Worst Action Movie Cliches

It’s funny, but I’ve actually started writing an article similar to this one (”Worst” this and that lists), but I’ve never finished one. I think it’s because, as I write them, I get really depressed by how cliched they are, and how Hollywood screenwriters simply don’t...

August 13th, 2007 | Read More

Your Weekend Movie Preview: Rush Hour 3, Stardust, Daddy Day Camp, Skinwalkers

One word: “Rush Hour 3″. Okay, two words and a letter. As good as “Stardust”, “Daddy Day Camp”, or “Skinwalkers” will be (or will not be), Jackie Chan’s weird face and Chris Tucker’s big mouth will rule the day as well as the box office. The...

August 10th, 2007 | Read More

RIP Michaelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman

(Article by Yorgo Douramacos) An event passed this week in the world of film, comparable to the impact felt in patriotic and political circles over the simultaneous passings of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams on the same day (July 4th) back in 1826. It’s not clear to me how many that nod in recognition...

August 3rd, 2007 | Read More

No Japanese Release for Evan Almighty

Well this is a bit of a surprise. Apparently Steve Carell’s “Evan Almighty” won’t get the September release that it was supposed to in Japan. In fact, the studio has canceled all future releases of “Almighty” in Japanese theaters altogether, says Variety. The reason?...

July 16th, 2007 | Read More

Oliver Stone Gets Pwned by Iran’s Ahmadinejad Over Doc

You gotta love it, don’t you? Oliver Stone has become such a self-hating American piece of shit that he’ll even go so far as to make a love letter to Fidel Castro, a leader who has kept his country trapped in the ’50s for, oh, 60 years or more and call it a “documentary”,...

July 3rd, 2007 | Read More

Quickie Movie News for July 2nd, 2007

A couple of quick movie news for you: - In superfluous “Speed Racer” news, Richard Roundtree of “Shaft” fame joins the Wachowski Brothers’ live-action “Speed Racer”. - Watch that “Hitman” movie trailer in glorious Quicktime here. - Ji-won Kim’s...

July 2nd, 2007 | Read More

New Line Cinema vs. Everyone Who Worked on the Lord of the Rings Movie – WHO YA GOT???

Coming on the heels of “Lord of the Rings” writer/director/guru Peter Jackson suing New Line Cinema for stealing his just-earned money (and come on, who doesn’t think the big guy earned it? He spent YEARS on that thing! read more about that here), now fifteen New Zealand actors from...

June 6th, 2007 | Read More

Spike Lee Eyes World War II Movie About Black Soldiers

The always controversial Spike Lee has another movie planned, this one about black soldiers during World War II. What exactly attracted Lee to the project? Um, because it’s about black soldiers fighting in a war overseas while they were still being segregated by Whitey back home? I mean, come on,...

June 6th, 2007 | Read More

U.S. Box Office Report: June 3rd, 2007

Johnny Depp and those scurvy pirates prove too tough to take down, scoring another $43.2 million over the weekend. Meanwhile, Judd Apatow’s romantic comedy “Knocked Up” surprised just about everyone by taking second place with a $29.3 million take, nearly its production budget, practically...

June 3rd, 2007 | Read More

The Dark is Rising Gets a Poster

It could very well be that “The Dark is Rising” ends up being little more than another wannabe “Harry Potter” franchise, much like “Eragon”, “Bridge of Terabithia”, and “The Chronicles of Narnia”. I never saw “Terabithia” (the deceptive...

May 22nd, 2007 | Read More

Christopher McQuarrie Goes from WWII to WWI with No Man’s Land

I’m an unabashed fan of Christopher McQuarrie, even though the guy really hasn’t do a whole lot since, well, 2000’s “Way of the Gun”. And his other big claim to fame was co-writing “The Usual Suspects” with Bryan Singer. Other than that? Not a whole lot from...

May 21st, 2007 | Read More

Gerard Butler Talks Untouchables Prequel, Watchmen Casting Rumors

Gerard Butler, the hardest working man in Show Business, recently talked to MTV about two of his upcoming roles — playing a young Jimmy Malone in the “Untouchables” prequel and the possibility (or not) of doing something in Zach Snyder’s “Watchmen”. He seems excited...

May 21st, 2007 | Read More

John Cusack Gives Action a Try in Jan de Bont’s Stopping Power

What is John Cusack doing in a Jan de Bont (“Speed”) action movie? Then again, what was Sandra Bullock doing in “Speed”? I guess if you’re good enough, you can make anything credible. And John Cusack is damn plentiful good. (Check out his turn as a quirky hitman in “Grosse...

May 21st, 2007 | Read More

Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon Images and a New Poster

Via Twitchfilm, Chinese site Sina has got some promotional stills and another poster for the upcoming Andy Lau/Maggie Q. epic actioner “Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon”. There might be more than just the images I have below, but since the entire site is in Chinese, and Chinese...

May 21st, 2007 | Read More

No Girl with Long Hair in Ryuhei Kitamura’s Yoroi

Japanese directors Ryuhei Kitamura (“Godzilla Final Wars”) and Shinya Kawai (“The Ring”) are sick and tired of long-haired Japanese ghost girls and haunted inanimate objects, and they (specifically Kitamura) swears that their latest horror outing, “Yoroi”, will have...

May 21st, 2007 | Read More

Ji-woon Kim’s Korean Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad and the Weird

You gotta love the idea of the Koreans doing their take on the classic Spaghetti Western ala Sergio Leone and the Man Without a Name. And the fact that it’s being helmed by Ji-woon Kim, whose last movie “A Bittersweet Life” was one of the most refreshing crime actioners to come out...

May 20th, 2007 | Read More

Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix Own the Night, Trailer

Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix are brothers in New York City, one a cop (like their dad) and the other an up-and-coming nightclub owner versus the Russian mob. WHO YA GOT??? If you’ve seen the trailer for “We Own the Night”, then you might be siding with the brothers. Then again,...

May 20th, 2007 | Read More

In Not Really Unexpected News: Shrek the Third Cleans up at the Box office

To absolutely no one’s surprise, “Shrek the Third”, the third entry in the popular animated series about a green ogre and his wiseass, well, ass (voiced by Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy, respectively), broke box office records with a $122 million take in its very first weekend, marking...

May 20th, 2007 | Read More

Jackie Chan and Jet Li DOES Fight in The Forbidden Kingdom

When you heard that Jackie Chan and Jet Li would be co-starring in the Hollywood fantasy/action movie “The Forbidden Kingdom”, I bet you were hoping for an onscreen duel between the two. Lucky you, because Jackie Chan has confirmed on his official site that he does, in fact, fight Jet Li...

May 20th, 2007 | Read More

Del Toro, Cuaron, and Inarritu Partners Up with Universal

Individually they’ve conquered Hollywood and then some, and now together, arguably Mexico’s three most accomplished directors, Guillermo Del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth”), Alfonso Cuaron (“Children of Men”), and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (”Babel”) have...

May 20th, 2007 | Read More