You’ll find plenty of stories this week about who is the best Bond, the favorite Bond girl, villain, car or gadget. But I’d suggest that the films’ directors – and their specific talents in staging action scenes – are what will truly sustain Bond films into the future, now that Daniel Craig has made the [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Hollywood, May 2, 2008
With the June 18 release date for his upcoming blockbuster geo-eco-thriller The Happening, writer-director-actor M. Night Shyamalan is preparing to engage film lovers all over the world in an entirely new, immersive moviegoing experience! Hollywood is abuzz with the introduction of:
The M. Night Shyamalan MEoh™!
Let’s hear the details straight [...]

I haven’t gone to Spider-Man 3 yet, and with every passing day I wonder if I’ll end up seeing it in the theater at all.
I can’t tell you how miserable that makes me – let alone what it suggests about my blogging cred. Here I’ve been following the development of SM3 since Burbanked was just [...]

Of course we know that Hollywood is both a creative and a competitive business, and when personalities in this kind of environment clash, you just never know what will happen.
Because if Barry Williams can throw the smackdown, so can indie-minded foreign directors with cool names.
In an interview with Time Out London (found via the ever-excellent [...]

There’s news today that French filmmaker Luc Besson will be retiring from directing following the release of his 10th feature Arthur et les Minimoys on December 13th.
This is unfortunate news to anyone who’s a fan of Besson’s great action films The Professional and The Fifth Element (all snarkiness regarding Ms. Jovovich notwithstanding), but as we [...]