Cinematic evolution – the ability to take what has come before and advance it – is rarely a direct or strictly generational process. Filmmakers will usually have their own personal epiphanies in solitude, while connecting to the soul of a director through his film, not through personal knowledge...

Avatar always seemed to me an odd film with which to attempt to foment a 3D revolution. On paper, it is the antithesis of a mainstream hit. And yet James Cameron has always had the unusual talent of being able to spin geek nirvana into mainstream gold. His inspirations say a lot about him. One of his...

Alfred Hitchcock expressed himself simply and slowly and yet was eminently emotive. I’ve heard many impressions of the man – they are easy to do – but they always leave out his soul. That dour sensibility was so interesting, I think, because Hitchcock often seemed more implacable than...

Quentin Tarantino has already discussed his plans for Kill Bill 3, but 2014 is still five years away, giving him time to direct one more film in between. Variety reports that Tarantino shared some of his thoughts on a potential vehicle for a new film at the Morelia Film Festival, saying that he was wide...

The LA Times has an interesting article up about Guillermo Arriaga, writer of such films as “21 Grams” and “Babel”, as he discusses his childhood, his loss of smell, and the inspiration for his recent directorial debut, “The Burning Plain”, which is currently enjoying...

Okay, so maybe I really should have tuned into this year’s MTV Movie Awards. From everything I’m hearing (including the Eminem-Bruno crotch incident), this appears to have been the best show the net has turned out in, well, ever I guess. Host Andy Samberg has been universally applauded for...

What’s there to say except this: if you’ve never seen HBO’s 10-part mini-series “Band of Brothers” from 2001, then you just don’t appreciate good moviemaking. Bar none the best and most exhaustive portrait of America’s fighting men at war through the eyes of...

A fight scene from the 1993 movie “Undefeatable”. Yes, “Undefeatable”. It’s a Hong Kong movie starring English-speaking actors, so maybe that explains it. This is one of the final fight scenes from the movie, in which our hero and his one-armed girlfriend takes on the bad...

What? They’re still showing movie trailers during the Superbowl? Wait, when did they started doing this again? Because you know, after waiting all game for some great movie trailers last year, I remember not getting a whole lot for my time. In fact, I remember not getting all that many trailers...

There will be no movie news for July 4th. Spend the day with your family, enjoy some fireworks, cook some barbecue, and be merry. Happy Birthday, America!

This list is yet another reason why the average moviegoer thinks professional movie critics are full of crap. In their three-hour CBS special “100 Years, 100 Movies, 10th Anniversary Edition” telecast, the American Film Institute revealed that Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane”...

Just in time for the fourth entry into the never say die franchise (har har, get it?), 1988’s “Die Hard” was voted by the editors and writers of Entertainment Weekly as the Best Action Movie Ever. (Gee, I wonder if some money changed hands there…) Now I think “Die Hard”...

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...

If you don’t know by now that Bruce Willis’ character in “The Sixth Sense” is, in actuality, a ghost himself, then this T-shirt is gonna piss you off something royal. It’s basically a black T-shirt with a ton of the movie’s most notorious spoilers written on it. Simple,...

I don’t know if Lena Headey as a logo looks as good as Lena Headey the flesh-and-blood Queen Gorgo, but I’ll give the guys whoever made this trailer/video of Zach Snyder’s “300″ using logos credit — it’s pretty damn funny. And you gotta wonder how long it took...