‘Van Helsing’: NBC’s First $200 Million Bust? Stephen Sommers is another one of those filmmakers, like the ID4/Godzilla/Day After Tomorrow/Stargate team of Devlin-Emmerich or Michael Bay of The Rock/Armageddon/Pearl Harbor, whose movies are aimed at an audience of kids with A.D.D. By that, I mean that the films are big on explosions, obvious and unconvincing…

‘Van Helsing’: NBC’s First $200 Million Bust? Stephen Sommers is another one of those filmmakers, like the ID4/Godzilla/Day After Tomorrow/Stargate team of Devlin-Emmerich or Michael Bay of The Rock/Armageddon/Pearl Harbor, whose movies are aimed at an audience of kids with A.D.D. By that, I mean that the films are big on explosions, obvious and unconvincing…

I thought this show was canceled a year and a half ago! Drew Carey, a wild and wacky show that I used to love, long ago descended into self-parody. There was way too much Mimi, and then Kate left the show. And then it just got worse and worse. But it turns out that the…

Black Widow Gets Director We were just talking about screenwriter David Hayter, who had hoped to helm the filming of his “Watchmen” script. Now he gets to shoot the Black Widow.

Apparently there was a straight-to-cable movie sequel to Starship Troopers, and Scott McCullar reviews it. There is an official web site from Sony, but there is an unofficial fan site which is better and oddly enough the movie promotes the URL for the fan site!

Aronofsky to Direct Watchmen? That’s ICV2’s link to the scoop by Aintitcoolnews. I dearly wish Terry Gilliam’s “Watchmen” had seen the light of day, since an early 1990s film could still have worked. But I fear any film version of Watchmen not set during the Cold War is going to be a failure. I’ve caught…

The most recent Alien Vs. Predator online featurette is not only illuminating but it makes me hopeful that this film is up to snuff. Goodies: the characters and actors look better than the casts of Alien 3 and 4 (though Ron Perlman was good in that one; no slam against him intended), and the billionaire…

The whole time I’m watching the trailer for The Terminal, Steven Spielberg’s new movie, I keep waiting for the announcement that this is based on a true story. I know I’ve read the story somewhere about a foreign guy who lived at an airport for years. BUT, in the trailer I see the date “2004”…

Frankly, I don’t get what the big deal is about dogeball. All these people fretting about how it’s violent and bullies beat up on the puny. Bah! Back at De Soto High School, I was the best at bodgeball. Oh, I couldn’t throw worth beans. Come to think of it, I don’t recall ever successfully…

The trailer for The Manchurian Candidate is up, and it answers some questions I had posted last August. First off, I’m not sure if this is just to explain away the outdated reference in the title (now that we don’t have a war near Manchuria), but the bad guys of the film are now a…