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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…

YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD RICK HUNTER?

It just isn’t safe anymore. It’s not safe to make a joke about a videogame, however shitty and obscure, becoming a motion picture. Same goes for whatever cheesy cartoons you watched as a young’un. Hollywood these days don’t give a fuck, son. They will adapt that shit in a second. I half-jokingly noted in an … Continue reading

DELLAMORTE DOES BO – 9/7/07

There are two PSA’s that remind me of awesome. The first one everyone saw. It’s the one where the dad comes home to find his child doing drugs, and the son says to the dad "I learned it from watching you!" Even having grown up exceptionally square this was hilarious to me as a kid, … Continue reading

THERE WILL BE A TEASER POSTER

My excitement for Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie, There Will Be Blood, is reaching a fever pitch. I know that the film will soon be screened here in town for select press, and I’m all but foaming at the mouth for an opportunity to see it early. Do you hear me, Paramount Vantage?!? The teaser … Continue reading

KNOXVILLE YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD

I remain unashamed of my deep and abiding love for Jackass, both the television series and the two movies. There’s a brilliance on display, not only in the conception of the insane stunts and pranks, but also how they’re shown to us; the different Jackasses have their own personalities that shine through in just a … Continue reading

ZANGIEF WEPT

I’m sorry, but what was it, aside from the meager domestic returns, that Steven E. de Souza’s Street Fighter failed to get right about a video game in which cartoon characters wallop the shit out of each other? Were there storytelling nuances he missed? Character arcs left unresolved? Finishing moves misrepresented? Getting indignant over a … Continue reading

RUDIN TO LEO: “YOU CLAUDIUS”

Robert Graves’s novel, I, Claudius: Stutterin’ to the Top of the Roman Empire, was the basis for the greatest television miniseries of all time. What are the chances it will inspire the greatest movie of all time? And what are the chances I could come up with a lamer intro to this piece? Producer Scott … Continue reading