The Con is almost over, and so am I. It’s been long week for me and Dave Davis, one that began with getting up Tuesday morning at 4am for flights to Las Vegas. In Vegas we spent two days on the set of Zak Penn’s new improv poker comedy, The Grand (although I did get … Continue reading →
It’s impossible not to like Paul Giamatti. He’s talented, smart, funny, genuine… the kind of guy you want to hang out with and the kind of actor whose work you never get tired of seeing. He’s finally back as a leading man in M Night Shyamalan’s "Lady in the Water," and his performance is fantastic, … Continue reading →
Why the hell did Kevin Smith make Clerks II? The answer has to be one of those commerce instead of art things – the film goes nowhere beyond the first one, and the characters end up at a place only slightly different from where they ended up in the first one. In fact, much of … Continue reading →
Ghostbusters. Meatballs. Twins. Dave. Just a few of Ivan Reitman’s contributions as a director, and that’s not even including Six Days, Seven Nights [one of Nick’s guilty pleasures]. He also produced Old School, Private Parts, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone and Jason Reitman! Not a bad mix, all told. The man has been at … Continue reading →
I had a girlfriend who took 200 dollars in 20s out of my wallet and ripped them up before tossing them out of the window of a moving car. If she had superpowers I don’t doubt that she would have killed me. For me Ivan Reitman’s My Super Ex-Girlfriend isn’t a romantic comedy – it’s … Continue reading →
Dave Davis and I are in Las Vegas right now, visiting the set of Zak Penn’s improv poker comedy, The Grand. It was 90 degrees at 7:30 this morning, but we haven’t been out of the hotel once – we’ve been watching Zak and his cast, which includes Werner Herzog, David Cross, Woody Harrelson, Cheryl … Continue reading →
It’s not that often that you go to the movies and feel the magic of special effects. Most films have CGI effects that feel completely CGI – not so with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. People have no idea that Davey Jones doesn’t have a bit of make-up on him – Bill Nighy … Continue reading →
I approach M Night Shymalan’s films with a modified version of the auteur theory – I don’t think that he’s a great director, but he’s an idiosyncratic one, and as a result every movie he makes, no matter how bad, is interesting to examine. And he’s made some bad ones. I would rank Unbreakable among … Continue reading →
How does the anarchic comedic sensibilities of Anchorman director/star combo Adam McKay and Will Ferrell mesh with the middle American sensibilities of NASCAR? Not that bad, it turns out. When I attended the Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (when is this movie screening again? I love it!) junket, I asked Adam McKay if … Continue reading →
For the last couple of weeks G4 has been featuring Nick and I as talking heads on its weekly countdown show, Filter. It airs every Saturday at 7pm Eastern/Pacific, and repeats on Sundays at 5 and 11. But you may have missed some of these shows. The folks at Filter have been good enough to … Continue reading →