‘Real Steel’ Trailer

Does the premise of Shawn Levy‘s “Real Steel,” promoter has junky robot that has to overcome the odds against more advanced, more dangerous opponents, strike anyone else as silly (which is saying something based upon some of the films out there)? And if that were not enough of a hurdle to overcome, it also sounds […]

‘Paradise Lost’ Feature Film

Milton’s Paradise Lost will be coming soon to a theater near you, by way of Alex Proyas (of “The Crow,” “Dark City,” “I, Robot,” etc), though my question is when did Alex Proyas–a very talented director, by the way–take the helm of this project? That being said, I suspect that as long as he’s allowed to […]

Writer for ‘War Games’ Reboot Found

According to Deadline Noah Oppenheim has been chosen to write the reboot of John Badham’s 1983 film, “War Games.” The movie revolves around a high school student that becomes a fan of a video game that’s actually a war games simulation for the computer (W.O.P.R) that’s tasked with defending the United States against nuclear attack […]

Batwing Footage

Here’s some ‘Batwing’ footage from the upcoming “The Dark Knight Rises” (which for some reason I always want to write as ‘Batman Rises.’) It looks like an interesting vehicle, though perhaps a little bit Transformerish (as much as I like to hope that the Transformers shouldn’t be taken as a high-water mark of anything, there […]

Bradley Cooper Leaves ‘The Crow’

And in the Unnecessary Remake Department, Bradley Cooper will no longer play the lead in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s (unnecessary) remake of Alex Proyas‘ “The Crow.” And the worse thing about remaking the film is that, the concept of the “The Crow” is that some (it doesn’t have to be a man, which would actually be […]

Films That Need Remakes: Saturn 3

All you hear about lately are films being remade.  What gets to me, besides the seeming cynicalness of the whole pursuit, is the way it seems that the better a film is, the more likely it is to be remade; which doesn’t make any sense. Why remake something that was well-done the first time around? […]