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
Paul Bartel’s original Death Race 2000 is a full-blown non-guilty pleasure. It’s a fantastically fun movie with satire that’s cheap but biting and a memorable bunch of setpieces despite a budget that makes Dungeon Seige‘s craft service pockets look deep. Paul W.S. Anderson’s remake promises to be something significantly smaller. It already sounds terminally calculated: … Continue reading
Here’s a Zack Snyder casting choice every libidinous geek can get behind: Carla Gugino has been announced as the female form behind the original Silk Spectre, Sally Jupiter. Like several other actors in the film, Gugino will be aged to appear both younger and older for scenes taking place at different points on Watchmen‘s timeline. … Continue reading
I know that Thomas Haden Church had a lot of lean years leading up to his sterling turn in Sideways. And I also understand that lots of cats simply want to work constantly to keep the dough rolling in and (hopefully) to exercise those thespian muscles. But Church seems to be accepting projects these days … Continue reading
Ah, the accelerated cycle of Web buzz. For J.J. Abrams’ Cloverfield/1-18-08, we’ve gone from excitement at the initial trailer to intrigue regarding the follow-up viral marketing to frustration backlash at the apparent aimlessness of said viral marketing to backlash against that backlash as people write off the frustration as geek loathing since we’re supposedly now … 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