THIS IS FOR TONIGHT AT 7! SOME TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE! COME SEE A VERY FUNNY MOVIE FOR VERY FREE!!! Attention Chewers in New York City and points surrounding: help us get NYC screenings happening! We’ve had sporadic screenings for you guys in the past, but we now have an opportunity to make them more regular … Continue reading
Discuss this! I hate my age. People my age are becoming executives in the film industry and they seem to forget that what made the pop culture we grew up so great was not the power of the brand but our fertile imaginations. In our heads a Rattler could take out the Sky Striker on … Continue reading
Trans Fans. You think they’d come up with a less Craig’s-List-personals-sounding moniker.
Eric O’Neill’s top-secret assignment: bring down one of the most elusive and damaging double agents in American History: Robert Hanssen… without getting caught. Breach is inspired by the true story of a rookie FBI employee, Eric O’Neill (Ryan Phillippe), assigned to investigate and expose the double agent responsible for the greatest breach in U.S. History, … Continue reading
So Knocked Up is great, huh. And it made almost thirty million clams this past weekend. A wise person would indicate that the winds are shifting in onscreen comedy. Original comedy is happening, reliable creators have arrived (Apatow and McKay come to mind), ones that deliver jokes that don’t insult their audience AND make a … Continue reading
In Knocked Up, the already classic Judd Apatow comedy opening tomorrow, Martin Starr has sort of the exact opposite role of Gerry Bednob’s Mooj in The 40-Year Old Virgin: where Mooj would show up to say something hilarious at intervals throughout the film, Starr shows up to have hilarious things said about him. He’s engaged … Continue reading
Sean Chercover’s first novel, Big City, Bad Blood, was a surprising debut. Just when I thought the Private Investigator sub-genre was on life support, along came this gritty, realistic story. Sean Chercover used his real experiences as a PI to make his writing better and I got a kick out of it. He knows and … Continue reading
Our man David Oliver recently gave the fifth season of NBC’s Scrubs the ol’ DVD review treatment, and had the following to say: "The review I completed right before this one was for a Seinfeld box set and most sitcoms would be shredded in direct comparison, but I think Scrubs embodies a lot about what … Continue reading
Why the hell was there 99% less Kraken in POTC III? What the hell!? HEELLLL!!!!
I trust Dane Cook needs no introduction. The white hot stand-up comedian has, in the last two years, released a platinum-selling CD (Retaliation), received his own HBO behind-the-scenes series (Tourgasm) and sold out arena shows all over the country like a latter day Andrew Dice Clay. He is ubiquitous and seemingly unstoppable. He’s also controversial … Continue reading