Sorry I missed such a big week of releases last week. I was one of the 500,000 people in Oklahoma whose electricity was knocked out by the huge ice storm that ravaged the Midwest and was without power for almost the entire week. Regardless, I am back this week, and that is a good thing … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Paramount Home VideoMSRP: $19.99RATED: NOT RATEDRUNNING TIME: 154 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Nothin’ The Pitch Spread some Christmas cheer with the yuletide log himself, Mr. Hankey and all the boys from South Park as we span nearly the entire decade the show has been on the air, watching the show evolve … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON CLICK HERE!STUDIO Warner Home VideoMSRP $49.98RATED Various RatingsRUNNING TIME Various The Pitch Those ladies at the WB let their lesser-known work shine. I took the past week and some change going through each of these films trying to figure out a way that these titles could possibly be connected. There’s no … Continue reading
It was looking bleak there for a moment, but, deep down, did anyone really think The Hobbit would get made without Peter Jackson’s creative input? As for whether he’ll direct… But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The big news today is that New Line and Jackson have "settled all litigation relating to the Lord … Continue reading
You can’t knock Judd Apatow for a lack of self-awareness: his latest video on Funny or Die is a little bit of self-mockery about viral marketing… that happens to be viral marketing for Walk Hard, opening this weekend. Well played, Apatow! In the clip Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd and Craig Robinson (from the … Continue reading
Jim Thompson is one of the great American writers of the 20th century, and his tough, masculine prose and dark, cynical stories are ideal for movie adaptations, which is probably why Hollywood keeps coming back to his books. For the last couple of years The Killer Inside Me, one of his finest and most disturbing … Continue reading
Among the special features on the Resident Evil: Extinction dvd coming out on January 1st is a teaser trailer for an upcoming Resident Evil movie that you might actually anticipate.Resident Evil: Degeneration is the title, and it’s going to be a CG film based on the series. Capcom and Sony announced it a little while … Continue reading
A few months ago at Comic-Con, Pixar panel attendees got to see most of a reel of Wall-E (I’ve already raved about it) and evidently most of that footage was recently run in Austin during Butt Numnb-A-Thon. If either of those venues proved too far to travel, MySpace is your new friend; that’s where the … Continue reading
It would appear that Jim Carrey is entering another one of his quality filmmaking phases, which is a happy occasion for anyone who prefers Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to, say, The Number 23 (the reverse isn’t psychologically possible, is it?). Currently, he’s starring in Yes Man, a formulaic romantic comedy that has a … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Home VideoMSRP: $39.98RATED: UNRATEDRUNNING TIME: 322 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Dr Seuss and the Grinch – from Whoville to Hollywood featurette• Songs in the Key of Grinch featurette• We Are Santa’s Elves featurette• Stop Motion 101 featurette The Pitch See a bunch Rankin/Bass b-sides packaged together with one … Continue reading