Of all the Harry Potter kids, Daniel Radcliffe has been the one to take on the most varied and interesting roles since he stopped playing a boy wizard. He's been Allen Ginsberg, appeared naked on a Broadway stage, and most recently can be seen in the romance What If. Given that varied filmography, it's not surprising that Radcliffe should take on a rather bizarre little part for his next role, playing a young man with a very odd problem in Horns.
The Artist star Jean Dujardin did have a career before his Oscar-winning turn as a silent film star fallen upon hard times, and his post-Oscar triumphs have been nothing to sneeze at. He appeared briefly but memorably in Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, and then again in The Monuments Men. He's also been hard at work in his native France, and will next be seen in Cedric Jimenez's true-story crime thriller The Connection, premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Is the world ready for a reboot of the hit late-80s/early-90s TV show Full House? Wait, don't answer that yet. First consider that the show continues to have a long shelf-life on Nick at Nite, averaging 1.5 million viewers last year. It is still one of the most successful sitcoms to come out of the 80s, with whole generations growing up on the trials and tribulations of the Tanner family. It's hardly surprising that Warner Brothers television is considering a whole-sale reboot of Full House.
Poor old Sasquatch - he's become a figure of fun. Between beef jerky commercials that celebrate screwing with the big guy's head, and bad television shows about idiots who think they can hunt him down, Sasquatch just doesn't get much respect any more. Now, however, he's going to be taking some righteous vengeance in his very own found-footage horror film, Exists.
I know that the picture of Paul Rudd in a hoodie just really whetted your appetite for Marvel's Ant-Man. I mean, he's a superhero! He's Paul Rudd! He wears a hoodie! But wait! If Paul Rudd's fashion choices did not quite do it for you, we can now show you pictures of Evangeline Lilly's haircut.
James Cameron needs some space to express his thoughts on human affairs to the world at large. What better way to do that than to make three sequels to his hit film Avatar? Never mind that the films are going to cost 20th Century Fox a total of $1 billion, rounding out to more than $300 million per movie. James Cameron has a lot to say, and boy does he need to say it!
No matter how the final product turns out, one thing is for certain: Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Inherent Vice will be one for the ages. It is the first adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel to come to the big screen, an accolade hardly diminished by the fact that Inherent Vice is the author's most accessible and linear book to date. What's more, the film is done by one of two contemporary directors best suited to produce a faithful and interesting version of Pynchon's brilliantly meandering pastiche of detective fiction.
Why do I get the sense that I have already seen something eerily similar to the upcoming sci-fi film Automata? Perhaps it's because it seems to be trading heavily, if not exclusively, on the work of Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick? Whether that's a good, bad, or simply derivative thing will be in the eye of the beholder. The new trailer certainly looks interesting though, if not wholly original.
After Edgar Wright was dropped from Ant-Man, a sense of ineffable sadness spread among the geek community. So, it is nice to see that he has picked up the pieces and carried on with several new film projects, including one with his old friend Simon Pegg.
As many have remarked over the past few years, we are now in a time of sequels, spinoffs, and reboots. Every major or minor character from every major or minor film seems to be getting their own movie right now. This makes it unsurprising that actor John Turturro is still angling for a spinoff film for his character from The Big Lebowski, as well as a sequel to Barton Fink.
