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We could simply cut and paste stories from Variety, but we don’t. We’re too amazing for that. We RETYPE articles from Variety…

CULTIVATING A GARDEN OF CRAZY

Here’s a movie I don’t understand at all: the dramatic re-working of Grey Gardens, the Maysles Brother’s amazing documentary portrait of the two Edith Beales, who lived in a decrepit mansion in East Hampton, NY. First-time feature guy Michael Sucsy is behind the ‘remake’, which has already cast Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore as Big … Continue reading

UPDATED: HEADSHOT FOR HITMAN

Jump to end of the piece for an update that includes direct quotes from Timothy Olyphant. Devin just phoned in with a blast from the Hitman press day, essentially confirming details from his Hitman Gets Hit story. [UPDATED] The following statement [in pink], picked up by some news outlets, was written before the comical tone … Continue reading

DEATH: THE HIGH COST OF STRIKING

Neil Gaiman has been gearing up the last few months to make his feature directorial debut with an adaptation of his own comic, Death: The High Cost of Living, which sees the anthropomorphic personification of death assume mortal form for one day out of a century (yes, shades of Meet Joe Black). As part of … Continue reading

HAVE A LITTLE IRON MAN

Hope you like your new Iron Man footage in the popular for centuries postage stamp size. Leave it to an international site to disseminate new moving images from one of the most wanted flicks of 2008, but to do so with the resolution of a Polaroid i-zone image. If that’s not enough, the tiny clip … Continue reading

ZACH GALIFIANAKIS PAYS INTEGRITY BILLS

The good news: you’re gettin’ more Galifianakis. The bad news: he’s gonna be the side order to a main course of Kutcher. I know Galifianakis’s comedy is an acquired taste, but after his astonishing disappearing act in Sean Penn’s Into the Wild (I didn’t even know he was in the movie until the closing credits), … Continue reading

O. RUSSELL NAILS BIEL, GYLLENHAAL

Undaunted by the disseminated to death videos of David O. Russell verbally assaulting Lily Tomlin on the set of I Heart Huckabees (find ’em yourself), Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel have bravely committed to starring in the director’s next feature, Nailed. Good for them. I want more David O. Russell movies, and I don’t care … Continue reading

‘DEAR DIARY, AIDS MAKES ME LOL’

Heath Ledger is taking The Joker very seriously. Talking to The New York Times about his turn as a Bob Dylan in I’m Not There, Ledger revealed the stress of playing the villain in The Dark Knight. It is a physically and mentally draining role — his Joker is a “psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with … Continue reading

I’LL NEVER BE YOUR BEAST OF BATAAN

It’s always nice to see that Fred Schepisi is still working, even though the veteran of the Australian New Wave hasn’t fully connected with a piece of material since 1993’s Six Degrees of Separation. At his best, he can be a master of widescreen composition (he worked wonders with his Canadian locales in Roxanne); at … Continue reading