2008 Madness Begins
The 2008 Midnight Madness films have been announced. If you’re in Toronto then, you’ll have a chance to see movies like Chocolate, Detroit Metal City, JCVD and The Burrowers (no trailer) on the big screen. I’ma be there.
Space To Move
The same week that I walked over to the rep theater to see Persepolis. I watched the straight-to-DVD Justice League: The New Frontier. And, yes, it’s probably wrong to write about The New Frontier within pixels of Persepolis, even if they’re both comics that became animated movies with […]
Harlan Ellison’s a funny, weird old guy
“I look at it as a movie about this funny, weird old guy. And I think, ‘That’s a funny, weird old guy. I’d love to know him. He’s really funny.’Harlan Ellison talks about Dreams With Sharp Teeth, a new documentary about him. (Salon article, here)
JCVD is Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Van Damme is Jean-Claude Van Damme in JCVD. Watch the trailer. Seriously.
5 minutes of Cloverfield (and Bruce Campbell)
Twitch has 5 minutes of Cloverfield, the kaiju in New York movie that seems more like The Host than any monster movie featuring Minilla. There’s a plug in that one. And they have a trailer for the much sillier My Name Is Bruce, a movie where fans convince […]
Elvis After Life
It’s funny. I knew today was the anniversary of Elvis’ death. I didn’t realize it was the 30th anniversary of Elvis’ long black limousine sliding into the beyond. A good hunk of his afterlife has been in comics. Let us take a moment of silence for the man […]
The Cultural Gutter 