I am about to end this contest, but I wanted to resurrect it ever so briefly so that New Yorkers have a chance to see it, since the original thing got buried in our avalanche of content. I have been trying to get more screenings in New York City for loyal Chewers, and this is … Continue reading
Werner Herzog’s films have often been about the extremes of humanity, and in Timothy Treadwell he has found a perfect subject. Treadwell spent 13 summers in the wilds of Alaska, surrounded by grizzly bears, fancying himself their protector. For the last five of these years he filmed himself, almost obsessively. And in the last summer … Continue reading
The Scientologists have been easy targets for some time. I’ve taken more than my share of shots at your average Christ lovers. And I’ve even taken my life in my hands and made some jokes about Mohammedans. Now it’s high time I turned my attention to the Mormons. In 1857 the Fancher Party was headed … Continue reading
An interesting discussion broke out on our message boards recently, in regards to the new 50 Cent movie Get Rich or Die Tryin’ and Hustle & Flow. Some people found the glamorization of the criminal element in these films to be disgusting and offensive. I wonder if these people feel the same way about Goodfellas … Continue reading
Let’s make this short and sweet. You know what I like about the poster for David Cronenberg’s new film, A History of Violence? It’s how there’s a normal movie poster in there – Viggo and Maria Bello big as life, against a stormy sky. Maybe if this was a normal movie they would be hovering … Continue reading
If you got into a DeLorean and went back in time and find me in high school and told me that Marky Mark would one day be one of my favorite actors, I would have laughed. Hysterically. I mean, the guy from the Funky Bunch? Granted, Wahlberg has had some duds in his career – which … Continue reading
If you got into a DeLorean and went back in time and find me in high school and told me that Marky Mark would one day be one of my favorite actors, I would have laughed. Hysterically. I mean, the guy from the Funky Bunch? Granted, Wahlberg has had some duds in his career – which … Continue reading
Remember all the sniggering jokes about how Michael Bay’s The Island is just a rip-off of schlock scifi classic Parts: The Clonus Horror? The producers of Clonus weren’t laughing. Now they’re suing Warner Bros/Dreamworks and asking that the film be pulled from theaters and barred from future release. Which, looking at the box office, was … Continue reading
Paul Rudd has joined the cast of Diggers, a film written by former The State guy Ken Marino (oh how they’ve dispersed out there!), who also stars. Diggers is about two generations of clam diggers trying to keep their way of life as the Hamptons undergoes major changes in the 1970s. I assume we’re talking … Continue reading
So if you’re making a fantasy film and you know that Terry Gilliam is interested (see the recent interview with Coming Soon here to read him talking about this), what would you do? Why, hire the guy who did Shopgirl. That’s not to say anything bad about Anand Tucker, whose Steve Martin comedy I haven’t even … Continue reading