Towards the end of my hour long one on one with Brett Ratner on the set of Zak Penn’s imrov poker comedy The Grand, Dave Davis came over. He had been wondering where I had gotten off to, and was amazed to see that I was still talking to Ratner. Mostly, it seems, he was … Continue reading
Watching the violence escalate in the Middle East, as Israel advances further into Lebanon and Hezbollah missiles strike farther past the border and Hamas continues to agitate, my mind turns to the same thing all of America is thinking about – Battle for the Planet of the Apes. The fifth film in the groundbreaking series … Continue reading
There’s about 40 almost perfect minutes in 13 Tzameti, a big chunk of the film that will have you on the edge of your seat and your fingernails in shreds. Sadly, that 40 minutes comes after almost a half hour of true tedium and just before an overly obvious finale. But still! How many movies … Continue reading
What’s in a name? Is a good movie with a bad name still a good movie? It is, and while I Like Killing Flies has about the worst name since The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Crazy Mixed Up Zombies, it’s still a very good, very funny and gloriously New York movie. … Continue reading
Last week I sat down in Vegas with Brett Ratner as he was doing a cameo on X3 writer Zak Penn’s new improv poker comedy, The Grand. I ended up talking with Ratner for well over an hour, and the conversation is funny, fascinating and revealing. You have to talk to a guy for a … Continue reading
Once again we’ve been sent a clip from G4’s Filter featuring Yours Truly. I wish they would send over a clip with Nick in it, but I just have what they send. I do have all the CHUD appearances on Filter on my TiVo, and if I can ever figure out how to get them … Continue reading
Latino Review has scored some pictures from the set of Michael Bay’s Transformers (and for those of you who read that I would be doing a set visit in our first Sewer Chewer newsletter – it got cancelled for logistical reasons. Hopefully it’s being rescheduled), and these pictures seem to indicate that the human police … Continue reading
Nicolas Cage is well-known for doing whatever it takes to get into his parts – he famously ate a live cockroach for Vampire’s Kiss. So how will he get into the role of Liberace, the famously barely closeted piano player? Word is that Cage is looking to play Liberace in a biopic written by the … Continue reading
Could one on ones with Jon Favreau be a Comic Con tradition? I certainly hope so. Last year I talked to him about Zathura and practical special effects as well as growing up in Queens; this year it’s all Iron Man. That’s Favreau’s next picture, which should begin filming in February. The movie doesn’t have … Continue reading
Nick disagrees right here. It’s like a bad Penny Arcade comic (how you tell the bad ones from the good ones, I don’t know…) – Kevin Smith will be a guest critic on Ebert and Roeper while Roger Ebert recovers from complications in surgery. I’m not taken aback by this because I think Smith would … Continue reading