‘Ant-Man’ Test Footage To Be Released?

When I heard that Edgar Wright revealed a test footage for his upcoming Marvel Studios film, “Ant-Man”, I was jazzed.  And the Internet, being what it is, made me reasonably sure that someone in attendance at the last Comic-Con would have filmed it despite being told not to (under penalty of being banned from future […]

To Post-Convert To 3D Or Not Post-Convert

Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pacific Rim” is being post-converted to 3D, which is interesting when you consider how terrible such conversions tend to be. Remember “Wrath Of The Titans?”  If there’s another film that was converted to 3D to such seemingly universal disdain, I am unaware of it. That being said tickets for 3D films tend […]

‘Seven Psychopaths’ Red Band Trailer

“Seven Psychopaths” stars Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Tom Waits, Woody Harrelson, and Christopher Walken. It was directed by Martin McDonagh, who also did “In Bruges,” which I have heard is a very entertaining, though I have yet to see it. Though not billed as such, “Seven Psychopaths” feels to me like a must-see film, bordering on […]

JD’s Cure For Remakes

The ‘JD’ in the title is for John Dorian, from 2001’s “Scrubs,” a television show that originally aired on NBC for nine years, before it moved to ABC. I am watching the Democratic Convention, though earlier I was thinking about the trend toward remakes.  There’s the upcoming “Red Dawn” remake, that appears to have The […]

No Wish Like A ‘Death Wish’

When I heard that Joe Carnahan was moving on to a remake of Michael Winner’s “Death Wish,” from the aborted “Daredevil,”I was relieved that another property has made its way back to The House Of Ideas (where he joins the Punisher and Blade).  What I wasn’t so crazy was that another film that didn’t require […]

Michael Clarke Duncan Has Moved On

Today Michael Clarke Duncan died, and I have no intention of writing any nonsense about him dying before his time because the time you die is pretty much when it’s supposed to happen. The only two movies that I saw him in were “Daredevil” and Tim Burton’s (pointless) remake of “The Planet Of The Apes.” […]

“The Tall Man” Trailer

There are some photos from Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pacific Rim” over at Superherohype, though they don’t show anything of any real interest–by which I mean giant robots–so I am not too interested. So, until something worthwhile from the ‘Rim’ pops up, here’s the trailer for Pascal Laugier‘s (He also did “Martyrs,” which I haven’t seen) […]

Blatantly Lurid Tendencies

What happened to Tony Scott was tragic, though suicide generally is. Whatever one may think about the act, whether or not it’s right, wrong or whatever, concerns me less than the blatantly lurid tendencies that seem to emerge when such things happen to famous people (the non-famous don’t seem to attract as much attention, for […]

‘The Rocketeer’ Redux

This is an interesting bit of news.  According to Vulture, by way of Superherohype, there’s talk of a reboot of Dave Stevens’ ‘Rocketeer,’ which I think is a really cool idea.  The original film, directed by Joe Johnston, most recently of “Captain America,” didn’t do too well at the box office, earning almost $47 million […]