starring Vincent Price. Sure, The Omega Man is fun to watch with a group, but the first act of Last Man… Continue reading →

THE GHOST COULD RIDE AGAIN

There's no place to be a journalist, especially a freelance one, like New York City. The sheer number of ‘press events' held to promote everything from movies to DVDs to flat screen TVs, phones and video games is staggering. And they've all got free… Continue reading →

KEVIN SMITH LOVES PORNO

Kevin Smith has finished the script for his next next film (remmber, he’s doing the low-budget flick Red State before anything else) and now we know the title: Zack And Miri Make A Porno. Never one for subtlety or misdirection, the script is about exactly… Continue reading →

GILLIAM + WAITS = OMG!

I can't make any bones about my feelings for Tideland, and I don't think anyone would argue with me that The Brothers Grimm is barely watchable, much less Terry Gilliam himself. But those two projects don't change the fact that Gilliam is among the most… Continue reading →

HARVEY'S LAST CHANCE

Sometimes you'll look back at a movie that's a few years old and have a real head-thumping moment of realization. Like, in 2001 I saw Jump, Tomorrow which at the time was a well-written, slightly too self-aware indie in the same mold as so many other… Continue reading →