I promised to keep you updated on the status of Disney’s delayed DVD releases for Nausicaa, Proco Rosso and My Neighbor Totoro and true to my word, here it is: The Digital Bits are reporting that the DVD releases have been pushed back to sometime in early 2005. No official … [Read More]
The month of July marks the 1 year anniversary of The Movie Blog (actual date is July 24th). I can’t believe it’s been a year. I was sitting in my friend’s basement on my laptop posting to my personal blog about a movie I’d just seen. I did that a … [Read More]
Yeah, g’head and say you saw it first but you didn’t. In 1967 there was a story in the SpiderMan comic (#50) called “Spiderman No More” in which Peter Parker struggles with his dual identity. This of course was a possible title for the sequel. The cover art for this … [Read More]
Well, it looks as though Artsmagic’s releases of Full Metal Yakuza and Sabu are just the tip of the iceberg as far as their relationship with Takashi Miike … coming August 31 from Artsmagic is Miike’s Black Society Trilogy – Rainy Dog, Ley Lines, Shinjuku Triad Society – available both … [Read More]
Cautiously optimistic. That’s the frame of mind that I went into Spider-Man 2 with. I LIKED the first Spider-Man, but I didn’t LOVE it. The advanced reviews of Spider-Man 2 sounded really good‚Ķ but those can sometimes be deceiving. The trailers looked great, but even the trailer for Battlefield Earth … [Read More]
Wow. If you’ve an extra eight hundred dollars or so lying around and a major radioactive lizard fixation the good folks at Toho Studios have got a deal for you: Every Japanese Godzilla film ever made in a handsome collector box. That’s a thirty DVD set with space left in … [Read More]
Let me preface this by saying that nobody develops a foreign film fixation on the scale that I have without a LOT of help. I mean you have to have an in – someone trustworthy who speaks the language who can steer you in the right direction. The biggest single … [Read More]
Okay, I realize that putting 2 Disney posts in a row (see below), you can get the idea that Disney’s business moves sorta bug me. And from that, some would assume that I’m saying that the Chicken Little Trailer sucks just because I don’t like Disney — But folks, the … [Read More]
Okay, I’m not making political statements here, but let me get this straight: 1. Disney rejects and won’t distribute Fahrenheit 9-11 – “It has nothing to do with taking sides, we just don’t want to be political.” [Ed Note: We all heard this – It’s complete garbage, but anyway..] 2. … [Read More]
Okay, it’s a bit of a cult phenomenon and little known in the regular world but Mike Judge’s Office Space is a very, very funny movie. It’s Judge’s only move outside of the animation world – where he’s known for King of the Hill and Beavis and Butthead – and … [Read More]
The title says it all really … here it is. I’ve enjoyed the first two Blade films but never because of Snipes’ performances. He’s solid but unspectacular in them. So the big questions for me are how are the villains in this one and how are the new actors, particularly … [Read More]
Not a big surprise here considering Depp’s long standing relationship with Tim Burton, but Variety has just announced the first batch of voice talent confirmed for the Burton-produced stop motion flick The Corpse Bride. Lending (well, selling, really) their voices will be Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Albert … [Read More]