This monday post-Superbad, not much is happening. Jonah Hill and Michael Cera are waking up from their box-office orgy, hoping that their cold feet don’t have to touch each other and wondering if it’s going to be more awkward between them now that they have to stare across piles of money. I hear Judd Apatow … Continue reading
If Match Point and this new trailer for Cassandra’s Dream are any indication, Woody Allen’s vigorousness as a filmmaker seems directly related to the viciousness of the material. When the seventy-one-year-old writer-director tried to downshift back to comedy after Match Point, he delivered the pleasant but forgettably benign Scoop (which, I’ll admit, is better than … Continue reading
As a straight man who experienced puberty while Ronald Reagan was still president, the name Zac Efron fills me with a profound sense of ‘Who the fuck is that?’ Wikipedia tells me that Zac is in no way related to Nora (the spellings of the last names are different, but who knows how these Hollywood … Continue reading
Not content with the controversy he’s surely going to cause with his documentary on religion (currently titled Religulous… eh), Bill Maher has revealed to the all powerful, all knowing, perhaps thirty-percent living Larry King that the film is targeting an Easter ’08 release date. You’ll recall Easter as the day that, according to the New … Continue reading
The excitement we felt over the reteaming of Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro in The Winter of Frankie Machine may be evaporating. According to Frosty over at Collider, Scorsese has dropped out of the project, and by leaving he has put the whole thing in jeopardy. Frankie Machine was going to be DeNiro and Scorsese … Continue reading
After watching 3:10 To Yuma, I could imagine Russell Crowe in the Christian Bale role, playing a one-footed rancher whose hardscrabble life has left him without hope and only one slim chance to ever be a hero, but I couldn’t imagine Bale in the Crowe role, playing an outlaw who relishes his badness and takes … Continue reading
Though I have the utmost respect for director David Frankel and screenwriter Scott Frank, I cannot countenance another film based on a memoir of personal growth hitched to an author’s relationship with a dog. The emotional distance traveled is usually very small, while the narrative always ends with the faithful, furry companion keeling over. It’s … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: IFC MSRP: $29.95 RATED: Unrated RUNNING TIME: 200 minutes SPECIAL FEATURES: Gag reel, documentary, Season 2 preview The Pitch Aren’t industry satires funny? This one’s about both the porn and indie film worlds! The Humans Kathleen Robertson, Rob Deleeuw, Nicholas Wright, Trevor Hayes. Ok…technically, there isn’t actually a … Continue reading
Judd Apatow’s Title Judd Apatow’s Weekend Judd Apatow’s Per Screen Judd Apatow’s Total 1 Judd Apatow’s Superbad $31,200,000 $10,583 $31,200,000 2 Rush Apatow 3 $21,830,000 (-55.5%) $5,778 $88,153,000 3 The Apatow Ultimatum $18,986,000 (-42.3%) $5,129 $163,806,000 4 The Simpsons Movie $6,675,000 (-40.8%) $2,111 $165,117,000 5 The Apatow Invasion $6,000,000 $2,161 $6,000,000 6 Apatowdust $5,244,000 (-42.8%) … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: LionsgateMSRP: $26.98RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 90 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: None The Pitch It’s American Pie meets America’s Funniest Home Videos. The Humans Brendan Fehr, Chris Klein, Cobie Smulders, Craig Fairbrass, Chandra West. *Chortle* Oh my! *snicker* You don’t think he’d *guffaw* actually run out of toilet paper do you?! *dies from … Continue reading