Crime novelist Donald E. Westlake used the pseudonym Richard Stark to write over twenty crime novels about a professional criminal going by the name Parker.
 
We have seen Parker on screen a few times before now - but with the name changed due to legal reasons. The most famous instance being a portrayal by Lee Marvin in John Boorman's Point Blank, where the character was known as Walker.

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Silver Screen Icon Dies aged 80,  or so we think?….

Of course, I’m talking about  Cheetah, that loveable hairy rogue sidekick that belonged to Tarzan in the 1930s.

                                                     

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Since it's clearly no big deal for George Lucas to continuously tinker, tweak and outright overhaul the movies he's either directed or produced...

Three other cinematic titans of his generation have decided to fuck around with their films in order to appeal to the next generation...

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Within the last month, I’ve seen both THOR and GREEN LANTERN.  After viewing GL last week, I was struck by the number of similarities and parallels between the two films. 

 

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Article By Mark 'AbstractHarmony' Cookson.


I'll preface this by confirming, once again, that I love Zack Snyder. I love the way his filmic mind works (albeit disagreeing strongly on some of his decisions for Watchmen), I love his attention to detail and I love the way that, like Nolan, Warners are content for him to do whatever the hell he wants because he makes them a lot of money.

No surprises there then.

At the end of this month a film opens that is, for the first time, pure Zack. It's HIS story, HIS art and honestly has me much more excited than anything that's gone from him before.

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Number Two -- it's possibly the most disliked and disrespected of all numbers.  The very connotation is "second-best", "runner-up" and simply "not good enough".  Outside of being everybody's favorite bowel movement and the number worn by Derek Jeter -- it's generally not a digit anyone wants to be associated with.

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Spoilers Ahoy for the following (click the link to see the IMDB page):

Sherlock Holmes

The International

From Paris with Love

In thinking over the last few movies I’ve seen I found myself wondering “where have our balls gone?”  Turns out they’ve gone to the French.  Let me explain.

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James Cameron's Avatar is perhaps the most beautiful movie ever made.  It's also a heaping mound of &*$%.  Spoilers ahoy.

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Lades and gentlemen, here we are -- the final installment of our Creature Feature series. If you've made it this far, hopefully you've enjoyed reading about some of my (and hopefully your) favorite movie monsters. And, in my opinion, I have saved the best for last. There are a few Universal monsters I haven't touched upon, sure -- the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, the Invisible Man -- but when you talk about monster movies, and you talk about the big names, there can be only one at the top of the list...

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