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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…

16 BLOCKS, ONE SHEET

The biggest pro of 16 Blocks is its simple concept – a old cop (Bruce Willis equipped with one world class poon broom) must take a wiseass perp (Mos Def, happy to have survived Hitchhiker’s) 16 blocks to NYPD’s 1st Precinct at 100 Centre Street. And of course along the way all kinds of madness … Continue reading

A RELEASE DATE DARKLY

A Scanner Darkly could be a very cool film, and is almost certainly exactly what Richard Linklater needs post-Bad News Bears. The only problem with the movie is that it seems like it’s never coming out. The release date keeps getting pushed back further and further – now the film is scheduled to hit July … Continue reading

MADSEN COUNTS

One minute you’re only familiar to fans of made-for-TV junk and bad 80s movies and Highlander II (the Renegade version, naturally)… and one critically acclaimed wine movie later, you’re suddenly working with Bruce Willis and Robert Altman and presenting awards with co-star/drunken curmudgeon Harrison Ford, and your agent is calling with more high-profile opportunities. That’s … Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 1.18.06

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

DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN

There’s a good joke to be found in a time travel movie that’s got a very familiar plot. Universal has picked up a pitch for a movie that sounds like Peggy Sue Got Married Meets Back to the Future, titled How Soon Is Now? (aka, the most sadly overabused and overcovered Smiths song. And my … Continue reading

I FEEL SOME REMORSE

I was a fan of John Singleton’s ludicrous revenge film Four Brothers, and I have to give him respect for producing Hustle & Flow, but I do have to draw the line somewhere, and that line is drawn where it comes to a movie that might require an actually technically proficient director. The movie, in … Continue reading

CHOOSE THE FACE OF VENGEANCE

Even though it hasn’t officially arrived in the US of A, Park Chan-Wook’s Lady Vengeance (aka Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) still made the Best of 2005 lists of Devin (HERE), Russ (HERE) and myself (HERE), and it’ll probably show up on quite a few more when moviegoers assemble their own 2006 lists in about 11 months. … Continue reading

JARED FATSO

I’m not quite ready to eat my words, but Jared Leto looks like he might be willing to. Along with anything else on my plate. The hunk has gained a couple of pounds, it would seem, for his role as John Lennon’s killer Mark David Chapman in Chapter 27. A month or so ago I … Continue reading