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Guillermo del Toro talks At the Mountains of Madness

Posted 16 years ago

For years, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has been trying to make his dream project, an adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s arctic terror tale AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS. And while it’s closer (thanks to Universal and producer James Cameron), it’s still...

Red Dawn-ish Aussie movie Tomorrow When the War Began gets more tomorrows

Posted 16 years ago

I haven’t seen the movie or read the original source material, so I can’t say for certain if the Aussie action movie TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN is a complete “ripoff” of RED DAWN… but it does seem awfully familiar....

Intergalactic badass Riddick gets animated?

Posted 16 years ago

While we wait for the third RIDDICK movie to become reality (assuming it does), it’s possible the space bastard will be seen in a form other than live-action. According to Aussie site What’s Playing, “Vin Diesel is working on a...

Martin Scorsese gathers gangsters: De Niro, Pesci and Pacino

Posted 16 years ago

They may all be getting on in years, but who wouldn’t want another mobster movie with stars from GOODFELLAS and THE GODFATHER movies? Filmmaker Martin Scorsese spreads his interests around, but always seems to gravitate back to getting his gangster...

A dude has a crazy bad acid trip at a screening of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

Posted 16 years ago

The first time I saw Stanley Kubrick’s indescribably trippy and appropriately titled 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, I couldn’t help but think the experience might be enhanced through chemically altered perceptions. It turns out that results may vary depending on the...

Sherlock Holmes 2 gets Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star Noomi Rapace

Posted 16 years ago

Last month, Swedish sensation Noomi Rapace arrived in Hollywood to face more high-profile projects than she probably knew what to do with. The star of the original film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling Millennium Trilogy books (THE GIRL WITH THE...

Matt Damon gets all spooky in the trailer for Clint Eastwood’s supernatural drama Hereafter

Posted 16 years ago

Matt Damon wanted to work with his INVICTUS director again, which is understandable since it’s film legend Clint Eastwood. This time they’ve done a supernatural thriller described as “in the vein of THE SIXTH SENSE”, which explains the Shyamalan-ish tone...

Music and costumes from the Spider-Man stage musical

Posted 16 years ago

See those… beings above? They are apparently the villains for the big-budget SPIDER-MAN Broadway muscial — the stage variant of Green Goblin, and the original creation “Swiss Miss”, which I can’t believe they actually went through with. The long-in-the-making and...

Die Hard and Predator director John McTiernan returns to action with Shrapnel

Posted 16 years ago

Director John McTiernan gave us a few true classics: PREDATOR, DIE HARD and THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, not to mention DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE and THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR. But he hasn’t been seen much in the past...

Cool Videos: No One Likes M. Night Shyamalan

Posted 16 years ago

Somewhere after SIGNS, things started to go sour for filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan. He seems to have burned through whatever good karma he built with THE SIXTH SENSE and UNBREAKABLE, thanks to questionable quality control and a well-documented inability to...

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