The good news: David Koechner, so hilarious as Champ Kind in Anchorman (among other great roles), is getting a leading role in a movie. The bad news: It’s directed by the guy who wrote The Animal and wrote and directed The Hot Chick, two horrifying Rob Schneider movies. The concept behind the movie, The Comebacks, … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago a very dumb rumor hit the web, one that said that Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer would feature Doug Jones in a spray-painted leotard and immobile mask in the title role of the surfing alien. It was obvious that this was bullshit, the kind of bullshit that … Continue reading
Fox is stubbornly going ahead with Alien vs Predator 2 despite the UN Security Council’s latest attempts at negotiations. Talks between Tom Rothman and representatives from England, France and Honduras fell apart in the 11th hour when IAEA inspectors tried to confiscate Shane Salerno’s screenplay for the much-feared sequel. As the world looked on in … Continue reading
Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center isn’t his worst movie, but it’s among Ron Howard’s best movies. The film is a bland, cookie-cutter Hollywood piece of nonsense, and in my review, I compared it to the kind of work the ex-Opie and current Oscar whore does on the regular. Maybe Ron Howard read that and was … Continue reading
When I was a young horror head, my friends and I would watch Halloween all the time. We would discuss what made the movie work so well, and it always came down to that haunting, driving score. A film’s score and musical selections can have a profound effect on it – you’ll often hear about … Continue reading
Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Jackass Number Two $28,106,000 $28,106,000 1 2 Jet Li’s Fearless $10,564,000 $10,564,000 1 3 Gridiron Gang $9,700,000 $27,201,000 2 4 Flyboys $6,012,000 $6,012,000 1 5 Everyone’s Hero $4,750,000 $11,594,000 2 6 The Black Dahlia $4,438,000 $17,259,000 2 7 All the King’s Men $3,800,000 $3,800,000 1 8 The … Continue reading
I walked out of Jesus Camp feeling a little dirty. I felt like what I had just watched was a hatchet job, a case where filmmakers with an agenda took advantage of trusting, provincial people, and presented a portrait of them as loonies, weirdos and extremists. Jesus Camp seemed like the worst kind of documentary … Continue reading
I have always said that I wanted to study martial arts so that I could pick fights at bars. This is the wrong reason to study martial arts. It’s so wrong, in fact, that Jet Li’s new movie is essentially all about that. How do you make a movie about the philosophy behind martial arts, … Continue reading
Saying that Feast is the best film to come out of the Project Greenlight TV show is dim praise indeed… so it’s a good thing that this isn’t the only praise I have for it. Feast is a genuinely fun splatter movie that almost never lets up and definitely never takes itself too seriously. In … Continue reading