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Famous people sorta discuss the video game Heavy Rain

Posted 16 years ago

I haven’t played the cinematic new videogame HEAVY RAIN (or a half-dozen recent games I’ve purchased and haven’t had time to play), but apparently it’s a uniquely life-altering button-pressing experience. That’s probably exaggerating, but the game has clicked up an...

Doc Savage finally gets a new movie… from Shane Black!

Posted 16 years ago

One of the oldest pulp heroes is being pulled into 21st Century theaters, and who better to do it than pulp aficionado Shane Black? As was rumored months ago, the LETHAL WEAPON guy will bring Lester Dent’s famed DOC SAVAGE...

Maggie Q is the nouveau La Femme Nikita

Posted 16 years ago

We don’t generally cover a lot of TV shows around here, but this one actually started out as a movie. Plus it stars exotic dish Maggie Q. After smacking around various humans in MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3, LIVE FREE OR DIE...

Quentin Tarantino rescues LA’s New Beverly Theater

Posted 16 years ago

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino loves cinema so much that now he owns one. The New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles is a beloved repertory revival house, where Tarantino spent countless hours absorbing classic and grindhouse films. When the theater recently fell...

Conan crushes his enemies in 3-D?

Posted 16 years ago

Let’s just accept it now: that extra dimension that helped make AVATAR a box office whopper is going to be showing up on more and more movies (personally, I like having the option, as long as the movie itself is...

Comic writer Brian Michael Bendis involved with Spider-Man reboot?

Posted 16 years ago

When (500) DAYS OF SUMMER director Marc Webb got involved with the dubious reboot of SPIDER-MAN, he publicly stated he was a huge fan of the “Ultimate Spider-Man” comic series, Marvel’s own reboot of the character. Obviously he meant it....

Splice director Vincenzo Natali heads into Tunnels

Posted 16 years ago

Director Vincenzo Natali has done some intriguing work — he made a splash with his debut CUBE, a paranoid low-budget tale of strangers trapped in a giant killer hi-tech maze, and he followed that with the sneaky CYPHER (aka COMPANY...

Knowing stuff about G.I. Joe 2 is half the battle

Posted 16 years ago

Aside from the return of Rachel Nichols, the best thing about a G.I. JOE sequel is that it’s currently being written by ZOMBIELAND guys Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (who are also working on bringing DEADPOOL to screens in a...

Ben Stiller whitens up the black Ocean’s Eleven

Posted 16 years ago

For years, Brett Ratner has been talking about a high-concept heist flick described as a “black OCEAN’S ELEVEN”, with people like Eddie Murphy, Chris Tucker and Chris Rock. Now, apparently Eddie Murphy has dropped out (presumably to make yet another...

Jeremy Renner might captain Peter Berg’s Battleship?

Posted 16 years ago

Jeremy Renner has spent the better part of a year collecting much-deserved accolades for THE HURT LOCKER and pondering his next move. Could that move be a mega-budget summer blockbuster based on a board game? According to a NY Times...

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