Q: How nervous are you about this movie opening? Whedon: Wow, starting with the hard stuff! The interweb is just a fad. Does that alienate people? How nervous am I? I’m actually pretty calm. I am being medicated now, steadily, to keep me that way. I got really nervous when I realized that ultimately I … Continue reading
Golf is a boring game. Bill Paxton knows this, and so he spices his golf film, The Greatest Game Ever Played, up with plenty of CGI madness. You know you’re in for something a little outside a standard golf film when, in the opening scene, the camera pans across the thatched roof of a shanty … Continue reading
The original title of this article was ‘FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO’, but that screwed up the formatting of our menu on the left. What has me so up in arms? The announcement that Mike Myers will be playing ex-Who drummer and ex-living and breathing person Keith Moon in an untitled biopic. Yeah, not the guy who kills … Continue reading
Mirrormask looks really great. It looks like Dave McKean paintings come to three dimensional life, which makes sense, as he directed the film and designed the look of it. If you’re interested in seeing a movie after smoking an inordinate amount of pot, here it is. There may in fact even be a classic rock … Continue reading
Some films are nothing more than showcases for great performances. In many ways, that’s exactly what Capote is – I don’t know if it could work with someone other than Philip Seymour Hoffman in the title role. At times incredibly fascinating and at others dreadfully slow, Capote is always kept aloft by the amazing performance … Continue reading
Adam Baldwin had just watched the Jaynestown episode of Firefly the night before the Serenity junket in LA. I can understand why you would want to watch an episode of a TV show where someone has built a statue of you. Jaynestown is probably one of the three best episodes of that short lived series, … Continue reading
There’s a consensus on our message boards that people like reading one on one interviews over roundtable interviews. Well, I won’t sell you this as a one on one, but I will tell you that this is about as close to a one on one as I have gotten at a table. So when Paxton … Continue reading
When someone told me there was going to be a Wrecking Crew movie, I got excited and hoped Gus Van Sant would direct. I mean, the only thing gayer than professional wrestling was this group of sweaty, bulging Thor foes. Turns out this is a baseball team, though. Still, don’t baseball dudes always pat each … Continue reading
I don’t find it surprising that Albert Brooks has a hard time getting his movies out there. I mean, they’re funny and smart and don’t include barely closeted bald musclemen interacting with ducks – why would America want to bother with them? But I do find it surprising that an Albert Brooks movie would have … Continue reading
I am not a huge fan of the Broadway production of John Waters’ Hairspray (I’m not a huge fan of the original movie either), but I do like the resurgence of the movie musical, so I had my fingers crossed for the results of the big leap back to film when the musical becomes a … Continue reading