The wait is over. After eager anticipation, the teaser trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds,” is out. I have a copy of the script, but haven’t dared to read it yet, not wanting to spoil any of the surprises that I eagerly await. The movie is scheduled to premiere at Cannes and open in August. …
Though it’s set in the 1880’s, Andrew Dominik’s “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” could have been set today. The questions it raises, namely, what is celebrity, what makes celebrity, why do people crave celebrity and, perhaps most importantly, what happens after you get celebrity?
If I wasn’t looking forward to this movie before, this poster isn’t helping. The photo-shop job on Tony Scott’s latest assault on cinema doesn’t tease as much as assure me that there is no need to see this movie. The original, which is wonderful, is still available and still worth seeing. Maybe we, as a …
The new film of Hunter S. Thompson’s first book might be adding a few new faces to the cast. Aaron Eckhart is in talks to join the project, while Oscar-nominated actor Richard Jenkins has already signed on. Jenkins joins previously signed actors Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, who played Raoul Duke, another one of Thompson’s …
It is no surprise that most of the films we see as American’s about WWII are centric to the Allies fight, very rarely do we get a glimpse to what it was like on the other side. I was excited about ‘Downfall’ because besides a few notes from History books, I had no idea what …
Michael Pena, Brad Dourif and Bill Cobbs have signed on to join Werner Herzog’s latest movie, “My Son, My Son, What Have You Done?” The movie is loosely based on the story of a San Diego man who sees a series of bizarre mystical sights and ends up killing his mother with a sword. Already …
If you wondered how things worked out between Carrie and Big, wonder no more. Variety is reporting that Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis have all signed on for a “Sex and the City,” sequel. The first film, which opened last summer, made $152 million in the US and an additional …
Steven Soderbergh apparently never sleeps. Even though, “Cleo,” his Cleopatra rock opera fell apart after Hugh Jackman bailed, (one would assume the performance of “Australia,” didn’t help make the backers sleep easy,) Soderbergh already has his next proejct lined up. Based on Michael Lewis’ book of the same name, “Moneyball,” is about Oakland A’s manager …
When it rains, it pours… Pictures, some 400 of them, taken behind-the-scenes of Michael Mann’s latest movie, “Public Enemies,” have surfaced on-line. First Showing has taken the liberty of going through them and grabbing the really choice shots. Check them out. There are reports that the movie has already had a couple of sneak peaks …
“Wanted,” the first English language film by Russian director Timur Bekmambetov is a scratch your head, I guess that kinda looks cool, but now I’m confused again kind of movie. In other words, it’s a bit of a mess. “Wanted,” is the tale of Wesley Gibson who is a boring guy, with a boring job …