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DAILY GRABOID 3.27.06

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

CONAN MIGHT COME AGAIN. AND AGAIN.

You can’t keep a good Cimmerian down, or so the saying goes. That one I just made up. According to The Arnold Fans, whenever Arnold Schwarzenegger decides the people don’t want him in office anymore, he’ll pick up the sword again for the role that made him famous and star in not one, but two … Continue reading

MUTATED MALKOVICH

While Brett Ratner decimates Marvel’s merry cast of characters, a different group of mutants are on their way to the big screen, and a Malkovich shall lead them. Actor/director/fashion maven John Malkovich gets his villain on in The Mutant Chronicles, the upcoming sci-fi epic based on the once-popular role-playing game. The story is set centuries … Continue reading

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE REPORT

Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Inside Man $28,900,000 $28,900,000 1 2 V for Vendetta $12,300,000 $46,100,000 2 3 Stay Alive $11,200,000 $11,200,000 1 4 Failure to Launch $10,800,000 $63,800,000 3 5 The Shaggy Dog $9,100,000 $47,900,000 3 6 She’s the Man $7,400,000 $20,400,000 2 7 Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector $7,000,000 … Continue reading

FROM MILLER TO MOORE?

Years ago I read the infamous Sam Hamm script for Watchmen, the one that opens with The Watchmen battling terrorists at the Statue of Liberty. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the graphic novel would recoil in horror at such a thought. I believed that the original comic could never be brought to the … Continue reading

BROKEASS MOUNTAIN

What is a low budget, independent movie anymore anyway? Randy Quaid may find out for all of us in a court of law – he’s suing the producers of Brokeback Mountain. He claims that he waived his usual fee for Brokeback because he had been assured it was "a low-budget, art-house film, with no prospect … Continue reading

FIRST SNAKES, NOW PENGUINS

Animals continue to be on the rampage in the new millenium – this time it’s penguins. Samuel L Jackson, who will be sassing serpents in the “it jumped over the shark/no it didn’t/yes it did” Snakes on a Plane this summer will be doing his best Morgan Freeman when he narrates Farce of the Penguins.The … Continue reading

BE THE BLOCK PARTY!

What is going on with Dave Chappelle’s Block Party? It’s not just a good movie – it’s a great movie, and yet people aren’t going to see it. It’s fun, it’s funny, it’s energetic, it’s a feel good extravaganza. I am baffled by how easily Americans will disregard true quality as they march to see … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 3.24.06

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