Wow. THR has reported that Edgar Award winner Dennis Lehane will adapt John D. MacDonald’s THE DEEP BLUE GOODBYE for the big screen. The film, which will simply be called TRAVIS MCGEE, will star Leonardo DiCaprio is slated to play the title role. Travis is a former navy man that lives on a houseboat (the Busted Flush) and acts as a “salvage consultant” and helps folks out for a large fee. He is described as a “knight in slightly tarnished armor” and usually ended up aiding a lovely lady. TDBG was publshed in 1964 and was the first of 21 books to featuring McGee. It seems certain that Fox is hoping this will become a new franchise....

Guillermo del Toro’s latest is looking pretty fun. When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes—a washed up former pilot...

IRON MAN 3-Directed by Shane Black, Written by Drew Pearce and Shane Black Starring Robert Downey Jr. Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Ben Kingsley THE COMPANY YOU KEEP-Directed by Robert Redford, Written by Lem Dobbs and Neil Gordon, Starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie,Shia LaBeouf “I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.” Chuck Palahniuk No one in a bar would ever tell either of these stories. Both suffer from pacing. IRON MAN 3, of course, has a pace designed to please people who spend a lot of time playing...

With less than 2 weeks to go before the release of BEFORE MIDNIGHT, the powers that be have released another clip. In Before Midnight, we meet Celine (Julie Delphy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) 9 years after Before Sunset. In those 9 years, they have stayed together and started a family. Almost 2 decades have passed since that first meeting on a train bound for Vienna, and we now find them in their early 40′s in Greece. Before the clock strikes midnight, we will again become part of their story. May 24 is the magic...

Written and Directed by Shane Carruth Starring Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig This is Shane Carruth’s second film in a decade. The first PRIMER is enigmatic but perhaps less so than UPSTEAM COLOR. Both are enjoyable if you can let go of your need to understand it and to see a steady progression in the narrative that allows you into Carruth’s world. Nothing in the film is really nonsensical once examined, but the general theme or even genre of UPSTREAM COLOR remains elusive even days later. The film begins with slugs being removed from rare orchids and inserted into pills. Or something like that happens. Kris (Seimetz), a girl...

Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Lye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Reese Witherspoon, Sam Shephard, Michael Shannon Mud (McConaughey) is a man two young boys come upon when scouting an island for a boat one has spotted in a tree. Ellis (Sheridan) immediately relates to Mud who begins spinning, or perhaps truthfully recounting tales, of his love for the elusive, Juniper (Witherspoon) and the trouble that obsession has caused him. Ellis is a romantic too, currently slaying dragons for an older high school student. Neckbone (Lofland) is the cynical, funny friend to Ellis. The intensity of Mud and Ellis is nicely...