Still trying to make these at least one a week. I need more letters to make it happen but I also need email clients to treat all text equally and not create these headaches where the text comes in different sizes and colors and formats. It’s 2006 and still text is hated like I’m still … Continue reading
After the press conference for World Trade Center, I went up to Oliver Stone and told him that his films are one of the main reasons I was sitting with the press corps that day – Stone’s movies were one of the crucial links between film as fun and film as something meaningful for me. … Continue reading
The boys (and girls) at comic publisher Boom! are really burning things up – they’ve got some of the hottest, most explody books on the shelves, and just in case you’ve been asleep, they’re willing to share! The Boom! collective are no slouches, with years in the entertainment trenches — Andy Cosby has a smash hit … Continue reading
The Apotheosis of the Urban Vigilante: Daredevil #67 and Batman #655 By Jeb D. It’s a good time to be a fan of the street-level two-fisted costumed avenger. Recent creative team changes are breathing new life into two of comicdom’s toughest hombres: Batman and Daredevil. Daredevil, of course, has been one of Marvel’s strongest titles … Continue reading
Rian Johnson is a name you need to know. His debut film, Brick, is impossibly assured and great filmmaking, especially when you consider how easy it would have been to fuck up – the movie is essentially a hard boiled noir set in a Southern California high school, where the teens talk like they’ve got … Continue reading
Battlestar Galactica is surely the biggest television surprise of the last decade – who imagined that a crappy Star Wars rip-off TV series from the 70s could be reimagined in the 21st century as the smartest, most relevant show on any network? It took me a long time to accept that this show could be … Continue reading
A. Lee Martinez is a great writer. Funny novels are hard to write, Gil’s All Fright Diner is warm and thoughtful and makes you care about even the most minor of characters(I defy you not to like the sheriff). His dialogue crackles and the places feel real, and the characters all have their own voice … Continue reading
By now you may have seen my name on the newspaper ads for Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. It’s in tiny print just underneath the very huge letters that say ‘The Funniest Movie of the Year!’ And I stand by that – I’m not some Earl Dittman type who will give quotes for … Continue reading
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
The first time I interviewed John C Reilly, for Criminal, I asked him about his first movie role in Casualties of War. He got kind of annoyed, saying it was old news, but I thought it was a pretty fascinating story (he went with the production to Thailand as an extra and ended up being … Continue reading