Eric Walkuski

Film Critic

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Favorite Movies: Jaws, Star Wars Trilogy, Aliens, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Dawn read more of the Dead ('78), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ('74), Fargo, Miller's Crossing, Reservoir Dogs, The Manchurian Candidate ('62), Taxi Driver, Back to the Future, Stand by Me, Shaun of the Dead, Boogie Nights, La Dolce Vita, 12 Angry Men, The Birds, Touch of Evil

Likes: Film, Beer (who the hell DOESN'T around here?!), writing, NY Mets, read more The Jets, Girls who love film AND beer (at the same time), Jazz, Deadwood, The Wire, The Office, The Twilight Zone, Cormac McCarthy, Graham Greene, Stephen King, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scorsese, Spielberg, Halloween season, Marvel movies, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Ash vs Evil Dead, Game of Thrones, Edgar Allen Poe, Mother Nature

Domestic poster for Greg Mottola’s Paul highlights the alien, not Pegg and Frost

Posted 16 years ago

Back in November we got an eyeful of the international one-sheet for Greg Mottola’s sci-fi comedy PAUL, which stars British comedy gods Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The poster gave us the film’s three main characters, Pegg, Frost and “Paul”,...

From Dusk Till Dawn and Amityville Horror sequels coming from the Weinsteins?

Posted 16 years ago

In a pretty significant joint press release issued by The Weinstein Company and Miramax (of course the old stomping grounds of the Weinstein boys) comes the revelation that both production companies plan on producing sequels to “some of Miramax’s best-known...

Corpse Bride co-director gearing up for CG/stop-motion hybrid Oz Wars

Posted 16 years ago

Via a press release sent to us we learn of an ambitious project called OZ WARS, a bizarre take on the WIZARD OF OZ mythos. A CG/stop-motion hybrid, it will be helmed by CORPSE BRIDE co-director Mike Johnson and produced...

Ouija will be more Indiana Jones than The Ring, writers say

Posted 16 years ago

Platinum Dunes’ OUIJA has been a hot project for a few months now. Many names have been in contention for the director’s chair, including Scott Stewart (LEGION), Sylvain White (THE LOSERS), John Moore (THE OMEN) and Pierre Morel (TAKEN), who...

Official poster for Christopher Smith’s Black Death asks you to repent

Posted 16 years ago

Here we have the official one-sheet for Christopher Smith’s BLACK DEATH, starring Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne and Carice van Houten. The period flick comes out this winter courtesy of Magnolia Films, and it seems like the goods if you enjoy...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Nicolas Brendan thinks reboot is a “mistake”

Posted 16 years ago

Everyone and their mother’s mother has an opinion on the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE reboot that Warner Bros. is currently prepping, but the most interesting reactions are going to come from the stars of the television series. Nicholas Brendan, who played...

Wrath of the Titans gets a Spring 2012 theatrical release date

Posted 16 years ago

I’m personally not too amped about WRATH OF THE TITANS, the sequel to this year’s woeful CLASH OF THE TITANS remake; I thought the first was a clumsy, tone-deaf mess. The flick made almost $500 million worldwide, after all; they’re...

Very tight schedule revealed for Apollo 18; shooting begins next week

Posted 16 years ago

Call me crazy, but I thought the Weinstein’s APOLLO 18 was already in production. The thing has a MARCH 4th release date and has already commenced with the standard viral marketing; it was my assumption that it was either in...

Ron Howard yaps The Dark Tower, calls it “incredibly stimulating to work on”

Posted 16 years ago

Just a brief morsel of an update on Ron Howard’s adaptation of Stephen King’s THE DARK TOWER, which the director is bringing to both the big and small screen in what has to be one of the more ambitious endeavors...

Electronic Arts and Anchor Bay bringing a new animated Dead Space movie

Posted 16 years ago

If you’re a fan of the Dead Space universe, this should come to you as an early Christmas treat. Electronic Arts Inc. and Anchor Bay Entertainment today announced that a new Dead Space animated movie, DEAD SPACE AFTERMATH will be...

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