Despite my almost lifelong loathing of the Golden Globes and everything they stand for, I have to say… I’m deeply depressed at their cancellation. Yes, they’re spectacularly irrelevant in terms of honoring exceptional filmmaking, and, sure, they’ve a checkered past what with that whole Pia Zadora/Best New Star of the Year imbroglio*. But when you’ve … Continue reading →
Happy news to start off 2008… unless your name happens to be Pete Hammond or you’re one of his dependents. According to Radar, Hammond has been let go from Maxim, the magazine where he writes breathlessly quote whoring reviews for the worst movies you could possibly imagine. Hammond won eFilmCritics’s Michael Medved Bag of Douche … Continue reading →
My copy of the DVD for The Ten, a sketch comedy movie where members of The State and Reno 911 take on The Ten Commandments, arrived today. I can’t wait to pop this sucker in – I missed the movie in theaters, and I love these guys and their comedy. I’m even more psyched to … Continue reading →
For years, the DGA (Directors Guild of America) Awards have been the most accurate predictor of what eventually gets nominated for Best Picture; since going three-for-five in 2001, they’ve at least nominated four of the five Academy finalists. And this morning, they announced their contenders for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for 2007: Paul … Continue reading →
So the CLOVERFIELD hype machine keeps rolling on, but, for a change of pace, the marketing is attendable, as opposed to viral. The folks behind this month’s Giant Monster Movie are throwing a surprise party in the Lower East Side of NYC for the film’s lead character Rob and you guys are invited. The details? … Continue reading →
I’m not going to pretend that I was the biggest fan of Girlfight (it was okay), and I’m certainly not going to lie and say I’ve seen more than ten or fifteen minutes of Aeon Flux (my pain threshold is selective when it comes to enduring big budget misfires*), but I still think Karyn Kusama … Continue reading →
Last week the big news, or so it seemed, was that Warner Bros announced they would go all Blu-Ray. The format war is over, was the consensus, and Blu-Ray has Betamaxed HD-DVD. But to me this was a minor skirmish in a bigger conflict, one whose eventual victor has barely begun to enter the fight. … Continue reading →
William Gibson’s proto-cyberpunk novel Neuromancer is one of those books I have no real wish to see lifted to the screen. Not to preserve my own love for the book, which has finer points, but isn’t any significant favorite. Rather, like past efforts to make Gibson’s stuff come alive onscreen, it’s that a Neuromancer film … Continue reading →
The WGA strike is about to hit home for a whole new audience. NBC has cancelled the televised Golden Globes ceremony, originally set to air next Monday, January 13. Suddenly several new segments of the entertainment industry will need to find a new way to prey on creative types, at least for the evening. With … Continue reading →
It took him a few years, but Michael Showalter is finally getting an opportunity to follow up his sublime 2005 non-hit, The Baxter. And while I find it terribly difficult to get excited over the remake of a "German comedy" (let’s see, there’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Stationmaster’s Wife and what else?), anything … Continue reading →