Bonnie Hunt is one of those people who should be more famous. Yet it seems like the comedienne can’t catch a break – she’s starred in a succession of cancelled TV shows over the years (none of which are coming to DVD any time soon, she told me after this interview; not even The Building, … Continue reading
There’s one thing that no one can deny about Robert Altman: he gets good casts. He’s packed his latest, A Prairie Home Companion, with some of the top notch talent working today, and it paid off. The movie’s a joy in the kind of way a movie only can be when the cast is truly … 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
Tara Chace Heads to Iraq in Queen & Country By Mark Wheaton “What they have isn’t conclusive. You two will have to find a smoking gun that the CIA can present to the White House and the Pentagon after the fact, justifying the action.” “Queen & Country” returns. Thank friggin’ God, right? What’s even better … 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
I think you’d have to really do some searching to find someone who slept with Frank Sinatra AND Woody Allen, so it was a special day when I had the chance to meet Mia Farrow. Obviously what defines Farrow isn’t her hard to pin down taste in men but her acting, including in a string … Continue reading
I get to Times Square about once a week. It isn’t by choice, but rather the nature of Manhattan’s screening rooms in relation to the subway. I had always assumed that Times Square, which during the last decade has morphed into the opening of Blade Runner, would be the place where I would see the … Continue reading
The Loews Motor Speedway is enormous. It’s humongous. It’s gigantic. It’s even approaching vast. For some of my dear readers this is not news, but I’m an inveterate New York City boy, and I never even imagined that I would ever watch a NASCAR race on television, let alone visit one of the tracks where … Continue reading
The usual routine for a junket is to assemble at some glitzy hotel, where rooms are cleared out and beds are replaced with tables. For Pixar’s Cars junket, though, we went to North Carolina, to the Loews Motor Speedway (for more on that, click here). The interviews were done in the skyboxes maybe five or … Continue reading
I have to admit that I first became aware of Liev Schreiber in Scream. I probably should have been on the ball sooner – he’s turned into one of the great American actors, on screen and on stage. He’s also recently tried his hand at directing with Everything is Illuminated, the #12 film on my … Continue reading