My review of In the Valley of Elah is now up at CT Movies, as is my review of The Hunting Party. Read more

Note to fans of Victor “Rightwing Film Geek” Morton: He used to have a blog here. A few days ago, it vanished. But now he has resurfaced, over here. He explains what happened here. Read more

The only local screening I’ve heard of for Resident Evil: Extinction takes place tonight at 9:30 pm — which happens to be a point in time when the midnight screenings will already have begun on the east coast. Can’t say I’m surprised. The first two movies in this series were pretty bad — click here for my review of the second one — and the third film is being distributed by Screen Gems, which frequently avoids screening films for critics. Read more

Four quick news blurbs, all courtesy of Variety magazine. 1. George Miller — director of Happy Feet (2006), Babe: Pig in the City (1998), The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and the Mad Max trilogy (1979-1985) — will direct that upcoming Justice League movie. One slight complication is that the Batman franchise is currently going strong on its own with Chris Nolan and Christian Bale. The Superman franchise, on the other hand, seems to have been put on hold for now.... Read more

If not better. This is a bummer, for me and many others. Read more

Remember that promise the producers of the Narnia movies made to the fans at Comic-Con two months ago? (Okay, technically it wasn’t a promise, but still…) It’s off now, says Variety: The third installment in Disney and Walden Media’s “The Chronicles of Narnia” franchise, “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” will sail into theaters in 2010, rather than the previously announced 2009. . . . “Dawn Treader” release has been delayed because the start of production has moved from January... Read more

The gritty, realistic Zodiac is easily one of my favorite films of the year so far, and I am stunned to see how much of it was CGI: Click here if the video file above doesn’t play properly. Read more

I have mentioned a few times, here and elsewhere, that Evan Almighty was the only major sequel and — with the exception of Halloween, which opened on the Labour Day weekend — the only #1 movie last summer which failed to gross $100 million. But that is now no longer true. This past Sunday, Evan Almighty crossed the century mark on the North American chart. The film’s combined production and promotion budget was still at least double that, though. And... Read more

Cinematical posted the teaser poster for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian earlier today. The film comes out in eight months. Read more

Jim Broadbent, winner of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his excellent work in Iris (2001; my review), talked to Dark Horizons recently about his work in a couple of upcoming franchise pics: Question: You must have a comfortable life which is hard to give up unless something comes up you want to do. Broadbent: Yeah I had basically three months in Lincolnshire in the summer and suddenly now I’m back on the rollercoaster again and I’ve got to finish... Read more