Archive for April, 2008

I Want To Believe The X-Files Sequel Is Going To Be Good

April 18th, 2008

Update: MTV Movies Blog has this quote from Chris Carter:
“It’s really Mulder’s faith in the paranormal that is the faith that he’s wrestling with,” the co-writer/director said. “So while you can see a church in a photograph, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s about religion.”
So, the movie is more about Mulder’s faith than Scully’s. That’s good [...]

Crocodile Movies Are Our Weakness: Rogue

April 17th, 2008

What do Lake Placid, Black Water, Steve Irwing’s The Crocodile Hunter, Crocodile Dundee, The X Files episode Quagmire have in common? That’s right: crocodiles.

ShockTillYouDrop.com has an exclusive trailer for the movie Rogue, a story about “a killer crocodile in the Australian Outback.” It seems to have all the elements of a great crocodile movie; including [...]

About The Harry Potter Lexicon Copyright Trial

April 16th, 2008

I have not read a single Harry Potter book or ever watched a Harry Potter movie (nor am I about to - couldn’t care less) but this copyright case against The Harry Potter Lexicon is certainly interesting. J.K. Rowling is suing RDR Books to stop them from publishing a Harry Potter reference book compiled by [...]

Domo Arigato, Mr. Jack Bauer

April 15th, 2008

Did you know that Jack Bauer was big in Japan? Well, he is. So big, in fact, that the Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. hired Kiefer Sutherland and a bunch of production people from the show 24 to make a series of ads for the company’s CalorieMate power bar.
Japanese advertisers have a long history of using Hollywood [...]

I am Pro-Uwe Boll (And So Can You)

April 14th, 2008

Last week Uwe Boll foolishly agreed to stop making movies if this petition would manage to get one million signatures. Unfortunately for Boll, the movie websites picked up the challenge and by now the petition already has close to 200 000 signatures. Getting one million people together in the internet age might not be [...]