Remember when we told you that Darren Aronofsky’s next film would be that ballet movie? Forget it. This is Hollywood, Jake, and things change faster than Liberace between numbers. Aronofsky has taken a complete 180, going from the gentle art of dance to the brutal dance of boxing. According to my homeboy Stax at IGN, … Continue reading
Zack Snyder is living high right now as 300 continues to cut through audiences as only half naked oily men can do, and he’s using his newfound clout to get some projects off the ground that might otherwise never happen. Obviously he’s got Watchmen, and it looks like he’ll finally be the guy to break … Continue reading
Martin Scorsese is in direct competition with Steven Spielberg to be the Guy From the 70s Who Has the Most Projects Percolating At Any One Time. But where Spielberg flirts with and then eventually spurns most of these projects, Marty has been just accumulating them. The latest is The Wolf of Wall Street, an autobiography … Continue reading
Last week I finally got to see Knocked Up, Judd Apatow’s follow-up to The 40-Year Old Virgin (you can read my review here). I’ve been dying to see the movie for some time, and I feel like half the people I have ever met saw it in test screenings or at South by Southwest or … Continue reading
This week the internets were alive with the rumor that Emma Watson, the young actress who plays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, wouldn’t be coming back for the final two movies. A British tabloid even had her costar, Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasely, saying that she was distant from her co-stars and … Continue reading
In First Snow, Guy Pearce is a traveling salesman who, on a lark, stops at a fortune teller. The psychic gives him three predictions: one about a basketball game, one about business and one about Guy Pearce’s impending death when the first snow comes. When the first two come true, Pearce begins bugging out in … Continue reading
I was incredibly surprised by how well TMNT, Warner Bros’ attempt to restart the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, works. The movie has no right being as good as it is, although some of that reaction could come from diminished expectations. Still, TMNT works effectively as a continuation of the original comics/cartoons/movies as well as … Continue reading
Walking out of The Last Mimzy I felt indescribably sad. It took me a second to figure out why – after all, the movie didn’t end on a sad note, and even if it did, the film is so incapable of eliciting any emotional response beyond annoyance that I couldn’t imagine it would make me … Continue reading
When Rainn Wilson came into my room at The Last Mimzy press day, he positioned another chair next to the one he was sitting in and stretched himself out, pretty much laying down at the head of the table. It was sort of a weird position for me, because I was sitting next to him … Continue reading
If you live in Los Angeles and have had your interest piqued by my relentless pimping of Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, the ultimate opportunity to see the movie is upon you: Robert Englund, director Scott Glosserman and the cast of the film (including the incredible Nathan Baesel, who plays Leslie Vernon) … Continue reading