Comic-Con 2001: Elvira’s Haunted Hills
Back in the sixties, Roger Corman took the faded careers of old horror stars and gave them new life. By taking the most creative of […]
An Interview with Elizabeth Filarski (Now Hasselbeck)
We understood seeing Gene Simmons. He’s long been a comics fan, and a comics character. Elijah Wood? Well, he’s Frodo, so he has some connection. […]
Comic-Con 2001: An Interview With Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Amidst the madness of the Comic-Con, we found a spot of calm in meeting Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. If the name doesn’t quite ring a bell, trust […]
Review: Planet Of The Apes
If you put a hundred monkeys at a hundred word processors for a hundred years, would one of them write a screenplay for a Tim […]
Behind the Bounty Hunter Aurra Sing: Michonne Bourriage
Dark Horse Comics devoted two mini-series (and counting) to her. If you scour bookstores, you can find her immortalized with a coffee table book and […]
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
In the beginning, there was ink and paper. And it was good. Yea, then after a dinosaur walked the theaters, someone discovered paint and cellulose. […]
Review: Kiss Of The Dragon
Pity Jean-Claude Van Damme. He must sit around his apartment muttering, “I spake Englich bettair zan zat Jet Li. Why won’t zey luff me?” To […]
Review: The Fast And The Furious
The Fast and The Furious roars into theaters with the classic style and raw power of the ’69 Dodge Charger featured in the finale of […]
Review: A.I.
Forget the “online web mystery” that has made all the cyber-fanboys drool over the past couple of months. In A.I. there’s no murder to be […]
Review: Dr. Dolittle 2
Something amazing happened. A really terrible (but moderately successful) summer film spawned a sequel. Okay, in and of itself, that’s not so amazing. Instead, marvel […]
Review: Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Disney’s latest animated offering, Atlantis calls back the past, of a time when The Mouse knew how to make family pictures. A family picture isn’t […]
Review: Evolution
Stop us if you’ve heard this one, especially from Ivan Reitman. Three slightly odd guys and a hot woman find themselves in the midst of […]
Review: Swordfish
The first five minutes of Swordfish plays out like the wet dream of an angry film student. Sick of “Hollywood crap,” film-savvy villain Gabriel Shear […]
Review: ‘See Spot Run’
As Wonder Dogs go, Bob as Agent 11 holds his own against such giants as Hooch, Poochinsky, and Chuck Norris. He can lead mobsters into […]
Review: ‘Say It Isn’t So’
It’s an old story: boy meets girl, they fall in love, they find out they’re actually brother and sister. To the Greeks, it’s tragedy. To […]
An Interview with James Gunn on Scooby Doo
Note: This interview first appeared on Daily Radar, before the founding of Fanboy Planet. Derek McCaw: In San Diego, we talked about how you got […]
Review: ‘Bedazzled’
If you could be anything in the world, what would it be? It sounds like the kind of question that gets asked at a party that’s […]
Review: ‘Get Carter’
A basic rule in story-telling goes something like this: start late into the action and get out early before you’ve overstayed your welcome. The latest […]
An Interview With Some Specials
Converting over old articles to 3.0… and here’s the first interview I ever did at Comic-Con in the year 2000… a lot has changed since […]
Review: G-Men From Hell
Cue cool jazz music. It was a beautiful day in Snap City, the kind of day that birds sing about if only you’d listen. FBI […]