movie buzz

This billboard in Times Square has been tormenting me for weeks now. I can’t look at it without hearing that dum-da-DUM-DUM, dum-da-dum theme music. I can’t wait to see the movie. And now the wait is almost over: just a few days more. I am seriously geeked. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal … more…

Speed Racer The Wachowski Brothers, who gave us The Matrix, return with a cotton-candy cartoon about a kid who likes to go fast when he races in his car, and his name is Speed Racer. No, that’s not his nickname: it’s his name. I’m not making that up: it’s really his name. (my review) What … more…

My screening schedule is getting back to normal, meaning four, five, six, or more movies per week. And I still have so much writing to do about Comic Con and Tribeca… But that won’t stop me from trying to cram in as many screenings as I can. Like these: So there’s this movie from Kazakhstan … more…

Iron Man Imagine if you could wear the coolest car ever, and, like, fly around in it and save the world and stuff. Because life wasn’t already amazing enough for Robert Downey Jr here: billionaire playboy with women hanging all over him and a dozen sportscars in his garage. No, he has to have a … more…

So, a couple of days ago I mentioned that I’d seen Iron Man, and despite the fact that it is many kinds of awesome, the long-rumored cameo by Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury had not materialized. But then came news from Comic Book Resources, which attended the London premiere, also sans Fury, that perhaps … more…

There’s a wonderful valentine to New York City in Sunday’s Irish Independent, in which writer Donal Lynch makes love to my town: New York is the only place in the world that is exactly like it is in the movies. London, on the silver screen, is always too prissily posh and old-world English, Paris is … more…

From IMDB, in its short entirety because it’s so good: MPAA Chief Concedes: Pirates Also Go To The Movies The head of the Motion Picture Association of America, an organization that some Internet users have accused of using legal strongarm tactics to prevent them from downloading recent movies from the Web, has acknowledged that the … more…

Iron Man rocks. I’ll have a full review later in the week, but that’s it in a nutshell. Right now, I just want to give you an anti spoiler. Despite rumors to the contrary that have had fanboys drooling for months, Samuel L. Jackson does not appear as Nick Fury here (though a nascent S.H.I.E.L.D. … more…

I’m off to see Iron Man [opens May 2] in a little bit. Even as a non-comic-book reader, I don’t know that much about the character, certainly not as much as I know about Superman or Batman, I guess mostly because there never was an Iron Man TV show or movie when I was a … more…