Death Bell (2008) Movie Review
Although summer has long been the traditional time for horror films in Korea, the 2008 season only saw one major release in the form of debut director Chang’s “Death Bell”. As such, the fact that the film proved to be a massive success, attracting over a million viewers and ranking as one of the country’s [...]
Ip Man (2008) Movie Review
Who is Ip Man? For you contemporary types, he’s most famous for teaching some scrawny Chinese kid name Bruce Lee the secrets of whupping ass. But that’s the old guy. According to Wilson Yip’s movie, the younger Ip Man made his bones during the days of Japanese-occupied China, where he suffered at the hands of [...]
Pulse 3: Invasion (2008) Movie Review
In the third, and supposedly final, installment in the Pulse trilogy of movies the world has shunned technology and learned to live in a world without any communications devices. A world, ironically, that would not have been able to view this straight-to-DVD release. Truthfully, they would have been better off.
Starring newcomer Brittany [...]
Che (aka The Argentine / Guerrilla, 2008) Movie Review
Adapted from the famous T-shirt, “Che” is director Steven Soderbergh’s massively long, two part movie about professional revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. A much more covert revolutionary himself, Soderbergh has shrewdly designed his career around the Scorsese Model of “one for them, one for me”. So an “Oceans” caper with George Clooney will be alternated with [...]
Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008) Movie Review
You can’t keep a good zombie down. Well actually you can, with a perfectly placed shot to the forehead, but that’s easier said than done. Just ask the residents of Raccoon City, the fictional town that was laid to waste when the Umbrella Corporation’s experiments went bad and produced flesh-eating zombies. That was the plot [...]
Tim Robbins, Hawkeye, and Black Widow in Iron Man 2
See, here’s the difference between a magazine throwing out superhero movie rumors *cough*British rags*cough* and a site like LatinoReview. You can actually trust the latter, but not so much the former. Having said that, here’s the latest rumor/news from LR, which has Tim Robbins hopping onboard “Iron Man 2″ to play Howard Stark, father to [...]
Frank Miller Updates 300 Sequel, Sin City 2, Hard-Boiled, Martha Washington
While doing the promotional rounds for his make-or-break directorial gig “The Spirit”, Frank Miller was asked about two of his upcoming projects — the sequel to “Sin City” and “300″, and an adaptation of his “Hard Boiled” and “Martha Washington” comic books. Of the four, the only property Miller has done that I haven’t been [...]
Twilight Sequel News: Jacob Black Gets Replaced, Ben Barnes as Aro, Kristen Stewart
Yup. That’s not your dog on fire, that’s the “Twilight” sequel heating up like something that heats up awful fast and hot. With news that Summit has hired a new director for “Twilight’s” sequel, “New Moon”, and a 2009 release date penned in, there are more “New Moon” rumblings in the world of teen vampire [...]
Blade Director Takes on Crow Remake!
Oh man, I don’t know how I feel about this. On the one hand, I’d love to see The Crow back on the big screen where it belongs instead of being relegated to direct-to-DVD hell just rehashing the same exact storyline as the original, but on the other hand — how could you possibly top [...]
New Images from Sherlock Holmes, Friday the 13th Remake, Final Destination 4, Whiteout, The Informant
What does Matt Damon conspiring on a toilet, a machete-wielding maniac, a gun-toting Kate Beckinsale, and some dead kids have in common? They’re all new images from Warner Bros.’ upcoming slate of 2009 movies. Towards the end of every year, the major studios send out a big ol list of movies we can expect for [...]
































