INT. LOS FELIZ BAR – NIGHT The girl leaning all over me claims to be a striking comedy writer. I don’t mean she’s leaning all over me in the good way; it’s all elbows and annoyance. I’m at a local place chatting with a lovely lady friend, and this drunken twit is unable to stand … Continue reading →
It’s weird to see the roles older actors take. Sure, there are not a lot of parts for guys over 60 that aren’t grandfather roles (or going to Nicholson), but you have to ask yourself why guys like Peter O’Toole make shitty family films. Is it because he has saved absolutely no money from his … Continue reading →
The cast list for Star Trek XI reads like a joke, especially the inclusion of Winona Ryder as Spock’s mom (who knew that Sarek was a rocker in his early days?), but the newest casting news almost brings a smile to my face. And then I realized that JJ Abrams is only doing strong casting … Continue reading →
If I ever watched an episode of Dragonball Z, it certainly wasn’t on purpose. And if I ever did this detestable thing, I definitely didn’t enjoy it. And I know this to be the Non’s honest truth because, last I checked, Hayao Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon, Mamoru Oshii and Katsuhiro Otomo never put their name to … Continue reading →
Fresh off a couple years of doing not very much at all*, Jada Pinkett Smith is about to beef up a couple of the less obvious columns in her IMDB profile. One is ‘writer’, as JPS penned a script called The Human Contract; the second column will be ‘director’, as she’s slated to direct the … Continue reading →
Edgar William Jacobi, also known as Edgar William Vaughn, also known as William Edgar Bright, also known as Moloch the Mystic will be played by Max Headroom, also known as Matt Frewer (also known as Gene Kranz!). Okay, so it’s not a terribly pivotal role in Zack Snyder’s film version of Watchmen, but there is … Continue reading →
Oliver Stone’s My Lai Massacre film, Pinkville, has run the casting gamut from perfect (Bruce Willis as General William Peers) to intriguing (Channing Tatum as a helicopter pilot who tries to stop the killing) to "we’ll see" (Xzibit as a soldier who feels that the massacre was, on balance, justified). But even if all of … Continue reading →
You know that Prince of Persia movie that’s been simmering at Disney for month after month? Well, Disney’s Oren Aviv and Jerry Bruckheimer have offered the directing gig to Mike Newell, the man who is currently awating critical savagery for his Love In The Time Of Cholera. Newell has met with Disney and the ‘Heimer … Continue reading →
Bond Girls are a phenomenon of their own devising. They come with enormous hype at casting time, but when it’s all said and done, their roles never seem to leave a mark beyond the film’s expiration date and the Bond-verse they inhabit. As such, their casting isn’t as much news as it is the Babe … Continue reading →
This is Spinal Tap completely ruined the mystery of Stonehenge for me, but I’ll give the elaborately stacked group of rocks another shot if Ridley Scott’s interested in divining their purpose. The big question here is "if", since Scott has a tendency to attach himself to more projects than he actually makes. Stones, based on … Continue reading →