A couple of years ago, word came of a proposed sequel to MIDNIGHT RUN. For those of you that are not familiar with it, Robert DeNiro played Jack , former cop that was pushed out for not taking a bribe (framed for taking a bribe) and was reduced to making a living as a...
Man With No Name vs. Mary Poppins… I’ve been mulling over this idea of a “guilty pleasure movie” for a while now, as I dashed hither and thither. The first one(s) that popped to mind were the spaghetti westerns of yore (mid-1960s vintage), most famously...
Rian Johnson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt talk about the upcoming Science Fiction film LOOPER. No footage has landed online, but reports are that it looks amazing. In LOOPER, time travel has been invented, but is illegal and only available on the black market. When the...
If you live in the Twin Cities, or are within reasonable driving distance, you can catch the premiere of VISCOSITY, the film adaptation of Jedidah Ayres' short story. Go to the Z Fest site for more details. Here are Jed's own thoughts on it: "So, I think I've watched...
I make no secret about the fact that I dig the work of Rian Johnson. His debut film, BRICK, was my pick for best film of 2005 and his follow-up, THE BROTHERS BLOOM, was entertaining even if it uneven. So I am pretty damn pumped for LOOPER, his upcoming science fiction...
HOLD TIGHT, Harlan Coben's 2008 bestselling thriller, has been optioned by Inferno Entertainment. Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they’d spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his best friend...
