With Casino Royale a major, absolute smash success (no matter what the delusional Daniel Craig Is Not Bond people think), the attention of everybody behind James Bond has turned to a sequel. Casino Royale was the last Ian Fleming James Bond book that had been untouched by the films… or was it? I didn’t know … Continue reading
At this point I would give up on ever seeing Factory Girl, a film about the life of Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick. First, the film was rumored to have been wrested from director George Hickenlooper’s control by Harvey Weinstein, who has been re-editing and forcing reshoots (I’ve read rumors of up to 40 pages … Continue reading
I’m a fan of some older sitcoms. There are a few that Nick at Nite just don’t play all that much anymore, so I barely get a chance to catch them. Luckily, NBC Universal have come up with a solution, in which I hope they expand on.They just launched a new video service in the … Continue reading
Before the cornucopia of super hero movies that there are today, I remember sitting in my living room as a child, admiring the only one that truly mattered. He was brave, he was strong, and not to mention the fact that he was a talking dog.That’s right, folks: Underdog. You know, speed of lightning? Roar … Continue reading
All of the critic awards this week were just prelude to this, the real kick-off to Oscar fever: the Golden Globes nominations. The Golden Globes are, essentially, a joke – they’re given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a nobody group who only recently stopped accepting expensive gifts from studios – but they’re seen … Continue reading
Like most folks, I enjoyed Pirates of the Caribbean. And, like most folks, I walked out of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest with my tender senses bludgeoned into the equivalent of a thousand-yard-stare and my bladder all stingy and numb. That was six months ago. This week, it looks like Pirates of the … Continue reading
If you, like me, are waiting for your chance to see how Justin Timberlake brings Sexy back to murdering naïve 15 year old kids in Alpha Dog, you may have to wait. Recent courtly maneuvering around the films portrayal of Jesse James Hollywood and Nicholas Markowitz may be a little too close to real-life and … Continue reading
My year end Top Fifteen list is still taking shape, and there are still a couple of movies that I have to see before I make my final decisions, but I feel like the top five has already been set – it’s just a matter of figuring out the order. And one of those five … Continue reading
There was a time when Gary Oldman was a thespian badass. Drug dealing psychopath, maniacal arms dealer, wrinkly, ass-headed blood sucker. Now he’s taking bit parts in B-list productions about magic nerds, choir boys who drive tank cars and the mustachioed men who befriend them. I dunno. Used to be a day when Oldman carried … Continue reading
A friend of mine recently read the novel Happiness Sold Separately and loved it. I remember when she finished it, she said “Man, I can see Julia Roberts being in this movie!” Well, I’ve got good news for her.Julia Roberts will be producing the adaptation of Happiness Sold Separately, the best selling novel by Lolly … Continue reading