Just when you thought Dwayne Johnson was getting back to doing more action-oriented movies for grown ups such as Faster and The Fast and the Furious 5 , he goes and signs on for something like this. I guess family films are where the money is, but it still seems more than a little embarrassing to be picking up Brendan Fraser’s sloppy seconds. When it was first announced that Fraser would not be returning for the sequel to the 3-D adventure... 

So far three actresses has been rumored for the female lead in the upcoming fourth Mission: Impossible flick. Those has been Kristin Kreuk (TV’s Smallville , Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li ), Paula Patton ( Precious ) and Lauren German ( Hostel: Part II ). Now Deadline has confirmed that Patton has come out as the victor and has gotten the role. Not much is known about her part, other than the fact that she’ll play a young... 

The Movie Club Podcast is an irregular roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. It’s that time again folks. The latest episode of The Movie Club Podcast is now online and ready to be heard, bringing us just one episode away from a miraculous 20 episode milestone! Can …  Read More →

News has surfaced that rising star Jamie Bell ( Defiance ) is the latest actor to sign on to Summit Entertainment’s new crime thriller Man on a Ledge . He joins Sam Worthington, who will headline the film, playing a cop thrown in jail for a crime he didn’t commit (naturally). When he’s let out to attend his father’s funeral, he escapes and climbs onto the ledge of a…  Read More →

The Red Riding Trilogy Directed by: Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, Anand Tucker Written by: Tony Grisoni (screenplay), David Peace (novels) Starring: Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine, David Morrissey, Mark Addy, Rebecca Hall, Peter Mullan, Maxine Peake If you’re in the market for a gripping crime drama, it doesn’t get much better than The Red Riding Trilogy , an epic series of three feature-length made-for-TV movies that... 

With one movie based on a fake Grindhouse trailer hitting theatres this weekend, and Eli Roth in the process of fleshing out another one , believe it or not, there is also a third Grindhouse spin-off getting a feature film as well — and no, I’m not talk about Edgar Wright’s Don’t . Back in 2007, certain prints of Grindhouse also had another trailer attached for a movie called Hobo with a Shotgun . The trailer was directed... 

Exciting news! We’re kicking off the weekend with another solid round-up of newly released movie posters to look at with your eyes. This time around we’ve got the first one-sheets for such movies as Ben Affleck’s The Town , Tony Scott’s Unstoppable , and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan . We’ve also got a poster for Julie Taymor’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest , yet another cool one sheet... 

Well folks, the summer is at an end, and now that we’ve got another season of blockbuster movies behind us, I thought it might be a good time to take stock and evaluate the last four months of cinema. Initially this summer seemed like it was going to be one of the worst in recent memory — which is pretty amazing considering that last summer’s crop was already weak due to the lingering effects of the writer’s strike. What... 

We’ve been hearing about the possibility of a sequel to M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable for years now, even though he has never seemed like a guy who would be particularly interested in going back to revisit his previous work. Bruce Willis has also said he would be game, but somehow Shyamalan always seems to be moving forward with some other crazy new idea…  Read More →

The fall movie season kicks off this weekend with a handful of interesting releases including the Robert Rodriguez Grindhouse spin-off Machete and Anton Corbijn’s The American starring George Clooney. Also hitting theatres this weekend is the fiction filmmakng debut for American Teen director Nanette Burstein with Going the Distance starring Drew Barrymore and Justin Long. In limited release we have The Winning Season starring Sam Rockwell,... 

Last year we heard that Diablo Cody would be starting to expand her career from merely writing movies to producing them as well, and although she is listed as executive producer on both Jennifer’s Body and her Showtime series United States of Tara , one of the first projects she will be overseeing without writing it herself is an adaptation of the book Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament . …  Read More →

Now that Zack Snyder managed to bring one “unfilmable” graphic novel to the big screen last year with Watchmen , someone else is finally getting the courage to try adapting another challenging comic series, this time for the small screen. Neil Gaiman’s Sandman is considered by many to be one of the most ambitious mainstream comics ever created, and became a…  Read More →

Although we just launched the Game Junk podcast last month, we typically don’t post much video game-related stuff here on Film Junk simply because I know a lot of you aren’t interested. However, this is definitely something that is worth making an exception for. In case you haven’t heard, earlier this year the game studio formed by several ex-Lucasarts employees, Telltale Games , acquired the rights to both Jurassic Park and... 

Ironically, one of the things many of us tend to overlook every year at the Toronto International Film Festival is the line-up of interesting Canadian films. I guess I only have my own biases to blame, but this year there are quite a few intriguing flicks from The Great White North including Bruce McDonald’s Trigger , Daniel Cockburn’s You Are Here , and Mike Goldbach’s …  Read More →

I wasn’t going to post this trailer, because, well, it’s a romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon, and I’m far too manly for romantic comedies, but then I actually watched the trailer and I didn’t entirely hate it. (Plus it’s a slow news day.) Either way, studios have been trying for a while now to find a winning formula for a romantic comedy that appeals to both guys and girls, and it seems like Paul Rudd is...