That ain’t Superfly or Marcellus Wallace. That’s Wilson Fisk, looking much more like the fearsome Kingpin than I’d ever imagined. In the still-extant case on the Daredevil movie, this goes in the thumbs’ up pile. Update: The rest of the main characters get their due.
Category: Cinema
…and Terror in the Aisles.
If ballet’s not your bag, Lincoln Center is going against type and offering some blood-spattering good fun with Scary Movies: 30 Years of Horror. I’d like to catch some of these if possible. particularly Ringu, Deathdream, and Horror Express.
Running Silent, Running Deep.
Since it’s getting absolutely no word-of-mouth from Dimension Studios, I thought I’d note here that Below, the haunted submarine thriller staring Bruce Greenwood (Thirteen Days), Olivia Williams (Rushmore), Jason Flemyng (Lock Stock), and Dexter Fletcher (ditto), is actually pretty good. A stilted beginning and a trite ending, sure, but I thought the middle hour and fifteen minutes was both stylish and unsettling. A B+ B movie, if nothing else.
Carville on Stark.
Here’s something else I meant to blog last week and forgot – my old boss is looking to produce a remake of All the King’s Men (It’s below the Hitchens stuff.) I know Carville has some connections with Milos Forman due to his cameoing in The People vs. Larry Flynt…I wonder if he could entice him to direct. At any rate, if this goes down, I may just have to finagle a way to get involved in some capacity, or at least visit the set.
Oldest Living Thing.
It seems the seal may have broken on TTT news. A day after the new trailer is released (you owe it to yourself to download the full-screen Quicktime version), this pic of Treebeard pops up. Lookin’ good… Update: Hmmm, they seem to have taken it down, but be vewwy vewwy quiet…
Bamf!
AICN gets their hands on the first pic of Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler in X-Men 2. Looks a bit goofy, I suppose, but there’s no real way of telling until we see him move.
A new power is rising.
Treebeard! Gollum! Balrog! Oliphaunt! Wargs! The Two Towers trailer has arrived, and it looks absolutely amazing…It’s a thing of beauty, and the Requiem for a Dream theme fits nicely too. I’m not sure how I feel yet about what PJ’s doing with Elrond (And where are he and Aragorn having this discussion?), but he’s earned my trust thus far. Update: Take it frame-by-frame.
Six Days
until the next TTT trailer. Hopefully I’ll be able to get this on Kazaa that day and not have to resort to scavenging the huge pile of “700 free hours” AOL CD’s in the lobby.
Finally Here.
Two long-awaited (at least by me) releases dropped today…the special edition DVD of Amadeus, with 20 new minutes of footage (I’ll check it out tonight), and Peter Gabriel’s much-delayed release Up. I must admit, halfway through the first track (“Darkness”) I was wondering when Pete had started hanging out with Roger Waters, but after listening to the album once through I now think it’s definitely a return to form, with “Growing Up,” the remixed “I Grieve,” and “The Barry Williams Show” currently the stand-out tracks.
Kung Fu?
I know I’ve been posting a lot about the Superman fiasco at WB of late, but this review of the JJ Abrams script has to be read to be believed. This script might just be the worst idea for Supes in a long, sordid history of bad ideas. Hasn’t anyone at WB ever watched the Dini animated series?