Bleh! Bleh!  I vant to sahck yur box office dollars!  Bleh!This just saddens me, folks. I’m so very sick and tired of vampires in movies, because the last time they did it even close to right was with 30 Days of Night, and even that was the first time in a long time. But no…now we’re stuck with yet another vampire movie from director Catherine Hardwicke.

It’s called Twilight, and this time it involves Nikki Reed from Lords of Dogtown and some O.C. type guys. It’s going to start shooting in Portland, Oregon with an eye to arrive in theatres somewhere around dumping ground season—late 2008 to early 2009. And by the sounds of it, it’s going to be a perfect movie for the January throwaway pile because it’s yet another vampire movie that will probably feature loads of teen angst just like similar vampiric suckfest Blood and Chocolate. The plot synopsis on the IMDB is even worse–I quote: “A teenage girl risks all when she falls in love with a vampire.” If that doesn’t say “January waste pile”, I don’t know what does

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I’ve always wondered why, in this supremely cynical age, we still tolerate massive amounts of kitsch. The resurgence of ’60s and ’70s pop culture should have been squashed by today’s post-post-modernism, yet we gobble it up like starving puppies. Granted, there’s a limit to what we’ll tolerate, but it seems Hollywood producers are constantly pushing to see how far they can take us.

Knight RiderThe new Knight Rider T.V. movie is a perfect example. Knight Rider was mindless drivel even in its heyday; do we really need a re-imagining? Apparently.

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Finally!  A movie from OUR perspective!  Damn racist humans….Okay, granted, the overall quality of the zombie film has been something of a mixed bag. It’s still my personal favorite genre because it uses all the best tenets of the great subgenre known as survival horror. I loves me some survival horror. And, for better or for worse, zombie movies are the place to get it. But it hasn’t often been very interesting, and let’s be honest, many zombie films are crap. But there’s a new one—yes, another new one—coming out that looks to break the streak.

It’s called Colin, and it’s shot entirely from the zombie’s perspective.

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The sweet smell of totalitarianism!Just ahead of the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese step up and remind us that their government is completely bughouse insane by declaring a state ban on horror movies.

Not kidding, either, folks…and I find myself wholly unworried because they’ve got such spectacularly tight bans on Internet access that none of them will probably ever read this. But the ban is on—producers have roughly a couple weeks now to find “horror related material” and hand it over to the authorities. Horror related material includes—get this—“wronged spirits and violent ghosts, monsters, demons and other inhuman portrayals, strange and supernatural storytelling for the sole purpose of seeking terror and horror”.

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The long-anticipated film adaptation of Alan Moore’s graphic novel Watchmen has finally wrapped. Though Moore refuses to associate himself with adaptations of his work, the novel’s principle artist Dave Gibbons has visited the set and given his support. After decades stuck in development hell, Watchmen is shaping up to be a nerd’s dream.

WatchmenAnd naturally, in true Hollywood form, someone’s trying to wet their beak.

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