According to Aint It Cool News, John Woo is planning to return to World War II with a proposed film about the legendary Burmese Flying Tigers squadron. I can’t think of a single post-Hong Kong Woo film that moved me in any way, and I don’t imagine this will be any different…but the Flying Tigers are definitely worthy of a [...]

Swimmingly, according to this piece at MSNBC. Frankly I’m not sure how appealing a 3D skin flick would be – any kind of pornography that requires gear to enjoy seems a bit off-putting. Then again, when you factor in the segment of the population that dresses up as cartoon animals to have sex – maybe this isn’t all that wierd. [...]

Trailer Addict has a spot up for Priest, the Paul Bettany film based on the Korean manwha that was kind of popular about a decade ago (I chose to read another horror manwha, Island, that was released by Tokyopop around the same time…man, I wish someone would make an Island movie). Priest at Comic-con I hate what vampires have become [...]

Well – based on this image of the newly-designed Big G, I’d say ‘swell’. It doesn’t look like they’re going to be using any pregnancy tests on this one. Legendary Pictures Godzilla won’t be out until 2012, but so far this looks pretty good – although I suspect this version of Godzilla will be CGI, just like the last one. [...]

Uh, I thought at first it didn’t look as bad as I’d feared, but by the end I’d decided it really was as bad as I feared. Trailer From Tokyo Anime Fair Harlock is a badass, right? But this movie is making him look…too badass. Harlock is badass in a quiet manner. He knows he’s awesome and has nothing to [...]

So I just found out that The Rza of the Wu Tang Clan has been making a kung fu movie for about the past ten years (I’m kind of out of the loop) and it looks like it’s finally finished. There’s a couple trailers out, and I have to say, I am very excited to see this shit. Trailer 1 [...]

Yay. Michel Gondry’s Green Hornet looks entertaining enough, but I’m still not feeling the love. Is there something wrong with me? There are shots in this trailer that make me giggle a bit, and Jay Chou is certainly a worthwhile choice to play Kato – but…ehhhhh… And 3D? Is this really where we’re going? Will every big-budget action flick in [...]

So I never saw the original Mortal Kombat movie. I heard it was really bad, so I just didn’t bother. Though once at the mall (I was working there, OK?!) I heard someone’s cell phone ringtone was the movie theme song and thought that was kind of cool. But today I came across this little video on teh Intarwebz and [...]

I’ve played a handful of Monsterpocalypse games at the last few Gen Con’s; it’s interesting, though  I find the rules to be overly complex for it’s genre and the collectable nature of the game turns my stomach. I will say that Privateer Press’ kaiju minis game is fun in concept, and the thought of the game providing source material for [...]

The original Japanese-language version of Godzilla, released a few years back on DVD, is now available on Netflix Instant Watch.

Aint-It-Cool-News reports that directing duo the Hughes Brothers have signed on to bring Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira to the silver screen. I can’t say I’m a fan – From Hell was an abomination, but only because they jettisoned all the cool mystical stuff that made the original comic so amazing. In all fairness, I can’t see a major studio letting anyone [...]

Newsweek speculates that China’s uncertainty (wait – didn’t they name a mountain range after the movie?) about Avatar has less to do with its usurpation of local cinema fare (namely a recent Confucius biopic starring Chow Yun-Fat)  and more to do with uncomfortable parallels between the Na’vi and Earth’s Tibetans, who are not exactly blue and 12-feet tall but have [...]

Aint-It-Cool-News has a great write-up on a new feature film, Viva the Nam, which is kind of like Robot Chicken‘s take on Full Metal Jacket. Apparently the whole thing is a Vietnam flick made with twelve-inch G.I. Joe figures. Seriously. Here’s the trailer. Those of you lucky enough to live in Austin can check out the premiere of Viva the [...]

The Will Smith / Spielberg (no need for a first name there, I presume) remake of Oldboy is dead. I presume Dreamworks couldn’t wrap their head around the concept of Will Smith fucking his daughter. Neither could I, for that matter.

Gratuitous use of CGI + samurai = awesome, in my book. Not sure if the story holds together, but who farking cares. This looks amazing. The Cup of Tears film trailer. Dir. Gary Shore from Gary Shore on Vimeo.