Who the hell knows if Frank Miller’s adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit is going to be any good (actually, I might have an inkling if I ever get around to reading the script that’s been sitting on my living room table for the past week)? All that matters is this: Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, … Continue reading
It’s beginning to sound like The Goods: The Don Ready Story, a Used Cars-ish romp being produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay for Paramount Vantage, is essentially a reworking of August Blowout, a long-dead script that was partially cannibalized for Anchorman. Fine by me. Though the current version of the script is credited to … Continue reading
Happy "Trying Too Hard" Day! For a year or two, it looked like Simon West was going to give Michael Bay a run for Jerry Bruckheimer’s money as the modern day king of mindless action. But then he followed up the gleefully ludicrous Con Air with the plain old ludicrous The General’s Daughter and Lara … Continue reading
Imagi Animation Studios’ big screen rendition of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy couldn’t be more off my radar, but now that I’ve seen this splendid first image of the legendary character… I now know an Astro Boy movie is being made! And that Astro Boy will look like Astro Boy. And that there’s going to be … Continue reading
Name of this Film Gross (Weekend) Per Screen Gross (Lifetime Channel) 1 The Game Plan $16,262,000 (-29.1%) $5,237 $42,811,000 2 The Heartbreak Kid $14,031,000 $4,345 $14,031,000 3 The Kingdom $9,345,000 (-45.5%) $3,335 $31,368,000 4 Resident Evil: Extinction $4,300,000 (-46.5%) $1,509 $43,474,000 5 The Seeker: The Bile Is Rising $3,725,000 $1,185 $3,725,000 6 Good Luck Chuck … Continue reading
"Look at these assholes." That’s the funniest line in The Darjeeling Limited, and it also marks the point where the film slowly begins to deflate. At this point in the film the three Whitman brothers who are taking a train trip across India come across another group of brothers taking their own trip, across a … Continue reading
To say that The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising is worse than the book on which it is based is faint praise, since I found the book to be a barely readable bore. The movie’s script, by the guy behind Trainspotting, believe it or not, at least has the kindness to include incidents; ie, stuff … Continue reading
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To paraphrase Spencer Tracy, there ain’t much meat on this story, but what’s there is cherce. Though Nikki Finke pretty much reports everything like it’s the Normandy Invasion, the idea of Warner Brothers’ President of Production, Jeff Robinov*, literally declaring "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead" in response to the … Continue reading
Where the author tells you of the many things out there that make him want to become a master thief with an exceptionally large basement to hoard the myriad material things worth owning and loving. Installment One.Installment Two.Installment Three.Installment Four.Message Board Discussion. Good day. The love of consumption is a shameful yet glorious thing as … Continue reading