Unicorns rock. Whether they’re bouncing off rainbows, adorning black velvet paintings, the folders of fifth grade girls or the gaudy websites of way too many lonely, 38-year-old women, unicorns equal super-magical. So where have the movies been? I remember Legend having unicorns, I remember The Last Unicorn — shoot, even Anchorman took a bold crack … Continue reading
Danny Boyle has always needed to make a sci-fi picture, if only because he uses Brian Eno’s sountrack to For All Mankind more thoughoughly than even that film’s director did. Watching the latest clip and trailer for Sunshine, Boyle’s apparently massive excursion into space, I’m more curious than ever to see what’s come of his … Continue reading
Fresh off their wins at the Academy Awards last night, Martin Scorsese and William Monahan have reteamed to jam on The Long Play – a movie that spans forty years of popular music history. The movie started with Mick Jagger’s Jagged Pictures, based on an idea by the pillow-lipped street fightin’ man himself. The Long … Continue reading
Here’s the new entertainment journalist sport – trick an actor into revealing more about an upcoming movie than they should. It’s called Dunsting, and Aaron Eckhart hath been Dunsted, at least a little. MTV News caught up with Eckhart at the Independent Spirit Awards (this year’s motto: “Throwing Away All Our Credibility With a Bunch … Continue reading
The official announcement of JJ Abrams as the director of the Star Trek prequel would bring a flurry of more news, I predicted over the weekend. If IGN’s scoopers are correct, my prediction could be about to come true – the site claims to have the names of the five front runners for roles in … Continue reading
Rob Zombie’s Halloween remake has been filming for a couple of weeks now, and Bloody Disgusting has been all over it, even heading over to share the first pictures of the new Myers house. Now they have a very cool exclusive scoop [note: oops, it ain’t exclusive – it’s from Halloween’s MySpace page!]– the first … Continue reading
Hayden Panettiere’s ass stops me dead in my tracks. I’m on the phone, standing outside the Special Events Hall at the New York Comic Con Saturday night and this vision in blue shimmies by, the globes of her butt cheeks rolling back and forth together as she walks through the corridor, flanked by red-shirted Comic … Continue reading
There’s always a rusty, necessarily tetanus edge to tales of hardcore drug abuse and Life is Hot in Cracktown is no exception. If you’ve read the book, you know its first few sentences clearly mark the territory:“Life is hot in Cracktown. The flaming sidewalk burns your feet. Steams the air, cooks the base. Blood and … Continue reading
It’s Hollywood’s prom night and I’m facing it sober. I’m your host tonight, live from Brooklyn, while Nick and the boys put together a podcast. Let’s hope they have a little booze available. If you’re interested in checking out my picks for who is going to win and who deserves to win, check out the … Continue reading
We’re less than a week away from the 79th annual Academy Awards, the awards ceremony most likely to make me get angrier and angrier over the course of four hours. Last year I actually got to my feet and yelled obscenities at my television when Crash got the Best Picture Oscar. This year looks like … Continue reading