In the new horror film Dark Water, Tim Roth plays maybe the nicest screen lawyer ever. Hired by Jennifer Connelly to help her through a messy divorce, he becomes her support system as all sorts of plumbing and ghostly weirdness takes over her life. At the Dark Water press day here in New York City, … Continue reading
There’s a movie coming out this month called The Aristocrats, and it may be one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. It’s also possibly the foulest. It’s just 100 comedians all telling the same joke – the filthiest joke in the world. That may sound like a recipe for snoozing, but it’s fantastic. … Continue reading
You can’t help walking into a movie with expectations. You’ve seen the ads, you saw the trailer, maybe you’ve read the snarky commentary we have added to the news here about the movie. Usually you can be pretty sure that you won’t come out of the theater too surprised. It happens, of course – although … Continue reading
Am I the fastest transcriber on the planet? Maybe. The press junket for Fox’s Fantastic Four was held this afternoon in beautiful muggy downtown Manhattan, and I attended along with my beloved fellow members of the press (and I got a chance to meet Steve Sands, a papparazzo who made #41 on the New York … Continue reading
Am I the fastest transcriber on the planet? Maybe. The press junket for Fox’s Fantastic Four was held this afternoon in beautiful muggy downtown Manhattan, and I attended along with my beloved fellow members of the press (and I got a chance to meet Steve Sands, a papparazzo who made #41 on the New York … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago Avi Arad said that there was a director who was very interested in Silver Surfer, but who hadn’t signed anything. This guy had made a mental commitment, though – and he was a Zen Buddhist. At the time that rang some bells – there was one director I knew whose … Continue reading
Some girl goes missing in Aruba and it’s headline news for weeks. Rap superstar Notorious B.I.G., aka Christopher Wallace, gets murdered and the whole thing just sort of slowly sinks away. Of course part of that could be because two LAPD officers have time and again been implicated in his killing, and now HBO is … Continue reading
Many people have wanted to make a movie based on Marvel Comics’ espionage elitist, Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., but none have been able to come up with an actor who can fill the shoes of David Hasslehoff, who played the character in a Fox telemovie years ago. Now the word is that after he’s … Continue reading
It seems that David Fincher is just aware of how much we have all missed his presence in our theaters (even after Panic Room!), and has signed on to direct two films back to back. Neither film is a huge shocker – he’s already been knee-deep in pre-production on Zodiac, a film about the Zodiac … Continue reading