The Expendables Trailer has made its way to the internet, and while part of it may or may not look wicked cool, depending on your tastes, we don't get a lot of new information. We get to see a lot of faces, and a few one-liners, but beyond that we're left pretty much where we were when all we had was a little info on the generalities. Mercenaries. Bad Guys. A Woman. Explosions. Rough … [Read more...]
With the popularity of LOST, and other mind-bending shows, an update of long-time cult favorite and anglophile/nerd barometer The Prisoner was inevitable. Inevitable, but tricky and daring all the same. As a show that was very much a product of its time (the late 60s), freakishly surreal, and didn't actually end or reveal its ultimate tricks, an update would clearly mean a complete … [Read more...]
Just released, the new trailer (below) for Knight and Day has several online film sites talking, and not in the way you might expect. In fact, not in the way they expected either, at least if the frequency of "no really" appearing in the conversation is any judge. If you told me Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz were going to be in a buddy/romance, action vehicle that involved spies, and it was going … [Read more...]
It isn't exactly news to say that bringing children's books to the screen is a tough business. But, even within that world, Roald Dahl makes the venture especially challenging. There is more going on in a Dahl work than you normally find. The stories are more complex, and often leave some things open to interpretation. Besides that, Dahl is a special sort of screwy. Something like the Philip K. … [Read more...]
