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Vanessa Hudgens Up For TWILIGHT Sequel Role?

January 12, 2009 Rich Drees

I would imagine that one of the hardest things to do as a teen star on teh Disney Channel is timing your career transition to more adult roles. High School Musical heartthrob Zac Efron seems [click for more]

Vanishing History: Rupert Pupkin’s Payphone

January 12, 2009 Rich Drees

A city is like a living, breathing entity in that it is constantly undergoing growth and change. Fortunately, films have helped capture the looks of certain locations at a specific moment in time, preserving them [click for more]

GODZILLA Goes HiDef

January 11, 2009 Rich Drees

This past fall, all 28 Godzilla films were broadcast on Japan’s high definition Movie Specialty Channel. Of course, this meant the entire series needed to be remastered for high-def broadcast. Over at SciFi Japan, there’s [click for more]

Exploitation Director Ray Dennis Steckler Has Died

January 11, 2009 Rich Drees

Ray Dennis Steckler, director of such low budget exploitation fare as The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Decided To Stop Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies, died this past Wedsnesday, January 7,in Las Vegas. He was 70. [click for more]

A Sneak Peek At Pixar’s UP

January 10, 2009 Rich Drees

Disney sure knows how to work the corporate synergy. It’s hard to watch the studios cable outlet for more than half an hour without seeing some type of promotion for an upcoming Disney film. (And [click for more]

Review: FROST/NIXON

January 9, 2009 Bill Gatevackes

About half way through the Frost/Nixon, Nixon aide Jack Brennan (Kevin Bacon) compares David Frost (Michael Sheen) to a boxer who trained for months to face off against the champion—in this case former President Richard [click for more]

Weekend Releases: January 9

January 9, 2009 Rich Drees

January is an odd month for movies. The winter holiday season has ended and the studios are laying their spent, having shot their wad of films they hoped would bring in the crowds over the [click for more]

Friday Flashback: THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY

January 9, 2009 Rich Drees

In 1903, The Great Train Robbery, a (by today’s standards) short, twelve-minute film from Thomas Edison’s Edison Films production company would forever transform motion pictures from curious novelty to the emerging art form of the [click for more]

TRANSFORMERS 2: First Teaser Poster

January 9, 2009 Rich Drees

Well here it is, the first teaser poster for one of this summer’s eagerly awaited blockbusters, Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen. (Click on the poster for a bigger version.) Now granted, we still don’t [click for more]

Rourke And Rockwell Slated For IRON MAN II Villains

January 7, 2009 Rich Drees

Well how’s this for irony? No sooner do I get home from being impressed by Mickey Rourke’s performance at a screening of The Wrestler than I find the news that he has beenin talks to [click for more]