I talked briefly about the casting for Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut 'Synecdoche' before, now called 'Synecdoche, New York' apparently. A review of the script has turned up online and the reaction is, well, exciting but confusing. Full of comments like this..
"Synecdoche" will make "Adaptation" and "Eternal Sunshine" look like instructional industrial films. No one [...]

It's Friday, so i'm mainly going to post stories that will waste a lot of time, and this is a great one. Why not Spend your afternoon watching the new HBO Spike Lee Documentary.
I listened to a radio interview not long ago with Spike Lee (BBC Radio 5, you can probably still find it as [...]

Over on HNR they've heard "reports" that Strike Entertainment, the production company behind 'Slither 'and the upcoming 'Day of the Dead' remake have gained the rights to produce a prequel based on John Carpenters 1982 horror classic 'The Thing'.
'Slither' was a good film, but I think that was largely due to James Gunn's vision rather [...]

I'd never even heard of this film until I read a review on Twitch a couple of days ago. The Twitch boys live in Canada so they get to go to TIFF, the Toronto International Film Festival. 'Cashback' a UK production is one of the many films that has premiered there.
When art student Ben Willis [...]

Kumar Pallana is a guy you could pass on the street and never give a second look, but if you've ever seen a Wes Anderson film you'll recognise him as the surrogate 4th Wilson brother. Kumar is the guy who played 'Mr Littlejeans' in 'Bottle Rocket', and 'Pagoda' in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' a performance i've [...]

We previously posted about some unofficial stills that had been leaked online, and finally they've released some official stills from the film, well behind-the-scenes shots. Steve Miner is proving to be an unpopular choice as director (I liked 'Lake Placid' but obviously thats just me) and has the fanboys raging across the net about what [...]

Not that this is really news, but anything that Simon Pegg is in, i'm going to give a look. Edgar Wright and Nick Frost both made it to this years comicon, but notably absent was Simon Pegg. The guy has like four films in the pipeline so it's really no surprise he couldn't spare the [...]