Jennifer Hudson is an Oscar winning actress with the voice of a true diva. This American Idol cast-off’s career has taken off over the past few years to great heights. In her latest venture, Hudson co-stars in the upcoming film “The Secret Life of Bees” where she plays the part of Rosaleen, a young black […]
Television: Advance Thoughts on Supernatural 4.05 Monster Movie
The CW asks ‘What’s Black and White and Scary All Over?’ Of course the answer is Supernatural’s 4.05 episode Monster Movie and this coming Thursday, October 16th at 9/8c, the CW Network is telling viewers not to adjust their set. In a bold production move, this episode of Supernatural was filmed in black and […]
DVD REVIEW: Halloween 30th Anniversary Commemorative Set – Big Chills, Cool Package!
It’s been thirty years since a little horror movie changed the genre forever and gave John Carpenter a career. Halloween was something completely different – a story about a killer child who grew up to become the personification of evil, Michael Myers. To celebrate this anniversary, Anchor Bay Entertainment has packaged the three best films […]
INTERVIEW: Dakota Fanning on “The Secret Life of Bees” and Life Outside of Hollywood
When you think of Dakota Fanning the first thing that might come to mind is a cute, sweet, blonde haired little girl with acting chops beyond her years. Her resume is littered with co-stars that make up some of the biggest names in Hollywood. But she’s not that little girl anymore. She’s actually fourteen years […]
MOVIE TRAILER/CLIP – Trailer Park of Terror
Here is something fun. The folks behind the upcoming Indie Horror DVD Trailer Park of Terror give us a sneak at the film and a behind the scenes look at the makeup effects, that were created by the world class Drac Studios, the folks who also did the makeup effects on the upcoming Watchmen movie. […]
MOVIE NEWS: Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds starts Filming.
I just watched the Original Inglourious Bastards on DVD last week and enjoyed the heck out of it. The one special feature on it was a 20 minute interview between Quentin Tarantino and the director Enzo G. Castellari. Of course Tarantino’s version sounds like it’s going to be radically different from the original and I’m […]
FRESH GEAR: Toshiba Announces a slew of New Laptops
Satellite_A305_Open_RT(SM) I swear, it’s amazing how an Apple Keynote gets so much hype and every time, I come away completely under whelmed. I’m going to have a full on rant about how much I think tech journalist, especially bloggers lose whatever minimal credibility they have whenever Apple has one of these events. I mean […]
HIGH DEFINITION: Bond goes Blu next Week
I’m such a freaking sucker for Bond that I’ve purchased almost all of MGM’s triple dip set of Bond films – I have three versions of all 21 movies. There was the regular non-restored collection, then the ultimate restored collection, then the super dooper ooper special edition collection and like a moron get suckered in, […]
INTERVIEW: Tristan Wilds Talks About “The Secret Life of Bees”, “The Wire” and 90210
In the upcoming movie “The Secret Life of Bees” (starring Jennifer Hudson, Dakota Fanning and Queen Latifah) Tristan Wilds portrays Zack Taylor, a young, idealistic teen growing up in the tumultuous racially charged sixties during the height of the civil rights movement. As a young black man trying to find his way to becoming a […]
Movie News: School Is In Session for FAME Reinvention
Lakeshore Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) has announced they are set to do a ‘reinvention’ of the 1980 Oscar winning film FAME. The announcement was made jointly today by producer Tom Rosenberg, chairman & CEO of Lakeshore Entertainment, and Mary Parent, chairman of MGM’s Worldwide Motion Picture Group. In keeping with the spirit and innovation […]
TELEVISION: My Own Worst Enemy – Jekyll & Hyde & The Spying Game!
Call it a hunch, but I suspect that NBC’s My Own Worst Enemy [Mondays, 10/9C] will be greeted by a lot of critics with cries of “It’s silly,” and “What the heck was that?” – which is kind of a shame. The series, which stars Christian Slater as super-spy/sociopath Edward Albright and nice guy husband/father/efficiency […]