Director Adam Wingard sure does love seeing movie icons go mano a mano. The Death Note filmmaker's latest movie is the just-released big beast battle Godzilla vs. Kong while he and writer Simon Barrett are currently developing a sequel to Face/Off, the 1997 movie which saw John Travolta's cop and Nicolas Cage's criminal swap visages. Turns out, Wingard has long loved John Woo's action-fest. "It's one of my favorite movies," says the director, who previously collaborated with Barrett on 2011's You're Next, 2014's The Guest, and 2016's Blair Witch. Read More...
One of the most acclaimed Japanese anime directors is back with a new project, and it'll have John Wick-worthy action, too. Adult Swim announced on Thursday that they are working with Shinichirō Watanabe on a new anime series for Toonami called Lazarus. Watanabe is known for creating iconic anime like Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. Lazarus sounds more akin to the former, a globe-trotting thriller set in the near future that mixes elements of the sci-fi and thriller genres. Read More...
Country music fans love nothing so much as the legend of Hank Williams Sr. The most charismatic figure in the history of hillbilly music and the author of the genre’s most durable songs, Williams was a genius possessed. Addicted to a variety of destructive passions — women, hooch, and morphine for an injured spine — he died of heart failure at 29 in the back of a powder blue Cadillac on New Year’s Day, 1953. Read More...
