Last weekend I intended to get a hold of Jersey Girl and figure out just what the heck happened to Kevin Smith. I didn't get a chance, but I still want to work on this dilemma – I mean, this guy was one of the faces of indie filmmaking, he was one of the… Continue reading →
Now that he’s already twice ridden with his modern-day outlaws in the Ocean’s gang, Brad Pitt will change it up when he straps on the spurs and sixguns to tell the umpteenth story of notorious desperado Jesse James. Pitt, who’s surprisingly never appeared in… Continue reading →
While the X-Files TV series lives on only in syndication and DVD, only the occasional mutterings of another movie give fans hope for another serving of their favorite basement-dwelling oddity-hunting FBI agents. While presenting at the Critics’ Choice Awards… Continue reading →
Filmmaker/beardfan Steven Spielberg has long been planning a story of United States 16th president (#1 in tallness) Abraham Lincoln, but is apparently now getting serious about putting the lanky emancipator’s story on film. Who does he like for the part?… Continue reading →
This is really something more appropriate for my Underground column, but considering the frequency of those and the paltry trickle of news this week, I figured I’d toss it up before it slipped my mind in the span until the next edition of my column is vomited… Continue reading →
I’m predicting that Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is going to be the movie that surprises the hell out of everyone this summer. Or praying, really. At the very least, it’ll be neat to see how Douglas Adams’ classic sci-fi comedy book is realized with more… Continue reading →
Dodgeball was an enjoyable film. It was funny enough, and actually had a couple of really great jokes – I'm partial to ESPN 8 – The Ocho. But does it need a sequel? Fox thinks so. At least that's the word from a scooper to Coming Soon!, a guy who goes by the… Continue reading →
I have to admit, outside of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (and the Deathstalker movies, naturally), I’m not really much of a swords-and-sorcery guy. Which means that not only do the endless invitations to join the local NERO chapter fall on deaf ears, but the… Continue reading →
I know a lot of movie and comic fans aren’t particularly sold on the live-action adaptation of Frank Miller’s Sin City from filmmaker Robert Rodriguez. Whether they’re just not moist about the notion of a panel-by-panel reconstruction of Miller’s graphic… Continue reading →
When not spending time making unnecessary cameos (see: Ocean’s 12) or sequels to crap comedies (don't see: The Whole Ten Yards), megastar Bruce Willis does still occasionally dabble in the hard-nosed cop action that made him a marquee name in the first place.… Continue reading →
The teaser poster for Batman Begins premiered online late last week, depicting an iconic image of a hunched Dark Knight sort of hovering before a fiery stormfront (see it HERE). Now the international poster has popped up, and instead of a shadowy snapshot of… Continue reading →
Here's my thesis: J Michael Straczynski has the power of hypnosis. I can't imagine how else people think he's such hot shit, frankly. The guy's not awful, but he's not great. I mean, his Amazing Spider-Man comics are being treated like they came down from the… Continue reading →