So here I am semi-live-blogging the Ender's Game trailer. Why? Call it the triumph of hope against my surefire knowledge that Hollywood would love to ...
By John Lopez, Hollywood Prospectus on Tuesday, May 7, 2013Pretty much the one thing I remember from Quantum of Solace (which is, let's be honest, by far the most forgettable Daniel Craig Bond film) is Ukraini...
By John Lopez, Hollywood Prospectus on Thursday, April 11, 2013Ever since his bad-police magnum opus Training Day, director Antoine Fuqua has specialized in taking totally implausible, big-budget action movies and...
By John Lopez, Hollywood Prospectus on Friday, March 22, 2013If, like me, you've watched your share of traffic-accident-bad Lifetime movies, then I bet you too have longed for a wandering zombie to spice up thos...
By John Lopez, Hollywood Prospectus on Monday, March 18, 2013Preamble in Which I Beg for Mercy: Before I begin this week's recap, pardon me, merciful readers, if I flash my TWD creds in the hope that slatherin...
By John Lopez, Hollywood Prospectus on Monday, March 11, 2013If, like me, you've ruminated deeply on The Watch billboards dotting L.A.'s landscape, you've come to appreciate the subtler manifestations of irony i...
By John Lopez, Hollywood Prospectus on Thursday, July 26, 2012Don Winslow's on the kind of roll that'd make other crime writers want to fold him up in a cement sofa bed next to Jimmy Hoffa. Not only is his critic...
By John Lopez, Hollywood Prospectus on Friday, July 6, 2012I'll admit to something embarrassing as a writer: I'd never heard of the word twee until I started seeing it in reviews of Wes Anderson's latest fil...
By John Lopez, Hollywood Prospectus on Tuesday, June 26, 2012One perk of writing about Whit Stillman: You get to use words you haven't seen since your Saturday-morning SAT prep course. Like "raffinated," i.e., t...
By John Lopez, Hollywood Prospectus on Thursday, March 29, 2012Among my growing list of signs the Mayans are probably right about 2012 - in addition to a Harvard-educated Asian American Christian taking the NBA by...
By John Lopez, Hollywood Prospectus on Wednesday, February 15, 2012
