Netflix has had a particularly rough year. First, there was the price increase, which was not very well received, probably due to the way it was handled more than the increase itself. Then there was the split of Netflix into two companies: Quikster, for the delivery of DVD’s, and Netflix for the streaming of video. […]
Anne Hoyt, one of the originators of this website, is back. She has upcoming a review of Steve McQueen’s “Shame,” starring Michael Fassbender, as well as an interview with Gary Oldman.
I don’t know what it is, but I enjoyed this trailer. I have always been a fan of the Stooges, and this is a daring film because there are some that are devoted to Larry, Curly and Moe who will act as if the Farrelly Brothers are treading upon hallowed ground with the their film. […]
Jeffrey Combs, who played the original Herbert West in Stewart Gordon’s “Re-Animator,” is for one night only going to play in the play based upon the aforementioned film. In other words, Combs, is going to play, in a play, the role that he originated from a movie that came out twenty-six years ago. How cool […]
Sometimes, you find something on the web (that isn’t porn and has nothing to do with anyone involved with Jersey Shore the Kardashians) that demands to be seen. “Touch of Evil” from the New York Times is an example of such an thing. It’s composed of thirteen short clips, with actors like Viola Davis, George Clooney, […]
Tom Fontana, creator of television shows like “Homicide” and “Oz” is coming back to television with “The Box,” a police procedural with a difference: It revolves around an interrogation room of a police station. This is a very cool idea, though I think that Fontana could make a television show about the telephone book and […]
According to Deadline, Patty Jenkins has left as director of the sequel to 2011’s “Thor.” This is remarkable because she just got the assignment a month or two ago. Marvel Studios can be notoriously difficult to work with, and more than a little bit tight with the purse strings, though I don’t want to assume […]
Here’s a link to the trailer for “The Cabin in the Woods,” written and produced by Joss Whedon. It’s a cool trailer, and reminds me of the “Buffy, The Vampire Slayer,” “The Initiative” storyline mixed liberally with Stephen King’s “Under The Dome.”
Help me understand something: On one hand you have Paul Verhoeven, the director of “Robocop,” “Hollow Man,” “Total Recall,” “Starship Troopers,” and others. Each of those films, filled to the brim with gory, sexy, subversive goodness that not too many current films even attempt to approach, never mind equal. So, considering all the really bad […]
Here’s the latest trailer for Disney’s “John Carter.” I have also included a link to some commentary from Vulture, where they ask the same question that I asked early today, which essentially is: How is Disney going to make this film profitable when they aren’t all that sure how to market it in the first […]
