General movie news
Mar 03
A new site to promote The Watchmen has just launched called 6 Minutes To Midnight. You submit your name and then answer questions to see exclusive clips. It is fun and there are some great clips. Only two more days to wait. http://6minutestomidnight.com/
Feb 26
Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) is set to Direct a big screen adaptation of the board game Clue (Cluedo for the Australians). If this sounds familiar, it is. John Landis directed a big screen version of the game in 1985. Why is this a good idea? That’s it. No funny remarks or comments from me, I …
Feb 26
A few weeks ago it was reported everywhere that Samuel L. Jackson was having ‘issues’ with Marvel Productions and was not going to return as Nick Fury in the Iron Man Sequel or The Avengers movie. Well, it was reported today that Marvel and Jackson have worked out their differences and Jackson has signed a …
Feb 24
Hi there, Okay, we posted yesterday our predictions for the Oscars, here are the winners (and where we got it right and wrong). The Top Eight Best Picture – Slumdog Millionaire (we got it right) Best Director – Danny Boyle (we got it right) Best Actor – Sean Penn (we predicted Mickey Rourke) Best Actress …
Jan 22
This post is purely food for thought. When I watched ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ last year I turned to Mirren Lee (Geek Actually co-host and my mom) and I proposed a thought to her. Judd Apatow (Producer of Forgetting Sarah Marshall) seems to take whoever is co-starring in his current film and cultivate that person into …
Jan 20
Actor/Stuntman Bob May has died of congestive heart failure at the age of 69. May played the Robot on TV’s Lost in Space during the 1960s. May worked on stage and screen for decades but was best known for The Robot, a role he claimed to have won by accident. June Lockhart (Maureen Robinson) said, “He always …
