April 30, 2010
I’ve been going on and on about sword noir, and I’ve been referring a lot to film noir movies and sword & sorcery books. One thing I decided after re-watching the Maltese Falcon recently is that I wanted to read Read more…
April 29, 2010
Colour me just a bit too cynical at the moment. Just off the heady critical success of Clash of the Titans— Wait, let me try that again. I can do it with a straight face. Honest. Damn it! Anyway, creatively Read more…
April 28, 2010
More rumours being raked up by Collider, and I love them for it. The movie adaptation of one of the few on-going comics I follow—The Boys—may have a director. The one chosen seems a bit odd, as it is Adam Read more…
April 27, 2010
Collider brings us news that perhaps Neill Blomkamp is working on a sequel to District 9. Reported tentative title? District 10! But of course. This is more rumour than news right now, but if true, it’s pretty cool. District 9 Read more…
The first time we met I told you I was a detective . . . I work at it, lady, I don’t play at it. –Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep Yeah, I want to write dialogue like that.
April 26, 2010
It looks like the man who is not James Bond is still getting some action roles. This one, alongside Jason Statham. Variety insists that Clive Owen is joining the Killer Elite, a movie based on the novel the Feather Men, Read more…
April 23, 2010
Oh god. Please, stop the madness. So the Last Airbender (It’s Avatar: the Last Airbender, and James Cameron should have not been a dick and let them use the title) is going to be converted into 3D. Converted, as in Read more…
Now here’s something interesting. I’ve been hearing about Bryan Singer doing a “Jack and the Beanstalk†movie for a while, but this is the first time I’ve heard what it is actually going to be about. It seems Christopher McQuarrie, Read more…
April 21, 2010
MGM’s financial woes have not only affected the James Bond franchise, but are also messing with the Hobbit. I just want to state plainly here that if you can’t get excited about Guillermo del Toro directing a Peter Jackson production Read more…