Michael Bay Receives an Oscar!

That title caught your attention eh, clearly it can’t be true? The boys and girls at the Onion have got a hilarious story on a crack team of CGI artists designing an Oscar to give the ol’ action-director. Funny stuff, and worth taking a look! The picture is from the article:

Costume Design Awards

Looking for an idea of who will win what this Sunday? Nothing gives a clearer picture then some of these industry award ceremonies. The other day saw the Eddie Awards for editing, now comes the Costume Design Awards. The top awards went to Sweeney Todd and Blades of Glory, the first being nominated for an …

Wolverine Orders Up a Cajun

A bit of casting news for ya’ll. It looks like everyone’s favorite Cajun mutant is finally making his big screen debut in the upcoming Wolverine film. Television’s Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch has been revealed as the latest cast member in the upcoming prequel playing the role of Gambit. I’m not entirely sure who …

Christopher Lloyd Reprises Doc Brown

Despite a shaggy white beard, Christopher Lloyd threw on the ol’ radiation suit and hopped into the seat of the infamous DeLorean from Back to the Future. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how confident you’re feeling about this sequel that will never happen), it was for a cameo in a new O’neal McKnight music video. …

It’s Official: HD-DVD Dead

It’s hard for me to admit this, as, I own an HD-DVD player and a few movies, but Toshiba made if official, “As a result of recent market developments, the company has decided to discontinue sales and marketing of HD DVD players. Accordingly, Toshiba will begin to cease shipments of its HD DVD products to …

It’s Oscar Week!

Hello Internet, It’s Oscar Week, and we at Lonely Reviewer are welcoming you all to check us out all week for all sorts of Oscar related articles, news, editorials, and features. Also, we just changed up the template of the site, let us know what you think! Only 5 more days till the Oscars, this …

News: Smurfs Movie

‘The Smurfs Movie’, the first of a planned three, has been given the green light and is scheduled for release in November, just in time for a late Oscar push. You might think that this would bring tears to my eyes, but you’d be wrong. So wrong. On two counts actually: 1.) I am much …

News: Almodovar Options Poet’s Memoirs

Oscar winner Pedro Almodovar has optioned screen adaptation rights to the memoirs of Marcos Ana. Ana, now 88, was a communist poet jailed for 23 years by Francisco Franco’s regime. Almodovar is expected to pen the screenplay within the year, but is unlikely to shoot the film for some time. Almodovar is probably the most …

58th Annual Eddie Awards

There are many parts of the making of the film, writing, acting, directing, for some reason, editing is the part that always speaks to me. Perhaps its the appreciation for long nights in dark rooms, trying to assemble something that as-is makes no sense. George Lucas has always said his favorite part of the process …

News: Toshiba to Kill Off HD DVD This Week?

High-Def Digest is running a report that Reuters news service picked up in Japan quoting an unnamed source at Toshiba that the company may pull the plug on its HD DVD players as early as next week. ‘We have entered the final stage of planning to make our exit from the next generation DVD business,’ …