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Ridley Scott apprently doesn’t like superhero movies

Posted 10 years ago

Superhero films have been around since superheroes. From the serials of the '40s and '50s (with the first one being CAPTAIN MARVEL – the SHAZAM version – in 1940), to the current explosion of big-budget comic-book blockbusters post-X-MEN that we're...

R.I.P. Mike Nichols, director of Wolf, has died at age 83

Posted 12 years ago

Celebrated director Mike Nichols, whose vast filmography includes WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, THE GRADUATE, SILKWOOD, and 1994's Jack Nicholson-starring WOLF, has died at age 83 from cardiac arrest. Nichols, who was born Michael Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin in 1931,...

The Test of Time: Blade Runner (1982)

Posted 12 years ago

We all have movies we love. Movies we respect without question because of either tradition, childhood love, or because they’ve always been classics. However, as time keeps ticking, do those classics still hold up? So…the point of this here column...

The Exorcist director William Friedkin considering True Detective

Posted 12 years ago

There have been a lot of True Detective talks ever since the first season finale; casting, locations, storyline; it’s all up in the air still. Interestingly enough still, lost in all that is the fact that the show doesn’t have...

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon talk up HBO’s Project Greenlight resurgence

Posted 12 years ago

A few months back, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon announced that they would be reviving the series Project Greenlight on the network it was originally born on; HBO. Project Greenlight was a contest to help a passionate artist direct a...

C’mon Hollywood: Get back to the gore, Peter Jackson!

Posted 12 years ago

Sticking closely to shoe-string budgeted films and appropriately titled “splatstick” horror comedies, Peter Jackson wasn’t exactly the biggest name being passed around the film community back in the day. It wasn’t until he received recognition for his work on HEAVENLY...

C’mon, Hollywood: Don’t let The Expendabelles become a generic chick flick!

Posted 13 years ago

Not too long ago, there was an announcement of an all female version of THE EXPENDABLES hitting theaters, called THE EXPENDABELLES, which I personally thought sounded supremely awesome. While we’ve gotten films like UNDERWORLD, RESIDENT EVIL and KILL BILL featuring...

C’mon, Hollywood: Let’s give Robert De Niro some better material!

Posted 13 years ago

With GRUDGE MATCH being released and met with such lukewarm reception, it only reminds me that the once great Robert De Niro hasn't had the hottest track record of late. Now, every actor has his or her string of substandard...

C’mon, Hollywood: Why exactly did Oldboy bomb?

Posted 13 years ago

Remakes are always controversial no matter who’s attached to the project, the number of years it’s been since the original was released, how good the first one was, etc. With directors ranging from Justin Lin to Steven Spielberg, the OLDBOY...

Doug Liman in talks to take over directing duties on Tony Scott’s Narco Sub

Posted 13 years ago

While lots of Tony Scott projects were in development at his untimely death, one we have not heard a lot about was NARCO SUB. The film will take place in the drug world and focus on the titular subs that...

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