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JOHNNY DEPP MANNS UP

With his planned next project, Shantaram, delayed by the strike, Johnny Depp has found something else to pass the time – he’ll star in a new Michael Mann film. The movie, Public Enemies, is about the great American crimewave of 1933-34, when larger than life hoods like John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy … Continue reading

PEYOTE RACER

I am LOLing right now. I keep looking at the new Speed Racer photos that USA Today has premiered and I keep LOLing as I wonder what the hell the Wachowski Bros are up to with this movie. Why is Emile Hirsch dressed like Tron? Is Speed Racer on one of the tracks from Super … Continue reading

AWARDS SEASON HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN

My opinion on the National Board of Review changed when I interviewed Roy Frumkes, writer of the immortal classic Street Trash, and learned that he was a member. I went from thinking that the NBR was a pointless, starfucking group to thinking it was a pointless, starfucking group with at least one guy who finds … Continue reading

THE WRIGHT STUFF, AT HOME

Devin’s been going on about how great the Wright Stuff mini-festival is, and with good reason. Edgar Wright has put together a fantastic collection of films to show at the New Beverly theater over a couple weeks. If I could, I’d be there for every single night. Devin recently wrote about his experience seeing The … Continue reading

JOKER CAKE!

I was sitting in my living room, writing up the National Board of Review winners, when someone knocked on my door. It was a guy with a cake in one hand and a copy of the Gotham Times in the other. I had been delivered my own Joker cake. Some of you have seen the … Continue reading

LOOKIN’ GOOD, IRON MAN

Getting new Iron Man details feels like waiting for your tax return to arrive. There are perfectly legit reasons for keeping a lot of the film’s details under wraps — I really don’t want to know the whole movie before I sit down in front of it — but in the meantime we’re being fed … Continue reading

ED NORTON JOINS KIDDER, LOHAN, VAN DAMME IN ELITE CLUB

Double your pleasure, Norton-o-philes. The actor, who suddenly cannot be stopped* will be playing dual, genetically identical roles for writer/director Tim Blake Nelson in the flick Leaves of Grass. The picture is billed as a ‘comedic thriller’, an identity readily apparent to anyone who reads descriptions of Norton’s roles: (1) an Ivy League classics professor … Continue reading