Marvel Studios started as a novel concept. Headed by Kevin Feige, the group was asked to take control of Marvel’s own comic-to-big-screen incarnations and make them more faithful to their source material, as well as develop continuity between their projects.
When actor Vince Vaughn was introducing current Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul at the Liberty Political Action Conference last September, someone from the crowd interrupted and yelled, “brave actor!” Vaughn, being the pro he is, finished undeterred, going on to
Actor Vincent Gallo has never been one to take the predictable route when it comes to his choice of acting roles. Fresh off playing an American killing Jihadist on the run in “Essential Killing” and a karate chopping, small time
It’s pretty well known and obvious that Hollywood is mostly filled with the few in this country who don’t see our military as a force of good, the few who actually praise American hating dictators like Che Guevera, the few
When Dustin Hoffman’s David Sumner announces at the end of the 1971 version of “Straw Dogs” that he “got ’em all,” he says it with a sense of triumph. [youtube jc2WepwFcWE nolink] We know he has changed from a man
There’s no denying Don Cheadle’s charisma and talent as an actor. He’s born to do what he does. Much like Kenneth Branagh, when he speaks we don’t really want to see or hear anything else. He owns the area around
Chief Chris Kyle was a Navy Seal for ten years. He served four combat tours in Iraq, earned numerous medals, saved countless lives and accomplished more than most men walking around in this great country ever will. He has now
Dictionary.com defines “machismo” as follows: a strong or exaggerated sense of manliness; an assumptive attitude that virility, courage, strength, and entitlement to dominate are attributes or concomitants of masculinity. In a galaxy far, far away in a time long, long
The producers of “Bad Santa” must’ve dug up Charles Bukowski and offered him a bottle of scotch in exchange for his version of a Christmas movie. There’s no other explanation for this film. “Bad Santa” can be summed up pretty
Let’s be honest. Movies, today, aren’t just one step away from being left wing propaganda, they just plain suck. We’ve gone from Dirty Harry to Jason Bourne (or whatever his name ended up being; the camera was too shaky for
Bestselling horror novelist Stephen King recently helped out his fellow Mainers by holding a contest through his Bangor-based radio station: however much money listeners donated, King would match. The money would then be donated to lower-income Mainers to help pay
I push the squeaky metal glass door open to the store known as Blockbuster. I’m here to return one B-movie for another one to feed my copious addiction to way-too-cool-for-its-own-good genre fiction. I drop the movie off and get a
Come one! Come all! See Vincent Gallo feeding off an actual lactating woman! See him run through the snow barefoot! See him … well, see him play a terrorist named Mohammed run from the U.S. military and be degraded down
The strangest thing about the poster for Mel Gibson’s upcoming action film “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” is that seems completely oblivious to the actor’s current standing within the Hollywood community and with the public in general. And you
Any novel that opens with crazy jihadists killing jolly old Saint Nick on the first page can’t be too bad. “Soft Target,” in bookstores Dec 6th, manages to be more than just not bad; it’s a modern Western on amphetamines;
Bobby (Peter Facinelli) is living the high life in the new drama “Loosies.” He works on Wall Street, dates beautiful women and has a great boss (Vincent Gallo). Well, that’s what it seems like on the outside to those closest