BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Bros.MSRP: $59.98RATED: NR Five relatively obscure musicals, spanning MGM’s golden age from the mid-‘40s to the mid-‘50s, and running the gamut from multi-million-dollar prestige productions to modest programmers. Thankfully they’re all equal in the eyes of Warner Home Video, and each has been given a gorgeous transfer and … Continue reading
It’s beautiful outside – the sun is shining, the air is filled with the smell of green things growing, and girls are down to their t-shirts. That must mean it’s time for the moviegoing public to collectively accept whatever half baked bullshit is fed to them by the movie studios – at least as long … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: DimensionMSRP: $29.99RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 106 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES: None The Pitch “This string of ‘Tales from the Crypt Presents’ films are going great! We’ll just keep pumping these out as fast as horror fans can pay to watch them. What’s that you say? The box office returns are in? No … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Touchstone Home EntertainmentMSRP: $29.99RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 111 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Feature Commentary w/ director Lasse Hallstrom• "Making-of" featurette• "Dressing in Style" featurette• "Visions of Venice" featurette• Extended sequence The Pitch "Shakespeare in Love meets Shakespearian-in-Venice." The Humans Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin. The Nutshell Giacamo … Continue reading
Concept: a man’s family is brutally killed in a gang initiation (I am assuming his family was not, in fact, becoming members of the Black Gangster Disciples, but rather were innocents). The man then hunts down the gang members and inflicts the death penalty on them one by one. That’s the concept of Death Penalty, … Continue reading
The first picture of Steve Carrell from Evan Almighty has appeared in the pages of USA Today, Official Newspaper of the Dumbening of America. It looks like Carrell has gone full on Old Testament here – and speaking of testaments, it’s a testament to his commitment to this role that he would allow his hair … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
It’s almost fascinating to watch Art School Confidential slowly start coming apart before it finally crashes and burns. Almost fascinating – it’s actually very disappointing to know that the Dan Clowes and Terry Zwigoff, men behind Ghost World (and individually Dan Pussey and Bad Santa), have stumbled so badly with this one. What sinks Art … Continue reading
Written by Nick Cave, John Hillcoat’s The Proposition is a bleak story set in Australia’s early days, and in the untamed deserts that seem to be very analogous to the American West. Guy Pearce is an outlaw whose younger, soft brother is captured by the authorities and will be hung – unless Pearce finds his … Continue reading
Doris Burn’s inspirational and whimsical illustrated tale Andrew Henry’s Meadow was one of my favorite books as a young spud, so the news that the guy who made Wild Wild West is turning it into a movie makes my brain bleed a little. Barry Sonnenfeld, who by my count has directed one exceptional film (that’d … Continue reading