March 30, 2008 - April 5, 2008 Archives
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USA Today has some new photos of Bond, his villain, and his disposable woman to accompany their lengthy article on the upcoming Quantum of Solace. And with them comes good news for those who have let the thought of Bondian sloppy seconds detract from their enjoyment of the ladi... / Continue →
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Do you ever see a movie, then years later see it again and you realize a lot of your memory of it was wrong? I ask not because a reassessment of Short Circuit revealing that a remake isn't really that tragic, but because that's how it just was for me, watching this trailer to W... / Continue →
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Sure, the dismal events of 28 Days Later painted a grim vision of a future overrun by a spreading zombie plague, but man, wouldn't it also suck to be blind? Fernando Meirelles offers just such an experience, placing Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo in a world where a sudden blin... / Continue →
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IMAGE REMOVED AT REQUEST OF Twentieth Century Fox Have I gotten greedy thinking a big-budget feature film should look moderately better than some cosplayers making a fan film, or are these blurry on-set shots from Dragonball really as insanely terrible as I think they are. In fa... / Continue →
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Lindsay Lohan has a new strategy for jump-starting her ailing career: desperate nudity! Less than two months after her sad, trashier recreations of Marilyn Monroe's famous nude pictorial, it's been reported that Lohan will again drop trou for a stripping scene in Florence, in w... / Continue →
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Clearly excited that all the Wall-E promos have elicited comparisons to Short Circuit, Dimension Films has scooped up the remake rights to the 1986 film about an obnoxious, peace-loving war-bot. Plans are to create a new, technologically-updated Johnny 5, but keep the same "pea... / Continue →
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IMAGE REMOVED AT REQUEST OF LIONSGATE. Finally someone is dropping all the exaggerated action of comic book movies and giving us what we really want: lonely domesticity! Update: Sorry, had to take it down. Just imagine a shirtless man in a mask feeding some cats from a comicall... / Continue →
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I don't know how much I've mentioned it here, but like Karl Pilkington and Larry David, I'm an unabashed lover of freaks. Horrible deformities, disgusting aliens, general mutations, whatever--so long as it's non-normal to the degree of slight repulsion, I want to see it. But, m... / Continue →
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What is this distinctive red slash across a dark sea of black, proclaiming the wails of a personified metropolis? Why, it's part one of a new, three-part outdoor ad campaign for Frank Miller's take on Will Eisner's The Spirit, and a definitive answer to questions like "Is the (... / Continue →
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Just as there is absolutely no question that the world desperately needs a Michael Bay-produced remake of Friday the 13th, it is also a certainty that such a production requires a key hot girl to run, probably wet and jiggling, from the killer. Otherwise, why do I care? To fill... / Continue →
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Variety reports that Almost Famous and Watchmen's Billy Crudup has joined the cast of Michael Mann's Public Enemies in the role of the infamous cross-dressing FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Hmm, looking at a side-by-side comparison of the two, something seems off somehow. I can'... / Continue →
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Who does Matthew McConaughey think he is? The question has plagued me for some time as I watched the mop-haired bongo player gallivanting around various beach locals, always shirtless, always care-free, seemingly unaware that he is nearly the last of the dying breed of "The Hun... / Continue →
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In anticipation of the new(!) trailer tomorrow, here are a slew of new shots from Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Selma Blair looking hot despite wearing the scalp of Rosie O'Donnell? Hellboy fighting Edgar Winter? A leaner version of that rock guy from Neverending Story? Possibly... / Continue →
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If you're familiar with the so-called "blood and ice-cream trilogy"--Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's series of comedy-action-spoofs that began with Shaun of the Dead and continued with Hot Fuzz--or even if you're just familiar with trilogies as a concept, you'll know there should... / Continue →
