Collider.com’s Mr Beaks has seen the next Sam Mendes movie, Jarhead, and he offers some trenchant criticism of the flick. What’s most interesting to me is that Beaks notices what I worried about – the current war in Iraq, which has seen dozens of Marines killed in just the last week and change, really makes … Continue reading
Joe Lovero. That’s the guy we’ll have to blame for what sounds like yet another of the "high concept" comedies that Jim Carrey used to do all the time. Except this time we’ll be stuck with Seann William Scott. The Book of Leo is about a guy who, as he approaches his 30th birthday, decides … Continue reading
Hey remember when Neil Young wrote that awful song Let’s Roll? Holy shit, it’s hard to believe that was the same guy who wrote Rocking in the Free World. By the way, I thought for about six weeks that he had written a song about Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. But now that "Let’s roll" has … Continue reading
I like a good skewering of Hollywood, at least when it’s done well — Bowfinger, State and Main, Living in Oblivion, The Player, HBO’s Entourage, or even the late lamented TV series Action!. Filmmaker Jake Kasdan has his own indie satire in the works called The TV Set, pulling back the curtain on the process of making … Continue reading
Unlike the events of 9/11, which filmmakers are just now collectively daring to approach nearly four years later, there’s no such waiting period for tragedy affecting other parts of the globe. So… tsunami movie! The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and resultant tsunami killed over 300,000 and affected millions of unfortunate people in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, … Continue reading
We keep getting tons of emails about the latest casting on the sequel to Batman Begins (Batman Resumes?), and I continually have to be Snuffy the Fire Dog and put out the flames of fun. You see, people, it’s extremely difficult (probably not impossible, but difficult, like putting a marshmallow in a piggy bank) to … Continue reading
Every single day of the week, a new Graboid 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 as obscure as obscure gets (from relatively mainstream films). So read the … Continue reading
There’s only one time that a film rating becomes a news story, as far as I’m concerned, and that’s when a serious piece of work gets slathered with an NC-17 kiss of death. The NC-17 was created to be an alternative to the X rating, which the MPAA lamely never copyrighted, and which soon came … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago Brendan Fraser let drop that there was a third Mummy film coming. Today Rachel Weisz, his co-star in the first two films of the franchise, was in town promoting her new film The Constant Gardener, and while we didn’t get much time with her, I did have a chance to … Continue reading
Here’s an idea that I find sort if irresistible – the Watergate scandal and the fall of the Nixon presidency as seen through the eyes of the wives. Nip/Tuck (read Nick’s latest DVD review) creator Ryan Murphy seems to feel the same way, so he is making a movie out of the play Dirty Tricks, … Continue reading