And Sucker Punch bombs. Counting Sucker Punch, Zack Snyder’s last three movies failed to make back their budgets at the U.S. box office. While Watchmen and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole did add decent worldwide totals to their U.S. box office takes, when you factor in prints and advertising and the cut of […]
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I started work on my first new screenplay in over a year today. I was afraid that I’d have trouble getting started, but it turns out it’s just like riding a bike. If you’re riding that bike into the teeth of a 50 mph wind. Uphill. In a driving snowstorm. Still, it felt good to […]
Well, it barely took me a week to break my promise of updating several times a week. I’ll have a new Cohen Case File posted tomorrow and I’ll be introducing a new column later in the week. In the meantime, here’s The Manic Street Preachers with Ian McCulloch (Echo!), just for the hell of it. […]
What’s next? Coming off the end of The Parallax Review, I found myself asking that question. I made plans to step back from film criticism and concentrate on my screenwriting and short fiction work and I have started to put those plans into motion. What I didn’t expect was to feel the itch to continue […]
Obsessive Movie Nerd 