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eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Brian OrndorfAfter creating “Dog Soldiers” and the mesmerizing horror bonanza “The Descent,” writer/director Neil Marshall has built up quite an impressive reservoir of good faith with both fans and critics. He’s a smart filmmaker; a fresh talent working the levers on genres that need every ounce of intelligence they can possibly vacuum up. However, “Doomsday” is a misfire for Marshall; a vivid production...
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Pajiba (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Harold and Kumar Never Back Down This Week's DVD Releases / The Pajiba Staff...
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RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
What a disappointment from a director we expect more from
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JoBlo (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
THE RUINS shows signs of genuine promise throughout, but never completely delivers on sheer horror goodness. I did appreciate that despite the potentially cheesy premise, the movie took itself seriously and created a genuinely tense and frightening atmosphere for the majority of the time. For that reason, it reminded me a lot of Neil Marshall’s (superior) THE DESCENT, both in tone and execution. But...
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Screenhead (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Variety reports that Rogue Pictures will produce a film version of the novel The Keep by Jennifer Egan. The site notes that Ehren Kruger (The Ring, Skeleton Key) has adapted and will produce the thriller that revolves around a mysterious prisoner who seduces a local woman with his tale of a supernatural secret. Matthew [...]
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Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
The original Descent is one of those perfect and complete movie experiences that in no way needs a sequel... but its success on DVD pretty much guaranteed we would get one anyway. Announced a few months ago, the sequel is currently in production, and the first on-set photo is ...
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FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
The first photo of one of the cave crawlers (Adam Harvey) from “The Descent 2” has hit the webs. According to Fangoria, all the original cast of the first film have returned for the sequel. Director of the original, Neil Marshall, is not helming this time around, but instead serving as executive producer. “It was about [...]
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JoBlo (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Check out this cave crawler. He reminds me of this girl I used to date back in the day, Miriam Schleifman. Yeah, that’s right Mir. If you’re reading this, that’s you! Gross, right? I’m kidding. Miriam was slightly better looking. This is actually an image of one of the beasts in THE DESCENT 2, the follow-up to Neil Marshall’s indie horror sensation. This one picks up where the first one left off, but...
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io9 (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Neil Marshall's Descent 2 promises screen time for his original cast of adventurous women — even though most of them are dead. Empire Magazine reports that all of the original's spelunking women will... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Guy Ritchie has signed on to write and direct a reimagination of Sherlock Holmes for Warner Bros. The film will based on Lionel Wigram’s forthcoming comic which reinvents Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic 19th century detective character as a more action-oriented creation. Some of Holmes’ more eccentric abilities such as boxing and swordfighting come into play [...]
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Film Junk (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Last time we heard about a new Sherlock Holmes movie from Warner Brothers, Neil Marshall (The Descent, Doomsday) was the guy that was supposedly going to direct it. Now it looks like they’ve changed their mind, and gone with another British director who seems equally ill-suited for the task. Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two [...]
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DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Doomsday (18) Dir. Neil Marshall Reviewed by Matt Adcock What do you get if you cross Mad Max, Escape From New York, Aliens, 28 Days Later and maybe throw in a bit of Excalibur for fun? – In a word ‘Doomsday'. You hear that shrieking noise though? That's the sound of a director’s cool imagination and creative flair grinding up against the limitations of his big scale storytelling plotting ability…...
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My Films Blog (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
It's only week 2 of the official Summer Blockbuster Season, and already cinemas are in trouble. Over in the US, commentators yelled "flop!" after news that the candy-coloured CGI spectacle Speed Racer had taken just $20 million – as against...
