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Leo’s Conspiracy

Posted 20 years ago

In spite of the rather unconvincing chin scruff, Leonardo DiCaprio clearly wants to be taken seriously as an actor (BASKETBALL DIARIES was enough of a persuader for me, but plenty of people still seem to just think of him as...

4 of 9 speak

Posted 20 years ago

I don’t know what the characters in animator Shane Acker’s surreal computer-generated feature 9 will ultimately sound like, but at least we know who’ll be making some of the noises — Elijah Wood, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau and John C....

Capricorn Deuce?

Posted 20 years ago

The Armani-clad vultures continue to peck at the corpses of history littering the Hollywood studio archives. Not a whole lot of meat left on those bones, but apparently enough for a remake of CAPRICORN ONE. The 1978 space conspiracy flick...

New Hot Fuzz clip!

Posted 20 years ago

Outstanding. British genius Edgar Wright’s upcoming love letter to bombastic cop flicks is nearly here (even closer in the UK), but until then, every bite we get just seems to taste better. Which is highly uncommon for British food, but...

Mad Max Cusack?

Posted 20 years ago

The guy who once romanced his lady by blaring Peter Gabriel doesn’t seem like the first choice for a warrior wandering the postapocalyptic wastelands, but John Cusack will indeed be battling the aftermath of global disaster. And fighting by his...

Howdy, Hanks

Posted 20 years ago

Considering how long he’s been in the movie biz, it’s a little surprising that the closest Tom Hanks got to a Western is a computer-generated cowpoke. That’ll apparently change with BOONE’S LICK, in which he’ll star with Julianne Moore. And...

Spies Like Us again?

Posted 20 years ago

You know that super neato, totally original idea you have for a movie? Write it down, and then wad up the paper and throw it in your fireplace, because you’ll need it to help heat your abode — Hollywood isn’t...

Grindhouse lessons

Posted 20 years ago

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez are digging up the concept of underground cinema and sharing it with you in their upcoming double feature, but just what the hell does GRINDHOUSE actually mean? Well, I could explain it, but probably not...

More Mist cast

Posted 20 years ago

We’ve already heard that actors Thomas Jane, Andre Braugher and Laurie Holden will be taking up temporary residence at their local grocer’s when Frank Darabont’s adaptation of THE MIST rolls into town, but now we’re hearing some other names who’ll...

John Carter of CGI

Posted 20 years ago

We know that SWINGERS guy Jon Favreau is busy welding the armor for IRON MAN, leaving his planned PRINCESS OF MARS to ultimately collapse behind him. But the massive adaptation of Edgar Rice Borroughs’ literature (the first of several in...

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