I’ve started fresh with the Graboid, going for a more polished and tougher perspective. If you get them from now on it’ll be because you’re an astute fan of movies. I’m not going to make it easy and it’s going to be from something I either like or find it fun to put on the … Continue reading
With the considerable success of his new comedy The 40 Year Old Virgin, former Daily Show correspondent/Produce Pete Steve Carell surely has a vast selection of potential projects before him. So why in the name of Albert Brooks would he settle for Jim Carrey’s sloppy seconds? If I had to guess, I’d say it’s the … Continue reading
I’ve started fresh with the Graboid, going for a more polished and tougher perspective. If you get them from now on it’ll be because you’re an astute fan of movies. I’m not going to make it easy and it’s going to be from something I either like or find it fun to put on the … Continue reading
Y’know, I still can’t decide what to think of the Doom movie, which from what I can tell just looks like really, really high-resolution levels from the last game. On the plus side, it’s got The Rock™ and Karl Urban shooting ludicrous amounts of ordnance at various monsters. But it’s also directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak, who … Continue reading
If you were to ask me what was the least likely TV show to be made into a film, I would probably tell you to leave me alone. If you persisted, though, I might say that Battle of the Network Stars, the 1970s “athletic” competition between B-list TV stars, would be untranslatable. It seems like … Continue reading
Crash. Magnolia. Short Cuts. A sampling of the movies that are about how the lives of strangers in LA intertwine. Now that genre will be reaching its pinnacle as Emilio Estevez writes and directs – stop rubbing your eyes, I said Emilio writes and directs – a movie about how the lives of LA strangers … Continue reading
How do you make the story of an FBI agent’s betrayal of his country dull as hell? I don’t know, but it happened with the TV miniseries Master Spy, starring William Hurt as real life spy Robert Hanssen. Hollywood is going to try to wash that taste out of my mouth with the film Breach, … Continue reading
UPDATED! The trailer linked here has been pulled. Look for it to resurface again soon, and we’ll resurrect this piece at that time. I declare 2005 to be the year of Heath Ledger. He was fantastic in Lords of Dogtown. He’s completely different and great in the (admittedly not that good) The Brothers Grimm. And … Continue reading
How good does Aslan look in the picture above? I keep wondering what his breath would smell like. That’s how good he looks. With each new image from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, I get a little more excited. This past year has seen a couple of disappointments for … Continue reading
There have been a couple of movie poster trends lately, and the big screen version of the musical Rent is taking part in both of them! We’ve seen a number of posters where instead of the horrible floating head, the one sheet is broken up into a number of boxes, each with different images. That’s … Continue reading