I see all group social interaction through the lens of high school cliques and structures. I don’t think this is all that off-base a way to look at the world, since I don’t think many of us ever really make it past high school – either our best days were there or we still bear … Continue reading
Mr. & Mrs. Smith: The TV Show! is all kinds of serious about taking a big league crack at your viewership and TV advertising dollars. Having recently announced plans (read the story here) to make the Pitt/Jolie movie a boob tube adaption of the insanely good-looking super-assasins just trying to get by with a l’il … Continue reading
I remember liking Meet the Parents when I saw it in the theater. Ben Stiller had yet to become omnipresent in motion picture comedy. At the time, DeNiro was taken more seriously as he had come off of Ronin and Jackie Brown. Owen Wilson was still a supporting player. Finally, Teri Polo was rescued from … Continue reading
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle was a pretty good little movie, despite many claims otherwise. It’s not a work of great art, and it’s not the best film in the doped up minorities genre (although how could it be, with Cheech & Chong basically owning that field?), and it’s a little tamer than … Continue reading
A few days ago, an announcement went out about a new Mario Bello/Ray Liotta movie called Downloading Nancy in which she would play a suicidal woman who meets a man over the Internet and hires him to kill her. Unfortunately, they actually develop a relationship and he doesn’t have a PayPal account, so problems happen. … Continue reading
First those Aint It Cool News bastards get a long cut of Knocked Up, the new Judd Apatow/Seth Rogen comedy, for their Butt-Numb-A-Thon. Now they have three exclusive poster premieres – two domestic and one international. I am so jealous!It’s no secret that I worship at the altar of Apatow – from Freaks and Geeks … Continue reading
My earliest memory of the game of football is watching Chico and Harpo Marx play cards on the field in the middle of a huddle. Shortly after that, the chariot arrived, and my conception of the game was forever warped. I was further upset when I learned that football and Calvinball were two different sports. … Continue reading
How do you make a sequel to a movie where almost every main character is killed off in the end? (SPOILERS!!!!) That’s the dilemma facing William Monahan, who has been quietly toying with a sequel to the smash hit Martin Scorsese crime film The Departed. The Departed is based on the Hong Kong movie Infernal … Continue reading
Oh, Variety, you’ve done it again. Earlier this year you goinked my Zyzzyx Road story without giving me any credit, and eventually had to run a piece saying CHUD originated Zyzzyx Fever. Today you ran a piece about how Marc Rocco – whose last directorial gig was Murder in the First in 1995 – would … Continue reading
Dominic Sena rarely makes movies. It was seven years between Kalifornia, his first film, and Gone in Sixty Seconds.* It was only a year until his next movie – Swordfish – but the guy has been out of the game for the last six years. We were all happy, but we knew that Sena would … Continue reading