Not that I care all that much about Clive Barker movies–some of the most patently confusing gratuitous bloodfeasts on the face of the earth–but what Lions Gate is doing to Midnight Meat Train is simply beyond the pale.

The word from Bloody-DIsgusting goes a little something like this:

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I love it when people get all up in a lather about ill-informed movie tidbits in the news. The fantasy that someone, unknowingly privy to secret information, could accidentally spill the beans to millions of fanboys, is exciting. Something similar recently happened with Aaron Eckhart re: the Batman franchise, and I’m guilty of getting sucked into the speculation. But this one? This one is just too much.

WARNING: Those who haven’t seen Casino Royale and still plan to – what the hell are you waiting for? There are spoilers in this post, so please read it at your own risk.

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When the Wii was first unveiled, every red-blooded boy immediately thought the same thing: STAR WARS GAME. You move the controller in your hand and the lightsaber moves on the screen. This is the thing the console was born to do, except it can’t actually do it.

As anyone who has tried some of the non-Wii Sports games knows, the Wiimote’s motion sensing can be awfully dodgy at times, not coming anywhere close to 1-to-1 movement. (Give the MonkeyBall frisbee minigame a try sometime for an exercise in frustration.) But now that Nintendo is introducing an add-on that supposedly improves the motion sensing, a third party company has put out a rather tantalizing video.

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Now, you might wonder, with an opening like that, what could I possibly be building up into?  Okay, this one’ll kill you.  Remember when I was screaming about Bruce Campbell’s wreck of a career and how desperately he and Sam Raimi both need to get back in and do Evil Dead 4?

They’re doing it.

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This is one of those really baffling things that pops up in entertainment news every now and then; most likely, it’s just a statement taken out of context that I am blowing way out proportion. But so far, I haven’t seen anyone questioning it, so I’m going to go nuts.

THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR “THE DARK KNIGHT.” MAJOR ONES. DON’T PROCEED IF YOU CARE ABOUT THAT SORT OF THING.

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