‘Haywire’ Trailer Betrays the Country’s Most Dangerous Weapon
Steven Soderbergh is perhaps the most versatile director working today. He hates to be pinned down, he enjoys non-actors acting, and he revels in action as much as dialogue. With Haywire it seems he...
View Article8 Filmmaking Tips From Guillermo Del Toro and Nicholas Winding Refn
In one of the best panels in recent memory, Guillermo del Toro and Nicholas Winding Refn chose to combine their allotted time in Hall H (for Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark and Drive respectively). What...
View ArticleComic-Con 2011: Five Minutes with The Man Who Would Be Kings, Jason Momoa
In the rapid fire world of journalism, heh, sometimes you only get a few minutes with talent to get to the really great information. Then sometimes you only get a few minutes shoved into a tiny room...
View ArticleComic-Con Interview: Andrew Niccol on Social Commentary, Ruining Film for...
Andrew Niccol loves thought-provoking ideas. Gattaca, his script for The Truman Show, and Lord of War are works of varying genres that all posed interesting questions. His latest film, In Time, looks...
View ArticleComic-Con 2011: ‘Spartacus: Vengeance’ Promises New Faces, Same Sex and Gore
If there is one show that has managed to surprise me in the last few years with its sheer awesomeness and balls-out attitude, it’s Spartacus on Starz! The first season was full of 300 slo-mo, breasts,...
View ArticleComic-Con 2011: Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘TWIXT’ Will Be An Infinite Amount of...
Francis Ford Coppola started his panel with a ton of electronics on the stage and a second ton of film history ready to impart. Twixt may be an antique story featuring Gothic Romance elements, but...
View ArticleThe 6 Best Things From Comic-Con Day Two
After returning home at 4am after wherever that party was, Robert Fure, Jack Giroux and Cole Abaius blacked out in their hotel room overlooking the San Diego Convention Center and communicated their...
View ArticleComic-Con Video Interview: Guy Pearce Talks Assholes, ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the...
Guy Pearce is really good at playing assholes. He can do the nice guy thing or the conflicted hero as well, but I love me some Pearce in a-hole mode. Earlier this year in the fantastic Mildred Pierce,...
View ArticleComic-Con Interview: Tarsem Brings His Style and Mickey Rourke’s Madness to...
“Coming this fall: an action event from the director of The Cell and The Fall.” Yeah, it still sounds odd to me, too. Once it was announced that Tarsem would be tackling a big swords and sandals epic,...
View ArticleComic-Con 2011: Spielberg and Jackson Discuss Their Grand Adventure on ‘Tintin’
While waiting for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson for The Adevtnures of Tintin press conference, I kept imagining how the duo would magically enter the room. First of all, their podium was slightly...
View ArticleThe 6 Best Things From Comic-Con Day Three
On the final big movie day for Comic-Con, Cole, Robert and Jack had their sanity tested and almost passed. Proof of this came at the end of the night when all three ended up delirious in a fancy hotel...
View ArticleComic-Con 2011: Why You Should Be Excited About a ‘Ghost Rider’ Relaunch
Unlike Robert Fure, I’m excited for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Like Nathan Adams, I dislike — not hate — the first film and its Myster Science Theater-esque enjoyability. Understandably,...
View ArticleAndrew Garfield: I Needed Spidey In My Life When I Was A Kid
The theatrics have almost all but gone from Comic-Con. Last year it was a genuine moment between a young fan and Ryan Reynolds delivering the Green Lantern Oath that brought down the house. This...
View ArticleComic-Con 2011: 10 Things I Liked, 5 I Didn’t
San Diego’s Comic-Con has come and gone once again with 2011 marking my fourth straight year of attendance. Living in Los Angeles, it’s easy for me to shoot down there for the weekend, but beyond...
View ArticleComic-Con Interview: Rick Baker Discusses His First Monsters and The Way of...
This may shock some of you dear readers, but this year I decided to skip the Breaking Dawn panel and instead went with the Rick Baker retrospective panel. Getting to hear Baker talk at great length...
View ArticleComic-Con Interview: Emile Hirsch Discusses ‘The Darkest Hour’
I wish I got this interview on video. Emile Hirsch was acting like he just came off a late night of drinking countless Red Bulls. The actor couldn’t have been more energetic and enthusiastic about...
View ArticleComic-Con Interview: Damon Lindelof Talks ‘Prometheus’, Ridley Scott, and Not...
It was pretty clear from the Prometheus Comic-Con footage that there are more ties to Alien than the film makers are letting on. Whether or not it deals with the Xenomorphs is still up in the air, but...
View ArticleBut Of Course: ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2′ Panel to Open...
Just as it did last year, this year’s Comic-Con will open with one heck of a bite – that’s the bite of rabid Twilight fans who are so undone by what they are watching on stage that their mouths just...
View ArticleHow to Experience Everything at Comic-Con 2012
From the looks of it Django Unchained, Pacific Rim and Anything Marvel Does Forever are topping the list of the most anticipated movies hitting Comic-Con 2012. The question is, with 400 million...
View ArticleWhat to Expect From Our Coverage of Comic-Con 2012
Check out a preview of what the Rejects will be up to this year at the San Diego Comic-Con, beginning with SDCC virgin Brian Salisbury… Having never been to Comic-Con, in fact having never before set...
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