Joe Hill, the horror writing son of Stephen King, is getting his second novel, the unreleased “Horns”, optioned for a maybe movie. The deal with optioning is, for those unaware, is that somebody gets the rights, in this case Mandalay Pictures, to make a movie based on your work for a certain...

Ever since the classic Sci-Fi horror film “The Thing” starring Kurt Russell I have had a thing for the claustrophobic, snow blind, arctic isolation movie. Will the elements get you? Will you end up a frozen corpsicle or will the killer get you and leave your probably still frozen body staining...

Pixar goes about making movies in a different way than the vast majority of movie studios do these days. For one thing, these movies take a very long time to make. Pixar says that “Up” took five years to put together and of course, “Up” cost a fortune. Because Pixar only puts...

Dreamworks has acquired the rights t0 produce a feature film based on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. according to Variety. Steven Spielberg, Suzanne de Passe and Madison Jones will produce. No word yet on who will direct. King copyrighted has books and speeches during his lifetime and this will be...

The first “official” poster for “New Moon”, your all singing, all dancing, vampire, werewolf and romance extravaganza has the struck the internets. Ok, no singing apparently and if there is dancing it is a vicious dance of  survival between the hairy and fangy and the really...

“Angels and Demons” holds a niche position in one kind of movie watching hell. I could not let my mind wander while watching it and still follow the tangled intricacies of Robert Langdon’s fascinating professors tour of Rome and simultaneously, I really wanted my mind to wander. So...

“In The Loop” is a difficult movie to summarize. Let me just say that if your movie trailer diet only allows one viewing per day, “In the Loop” has the high calorie count you’re looking for. I’ll let the official summary do the heavy lifting here. Britain and America;...

We’ve waited a long time for the first trailer for the “The Road”. There is no doubt a movie based on Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer prize winning novel about a man and his son’s hard travels across a devastated America would be difficult to make right. Difficult to make it...

The great Daniel Day Lewis stars alongside Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman and Sophia Loren in the film version of the broadway play “9″ that was itself adapted from the movie 8 1/2 directed by Federico Fellini. Daniel plays film director Guido Contini,...

This weekend, as Angels and Demons hits theatres, we will again be treated to Tom Hanks as the intrepid Dr. Robert Langdon as he sleuths his way across and through the dark and dangerous hidden roads of Rome. In this chapter, the ghosts of past nerds return to wreck havoc on the religious types in the...