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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…

DUNCES GUILD OF AMERICA

Stop slobbering over the iPhone for a minute and get riled up with righteous anger. The Director’s Guild of America (DGA) has announced their five Best Director nominees, and the list is, frankly, pathetic. Here are the noms: Bill Condon (Dreamgirls)Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine)Stephen Frears (The Queen)Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel)Martin Scorsese … Continue reading

MAD INFINITUM

There are sequels no one is asking for (Barbershop 2, XXX 2, etc.) and then there’s sequels no one asks for because everyone who first saw the movie is dead. Take It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, for example. 44 years after the film debuted, it’s getting a sequel: It’s a Mad, Mad, … Continue reading

BLACK SNAKE MYSPACE

If I had already seen Black Snake Moan, the new Craig Brewer film starring Samuel L Jackson and Christina Ricci, I would tell you that it was extraordinarily unique, uneven and fascinating. If I had already seen the movie I might say that while it doesn’t exactly work, Brewer is a talented enough writer and … Continue reading

TURDFORMERS

I can’t say I’ve been into collecting toys since I hit about 14 years old. However, one of the nice things about keeping track of the movie-related toy market is that it often gives sneak peaks of characters studios haven’t fully divulged yet. Like Transformers.Thanks to Hasbro, we now have a peek at what the … Continue reading

TONIGHT, JASON BATEMAN COMES

Tonight, He Comes is one of the most unfortunately titled screenplays in a long time, and it’s been hanging around for years. Now it’s finally getting made, with Will Smith playing a middle-aged superhero who lives hard and has some PR problems. Peter Berg is going to be directing, and he has brought with him … Continue reading

THE BEST OF THE WICKER MAN

I don’t want to be needlessly cruel to Neil LaBute, a favorite filmmaker of mine, but a recently discovered YouTube video of only the best parts of his 2006 remake of The Wicker Man is the kind of thing that will have tears streaming down your face. Click here to watch the video. For the … Continue reading

DAILY NEWS ROUNDUP 1/8/07

— Alan Rickman, he of the British character actors I’d like to shake hands with and say,“Well done. Thank you”, has jumped on board Tim Burton’s murderous barber flick, Sweeney Todd. If you hadn’t read the news elsewhere, you could simply see "Tim Burton" and know the film stars Johnny Depp and Helena “Thanks for … Continue reading