2009
420 articles
Godzilla Isn’t Done Terrorizing Us Yet
Godzilla, the giant Japanese dinosaur-monster that has terrorized Tokyo dozens of times in nearly 30 movies over the last 50 years isn’t done yet. Making his debut in 1954’s “Gojira” from the Toho...
Aug 13, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongMe and Orson Welles Trailer
Set in 1937 New York, the story centers on a high school student (Efron) who happens upon the yet-to-open Mercury Theatre and is noticed by its mercurial founder, Orson Welles. The man lands a part...
Aug 13, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongNatalie Portman Gets ‘Booksmart’
Natalie Portman will add another project to her already full plate with Fox’s high school comedy, “Booksmart.” Variety reports that Portman will produce that juvenile comedy concerning “two...
Aug 13, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongCut From Home (2009)
As the first decade of the 21st century dissolves into history, cinéastes and cinephiles find themselves in a time of uncommon ambivalence. Hollywood’s insatiable appetite for banality and bromidic...
Aug 12, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongLegos Build Their Way to the Bigscreen
Apparently Hollywood feels toys are a more ripe source material for films than actual source material these days. After Paramount’s intensely lucrative endeavors into the action figure world with the...
Aug 12, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongNew Additions to ‘Red Dawn’ Remake
Josh Hutcherson, Isabel Lucas, Connor Cruise and Edwin Hodge have just signed on to help the Wolverines fight, presumably either the Chinese or the Russians, or both, in MGM/UA’s remake of the...
Aug 10, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongPaul Giamatti Signs on to ‘Three Stooges’
After Sean Penn announced he was backing out of the Farrelly brothers’ modern take on “The Three Stooges,” (citing “personal reasons”) the online film community was sent into a tizzy of speculation...
Aug 9, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Barbarella’ Remake in the Works
“Barbarella,” the futuristic female mercenary/seductress immortalized by Jane Fonda in 1968 may be coming back to the big screen, reports THR . The character first appeared in 1962 in a French...
Aug 8, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongMcG Talks ‘Terminator 5,’ Admits Mistakes in ‘Salvation’
It’s no secret that we here at The Moving Arts weren’t big fans of McG’s take on the “Terminator” franchise with this year’s “Terminator Salvation.” In fact, in our review we called it “as desolate,...
Aug 8, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Mission: Impossible 4′ Hires Writers
Producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams, along with Paramount, are serious about “Mission: Impossible IV.” So much so that they have already hired Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec to pen the screenplay,...
Aug 7, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Fraggle Rock’ and New ‘Dark Crystal’ Are Coming Soon
The MTV Movies Blog recently sat down with Brian Henson, son of legendary “The Muppets” creator, Jim Henson, and learned some very interesting news. When asked about a “Fraggle Rock” movie Henson...
Aug 6, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongJohn Hughes Dies at 59
Writer-director John Hughes, the man who gave helped give us 1980s teen classics like “The Breakfast Club,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Pretty in Pink,” and “Sixteen Candles” died Thursday of a...
Aug 6, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongLiam Neeson to Star in ‘Unknown White Male’
Liam Neeson is in talks to star in Dark Castle’s thriller, “Unknown White Male,” according to Variety . Jaume Collet-Serra is directing the script penned by scribes Oliver Butcher and Stephen...
Aug 6, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongRidley Scott, Leo DiCaprio Enter a ‘Brave New World’
Ridley Scott, the famed director behind futuristic dramas like “Blade Runner” and “Alien,” will take on the critically acclaimed and beloved dystopian work, Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The...
Aug 6, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Waterfront’ Writer, Budd Schulberg, Dies at 95
Elia Kazan’s breathtaking “On the Waterfront” is a transcendent work of cinema that cuts to the core of the human condition — it also features perhaps Marlon Brando’s greatest performance. But it...
Aug 6, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
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