We don’t know what the next James Bond movie will be about, but we may know how it will end – at Palio di Siena horse race. Don’t know what this Italian tradition is? Don’t worry, Wikipedia to the rescue:At 7.30 p.m. (July) / 7 p.m. (August), the detonation of an explosive charge echoes across … Continue reading
Four years ago Howard Stern announced that he’d be producing and ‘presenting’ a remake of Bob Clark’s teen sex classic Porky’s. In the years since it looked like the project had quietly just slipped away, as so many planned movies do. But now Slashfilm is reporting that Stern says the movie is back on track … Continue reading
So, the big concept of Hancock, when it was still called Tonight, He Comes, was that you have a superhero who, well…can’t come when he’s with women, lest he kill them with his jizz, better known as su-per sper-her-herm (Check it). Supposedly, this facet was trimmed down somewhat along with the length of the title. … Continue reading
I don’t have big Hollywood aspirations, but I have always harbored the dream of remaking a film called Blue Movies, a 1988 teen sex romp that sees two schmucks trying to get laid by making a porno. This basic concept still appeals to me at age 33, and I sometimes wonder if I had jumped … Continue reading
Way back at Comic Con in 2006, producer Lorenzo DiBonaventura told the press that the GI Joe movie would include Action Man, the British version of the old GI Joe (the one who was 12 inches tall), in order to maximize the film’s potential overseas. Now IESB has learned that Lorenzo has an Action Man … Continue reading
Chris Rock had a great bit in his last standup special about the whole Siegfried & Roy/tiger attack debacle where he observed “That tiger didn’t go crazy! That tiger went tiger!” I keep waiting for Bernie Mac to go tiger. I got to know the guy through his ultra-raw, raucous, and goddamn funny as shit … Continue reading
What’s worse – Waterboarding or bamboo shoots under the fingernails? Lindsay Lohan’s coke habit or her mom’s fame habit? The third act of Batman Begins or the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade? These are the types of moral dilemmas that we all wrestle with every day. I have a new personal one: Tyler Perry embarrassing black people … Continue reading
Between Evan Rachel Wood’s manly alto and Jim Sturgess breaking out into "I’ve Just Seen a Face" in a bowling alley, I’m confident that Across the Universe has the potential to be the career-killing feat of creative hubris it’s been rumored to be since last March. And now that Julie Taymor’s struck out with (ostensibly) … Continue reading
I was going to lead with a not-very-clever joke about Ice Cube reimagining Blake Edward’s 10 as the ribald tale of a married hip-hop producer who, in the midst of a midlife crisis, falls for an unattainable beauty (Rihanna, the new Uhura herself!), but what’s so funny about that which could be in development at … Continue reading
Yesterday I was at the New Beverly Cinema to see the double feature of Hot Fuzz/Shaun of the Dead that was being introduced by director Edgar Wright. The films remain great, especially Shaun, which speaks to me in a very personal way, but the unexpected treat of the evening came when Edgar showed some classic … Continue reading