The idea of two middle-aged soul singers grudgingly reuniting for a tour twenty years after an acrimonious breakup may not sound terribly original, but when you factor in Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac… you at least hope it’ll be worth watching. But when you also factor in the screenwriting team of Robert Ramsey and … Continue reading
There should be some kind of legislation passed stipulating that every room in every domicile in the United States must be equipped to fire up Little Richard’s "The Girl Can’t Help It" on the off-chance that Ali Larter might one day walk into it. Yeah, there may be more classically beautiful women alive today (not … Continue reading
It’s been more than a year since Richard Kelly’s post-apocalyptic fantasy Southland Tales got annihilated at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, and you’re probably wondering what could possibly persuade you to give the long-delayed film a shot theatrically. How does this trailer strike you? I’m genuinely curious, because… I really like whatever the fuck it … Continue reading
All that’s missing from this Variety story trumpeting Gianni Nunnari’s plans to remake The Wild Geese is the obligatory casting of Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones and a gang of other British toughs to fill out the roles originally occupied by Richard Burton, Roger Moore and Richard Harris. And if you think "occupied" is a strange … Continue reading
Just give me a second. I don’t know about you, but if the studios suddenly scrapped all of their pre-strike plans and decided to make nothing but chick lit adaptations from now until June, I would probably throw out my back trying to gnaw on my own testicles. To be fair, this isn’t necessarily related … Continue reading
Even though it’s been ten years since his last fiction film, James Cameron is still a commercial force to be reckoned with until proven otherwise. And while you think his forever-in-development 3-D opus, Avatar, is the film that’s going to demolish his bankability… well, just know that Jeffrey Katzenberg does not agree with you. At … Continue reading
"I make my films like you’re going to *die* if you miss the next minute." If there’s a finer encapsulation of the experience of watching an Oliver Stone film, I haven’t heard it. Love him or hate him (and no major American director has fewer in-betweens than perhaps Spike Lee), there is no denying the … Continue reading
When Kristen Stewart mentioned during today’s In the Wild press junket that she was set to star in Greg Mottola’s Adventureland opposite Ryan Reynolds and Jesse Eisenberg, I pretended that I already knew all of this. In truth, Eisenberg was the only actor I’d heard connected to this Pittsburgh-set comedy about a college graduate forced … Continue reading
Memo to Mark Waters and New Line: if you adopt the above title in favor of the banal Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, I will henceforth shower this production with ceaselessly positive coverage. Every casting choice and every shred of media (both official and "leaked") will be greeted as if it were the cure for dead. … Continue reading
We haven’t seen much from Ed Norton’s The Incredible Hulk, so these just-posted-to-AICN pictures may be of interest to those of you excited about this small, independent project. Judging from the above, it looks like Hulk has landed in an alternate universe Harlem overrun by French Canadians. Judging from the below, he’s none too pleased … Continue reading