Four months after Guillermo Del Toro officially signed on to direct “The Hobbit” and its sequel, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyens have officially agreed to collaborate on the productions. The films are set to be filmed back to back and New Line president Toby Emmerich made the announcement that said production would begin [...]

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Poor guy, he’ll never be able to live down the vine swinging.
At the end of July, Shia LaBeouf got the opportunity to join an exclusive club made up of celebrities with DUIs. Unfortunately, it gets rough at meetings sometimes and he unfortunately broke his hand in the fender-bender, resulting in the hault of 1st unit [...]

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Ennio Morricone is without a doubt one of the finest composers of the last fifty years and one of the most versatile the cinema has ever had. He defined the sound of the giallo and perhaps most memorably the Spaghetti Western. Ennio became world famous with his scores for Sergio Leone’s Dollars films but perhaps [...]

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Trekkies unite, the new Star Trek teaser posters have been released!
The J.J. Abrams “reimagining” will star Shaun of the Dead’s Simon Pegg as Scotty (pictured top right), Pathfinder’s Karl Urban as McCoy (bottom left), Charlie Bartlett’s Anton Yelchin as Chekov (bottom right), and Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle’s John Cho as Sulu (top [...]

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Webs is quite an anomaly. I received the screener in the mail and the first thing I noticed was the massive “SciFi Essentials” plastered across the top of the DVD case. Anyone that watches the SciFi channel knows that they usually put out dull, lifeless films that are chalk full of horrible CGI and acting [...]

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Stop me if I’m going out on a limb here but odds are many of you helped Iron Man reach that $315 million box office plateau its sitting on right about now. Since I’m making that assumption, I’m gonna take a shot in the dark and say that most of you are planning on buying [...]

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I’d love to know what director, Roger Vadim, was thinking when he directed the 1968 cult-classic, Barbarella.  Were there drugs involved?  Was it made as a vehicle for his ‘then-lover’ Jane Fonda?  Were the comic books just as cheesy?  I watched Barbarella with no expectations, and lucky for me, every last one of them was [...]

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If you didn’t catch the sarcasm, yes indeed, Jackie Chan is going to star in “The Spy Next Door”, an action-comedy coming to you from your friendly guys over at Relativity Media.  Once again, Jackie has to kick-butt and take names, while making us laugh, in an adventure film that sounds all too familiar to even [...]

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The Ghost Galleon is the third film in the Blind Dead series written and directed by Amando de Ossorio, and is different from the first two films in just about every way except the Blind Dead’s importance and some beautiful cinematography. Where Tombs of the Blind Dead was an exercise in tension and Return [...]

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There was once a time when hack filmmaker Stephen Sommers could’ve churned out a fun popcorn flick. Before he became notorious for ruining Universal’s imminent plans to reboot their most famous movie monsters in 2004, he was making passable children’s films like The Jungle Book and fun action-horror hybrids like Deep Rising and, to [...]

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