It looks like me placing The Squid and The Whale at the top of my Best of 2005 list really worked out for writer/director Noah Baumbach – he’s got a new dramedy in the works at Paramount Classics and it will star Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Leigh is Baumbach’s newlywed wife, by the … Continue reading
I was in the bookstore a few weeks back and a copy of Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog caught my eye. It’s a book by Philadelphia Inquirer columnist John Grogan, about his dog Marley, a Labrador retriever who was very poorly behaved. I flipped through the book and came … Continue reading
Sweet thing Zooey Deschanel will bring her incalculable adorability and mushmouth delivery to the front of the classroom for Bridge to Terabithia, Disney’s adventure flick based on author Katherine Paterson’s award-winning children’s book. The story follows a young small-town boy who befriends the new girl in class, and together they create an imaginary realm where … Continue reading
I gave up on the Tuesday New York Times crossword puzzle. This was ego shattering – I can always solve the puzzle easily up through Thursday. See, the puzzle gets harder every day, starting very simply on Monday and ending in insanity on Sunday. The Sunday Times Magazine puzzle is the kind of thing you … Continue reading
Joe Wright made last year’s really excellent version of Pride & Prejudice, which made me very interested in the future of his career. Now he’s turning his eye to remaking a thriller – but don’t worry, it’s nothing you’ve ever heard of, so you probably won’t be able to muster much more than the bare … Continue reading
IESB.net spoke with Tom Rothman, producer of the X-Men films, about what’s what with X3. Shockingly, Rothman said that he was really excited about the film and that it has turned out better than he expected. I mean, it must be so. Why would the producer of a movie just say something like that? He … Continue reading
It was officially announced this week that, after years of disagreement and threats to pack up their computers for a better home, endlessly innovative (and impossibly lucrative) animation studio Pixar were acquired/retained by Disney for an immense amount of cash. Some people seem concerned that Pixar’s loose approach will get corporately homogenized by Disney’s notoriously … 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
Jay Roach is going to be making an attempt to go straight with a film about Mark Felt, a man best known to a generation of sniggering school children as Deep Throat. Felt is one of the great American heroes, the man who helped Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein break the Watergate scandal, which … Continue reading