PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES AUTHOR WILL WRITE A ‘DARK SHADOWS’ REMAKE FOR JOHNNY DEPP AND TIM BURTON
Source: ew.com
In news guaranteed to satisfy a unique coalition of vampire obsessives, soap opera devotees, and Jane Austen lovers, Warner Bros. has put the long-discussed remake of Dark Shadows on the fast track with the hiring of a new screenwriter. According to Variety, Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, will work on a new adaptation of the 1966-1971 supernatural soap. Tim Burton will direct Johnny Depp for the millionth eighth time.
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Movie review: ”Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead’
Source: Gary Goldstein at latimes.com
Funny title, not so funny movie. That would be writer-director Jordan Galland’s “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead,” an ambitious satire of Shakespeare, vampires, small theater, Tom Stoppard, serial womanizing, cops and more that starts off feeling clever and original but turns silly and diffused as its convoluted story spins out.
Jake Hoffman (Dustin’s son) stars as Julian Marsh, a slacker living in the office of his doctor-father, who exits longtime unemployment to direct a quirky — to say the least — knockoff of “Hamlet,” written by the preternaturally pale Theo Horrace ( John Ventimiglia).
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Cerebral Sci-Fi Films That Wipe Our Minds
Source: wired.com
Children of Men
George Orwell’s future-fascist classic Nineteen Eighty-Four was really about 1948, although it was published in 1949. Same goes for director Alfonso Cuaron’s destabilizing Children of Men: Although its enviropocalypse takes place in 2027, it is really about 2007, although it was released in 2006 and based on P.D. James’ 1992 novel.
Children of Men compressed increasing militarism, class warfare, indefinite terrorism and civic collapse into a too-near nightmare that can still keep you awake at night. And it did it without egregious CGI or high-cost FX, leaning heavily instead on the intelligence of its actors, especially Clive Owen, and its disturbing vision of a world nearly stripped bare of compassion and innocence.
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Summer Movies: Best Female Action Heroes
Source: www.npr.org
From Foxy Brown to Hit Girl, leading ladies kick butt on the big screen. Talk of the Nation movie buff Murray Horwitz returns to the Summer Movie Festival, with his picks for best female action heroes.
Horwitz reaches way back to consider all kinds of female action heroes, from Annie Oakley to Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.
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