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MacDonald’s DEEP BLUE GOOD-BY Gets Director

June 15, 2008 Rich Drees

Gary Fleder, who has directed the crime thrillers Runaway Jury and Kiss The Girls, is in talks to direct an adaptation of John MacDonald’s mystery novel The Deep Blue Good-By, the first in his long [click for more]

PLANET OF THE APES Coming To Blu-Ray!

June 14, 2008 Rich Drees

Ever wonder just how dirty the stinkin’ paws of those damn dirty apes were? You’ll get your chance this fall when Twentieth Century Fox Home Video releases a giant box set of the classic Planet [click for more]

Review: THE HAPPENING

June 13, 2008 Rich Drees

When someone writes the book When Bad Movies Happen To Good Screenplays, writer/director M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening certainly deserves its own chapter. An eco-thriller with a great premise that promises much but delivers nothing [click for more]

Robert Downey Jr. As Sherlock Holmes?

June 13, 2008 Rich Drees

As the old show biz saying goes, you are only as successful as your last hit and with Iron Man having pulled in over half a billion dollars at the box office worldwide, star Robert [click for more]

Review: THE INCREDIBLE HULK

June 13, 2008 Rich Drees

It’s hard to discuss director Louis Leterrier’s comic book adaptation The Incredible Hulk without mentioning the character’s two previous live action iterations- the 1978 to 1982 television series which starred Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno [click for more]

Review: BAGHEAD

June 13, 2008 Rich Drees

Baghead opens in New York and Los Angeles this weekend and expands to other cities later this month. Here is our review from when it played at the Philadelphia Film Festival this past spring. The [click for more]

INDIANA JONES And The Adventure Of The Earlier Draft Script

June 12, 2008 Rich Drees

Anyone following the slow development of the recently released Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull knows that numerous writers have taken cracks at it over the years, never quite meeting whatever requirements [click for more]

Who’s Your BUDDY?

June 11, 2008 Rich Drees

To most people, Buddy Cianci is the name of the junior high school in Family Guy‘s fictional Rhode Island town of Quahog. To residents of the non-fictional Rhode Island, from where Family Guy creator Seth [click for more]

INDIANA JONES’ Next Fabulous Quest

June 11, 2008 Rich Drees

For the most part, we try to keep the talk on politics to a minimum. But this cartoon, found over at the Center for American Progress, might just be a spoiler for what fantastically priceless [click for more]

THREE MUSKETEERS To Ride Again

June 11, 2008 Rich Drees

It has been years since we’ve had a movie based on Alexandre Dumas’ swashbuckling classic The Three Musketeers. It has been even more years since we’ve had a really good version of the story. (Though [click for more]