This Sunday is a big day for me. Heckler, the movie that marks my big screen debut, is premiering in Los Angeles at the Arclight. I saw the film earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival, and I found it to be funny and interesting, even if I didn’t agree with all of the … Continue reading
The films of Jim Jarmusch never burn up the charts, but they garner enough critical and arthouse attention that he manages to get the green light one way or another. His last, Broken Flowers (which, as a fan of Jarmusch, Bill Murray and the Ethiopiques music collection I feel like a criminal for not having … Continue reading
It’s bad enough that Spaced, the classic British TV show created by Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, is getting remade for America (Edgar is calling this version McSpaced), but now there are people online who think that the original creators have sold out and that they are somehow involved in this new monstrosity. … Continue reading
There’s a quickie 45 second clip from Beowulf that has popped up on Yahoo! Movies. It’s completely out of context, but if I had to guess it’s Beowulf telling a tall tale about his past – the opening line is ‘We swam for five days, neck and neck.’ While swimming Beowulf and his opponent (it’s … Continue reading
An email just popped into my inbox from ol’ BC at Freezedried Movies: He’s heard that Rachel Nichols, currently starring in the parking garage thriller P2* has been cast in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek**. Nichols worked with Abrams before, on Alias, and besides P2 she’s going to be appearing in Charlie Wilson’s War. Freezedried doesn’t … Continue reading
Consider this Hollywood Reporter synopsis for the film Dean Spanley: Set in Edwardian England, where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, "Spanley" reveals just how deep an Englishman’s love for his dog can go. Would that be balls deep? I’m trying to imagine someone writing … Continue reading
When it was announced that John Hillcoat was directing the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel The Road, I thought it would look a lot like The Proposition Part II. I was more correct than I could have imagined; while stalking the American Film Market here in Los Angeles, Ryan Rotten of Shock Til You … Continue reading
Heath Ledger is getting his future ducks in a row; just the other day it was reported that he, along with Sean Penn, was in talks for the next Terence Malick film (Tree of Life) and now word comes that he’s going to star in the next Terry Gilliam movie. Gilliam, coming off the gutpunch … Continue reading
And now… the downside of work stoppages. Were it not for the stupid charity of Sony’s Amy Pascal, we might’ve been done with Nora Ephron as a director seven years ago. And were the town behaving normally, even the stupid charity of Ms. Pascal might’ve proved insufficient to parole Ephron from Director Jail, where she … Continue reading
No, Patrick Marber has not been commissioned to make another vicious mess of male/female relationships (though that’d be fine by me so long as he issues a written apology for Notes on a Scandal). Matter of fact, he has nothing to do with Duplicity, a Universal Pictures drama that will re-team the attractively antagonistic pair … Continue reading