Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, starring a bunch of nobodies who speak only in Mayan with subtitles, ended up being much more of a standard Hollywood movie than I had anticipated. What wasn’t standard was the film’s production, which was self-financed and shot on location in Mexico. If the DVD of Apocalypto contains a frank behind the … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Home Video MSRP: 19.98RATED: NR RUNNING TIME: 60 minutes SPECIAL FEATURES:• AcceleRacers™ Ultimate Race Challenge: Test Your Knowledge of the Realms• Go Music Video• 4 Bonus MICRO ADVENTURES• DVD-ROM Weblink to the Online AcceleRacers™ World• Trailers THE PITCH “It’s The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift meets product … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: ThinkFilmMSRP: $27.98RATING: RRUNNING TIME: 103 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Commentary w/ writer/director James Marsh and writer/producer Milo Addica• Deleted scenes • Rehearsal sequence• Trailers The Pitch "It’s Absalom! Absalom! meets The Good Son!" The Humans Gael Garcia Bernal, William Hurt, Laura Harring, Paul Dano, Pell James. The Nutshell You know the … Continue reading
Buy it at Amazon: Click here!Studio: Warner BrothersMSRP: $14.96Rated: Not RatedRunning Time: 151 – 164 minutesSpecial Features: – Dolphins “No Name” Defense featurette– Dolphins Spoil Bears Perfect Season featurette– Shula’s Greatest Season featurette– promotional spots The PitchSatan’s Cheerleaders meets Gimme An ‘F’ meets Cheerleader Camp. The Humans1,000+ cheerleader hopefuls and their would-be employers. The French … Continue reading
While Pirates are so goddamned en vogue right now, I suppose the hordes of Halloween copycats can do one thing right. Dance With Jack Ketch There’s the oft-quoted maxim that you can never have too much of a good thing, but Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead Man’s Chest (read Devin’s take and then our … Continue reading
This week NBC’s surprise smash hit Heroes turned a big corner – it got rid of the shitty opening and closing voice over. I don’t know how that decision got made, but I hope it sticks. The show sports some of the worst writing on network TV, and the terribleness of it is only highlighted … Continue reading
Hardcore fanbases creep me out. Whether it’s the Browncoats or Star Wars nerds or the socially stunted emotional infants who get upset about changes to the designs of Transformers, I have time and again decried these easy targets and ridiculed their possibly birth defect-related levels of obsessive love for marginally interesting entertainment properties. But none … Continue reading
The release of the first season of Saturday Night Live on DVD is something I never thought we would see. After all, they could milk endless “Best of” collections out of the show without ponying up the bucks to pay for the rights to the various musical acts who have appeared on the program. But … Continue reading
I have not run a weekend box office report for the last two weeks for two reasons – one, I have been away from the computer for large chunks of the last two weekends doing junkets and other things (which will continue next weekend, by the way). The other reason was that box office reporting … Continue reading
The screenwriter for Deadman, based on the very strange DC Comics undead superhero, has been announced – it’s newbie Gary Dauberman. He caught the attention of producers Don Murphy and Guillermo del Toro with a spec script he had done for a zombie Western, and now he’s chronicling the origin of Boston Brand, a murdered … Continue reading