 The off-kilter Tim Burton version of Alice in Wonderland might frightened younger children, confuse older ones – and bore the adults.
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 Poor middle America and the small towns with only one gas station, one doctor, one Sheriff and his lowly Deputy. It always seems that these places just beg for bad things to happen. Take Ogden Marsh, Iowa for example. This little town, miles away from the big city of Grand... Read more |
There are a lot of differences between men and women, many of them obvious. There’s less of a difference between films directed by men and films directed by women. Some are good, some are meh, some are not even three beers will save this. I’ve compiled a list of...
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 “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for... Read more |
 At a time when there weren't many female producers, John Carpenter promoted his "script girl" Debra Hill to be his producing and writing partner. The rest is cinematic history. Together they created the iconic monster Michael Meyers, and the ultimate Final Girl in Laurie Strode, who is still the gold... Read more |
 Do you remember Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords? CC2K Games Editor Big Ross sure does. And it's precisely the reason he's feeling some trepidation about the upcoming, highly anticipated follow-up to Bioware's mega-hit Fallout 3. In this letter to developer Obisdian Entertainment, he spells... Read more |
 Kids don’t know how good they have it these days. If raging hormones get the better of them (and I think we can agree that this happens a lot), all they need for a little adult fun is a good internet connection and a minute-by-minute knowledge of Mom and Dad’s routines.... Read more |
 Ah, the news. It’s the type of programming you watch with hesitation because you never know what the content will produce. Whether it’s local, national, or even international, the information being exchanged is ever-changing and ever-emotional. What’s not so changing are the journalists doing the reporting. Sure their outfits and... Read more |
 A man-crush can be, for some, a difficult infatuation to admit to. Not me! Comfortable with my sexuality for going on three weeks now, how could I turn down the chance to make readers, my family, and my girlfriend question how I really feel? I’ve compiled a list of the... Read more |
 CC2K's Sal Crivelli takes a look back at the history of the Marvel Universe and examines when and where would have been the best opportunities to get it on, comic book-style. Read more |
 In honor of Sex Week, CC2K contributor Jack Hork names his picks for the hottest cartoon/comic/animation babes who made the jump into the live-action world. If there’s one thing I know about, it’s romance…long walks, holding hands, scented candles, warm baths, foreplay, all that phony-baloney shite. However, merging pop culture... Read more |
 A royale with cheese of a movie.
I liked this movie the first time I saw it when it was called Shoot ‘Em Up but you know what? I think I actually liked it better the second time around when it was called From Paris with Love.
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 The lifeless script for Masters of the Universe has some real potential, but it threatens to make a flying leap into the dustbin of history – or in this case, the dustbin of bad fantasy movies. SPOILERS! MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!
Despite a story that unearths some of the... Read more |
 Here's another good look at Jeff Bridges in Tron Legacy. Read more |
Avatar and The Hurt Locker lead the way.
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 I believe I've pinpointed my picks for the Academy Award nominations fairly accurately. I think this may be the easiest time I've ever had in figuring out who and what will be nominated, even WITH the 10 Best Picture nods. For some reason, it's all very clear – and... Read more |
 Mel Gibson's return to the big screen isn't bad, but it won't return him to the A-list. On the surface, Edge of Darkness might seem like your typical violent revenge thriller, but it actually has some intriguing layers and surprising twists that get your full attention.
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 CC2K compares two potential scripts that would bring back Conan the Barbarian. Which script holds the secret of steel?
Let's turn back the clock six years. It's 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger still plies his trade as an actor, John Milius has completed a script for a third Conan film... Read more |
 My relationship with horror movies is short and unpleasant, and as strange as it may seem, it began in the playroom of my childhood home. I was four-years-old on the day in question. The house was empty except for me and my father, and we... Read more |
Adventure games decided my career. Or perhaps it would be better to say they decided my lack of career. Adventure games were born around the same time I was: in 1984, when I was still screaming out my frustration at my parents over my inability to walk or speak,...
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 One of the things I love about writing for CC2K is that I've had the opportunity to read scripts for movies. Some are for projects that are only beginning production or are still long from it, and others that ultimately went unrealized, having never gotten beyond the writing stage. This... Read more |
 In this classic article from April Fools' Week, CC2K exposes this famous novel as a sexist male fantasy tale masquerading as a "sensitive" female-centric love story. A word from the nominator, Jack Hork: For April Fools' Week, I am offering up a piece of pop culture that transcended itself in its... Read more |
 As phenomena go, the act of attempting to re-create for oneself the success already achieved by another is as common as it is understandable. We see this all the time, and it’s not always the fault of the copycat. Sure, there are plenty of creative people out... Read more |
 I have a problem every time I sit down to read the Harry Potter books. I find myself unsatisfied with the stories as they are written. It’s not that I don’t enjoy them. I’m rather passionate about them, and I’ll leap into discussion of the Potter canon... Read more |
So you say you just don’t know enough about the Cleveland underworld, circa 1970? And then you say you’ve never heard of gangster Danny Greene, but you’d like to learn? Well, here ya go, chaps. Dive into The Irishman, a new screenplay about just such subjects, written by Jonathan...
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British dance-pop duo Basement Jaxx’s—Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe—fifth album, Scars, came out in September with the heavily promoted single “Raindrops” stealing air waves at top clubs and dance halls. It’s also the only song on the new album that doesn’t share production or performance credits, as the rest...
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 James Cameron’s Avatar, if ever made into a movie that remotely approaches the 170-page “scriptment” I have just finished reading, will bomb. Notice I don’t say it will suck. It might be entertaining, in a big-spectacle way, as nobody does spectacle like the King of the World. It might be... Read more |
 In this SPOILER-FILLED review, CC2K looks at the script for the propsed remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Remakes: a legitimate form of artistic expression through reinterpretation, or an indication of ultimate stagnation? A chance for some of your favorite actors/directors to let you see a beloved piece... Read more |
 The big-budget biopic eschews nuance in favor of myth. I suppose that I know as much about Abraham Lincoln as the next American. I know him by his nicknames, “Honest Abe” and “The Great Emancipator.” I know he served as President during the Civil War and was the first U.S.... Read more |
 CC2K takes a look at a draft of the new script by Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer. When you hear the name Conan, what pops into your head? The original Weird Tales pulps? The 70’s Lancer paperbacks with the great Frazetta cover art? Perhaps the Marvel comic? Or, for... Read more |
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