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The best thing about Monday morning is the flood of Oh Don Piano! news coming out of the weekend junkets. And though this might look like an attention-getting Monday morning fake, it's probably going to happen. IESB is reporting that at the junket for… Continue reading
The original: Scanners.The remake director: Darren Lynn Bousman.The remake writer: David Goyer.The exploding head: mine. I should just leave it at that. What else is there to say when Dimension hires the Saw III and IV director to helm another movie,… Continue reading
Danny Boyle has always needed to make a sci-fi picture, if only because he uses Brian Eno's sountrack to For All Mankind more thoughoughly than even that film's director did. Watching the latest clip and trailer for Sunshine, Boyle's apparently massive… Continue reading
Doug Jones is a guy you should know by name, if not by voice. After appearing in Blade 2, Guillermo del Toro tapped him to play Abe Sapien in Hellboy. More recently Jones brought to life both Pan and the Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth. He's pretty much wrapped… Continue reading
If you've been reading our Chud Essentials list over the past week, the film Q The Winged Serpent should be fresh in mind. I'm just saying that because in mere moments I'm going to write about the upcoming flick Winged Creatures, and I feel it's really… Continue reading
The Polish Brothers seem like they work slowly – it’s been eight years since Twin Falls Idaho, with The Astronaut Farmer only the third feature to follow their debut. But with acting and writing gigs for other filmmakers, plus their own research, their output… Continue reading
Billy Bob Thornton has played a lot of down home characters, but none so approachable and determined as Charles Farmer, who bucks NASA and the FAA to build his own rocket and explore space in his own way, on his own time. You're old enough to remember the… Continue reading
Due to a technical issue, this roundtable with Virginia Madsen isn't as long as it could have been. But most of the second half of the interview dealt with spoilers about The Astronaut Farmer or general discussion about The Number 23, which needs no more… Continue reading
It's looking like a good year to be Boston in the movies. With The Departed‘s Oscar buzz sweeping up into registers that only dogs can hear and a directorial debut from Affleck that had promising reports from set, other production companies are eyeing… Continue reading
Two things that never need appear again in a film not oriented towards the chronic masturbator crowd: pool boys and pimps. And yet American Summer will soon begin shooting in New Orleans, hiding both those archetypes not only under one blasé title, but in a… Continue reading
The distressingly large game geek contingent that continually argues the Metal Gear series as an example of masterful storytelling is about to get an extra shot of legitimacy. Series creator Hideo Kojima has been talking up movie possibilities for a while… Continue reading
The original title for this article was ‘Biel beats off Lohan'. Then I realized that (a) it wasn't quite right and (b) we don't have the bandwidth to support the number of hits we'd get from Dave Davis alone. Not that it matters anyway, since this is… Continue reading
