What would it be like if Alfred Hitchcock directed an episode of “Quantum Leap” with a script based on “Groundhog Day”? Well, it wouldn’t turn out exactly like “Source Code,” but it’d be pretty close. Duncan Jones (or Zowie Bowie if you prefer) wowed audiences lucky enough to catch his debut sci-fi thriller “Moon” (2009) [...]
Maybe it’s a sign that healthcare issues have become a prominent part of the general American consciousness: I went to see two quite different Hollywood comedies and each featured a character who was a pharma rep. In Little Fockers (the most recent instalment in the Stiller and De Niro comedy series which began with Meet [...]
Is “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” the best video game adaptation ever? Personally, I prefer Uwe Boll’s “House of the Dead.” At least the latter had the decency not to spend $200 million as if it were a legitimate movie. This Jerry Bruckheimer-produced monstrosity is exactly like every other Jerry Bruckheimer-produced monstrosity. The [...]
Summit Entertainment has agreed to co-finance “The Cold Light of Day,” a thriller, with Intrepid Pictures. Variety reports that Trevor Macy and Marc D. Evans of Intrepid will produce the flick, which they’ve been developing over the past year. Scott Wiper and John Petro wrote the script, which centers on a young American whose family [...]
“Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” is the big movie Disney will be banking on next year and they’ve already geared up the hype machine. The first UK film posters have been released over at Empire and they are a little different than you might expect. Less in your face, explosive, you gotta see [...]
Guy Pearce and Bailee Madison will round out the cast of Miramax’s supernatural thriller, “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” which is also set to star Katie Holmes, according to The Hollywood Reporter Mark Johnson and Guillermo del Toro will produce with del Toro’s protege, Troy Nixey, directing. The film is based on a 1973 [...]
Films adapted from video games have a relatively long and disgraceful past. It’s widely agreed upon, in fact, that there has never been a successful instance of a video game translated to the silver screen in history. The hopes of many a gamer are resting on the newly bulked up shoulders of Jake Gyllenhaal’s in [...]
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