As Sir Ridley Scott gets older, he attaches himself to more and more projects, including ones that are quite simply ludicrous, like a movie version of Monopoly. Recently Scott sat down with the LA Times to talk about his current projects, and the subject of the Monopoly movie came up. Monopoly is still the most … Continue reading →
With all of the recent furor over the Batman films on the boards, I’ve seen oft-regurgitated slams on the Schumacher films for being so overtly gay and non-serious. But I just don’t see the complaints as much when it comes to what Bryan Singer did with Superman Returns. After all, he turned the franchise relaunch … Continue reading →
Last week, the four leads from the amazingly funny Superbad hit town to promote the film. Andrew Sweeney [whose work in getting this recorded and prepared is phenomenal] and myself met with them on the Superbad Tour Bus at the Warped Tour in Atlanta. Those leads are: Jonah Hill, who plays Seth to vulgar perfection … Continue reading →
A joke about the film’s title Weekended Gross Per Screen Total 1 The Bourne Ultimatum $70,181,000 $19,175 $70,181,000 2 The Simpsons Movie $25,600,000 (-65.4%) $6,520 $128,550,000 3 Underdog $3,985 $12,009,000 4 I Now Pronounce You Bruce and Bruce $10,528,000 (-45.0%) $3,200 $91,697,000 5 Hairspray $9,325,000 (-41.4%) $2,993 $78,954,000 6 Harry Potter and the Order of … Continue reading →
Though I think Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is much more relevant to the state of the world today in terms of story and theme, I’ll gladly take a Fahrenheit 451 written and directed by Frank Darabont. I read Darabont’s adaptation several years ago (when Mel Gibson was set to star), and felt it was … Continue reading →
I’m all for cute, conflated credits that brand particular aesthetics like "The Coen Brothers" or "ZAZ", but what in the hell have the horrendously untalented Cormac and Marianne Wibberley done to deserve the official, WGA-approved appellation, "The Wibberleys"? Unless it’s intended as a Mr. Yuck warning to more attentive filmgoers, this is nothing more than … Continue reading →
Brought to you by Slusho, the fictitious product you’d like to bore into J.J. Abrams’s head Regarding Henry-style. Farewell to Beauty "In [L’Avventura] Antonioni stands quite apart from the Italian neorealists. He does not try to show life "as it is" but as he sees it. In the sense that his films are intensely personal … Continue reading →
Last week, the four leads from the amazingly funny Superbad hit town to promote the film. Andrew Sweeney [whose work in getting this recorded and prepared is phenomenal] and myself met with them on the Superbad Tour Bus at the Warped Tour in Atlanta. Those leads are: Jonah Hill, who plays Seth to vulgar perfection … Continue reading →
Look, I understand Live Free or Die Hard is doing well and may, in fact, go on to be the biggest earner of the franchise. I get that. But are people really chalking this up to the sterling direction of Len Wiseman? Did they take his name off the embarrassingly bad Underworld flicks? The answer … Continue reading →
For computer geeks my age, the entrée to 3-D PC gaming generally came through one of two properties: Castle Wolfenstein 3-D or Doom. When you’re a young teen and the hardest choice you have to make in any given night is whether to kill Nazis or monsters, life is pretty good, right? These two simplistic, … Continue reading →