Film News: The Good and the Very Bad.

My SBC DSL line keeps dropping every 20 seconds all day and I can't seem to log-in to Blogger, so forgive my inability to post. What's up with Blogger? Yeah, I know this all bites worse than deer ticks. Anyways, I've got more and more sites I'm always finding on my radar, some of which I've known and not posted, some of which I don't know how it's taken me so long to find.

Ain't It Cool News is a site many film fans consider essential in their daily online investigations. For me, it's too cluttered and I have a hard time reading the san serif font in all its many variations of jumbledness. Still, it has great news, right up there with Rotten Tomatoes.

I dunno the story about monkeypeaches.com, but mostly the film news here focuses on Hong Kong film and american cinema with asian actors/directors. Nice site, with lots of news and pics that other sources pull from.

Cinematical.com is another site that has varying articles and news about upcoming films. I'd say that some of the content differs enough from the others to make a visit worthwhile. Especially if you are searching for news on a specific project, you never know if they might have it first.

And on the other side of cool, there is the not cool list. Fametracker is yet another of the gaggle of movie sites, but every year they produce a list of the top 10 least essential films for the upcoming holiday season. To be sure, I've only even heard of The Black Dahlia project on their entire list. Granted I could be even a further cynic and proclaim that they prolly have a long list from which to choose 10 films (with the wayward formulaic films from Holywood these days), but that would just be too easy. C'mon, Rocky Balboa (release 12/22/2006)? Are you serious? I thought I'd listed some films (here and here) that oughtta go straight-to-dvd, but this maybe... should only go straight-to-VHS. ouch. yeah.

image credits: Rogue Jet Li pic from monkeypeaches.com