Asian martial arts star Jet Li has squashed rumors of his impending retirement. Stories had surfaced indicating Li was intending to quit film work to study Buddhism full time. Though he is a devout Buddhist Li says the retirment rumors are simply unfounded and confirmed that he is in talks … [Read More]
A pair of intriguing, though disturbing, rumors of live action adaptations of Japanese anime productions have surfaced recently … First, the US Sci Fi channel will be adapting Witch Hunter Robin into a tv series to begin airing either in 2004 and 2005. Sci Fi is obviously hoping to tap … [Read More]
Surpised I haven’t seen this anywhere else yet but all the major online outlets are now accepting preorders for the four disc DVD set of the original Star Wars Trilogy. Discs one through three include the Special Edition versions of the films – Lucas refuses to let anyone see the … [Read More]
Okay, I know we’ve got at least one Brit reading this thing regularly, so David, this one’s for you … Before I latched on to my current Japanese movie fetish I had a bit of a thing going for the Danes and the Dogme 95 movement, thus I leapt at … [Read More]
Ok, I have no idea of what to think of this. Apparently Olivia Newton-John and Hugh Jackman are going to be in Grease 3. it looks like going without Travolta. Apparently he’s not so keen to do it anymore, but Olivia Newton-John is. Latest is that the script’s been changed … [Read More]
So I woke up on April Fools day to find that my fiance Amanda had fallen in love with someone else. HELLBOY! She was spouting off trivia about the making of the film, background on the characters and the 6 year process that brought this to the silver screen and … [Read More]
So, the early reviews for Shaolin Soccer are out and almost universally positive (check here for a good cross section) but it’s also confirmed that Miramax has done a pretty significant hack job on the film, trimming it from 1h50m down to a lowly 87m. Apparently a lot of cuts … [Read More]
At the very top of the list of films I’m looking forward to right now is Casshern, a Japanese sci-fi flick that hits theaters in Japan in late April. The trailer was simply stunning and now they’ve released these: a series of still shots from the film that are just … [Read More]
I’m leaving for the Dominican Republic now. I’ll be back later. With a tan. I hereby pass the blogging ball to one of our other bloggers for 9 days. I’ll be sitting on a beach. Not Caring. At all. Goodbye.
Been waiting for this for a while … a trailer for Oxide (The Eye, Bangkok Dangerous) Pang’s The Tesseract has finally hit online. It’s on the Japanese site for the film but all the dialog’s in English and it shows you more than enough to say that the film is … [Read More]
Whoa whoa, stop the horses….. Someone just lost their job. I’m sure, any day now, whoever is in charge and has been taking a vacation so he can cheat on his wife, will return to find that the intern he left in his stead has been tricked by the devil … [Read More]