Tom Wolfe’s inside-mocking-without brand of satire was never more pungently amusing than with The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which was published forty-years ago. I haven’t read the book since high school, and can’t imagine how any of it will speak to our intensely connected age; all due respect to Ken Kesey, but to drop out … Continue reading
Just days before I was to interview Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime on the original Transformers cartoon as well as the upcoming blockbuster, Nick mentioned that he thought Eeyore should kill himself. It turns out that Cullen is the voice of Eeyore in all the modern Pooh stuff – sorry I didn’t bring … Continue reading
Title of Film Gross of Film Per Screen Totale 1 Ocean’s Thirteen $37,080,000 $10,401 $37,080,000 2 Pirates! Caribbean! World! End! $21,316,000 (-51.8%) $5,326 $253,614,000 3 Knocked Up $20,017,000 (-34.8%) $6,960 $66,241,000 4 Surf’s Up $18,000,000 $5,102 $18,000,000 5 Shrek the Third $15,750,000 (-43.8%) $4,012 $281,892,000 6 Hostel: Part II $8,750,000 $3,723 $8,750,000 7 Mr. Brooks … Continue reading
Hot on the heels of the teaser poster for 30 Days of Night is the full trailer, which gives you the whole story in a nutshell. Alaska. A month without sunlight. Josh Hartnett. Vampires. Trenchcoats? OK, I have faith in David Slade because Hard Candy was cool, but trenchcoats? Is there a vampire named Louis … Continue reading
Preamble I am easily distracted. Some might say I have ADD. I’d like to hurt these people. And I will. One day, I’ll make the whole world pay. Why No Ocean’s Thirteen Review? What’s there to say? It’s essentially review-proof: more so than the other two, Soderberg has designed this film to evaporate from your … Continue reading
Maybe it’s a good thing that I’ve fallen behind on my Crisis on Infinite Comic Book Adaptations five parter (part one is here; part two is here) – I hadn’t yet gotten to Vertigo action comic The Losers, and my delay means that I can talk about it with the knowledge that a director has … Continue reading
I’ve been curious to see The Ten for a while — it’s Wet Hot American Summer / The State‘s David Wain basically giving the finger to Kieslowski for nintety minutes by making loosely connected comedy sketches based (sorta) on the Ten Commandments. Even if the title reminds me too much of that horrible pre-show ‘entertainment’ … Continue reading
SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM FOR CONTRIBUTORS TO THE LIVE COMMENTARY, STRAIGHT FROM EDGAR WRIGHT! I am so jealous of the British Chewers. Not only do your accents give you an unfair advantage with my local women, but now you’re getting a SECOND Hot Fuzztival… and this time not only are you going to see three … Continue reading
At this point I think I’m more interested in a movie about the behind the scenes dealings on The Invasion, Warner Bros’ updating of Invasion of the Body Snatchers than the actual film being released; original director Oliver Hirschbiegel didn’t make the studio happy with his talky take, and when he wouldn’t make changes producer … Continue reading
Producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura has a busy summer ahead of him – he’s opening 1408, Transformers and Stardust in the coming months. He also has a plate (and a half) full of other projects in development, and one of them, a movie version of G.I. Joe, got resurrected this past week. This afternoon I was … Continue reading