Speed Racer (2008) Movie Review

(Movie Review by Laurence Bush) “Speed Racer” is a visual oil spill, lushly colored, slick and thin. Doing a live action, big budget version of a 1960’s Japanese animated series sounds doomed to failure. The original Speed Racer comic books had some depth and characterization, but...

June 23rd, 2008 | Read More

What Does Speed Racer’s Box Office Flop Mean to the Wachowskis?

It cost north of $150 million to make, and scored a meager $18 million in its opening weekend. This, despite a blitzkrieg of advertising on and offline, and some serious buzz in the fan community. Who didn’t geekgasm when the very first picture of the Mach 5 was released? I’m not even a fan...

May 12th, 2008 | Read More

Speed Racer Can’t Outrun Iron Man’s Repulsors

Take this for what you will: The Wachowski Brothers’ “Speed Racer’, their first movie since the third installment of their “Matrix” trilogy in 2003, couldn’t handle Iron Man’s repulsor rays, opening at #2 with an approximate $20 million take, about the same amount...

May 11th, 2008 | Read More

Watch the First 7 Minutes of Speed Racer

In front of its opening weekend, here’s your chance to see the first seven minutes of “Speed Racer” online for free. Nope, I’m not kidding you. Warner Bros. has just put the first seven full minutes of the Wachowski Brothers’ “Speed Racer” ahead of the film’s...

May 8th, 2008 | Read More

Speed Racer Asian Movie Poster

A new poster for the Wachowski Brothers’ “Speed Racer”, this one prominently featuring Emile Hirsch as Speed Racer and the character Taejo Togokhan, played by South Korean pop star and actor Rain, aka Jung Ji Hoon, who will soon be doing another movie with the Wachowskis on their “Ninja...

April 28th, 2008 | Read More

4-Minute Extended Trailer for Speed Racer

I know what you’re thinking: “Wait, are you sure? A four-minute long movie trailer? Doesn’t that mean it’s no longer a trailer, but is instead a clip”? Well, no, it really is a movie trailer that is four minutes long for the Wachowskis’ upcoming “Speed Racer”...

April 14th, 2008 | Read More

Speed Racer Esurance Featurette

I’ve been seeing commercials for this for a while now, and here’s the video of the “Speed Racer” featurette that was shown on the Esurance website. You’ll notice that throughout the interviews, you don’t see the Wachowski brothers themselves, although you see a lot...

April 7th, 2008 | Read More

New Speed Racer 3-D Poster

As if the Wachowskis’ “Speed Racer” couldn’t get anymore, shall we say, experimental friendly, they had to go and release this 3D movie poster that is, yup, movable. Or, er, 3D layered. Or something. The point is, you put your mouse over the poster, you left-click and hold, and...

March 31st, 2008 | Read More

New Speed Racer Images

Over at their site, the boys at FirstShowing have some new groovy images from the upcoming “Speed Racers” to get you ready for the Wachowski’s “oh my God is this a movie or am I tripping balls?” action-adventure film about a kid and his really, really fast car. The pictures...

March 27th, 2008 | Read More

Two More Character Posters for Speed Racer

Since the American character posters for “Speed Racer” showed off the American cast, of course the Asian version of the character posters would go the Asian route. Specifically the Korean posters, which shows off South Korean singer Rain (making his Hollywood debut) as the driver Taejo, and...

March 24th, 2008 | Read More

New Speed Racer Character Posters

Yahoo! Movies has four brand spanking new character posters for the Wachowski Brothers’ upcoming “Speed Racer” movie. I especially like the one with Racer X. So what’s “Speed Racer”? It’s the story of, well, Speed Racer, who owns a car called the Mach 5 that...

March 19th, 2008 | Read More

The Latest Speed Racer Trailer is Cute

Good God, isn’t this already the, what, 20th movie trailer for “Speed Racer” that the Wachowski brothers have sent out our way? Luckily for them, it’s a bloody damn good trailer. There are a couple of really cute sequences, most of them involving Speed as a kid daydreaming about...

March 13th, 2008 | Read More

New Speed Racer International Trailers

I was surprised when it was announced that the Wachowskis were making a “Speed Racer” live-action movie, because I just don’t see how it would work, or how much of a movie it would be if you were older than, say, 10. Isn’t it all just car racing and what have you? But hey, the...

March 9th, 2008 | Read More

Speed Racer (2008) Movie Images Gallery

Plot: Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, Speed Racer is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized-the legendary Rex Racer –...

February 7th, 2008 | Read More

Movie Poster: Speed Racer

The boys over at Joblo.com has your look at the groovy little poster for the Wachowski Brothers’ “Speed Racer”. There is supposed to be something fancy about this poster, but whatever it is (or was) it’s lost in this version. Check it out to your left, bigger version below. Hurtling...

December 16th, 2007 | Read More

Movie Trailer: Live-Action Speed Racer!

It’s heeeeeeeeeeeere. That’s right, the Wachowski Brothers’ “Speed Racer” has gotten itself a trailer and it’s now available for your viewing pleasure over at AOL Movies by clicking here, or head below to see it now. You have to see this thing in HD to appreciate all...

December 6th, 2007 | Read More

First Images from Speed Racer. Hint: It’s Groovy, Man, Groovy.

If you thought the behind-the-scenes Entertainment Tonight video I posted on “Speed Racer” gave you a good idea of what the Wachowski Brothers had planned with the movie, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Here are some very, very groovy looking “Speed Racer” images courtesy of...

December 6th, 2007 | Read More

First Look at Racer X and Speed Racer

Wow. Speed Racer. It looks like it’s going to be a groovy little film that will have absolutely no basis in reality whatsoever. But hey, if you want to do a movie like that, what more perfect a pair to helm it than the Wachowski brothers? Or is that Wachowski siblings? (Now that, you know, one...

December 5th, 2007 | Read More

Updates: Speed Racer, Sweeney Todd, and Lost Boys 2

Speed Racer: Susan Sarandon, who says all she does is “make pancakes” on the movie, has some interesting to say about the film — or to be exact, how the Wachowski brothers will be shooting it. Says Sarandon: “They’re doing something where they’re layering film so that...

August 29th, 2007 | Read More

Quickie Movie News for July 12, 2007

“Speed Racer”: Racer X gets a girlfriend, and her name is Nayo Wallace, who will play Matthew Fox’s cinematic girlfriend Minx. Does it matter to the movie’s plot? Probably not. “Smallville” TV Series: Clark Kent’s Kryptonian cousin Supergirl will be played by...

July 12th, 2007 | Read More