For those who complain that too many of today’s movies are rather “same-y” and don’t have enough imagination, I just stumbled across these trailers. Nicolas Cage stars in a remake of “The Wicker Man,” based on a relatively-unknown British film of the early 1970s. Sadly, I already know how this movie ends even though I…
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Monitor Duty’s “The Lake House” Contest
UPDATE: THE CONTEST IS NOW OVER. COMMENTS CLOSED. In association with Warner Brothers, Monitor Duty will be running a few contests this summer to give away movie merchandise. The first will be a drawing for the new romance/fantasy movie “The Lake House,” opening June 16th. (View the trailer) It reunites “Speed” stars Keanu Reeves and…
More on Avi Arad leaving Marvel
Michael Kim’s “Hollywood Economics” has a large section on Avi Arad’s jump from Marvel to his own production company. Here’s a taste: Just when he helped produced the biggest X-Men movie to date, Avi Arad is leaving as head of Marvel Studio to set up his own production company to be called Avi Arad Prods….
New Wonder Woman?
Word is that relatively unknown actress Mikki Padilla is the front-runner in being cast as WONDER WOMAN in the upcoming move. Here is her IMDB Profile. And here are some very attractive photos of her. See the one with the cowboy hat and the one with the swimsuit? I’m sold!
What If They Fought?
Hutch and I talked about me doing this as a semi-regular comedy-type feature. So here we go. There are battles we want to see but never get to. Battles that SHOULD happen but either haven’t or simply haven’t YET. But why wait? Why not ask the question: WHAT IF THEY FOUGHT?! This entry’s fights: Ma…
Join the Fun at Micro-Con
If you’re in the Minnesota area on Sunday, APRIL 30th, then you need to not be a loser and get your butt over to the latest annual MICRO-CON – “The One Day Wonder.” Micro-Con is a small comic comvention and is a function of the Mid-West Comic Book Association (MCBA). It’s going to be held…
Christopher Mills’ new site
DVD Late Show: B-Movies, Exploitation and Cult Television DVD Reviews by Christopher Mills has just launched, and I’ll just let him describe it:
Ice Age: The Meltdown review and news
‘Ice Age’ Hauls in Mammoth $70.5M I saw “Ice Age: The Meltdown” this weekend in a theater full of kids on Sunday afternoon. Apparently this was replicated across the country, as the movie will need a herd of mammoths to haul all the money they took in. $70 million is great, especially in an age…
Big guy on the big screen
‘The Simpsons’ to Hit the Big Screen I saw this trailer this weekend at the Ice Age 2 showing.
Now that it’s April 2nd
I decided that this year I didn’t want to do some kind of cheesy post that sounds enticing, invite people to click on the extended entry only to taunt, “April Fools!” Where’s the fun in that? An April Fool’s prank has to be grand. Anyone can just offer a quick enticement, get the other person…