Movie News

What To Watch On Election Day

November 4, 2008 Rich Drees

Politics and film have a long, intertwined tradition. Politicians have been screen villains, heroes or sometimes even both. We’ve seen the scourges of City Hall being fought by crusading newspaper me. Jimmy Stewart rallied for [click for more]

Movie Ratings System Turn 40, Still Sucks

November 4, 2008 Rich Drees

The movie ratings system turned 40 this past weekend and to commemorate the event, Time magazine spoke with Dan Glickman, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, and Joan Graves, Chairman of [click for more]

How To Conquer A Relaunch Of PLANET OF THE APES

November 3, 2008 Rich Drees

Some days I wonder if there is any really interesting film news out there that isn’t about yet another classic film being set up for a remake by a clueless studio. But last week, we [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]