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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…

KONG CLIPS!

I know this is a bit late, but in case you haven’t heard, Peter Jackson’s adaptation of King Kong arrived on DVD yesterday – so buy it through us by clicking here. It’s a fine film filled with massive amounts of invention even if there’s some minor problems script-wise (read Devin’s CHUD review right here … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 3.29.06

What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading

NICOLE KIDMAN LIKES LOUSY SCRIPTS

Rather than breathe a sigh of relief that scheduling conflicts kept her out of the execrable Mr. & Mrs. Smith, lovely Nicole Kidman has nevertheless tracked down Simon Kinberg, the writer of that glossy garbage (as well as the ingeniously terrible XXX: State of the Union). The pair is teaming for an as-yet-untitled Fox spy … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 3.28.06

What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading

IT IS THE RIGHT TIME

I’m not going to bore you once again with my argument for why there is no wrong time to make a good movie about 9/11. I won’t again remind you that we have no problem with books or songs about 9/11, and I won’t ask you why film should be treated as any less of … Continue reading

ANOTHER BODY FOR THE GRIND HOUSE

Robert Rodriguez is currently hard at work making mayhem down in Austin with his part of the RR/QT combo Grind House, and now we’ve heard of another human appearing in the flick: Six Feet Under corpse-restoration expert Freddy Rodriguez (no relation to Robert I presume, aside from their Latino heritage). Though his HBO show may … Continue reading

HOW ABOUT A NICE HAWAIIAN DICK?

New Line has found a guy courageous enough to spend his days among tiki torches, perfect weather and gorgeous girls in grass skirts. That guy is Adam Sandler chum Frank Coraci, who directed the alleged funnyman in The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy and the upcoming Click. Coraci has now got his hands on some Hawaiian … Continue reading