In a column published on the ides of March 2007, the ever cantankerous editor-in-chief of Variety exploded a spray of buckshot into the hindquarters of the nation’s elite film critics who’d been temerariously roasting the pandering likes of Norbit, Ghost Rider and Wild Hogs – this in spite of the fact that these clumsily jammed … Continue reading
On the list of shit I’m not going to get worked up over, the impending remake of Adventures in Babybsitting ranks just below pro wrestling’s human growth hormone scandal and the fact that the State of Idaho’s Attorney General’s office calls my land line every morning at 7:30 looking for some guy named Luther. Do … Continue reading
Patrice Leconte is a masterful director of underwhelmingly perfect movies, and I’ve a feeling that this innocuousness is going to serve him well in the American market, though it doesn’t appear he’ll have much, if anything, to do with Hilary Swank’s remake of Intimate Strangers, which, by the way, was even more inconsequential than The … Continue reading
As if I weren’t already looking forward to Death Proof enough, Variety is reporting that writer-director Quentin Tarantino is prepping an extended cut to perhaps screen in competition at Cannes. That his currently eighty-seven minute segment of Grindhouse has the potential to run a full two hours without padding shouldn’t come as a surprise to … Continue reading
This really isn’t movie "news" per se, but once you’ve read these two stories – the first by The New York Post‘s Lou Lumenick and the second a supplemental anecdote of sorts posted to Livejournal by "moroccomole" – about the Fair Theater, New York City’s "Last Grindhouse", I’m confident that you’ll thank me for running … Continue reading
Hollywood conventional wisdom holds that it’s been a rough last couple of years for Jim Carrey, which is pretty remarkable considering that he did star in a movie that made over $200 million worldwide. Unfortunately, that movie, Fun with Dick and Jane, was heavily re-shot to the tune of $100 million; studio accounting never ceases … Continue reading
As a means of introduction, here’s an introduction: this is my new column. If you like it, I’ll keep doing it. If you don’t like it, I’ll probably keep doing it until I don’t like it. Thing is, I’m not sure if I like it right now, so maybe you’ll like it, but I’ll stop … Continue reading
Hot off his ’06-’07 Best Actor World Tour, Forest Whitaker has just booked what looks to be his fifth post-Last King of Scotland role in David Ayer’s The Night Watchman, in which the hardest-working-survivor-of-Battlefield Earth-in-show-business will star alongside Keanu Reeves. Though I was much more excited about this James Ellroy-scripted cop drama when Spike Lee … Continue reading
(Correction from Jeremy: According to producer Adrian Askarieh, Dougray Scott is not playing "the baddie" in Hitman as suggested by other outlets, but something much more "complex". He didn’t elaborate, and I didn’t press because I love surprises, like the time I walked in on my dad crying during a Crohn’s Disease segment on Real … Continue reading
It’s been years since Americans have received a visit from their amiable Uncle Remus, that delightfully offensive racist caricature whose true loves seem to be storytelling, plantation life and sharing his joy of both with troubled white children. What a swell fella! For those of you who miss that most agreeable of souls, get ready … Continue reading