Just about on the heels of the last useless superhero movie in development over there in the Hollywood Cine-Crap Machine© comes word from The Hollywood Reporter that Warner Bros. will be giving the live-action treatment to the X-Men wannabes DC Comics series Teen Titans.
The young superheroes, whose “fresh” and “clever” hook was that they were [...]

In a rare and wondrous alignment of the planets this past weekend, I got out to the movies to see an actual first-run-in-the- theater film.

Prior to showtime, somewhere in the 32-minute mark of pre-trailer commercials, the recruitment piece seen here ran.

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the original film, today begins the Star Wars Blog-A-Thon hosted over at the great Edward Copeland On Film blog. Head over there all weekend for what will no doubt be a galaxy-sized treasure trove of rants, reviews, reveries and other spectacular writings on all things Force-related.
You may recall [...]

Quick in-house note today: I upgraded to WordPress 2.1.3 yesterday and all of my precious blogroll links to other fine movie sites and clever screenwriters have blinked out of existence. They’re still there; they’re just not displaying right now and I need to figure out why and how to fix it.
If any WP blogger out [...]

Clearly there are just too many movies spinning around in the air right now, looking for places to land. And for someone like me who would like to get out to the theater more often, and who would enjoy seeing all of the good, bad and ugly together at the box office, this is actually [...]

I caught the new footage from next year’s Stallone-returns-again-to-the-fountain-of-youth actioner John Rambo from Sean over at Film Junk this weekend, but I didn’t watch it right away. Once I did, I realized that it was some of the goriest, most graphic and unsettling violence I’d seen in a while. You notice that I don’t refer [...]

Because if I saw this freakshow waiting to tangle with me, I would absolutely not mess with it. In fact, I’m thinking that I would kind of sit down on the curb and look the other way as if I’d never seen it and just hope it passed me by. And there might be some [...]