It’s been eight years since the atrocious Idle Hands introduced Jessica Alba to her "audience", and while I don’t have the numbers handy, I’m confident that they’ve bought more copies of her various appearances in GQ and Esquire and Maxim than actual tickets to her movies. If you want to sell a movie based solely … Continue reading
Though the accident that sets Be Kind Rewind‘s narrative in motion seems exceptionally flimsy as presented in this just-debuted theatrical trailer, everything else about Michel Gondry’s latest movie looks like utter, uncut joy. And if you can’t embrace the awesome of Jack Black and Mos Def remaking Ghostbusters, Robocop and Boyz n the Hood on … Continue reading
The junket circuit can be a real drain on your patience, even if you’re as… preternaturally relaxed as Jonah Hill. So, after months of pimping his first starring role – alongside the astonishingly thin Michael Cera – to every press outlet known to man, poor Jonah has finally blown his stack. As has been the … Continue reading
(UPDATE: The video format of the trailer has been upgraded. It’s now much clearer.) I sincerely hope Terry George’s Reservation Road isn’t Mark Ruffalo looking supremely slack-jawed and guilty for two hours, with Joaquin Phoenix not realizing he’s the guy who ran over his kid until late in the third act. If it is, consider … Continue reading
I was born at just the right time for Jonny Quest to have absolutely no impact on my childhood. According to Wikipedia, the show’s Saturday morning reruns ceased airing in 1972, while The New Adventures of Jonny Quest didn’t debut until 1986, at which point I was thirteen-years-old and habitually waking up to the work … Continue reading
Just when it was getting easier to tolerate Brett Ratner as a perfectly average director with an above-average sense of self-promotion, the very bright and learned and, to the best of my knowledge, sane film critic Scott Foundas had to go and turn the libertine into a cause. In an unusually lengthy profile for LA … Continue reading
It’s can’t be a good feeling to have an actress you admire (and have worked with before) up and opt out of a role you’ve written just for her. So I imagine all is not well with Kevin Smith today, considering that Rosario Dawson has stated that she will be too busy bathing in the … Continue reading
I was fine with The Kite Runner‘s poster conjuring up happy memories of Searching for Bobby Fischer; I am, however, disheartened by the Gump-ian sight of CG kites whisking about the frame in this boilerplate trailer for a movie I no longer want to see. This is the game. Though I will always give David … Continue reading
How were we with Ed Harris’s Pollock? I thought his directorial debut was an emotionally astute examination of the volatile abstract artist – though Martin Scorsese covered that ground better and more tersely in "Life Lessons" (his segment of the hit-miss-hit omnibus New York Stories). I haven’t felt compelled to revisit Harris’s film since its … Continue reading
FYI, I’m a big enough sap to look at this poster and get all teary over the invocation of a completely different movie. And while I doubt it was anyone’s intention to get me wondering when Paramount Home Entertainment is going to cough up a Searching for Bobby Fischer SE, that’s primarily what the above … Continue reading