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How many ways can the Pineapple Express poster find to work in not-so-subtle references to marijuana? I count five. 1. The title, which the trailer explains is a type of the marijuana drug. 2. The "Put this in your pipe and smoke it" tagline. Because the marijuana drug is smo... / Continue →
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Though it's easy to forget--or, more likely, to ask how--oddball-genius director David Lynch has a daughter. And as is the tendency of director offspring, she too fancies herself a filmmaker. Now, after a long absence since her 1993 sadistic-amputation-but-it's-all-a-dream! sto... / Continue →
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IMAGES REMOVED AT REQUEST OF WARNER BROS. The folks over at Cinematical have posted (and quickly retracted) some previously unseen, probably leaked shots from The Dark Knight. Thankfully, being a prompt and thorough content thief, I quickly grabbed them all before they were pu... / Continue →
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Now that Meet the Spartans writers Seltzer and Friedberg have spoofed nearly every possible movie and pop culture reference of the last five years--with whatever crumbs they dropped swept tidily into the comic dustpan that was Superhero Movie--what's a modern-day reference-writ... / Continue →
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This is the poster to... a. The new season of Criss Angel's Mindfreak. b. An angsty teenage girl's collage scrapbook. c. Your friend's proof that he's awesome at Photoshop, and should be designing your band's new album cover. d. A matador's psychotic nightmare. e. Whatever... / Continue →
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Though it hasn't been heavily publicized, most of Iron Man is composed of scenes from The Princess Bride, recreated in metal suits. Above: Iron Westley slowly strangles Iron the Giant. More new, small, heavily-watermarked shots here.... / Continue →
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Comics are so totally hot right now. Thusly, Ben Stiller has announced plans to produce and possibly star in The Return of King Doug, an adaptation of Greg Erb and Jason Oremland's upcoming graphic novel. Hollywood Reporter says the story "centers on a man who must return to th... / Continue →
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Nicolas Cage: acting's equivalent to being deaf and dumb. Or so it would seem from the trailer to Bangkok Dangeros. The Pangs have recreated their 2000 Thai deaf/mute hitman redemption story for American audiences, only all the deaf/mute part has been exchanged for the intense,... / Continue →
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Still haven't participated in the leave-the-house-and-get-some-trinkets Dark Knight campaign? Jealous that I got a t-shirt, and this guy got a cake and a temporarily-functional phone? You're in luck! Dutiful fanboys, you've been given a new task: go to bowling alleys and pick u... / Continue →
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Cinematical just got their hands on the final poster for Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me follow-up Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden, and they're claiming it has "a Lawrence of Arabia vibe to it." I would have said it's like someone took Joe Camel and somehow broke him down... / Continue →
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Somehow, despite his turns at romancing Murphy Brown, piloting a starship, and inhabiting the bodies of strangers to right their past mistakes, Scott Bakula's star has never really risen above his hirsute brow. Maybe that will finally change with news the actor has been cast as... / Continue →
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Jules Dassin, the 96-year-old director of the award-winning Never on Sunday and the classic heist flick Rififi, died Monday following a short illness. As a memorial, I suggest watching Night and the City, starring the also-recently-deceased Richard Widmark. It will really make ... / Continue →
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Animal Planet, the network that now appears to have a backwards sigma in its logo, has a new reality show coming out in a couple weeks that may just cross the line from incredibly, disgustingly stupid to so stupid it must be watched. It's got a punny title (Groomer Has It!), a ... / Continue →
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1. 21 - $24.1 million, at least $240 of which came from repeat viewings by one former MIT nerd trying to come to terms with his being portrayed by Kate Bosworth. 2. Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! - A $17.7 million weekend wasn't enough to beat 21, but at least its toys are sti... / Continue →
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Empire Magazine has some exclusive new shots from Valkyrie, Bryan Singer's mostly-true story of an assassination attempt against Hitler. In this shot, Tom Cruise (playing the depth-perceptionless Claus Von Stauffenberg) gets romantic with a certain criminal globetrotter (and oc... / Continue →
