I keep on meaning to write about the total clusterfuck surrounding Weinstein Co’s Factory Girl, the George Hickenlooper biopic about Edie Sedgewick. I touched on it briefly a couple of weeks ago when Bob Dylan’s lawyers threatened to sue the fuck out of the movie for possibly claiming that Edie died due to negligence by … Continue reading
A terrible thing happened to our nation in September of 2001 – Aqua Teen Hunger Force went on the air. Now it’s getting a movie, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters, and the fans of the anthropomorphic happy meal will get to see them on the big screen this March. All of … Continue reading
UPDATED! Update follows at the endMovies get bounced around the release schedule all the time, but rarely is there as big and sudden a leap as Hollywood Pictures has made with their giant crocodile-but- we-want-you- to-think-it’s-a-serial-killer movie Primeval, which has moved from April to… January 12, two weeks from now! That’s a big change, which … Continue reading
Smell is, unless you’re John Waters and in possession of a few hundred Odorama cards, the toughest thing to get across in cinema. Most films rely on Pavolovian reactions to visuals to indicate the ideas of smells, but rarely try to actually get odor across. Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer, in his adaptation of … Continue reading
I can only recall a few films turned into small screen concepts that didn’t become a short lived excercise in TV disappointment- MASH, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate and… that’s about it. (RIP Alien Nation, Ferris Beuller, My Big Fat Greek Life, Clueless, Freddy’s Nightmares, Tremors and Young Indie). Is it time to add another … Continue reading
I imagine that the Spider-Man movies have been a tough sell in Japan – after all, the Nipponese grew up with a Spidey who rode around in a big mechazord thing. But our friends to the East have embraced Tobey Maguire and friends, and they’re jonesing for Spider-Man 3 just as much as we are. … Continue reading
Man, the new Black Christmas really sucked, huh?
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
Will the travails of Mel Gibson never end? After getting drunk and revealing his true thoughts about the Chosen People and then mistaking a female police officer’s breasts for a sweet confection, Mel hoped to bounce back with Apocalypto, his gory Mayan epic. The film opened well, but soon imploded – the movie has made … Continue reading
In just over 24 hours the word about Zyzzyx Road has spread across the internet, and my inbox has been inundated with emails. I haven’t even had a chance to call the folks at Leo Grillo Productions yet and already many new facts have surfaced – including an eyewitness report from someone who saw the … Continue reading