I flew home from Los Angeles yesterday, and while the ride was turbulent as hell, I knew I wouldn’t die, since Jason Lee was sitting in the first class cabin (planes with celebs rarely seem to go down). I caught him waiting at the gate, wearing that big ass My Name Is Earl mustache. He … Continue reading
While I was out in Los Angeles this past week I had a couple of beers with Mr. Beaks, late of Aint It Cool, now of Collider. The topic of Noah Baumbach’s new film, The Squid and the Whale, came up, and while it turns out I liked it more than Beaks (who had problems … Continue reading
I can’t even tell you how much stuff I have from the Toronto Film Festival to run. Just a ton, an honest metric ton, of interviews. I’ve been on the road for the last week and a half, and I’ve doled out some of the interviews I got from Toronto, but in the next few … Continue reading
Months ago I called Nick and told him that I would be covering the junket for Serenity, the big screen version of the cancelled TV show Firefly, no matter what, even if I had to pay my own way to Los Angeles to do so. This past week the junket was held at the Four … Continue reading
Months ago I called Nick and told him that I would be covering the junket for Serenity, the big screen version of the cancelled TV show Firefly, no matter what, even if I had to pay my own way to Los Angeles to do so. This past week the junket was held at the Four … Continue reading
I like to grade my interviews based on how jealous they make my little sister, and this one ranks pretty highly. Having a chance to talk to Johnny Depp is obviously any Jump Street fan’s dream come true, and even if there was no time to talk about how he measures up to Richard Grieco, … Continue reading
I’m not going to lie to you – I am jealous of Lou Pucci. Not because he’s a young guy just starting to make it big in film. Not because he’s been getting awards recognition for his role in Mike Mills’ Thumbsucker, winning best actor at the Berlin Film Festival. Honestly, it’s because he got … Continue reading
It seems like just a few months ago that we had a Tim Burton movie in theaters. Get it? It WAS just a few months ago! And that film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, featured some of the same people who ended up in Tim Burton’s new stop-motion film, The Corpse Bride. Johnny Depp plays … Continue reading
Hey, internet news sites – you really have to read CHUD.com. A month ago Russ Fischer had a one on one with David Cronenberg (here!) where the Canuck revealed that his scifi film Painkillers was dead, dead, dead. “Painkillers is not going to happen. I can’t get into my own script anymore, which is a weird … Continue reading
Andrew Niccol’s new film, Lord of War, opens with Nic Cage standing a street that is paved with bullets. That’s just the first striking image in a film filled with them, a film that tries to open our eyes to the world of international arms dealing. The guys who do this operate both legally and … Continue reading