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del Toro’s Mountains?

Posted 19 years ago

Guillermo del Toro does love his ancient tentacled god-creatures, and since he’s one of today’s best filmmakers, it’s nice to see him get his way. The happy horror helmer’s longtime dream project seems to be finally on its way to...

New No Country trailer

Posted 19 years ago

Great to see the Coen Brothers at the top of their game doing the sort of stylish and grim noir that initially got them noticed with BLOOD SIMPLE. Not a frame of RAISING ARIZONA or BIG LEBOWSKI type of whimsy...

A new Brood?

Posted 19 years ago

With films like A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE and EASTERN PROMISES, director David Cronenberg has proven he’s still on top of his game. Time to remake some of his old stuff! Spyglass has dug up Cronenberg’s early monsterpiece THE BROOD for...

Postal poster

Posted 19 years ago

You know, I think I’m gonna start giving director/doctor/madman Uwe Boll the benefit of the doubt. Just to be different. The guy is a moviemaking machine (in that he finishes them), and if anyone throws enough darts, eventually they’ll at...

WGA delay JLA?

Posted 19 years ago

By now you’ve no doubt heard something about these expected strikes that have Hollywood in a tizzy, but how exactly could they affect you, as a movie fan? Well, for one thing, you might not get that JUSTICE LEAGUE movie...

Carice w/ Leo and Law

Posted 19 years ago

Delicious Dutch treat Carice van Houten is apparently determined to stay strictly with the A-list when it comes to playing movie wives. The beauteous BLACK BOOK blond/brunette is currently pretending to be Tom Cruise’s spouse (a role usually portrayed by...

A Rogue poster

Posted 19 years ago

It seems as though Aussie director Greg Mclean’s follow-up to WOLF CREEK has taken a long time to swim to these shores, but his killer croc flick ROGUE is finally about to feast. The new one-sheet evokes the iconic poster...

Images in The Mist

Posted 19 years ago

Stephen King’s beastly thriller THE MIST is finally jumping from the printed page into theaters. King adapter Frank Darabont fills a supermarket with familiar faces while creepy things roam around in the dense haze outside the building. We have another...

Jet & Jackie synopsis

Posted 19 years ago

Chopsockey fans who grew up with Black Belt Theater and bootlegs or imports of DRUNKEN MASTER 2 and ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA have long awaited the meeting of cinema’s kung fu kings Jackie Chan and Jet Li. And...

The Heartbreak queef

Posted 19 years ago

It’s been almost a decade since the Farrelly brothers made a funny movie. But they’re reuniting with the star of THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY for their new one THE HEARTBREAK KID, in the hopes that Ben Stiller, a couple of...

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