Month: October 2008

Review: CHANGELING

October 31, 2008 Rich Drees

The one true horror film opening this weekend is Clint Eastwood’s Changeling. While the movie contains a deranged serial killer, it is not his acts that the film dwells on. Instead, the real avenues of [click for more]

Review: ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO

October 31, 2008 Rich Drees

Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) have a problem. Platonic best friends since elementary school, the two find themselves in their mid-20s sharing an apartment and going nowhere fast. Their dead end jobs are [click for more]

Straczynski To Script FORBIDDEN PLANET Remake

October 31, 2008 Rich Drees

Warner Brothers has hired Changeling scribe and Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski to script a remake of their 1956 classic film Forbidden Planet. The original, loosely based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, tells the story [click for more]

Halloween Film Of The Day: 28 DAYS LATER

October 31, 2008 Rich Drees

If Romero’s zombie film Night Of The Living Dead reinvented the genre as social satire, Danny Boyle’s 2002 post-zombie apocolypse 28 Days Later feels almost like a reaction to the previous year’s terrorist attacks on [click for more]

Happy Halloween From Orson Welles

October 30, 2008 Rich Drees

Seventy years ago this evening, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre Of The Air radio program presented their Halloween episode, an adaptation of H. G. Wells’ (no relation) novel War Of The Worlds. Much has [click for more]

And The New Elvis For BUBBA NOSFERATU Is. . .

October 30, 2008 Rich Drees

Like many, I was disappointed when Bruce Campbell announced that he was not going to be part of Don Coscarelli’s Bubba Nosferatu, the follow up to Campbell and Coscarelli’s elderly-Elvis-fighting-a-mummy collaboration Bubba HoTep. But now, [click for more]

Review: CHANGELING

Review: ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO

Straczynski To Script FORBIDDEN PLANET Remake

Halloween Film Of The Day: 28 DAYS LATER

Happy Halloween From Orson Welles

And The New Elvis For BUBBA NOSFERATU Is. . .

Halloween Film Of The Day: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL Footage Reveals Disappointing Gort

Columbia Latest Studio To Try To Get PREACHER To Big Screen

Nichols, Mamet And Scorsese All Tapped To Remake Kurosawa’s HIGH AND LOW