Harry gets his hands on a new picture from The Hulk. While the monstrosity in question looks quite good here, I’m really not looking forward to the introduction of “hulk dogs.” I can buy a huge green guy in purple pants, but that’s just plain goofy. Update: The Hulk Dogs are online. Ah, Berk could take him.
Category: Cinema
Monkey Island or Bust.
If (like me) you prefer more old-fashioned saber-rattling, the new trailer for Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean is now online. With Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, and Jonathan Pryce hamming it up this much, and Keira Knightley (Rachel Weisz look out!) and/or Orlando Bloom as your eye candy of choice, this one could be fun summer afternoon fluff.
Are we shooting people or what?
In praise of Three Kings, “the most caustic anti-war movie of this generation.”
Return of the King (of the World).
The New York Times checks in with James Cameron as he plans his next project, in fantabulous 3-D… (Via High Industrial.) Update: Cameron talks Alien 5. Sign him up.
I don’t want to see this, Jonesey!
Detective Story, the third web installment of The Animatrix, is now online. Nice to look at, but wooden dialogue and a pointless story make this one rather disappointing. I’ve heard good things about Final Flight of the Osiris, but first I have to steel myself to sit through Dreamcatcher.
The Subtler Knife.
Contrary to the Ratner report of a few days ago, AICN reports that Sam Mendes will take on His Dark Materials. Better than Ratner, surely, but I for one didn’t think all that much of Road to Perdition. Can’t we draft Gilliam for this project?
Szpilman, drop the remix.
Go shorty, it’s your birthday…Found while trying to ascertain on news.google whether there’ll ever be another Portishead album: Pianist star and self-proclaimed 50 Cent fanatic Adrien Brody moonlights as a hip-hop DJ. But does he do rhymes, or strictly beats? A Kazaa search only brought up all of Night Ranger’s oeuvre.
Return of the Kong.
Having grappled with the ring of power, PJ’s lifelong dream now comes true: Universal announces that Peter Jackson will direct King Kong after finishing up LOTR: Return of the King. I kinda wish they’d announced this a bit later so that Jackson could devote himself fully to closing out Tolkien‘s trilogy in grand style, but I’m sure he’ll do that anyway. Congrats to PJ, Fran, and WETA on their big score. Update: Fay Wray approves.
The Not-So-Subtle Knife.
In less happy movie news, Brett Ratner – recently kicked off of WB’s Superman – is now threatening to screw up Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. Pullman’s work aside, a Tom Stoppard screenplay deserves a better director. Can’t you just make Rush Hour 3 or something?
No More Tears.
Caught Tears of the Sun over the weekend and was underwhelmed — Trying to be a cross between Black Hawk Down and Rambo, It basically ends up as Three Kings without the irony. In fact, hamhanded pro-interventionist polemic aside, Tears even fails as an action film, since the first hour and a half moves at a snail’s pace. There might have been a good movie in here somewhere despite all the over-the-top heroism and war movie cliches (if you can’t figure out who is and who isn’t going to die for their country early on, you haven’t seen enough men-on-a-mission flicks), but Antoine Fuqua didn’t find it. Bruce Willis and Monica Bellucci do what they can, and the cinematography is occasionally striking, but sadly this film just falls on its face.