Michael Mann staple and “Hey! It’s That Guy!” Bruce McGill has joined the cast of the Area 52 pilot, reports Zap2it.com. The Animal House star will play a general in the NBC comedy set at a secret government installation, where he’ll be telling co-star Matthew Lillard to ‘wipe that smirk off your face!’ Area 52 … Continue reading
Welcome to The Special Edition. I have had a crazy week, so I’ll just get this column out with little to no hoopla. Stranger Than Fiction Will Ferrell performed a song at the Oscars about comedy actors not getting any notice when it comes to Oscar time. The song was quite brilliant. Here, he makes … Continue reading
Even if you hated the shit out of American Beauty and its script by Alan Ball, there’s no denying that Ball’s cable series Six Feet Under helped turn HBO into the critical and awards powerhouse it is today. As previously reported in our THUD pilot roundup, Ball’s next effort for the “not tv” channel is … Continue reading
There has been a fair amount of coverage on game development costs expanding beyond control, resulting in an entertainment medium dominated by the major publishing houses with the bankrolls to hire huge teams across several years. We’ve also dealt with, and are way past, the grumbling about Xbox 360 and PS3 games costing an extra … Continue reading
Southerners make the best storytellers. Craig Brewer is one of those storytellers. This interview happened in an office in Midtown Manhattan on one of the coldest days of the year, but the feeling was like sitting on a front porch in the Southern summer heat, drinking beers. Black Snake Moan is Brewer’s third film. His … Continue reading
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Rob Zombie’s Halloween remake has been filming for a couple of weeks now, and Bloody Disgusting has been all over it, even heading over to share the first pictures of the new Myers house. Now they have a very cool exclusive scoop [note: oops, it ain’t exclusive – it’s from Halloween’s MySpace page!]– the first … Continue reading
Hayden Panettiere’s ass stops me dead in my tracks. I’m on the phone, standing outside the Special Events Hall at the New York Comic Con Saturday night and this vision in blue shimmies by, the globes of her butt cheeks rolling back and forth together as she walks through the corridor, flanked by red-shirted Comic … Continue reading
There’s always a rusty, necessarily tetanus edge to tales of hardcore drug abuse and Life is Hot in Cracktown is no exception. If you’ve read the book, you know its first few sentences clearly mark the territory:“Life is hot in Cracktown. The flaming sidewalk burns your feet. Steams the air, cooks the base. Blood and … Continue reading
Look at this! I bitch and moan and then, in an act of pure coincidence, something happens to appease me. The Xbox Live Arcade will be receiving a new title this Wednesday, ending the drought with a tease of a shower. Alien Hominid HD will be yours for the buying, in all of its 2D … Continue reading