It’s round three of Joe Carnahan – director of Smokin’ Aces, which apparently knocked em fuckin’ dead at Butt Numb-A-Thon this past weekend – answering your quivering queries. We’ve got more installments ready to run, but we’re always looking for more questions. About ANYTHING! Anything at all. Ask Joe about his favorite food, what’s playing … Continue reading
Sometimes I wish I was a woman. And not just because I would like to spend my days staring at my supple breasts in the mirror (I do that now anyway). I would like to be a woman so I could do something like give an award for “Best Depiction of Nudity or Sexuality” and … Continue reading
Kevin Smith made a lot of mistakes with Clerks II, but perhaps the most egregious was casting Jason Lee as a yuppie scumbag. The problem with that casting is that Lee’s face is now dominated by his awful My Name is Earl mustache, and putting a pink shirt on him will not change that fact. … Continue reading
Somehow I missed this over the weekend: there’s a poster for the new Pang Brothers movie, The Messengers, and if you have microscopic vision, you should be able to make out the name ‘Mark Wheaton’ on there as screenwriter. That name may not be very familiar to you, but perhaps you’ll better remember his nom … Continue reading
Things are looking up for The Simpsons Movie. The first teaser trailer, which featured Homer being smashed around by a wrecking ball (a gag from 1926 that holds up so well it feels more like it’s from 1933!), was, without a doubt, the worst teaser for a cinematic endeavor ever (unless that video of Screech … Continue reading
There are certain things that I would love to have listed on my tombstone. A collection of the eccentric moments in my life that I’m – for better or worse – proud of having experienced. And I’m sure by the time Andre Dellamorte III sits on my lap, my story of having coffee and pie … Continue reading
Clapping at the movies never made much sense to me. What’s the applause supposed to signify? “Way to project that film!” But that didn’t stop me from applauding wildly at the end of Jennifer Hudson’s “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” smack dab in the middle of Dreamgirls. My applause was involuntary; it … Continue reading
This is probably not a happy holiday season at Kyle Newman’s house. He was the guy who was directing the Revenge of the Nerds remake for two weeks before Fox Atomic pulled the plug on it. Yesterday I was at the We Are Marshall junket, and I spoke with McG, whose Wonderland Sound & Vision … Continue reading
Today the New York Film Critics Online met for their annual awards voting. NYFCO is a motley bunch of critics ranging from Rex Reed to yours truly, and the group is kind of an underdog when it comes to awards season – we won’t get half the attention that the LA Film Critics Association*, who … Continue reading
The internet continues to be the ultimate explanation for why unchecked democracy is a disaster. Rotten Tomatoes has given users the ability to critique the reviews of critics; the basic idea seems kind of redundant – why not us then critique the critique of the critique? – but it has quickly passed from being a … Continue reading