After writing about film for nearly ten years, I’m catching a disturbing trend: Bloggers and writers who express their excitement by saying they’ve wet their pants. Or they’re going to wet their pants. Or they wish they could wet their pants. What’s with all the incontinence? (Oh, that means inability to hold your waste …)
Hey, […]
As a film director, Julie Taymor does everything big. That can work for her films – or work against them. The theater master, best known for the spellbinding puppetry and costuming for The Lion King, has directed three films since 1999. And every one has been a spectacle. Now, her filmed version of The Tempest has just begun […]
If you’ve already enjoyed our Quantum of Solace UK quad poster, here’s another for you Daniel Craig admirers, and it’s a hell of a lot more somber. The film is Defiance, based on the Nechama Tec bookabout three Jewish brothers during the Nazi slaughter in 1941 Eastern Europe, and their desperate fight to survival that turns into […]
A sequel doesn’t look imminent for Mamma Mia!, one of the year’s monster women hits. Our Brit friends at Filmstalker report ABBA member / Mamma Mia! exec producer Benny Andersson as saying, “There is no talk of a sequel… ” although Universal would love it.
Of course they would. As we’ve reported before, Mamma Mia! is one of […]
November 5, 2008. By all accounts, a new era in world history begins. So has The Day The Earth Stood Still suddenly lost some of its impact?
In about five weeks, the remake to Robert Wise’s classic cautionary tale will hit theaters, with Keanu Reeves in the role made famous by Michael Rennie. But after last night’s […]
Do you know Troy Duffy? You should. He’s one of the great stories of Hollywood self-destruction, a loud-mouthed, self-important know-it-all douchebag who screamed and cursed his way out of a promising future, pissing off some entertainment biggies. His single piece of work: The crime drama The Boondock Saints. Now, Duffy is directing The Boondock Saints II: All […]
