The spectacle of Lindsay Lohan – and I don’t know how to more accurately refer to the young lady’s existence at this point – is something that’s both incredibly sad and endlessly fascinating. While she does actually make films and get money to do so, that’s fallen way into the background as she’s become America’s … Continue reading →
Fresh off of turning down an audience with the Queen of England (humanizing the aloof matriarch was favor enough, if you ask me, AND YOU HAVE!!!), Oscar-winner Dame Helen Mirren is preparing for a trip to Jordan, where she’ll star in a character-based drama about the always entertaining Israeli-Palestinian conflict – which should be definitively … Continue reading →
Earlier this year, Johnny Depp and Michael Mann rushed to set up separate projects centered on the erstwhile Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who perished in London from poloniun-210 radiation poisoning. Considering that Litvinenko had been quite critical of the allegedly corrupt reign of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and had fallen ill immediately after taking tea … Continue reading →
IMAX, the neck cramp inducing, motion sickness causing fad method of projection available at 280 screens across America, is looming large in the mind of The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan, who is shooting four action scenes for the movie using the big ass format. One of the scenes will be the introduction of the … Continue reading →
A few days back, the masters of CHUD let out a pentagasmic critique on the pinnacle of movie disappointment: Star Wars: Episode One. Every last entry nailed at least one panging facet (sans the whole toy collecting hobby) I’ve felt since the onslaught of the Star Wars prequels eight years ago. Still, the whole affair … Continue reading →
Knocked Up opens this Friday, and it’s one of the best and funniest movies you’re going to see this year (I gave it a 10 out of 10 in my review right here). Part of what makes the film work so wonderfully is star Seth Rogen as a schlub who accidentally impregnates a woman way … Continue reading →
This week will see the next series of mini-featurettes about Grizzly Park, my maiden voyage into producing a feature. Directed by the enigmatic Tom Skull [I don’t know his legal name], it’s a nice cocktail of horror and comedy that we’ll hopefully be seeing in theaters later this year. Here’s the seventh video, Zulay Henao … Continue reading →
Though perceived as the front runner for the 2007 Palme d’Or headed into today’s Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony, The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men was clothes-hangered by Cristian Mungiu’s rapturously received abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Terminating the Coens’ hopes was festival president Stephen Frears, backed up by … Continue reading →