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09.15.09 by Widge @ 2:16 am Patrick Swayze gave us a bunch of kickass performances: among them Ghost, Dirty Dancing, Red Dawn, and yes, Michael J. Nelson, we know...Road House. No lie. I dig the hell out of Road House. He returned to television last year, having hopefully smacked down his pancreatic cancer...but alas, it finally got the better of him. Swayze died yesterday at age 57, with his family at his side. I think everybody's going to be using clips of a glowing Swayze from Ghost, so let's just go in the opposite direction: Direct link for the feedreaders. Thanks for everything, Patrick. Categorized as: Headsup and Movies
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10.03.08 by Widge @ 3:31 am  You kids these days. You have no appreciation for what hardships we, the old bastards among you, had to endure. Why, there was a time when we waited twenty goddamn years for a new Romero zombie flick. Then after the Last Great Zombie Year of 1985, we got Land of the Dead in 2005. And then you got Diary of the Dead just last year. Now there's a sixth Romero zombie flick happening already. As in the thing's written and George is already shooting. That's three Romero zombie flicks in five years, if we take it that the untitled sixth film will hit cinemas next year. So in just five years we've doubled the amount of Romero zombie films. I hope you kids appreciate this. Anyway, the film is zombies vs. people on an island. So Island of the Living Dead is as good a pull-it-out-of-my-ass title as any. The cast announced is Alan Van Sprang (Diary), Kenneth Walsh (Exorcism of Emily Rose), Devon Bostick (Land), Richard Fitzpatrick, Stefano Colacitti and Athena Karkanis. And get offa my lawn!! Categorized as: Movies
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01.09.08 by Widge @ 12:13 pm  Well, io9 is passing along the word that Neuromancer has gone back into active development now that Hayden Christensen is reportedly attached. Now first of all, let's not get overly excitable about this. Films go in and out of development all the time. If I had a dime for every time the Interwebs went apeshit because of the latest Superman 5 news, I would already be able to quit my day job. And how long did that film take to hit cinemas so it could fail? Years and years. Neuromancer has been in development for the last ten years at least. And people get attached to films all the time, for various and sundry reasons I won't get into here. So let's all stay as calm as we can, caffeinated as we are. As for who we think should be cast, I would still think a great deal of our old DreamCast (still in the archive, we'll get to it eventually) would be valid. I don't have a problem with Christensen personally, although I think Jumper will prove him one way or the other to sci-fi geeks, now that he's got a real director working with him. I mean, let's face it: if all you knew about Natalie Portman was the prequel trilogy, you'd think she sucked too. For the way not to do Neuromancer, we'd point you to our previous post about the comic book adaptation. Categorized as: Movies
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12.31.07 by Widge @ 7:00 am Just a brief note that no matter how bad off you are in your career, at least you're not this young lady. Direct link for the feedreaders. What can I say? It made me laugh. Categorized as: Movies
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12.18.07 by Widge @ 9:59 am  Just thought I'd share. For Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Papa's got a brand new gun: The Big Baby. Click on the pic for the full deal. For more info, like eCards, photos, news, and other eSwag, check out the official site. The movie hits July 11th of next year. Bring that noise. Categorized as: Movies
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12.15.07 by Widge @ 12:26 pm  If there's one thing Lucasfilm has been able to do consistently for thirty years straight, it's...well, it's certainly not release badass movies. No, instead it's give out nifty Christmas cards. From pop-up stormtroopers to R2 the red-droid reindeer to...well, Yoda Claus (who uses the power of Force to deliver all the gifts in one night, hmmm?), they're all pretty cool in one way or another. Thanks to Bailey for the headsup. Categorized as: Movies
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12.09.07 by Widge @ 6:21 pm Chico Marx is a great pianist who just seems to bang out brilliant bits without effort, as we've mentioned before. For your Sunday evening entertainment, a couple of sublime performances by the man himself. First up is from A Night in Casablanca from 1946. This and the clip to follow can be found on the Marx Brothers Collection from Warner Brothers. You can click and buy it from Amazon here. You won't regret that purchase. Direct link for the feedreaders. And if you thought that was cool, check out this bit from 1940's Go West after the break: Categorized as: Movies
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11.30.07 by Widge @ 2:44 am Chazzie-award winner Edgar Wright provides commentary for the trailer of Raw Meat, which honestly I had never heard of before and which looks so good I wish I had known about it before my Halloween film fest. It could have taken the slot which had this piece of crap in it. Wait, is it--yes! It is! It's in print! Categorized as: Movies
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11.26.07 by Widge @ 2:40 am As mentioned previously (and indeed, that one was pointed out by Mark Evanier as well), Laurel and Hardy shot their films in English, then would go back and re-shoot them reading their lines, now in a foreign language, phonetically written on blackboards off-camera. Here's some shots of them from Pardon Us, now in German: Categorized as: Movies
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10.31.07 by Widge @ 4:40 pm Okay, so what does that mean? "Been there to see?" It means that I wish I could have been there, in a cinema, to see it when it first was shown. Because we soon forget why these moments are significant. If we look at Lon Chaney Sr.'s makeup stylings today...we don't react like we would have almost a century ago. We're used to this kind of stuff. But back then, remember, cinema was new. No one had ever seen anything like it before. To have witnessed the birth and adolescent years of cinema horror first hand, that would be something. I would almost want to be there twice. Once to see the thing with virgin eyes like the audiences then were, and once with what I know now, just for academic purposes. It's like when I saw The Exorcist in a cinema full of college kids a few years back. I was able to be detached enough from the picture to appreciate how they had been talkative up until the two priests started ascending the stairs...then you could hear a freakin' pin drop. I really, really wish I had been there for these. 7. Mad Renfield Revealed (1931). Categorized as: Movies
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