The good news: David Koechner, so hilarious as Champ Kind in Anchorman (among other great roles), is getting a leading role in a movie. The bad news: It’s directed by the guy who wrote The Animal and wrote and directed The Hot Chick, two horrifying Rob Schneider movies. The concept behind the movie, The Comebacks, … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago a very dumb rumor hit the web, one that said that Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer would feature Doug Jones in a spray-painted leotard and immobile mask in the title role of the surfing alien. It was obvious that this was bullshit, the kind of bullshit that … Continue reading
Fox is stubbornly going ahead with Alien vs Predator 2 despite the UN Security Council’s latest attempts at negotiations. Talks between Tom Rothman and representatives from England, France and Honduras fell apart in the 11th hour when IAEA inspectors tried to confiscate Shane Salerno’s screenplay for the much-feared sequel. As the world looked on in … Continue reading
Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center isn’t his worst movie, but it’s among Ron Howard’s best movies. The film is a bland, cookie-cutter Hollywood piece of nonsense, and in my review, I compared it to the kind of work the ex-Opie and current Oscar whore does on the regular. Maybe Ron Howard read that and was … Continue reading
When I was a young horror head, my friends and I would watch Halloween all the time. We would discuss what made the movie work so well, and it always came down to that haunting, driving score. A film’s score and musical selections can have a profound effect on it – you’ll often hear about … Continue reading
Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Jackass Number Two $28,106,000 $28,106,000 1 2 Jet Li’s Fearless $10,564,000 $10,564,000 1 3 Gridiron Gang $9,700,000 $27,201,000 2 4 Flyboys $6,012,000 $6,012,000 1 5 Everyone’s Hero $4,750,000 $11,594,000 2 6 The Black Dahlia $4,438,000 $17,259,000 2 7 All the King’s Men $3,800,000 $3,800,000 1 8 The … Continue reading
So, Maggie Q is attractive huh? I’m not typically prone to pants rending descriptions of luscious ladies who posit themselves before us in the projected image but here’s an actress fully capable of sending blood conviniently from one area of a fellow’s body to another one altogether. Perhaps it’s the blend of East and West … Continue reading
Even though I write about movies every day sometimes I still miss stuff – and one of the things I missed is that there will be an animated adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s excellent memoir about growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution, Persepolis. And I am only finding out about it because my good … Continue reading
The people who made it into the 300 panel at this summer’s San Diego ComiCon got a real treat in the form of three minutes and change of footage from the film. I was on set last December and we saw some concept footage of what the final film would look like, but watching the … Continue reading