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March 2009

March 07, 2009

Newsbites: The period-piece edition!

1. Alan Doyle, of the Canadian folk-rock band Great Big Sea, has been cast as...

March 07, 2009

Newsbites: The supernatural stories edition!

1. Alfred Molina has been cast as the evil magician Horvath in Jerry Bruckheimer's modernized...

March 06, 2009

Watchmen and the Jar Jar Binks meme

First, Devin Gordon wrote this in his Watchmen review for Newsweek magazine:Snyder's attention wanders when...

March 06, 2009

Imagining the deaths of people still living

MTV Splash Page reports that former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca is not happy about the...

March 06, 2009

Joan of Arc is coming to Vancouver

If you're a fan of French filmmaker Robert Bresson, and if you happen to be...

March 06, 2009

WALL•E + Watchmen = very, very funny

Click here if the video file above doesn't play properly. Hat tip to Upcoming Pixar.

March 06, 2009

How important is “accuracy” in a movie?

That's the question I asked in a blog post over at CT Movies yesterday, touching...

March 04, 2009

Newsbites: The science-fiction edition!

1. Leonardo DiCaprio will star in Chris Nolan's Inception, about which little is known except...

March 02, 2009

Star Trek and Terminator parallels

It's beginning to look like the Star Trek and Terminator movies could have a couple...

March 02, 2009

Canadian box-office stats — March 1

Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest...

March 02, 2009

Newsbites: The Hasbro toys and games edition!

1. Director Ridley Scott and Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner say their film version of Monopoly...

March 01, 2009

Newsbites: The comics and cartoons edition!

1. A couple rumours have been floating around about that Green Lantern movie. First, it...

March 01, 2009

BC Christian News — March 2009

The newest issue of BC Christian News is now online, and with it, my film...

February 2009

February 27, 2009

The Day the Earth Stood Still — the article’s up!

My article on the old and new versions of The Day the Earth Stood Still...

February 27, 2009

Pinocchio screen-capture comparison

Glenn Kenny posted some images from the upcoming "70th Anniversary Edition" of Pinocchio (1940; my...

February 26, 2009

Shake Hands with the Devil comes to U.S.

Regent Releasing has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Shake Hands with the Devil (2007),...

February 26, 2009

Voyage of the Dawn Treader gets a rewrite

The first draft -- or one of the first drafts, at any rate -- was...

February 26, 2009

Kings makers discuss their series

Kings, the TV series that quasi-modernizes the biblical story of Saul and David, premieres March...

February 25, 2009

Newsbites: The reboots and remakes edition!

1. Battlestar Galactica has already been rebooted for TV. But now that the series is...

February 25, 2009

Newsbites: The comics and superheroes edition!

Is anyone else feeling superhero fatigue yet?1. Marvel fans can rest easy! Samuel L. Jackson...

February 25, 2009

Newsbites: The people living in forests edition!

1. It turns out the rumours were correct: Cate Blanchett really will play Maid Marian...

February 25, 2009

Agora — the teaser is now online

The international teaser for Alejandro Amenábar's Agora -- starring Rachel Weisz as the 4th-century philosopher...

February 24, 2009

Canadian box-office stats — February 22

Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest...

February 22, 2009

I probably should have mentioned this earlier …

... but CT Movies live-blogged the Oscars tonight, and I was one of the bloggers....

February 21, 2009

Kingdom Come — gone for good now?

First it was on, then it was off, and then it was on again --...

February 20, 2009

Newsbites: The comics and superheroes edition!

1. It may not have been nominated for Best Picture, but re-releasing The Dark Knight...

February 20, 2009

Newsbites: The supernatural stories edition!

1. Several new items on the Twilight front: First, director Catherine Hardwicke said last week...

February 20, 2009

Random thought of the day.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe opened in December 2005...

February 20, 2009

Will the original Sarah Connor “be back”?

Six months ago, it was rumoured that there might be a part in Terminator: Salvation...

February 19, 2009

The Big Fisherman — a “lost” biblical epic

Jerry Beck posted an item at Cartoon Brew yesterday expressing his curiosity about a neglected...