Animated Re-Animator
This week, New York City’s musical theater scene is revitalized, thanks to Stuart Gordon and the musical adaptation of his gonzo, gory contemporary classic, RE-ANIMATOR (playing at the PTC Performance Space- 555 West 42 St), finally hitting town, following an…
Christoph Waltz Has Fun
One poor journalist gets things started by asking Christoph Waltz if he can talk about his character. Christoph Waltz: No. Definitely no. You know, I don’t talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid…
According To Peter Jackson
In honor of The Hobbit’s wrapping, I took a little personal trip down memory lane to the last time I was this excited about the holiday movie offerings. We’d have to go back over ten years (to an unfortunate period…
Are Movie Studios Obsolete?
Ben Silverman, Chairman of multi-media producer Electus recently keynoted a Venture Capital and New Media Summit in Los Angeles. Ben noted that 100 years ago in order to make a film you needed 50 acres of land in the San…
Five Horrible Beach Movies
For my generation, summer evenings were often spent at the local drive-in watching whatever blockbuster or B-movie happened to be on the marquis. If we were lucky, we might have caught a masterpiece like Godfather II (as I did in…
Dark Knight Rises
His legacy stained by the “murder” of Harvey Dent, whose dark secret identity went with him to his grave, the Batman has been absent from Gotham City for years. Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) has kept an equally low profile, though…
Decapoda Shock
An astronaut returns to Earth after a fatal accident on a distant planet. When he discovers he has been the victim of a sinister plot, he decides to take vengeance on those responsible for the death of his family. […
Elysium
Yesterday, Neill Blomkamp hit Hall H at Comic-Con with seven minutes of footage from his sophomore feature film effort, “Elysium.” The “District 9” director was returning to San Diego as a bit of a hero, having unveiled his first feature…
Jarmusch
There’s no one in independent film quite like Jim Jarmusch, one of American cinema’s most idiosyncratic filmmakers. Born to Episcopalian parents in Ohio in 1953, the director fell in love with B-movie double bills his mother left him in as…
Grabbers
An Irish horror-comedy in which the protagonists must get drunk in order to survive attacks from bloodsucking monsters? What’s not to love? Directed by Jon Wright and shot in Donegal, the film features a uniquely Irish way of fending off…
The 25th Reich
You wait years for a schlocky, tongue-in-cheek, Sci-Fi, B-movie about Nazis and then two come along at once. Landing on DVD only weeks after Timo Vuorensola’s Finnish pastiche Iron Sky (2012), comes Stephen Amis’ The 25th Reich (2012). Unlike Iron…
Manning up for The Expendables 2
Tom Jolliffe mans up in preparation for The Expendables 2, taking in an overdose of explosive action cinema with ‘The Jason Statham Rampage’… The Stath broke onto the big screen scene following a Guy Ritchie double smash of Lock, Stock…
Hollywood Pensive At Comic-Con
Peter Jackson arrived at the Comic-Con fan convention here on Saturday and wowed the crowd with 13 minutes of highly anticipated footage from the first of his two ultraexpensive “Hobbit” movies. But he also played it safe — very safe…
Hobbit May Be Trilogy
Comic-Con 2012 has certainly been a big one for many film franchises, from “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2” to the upcoming “Hobbit” movie. In recent “The Hobbit” film news, breaking details from director Peter Jackson at Comic-Con this week…
Wordl War Z Spirals
Marc Forster has done some great movies and some which fell apart — cough, Quantum of Solace, cough — and it appears his adaptation of Max Brooks’ zombie apocalypse novel World War Z is heading towards that latter category. It…
Dark Knight Receives Praise
NME reports that The Dark Knight Rises has received unanimous praise from early reviews by critics. UK magazines Total Film and Empire each gave the film five stars. Total Film said it was a “smart, stirring spectacle”, while Empire called…
Attack of The 50 Foot Cheerleader
Roger Corman, known for producing over 400 movies over the span of 60 years, most of them schlocky B movies and creature features, was at Comic-Con schilling his new 3D film for Epix, Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader. If…
A State of the Union
A State of the Union airs tonight – one featuring less eloquence and more explosions than the average national address by U.S. President Barack Obama. This State of the Union also features a XXX (No, it’s not THAT kind of…
Spiderman Re-Boot
One of the best moments in “The Amazing Spider-Man” is when Stan Lee, a co-creator of the superhero, makes his obligatory cameo. Lee is in a library with a pair of headphones on and the audience hears classical music. Behind…
Expendables 2 At Comic Con
The Project: The Expendables 2 The Panel: Stars Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Dolph Lundgren. Moderated by The Los Angeles Times writer and Hero Complex’s Geoff Boucher The Big Revelations: Arnold came to Hall H! The former…