One of my favorite elements of Robert Heinlein’s Job: A Comedy of Justice, is the concept that creation is cyclical, and that a pantheon of deities vie to see who will make the next one. The current creation was overseen by a very crabby, puritanical Jehova – the next one, in Heinlein’s book, is overseen … 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
Things get dark for Harry Potter and the other students of Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth film in the series. After the events of the last film – which saw Lord Voldemort returned – the magical world is in an uproar. Fearing that Dumbledore is building an army … Continue reading
Forest Whitaker’s portrayal of Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland is complete. He seems to spiritually, as well as physically, metamorphasize into the brutal African dictator; his every action and movement is that of Amin, and while his face, with the droopy eye, remains recognizable as Whitaker, everything else reads completely, totally as … Continue reading
It’s hard to fault a movie marketing campaign that has people giving blood, always a worthy endeavor. I’m going to do my best to fault it, though, since it’s Saw III and I really dislike those movies. According to the folks at Posterwire, the first Saw blood drive collected 4,200 pints of blood. Saw II … Continue reading
Note from Devin: Thanks to Travis, a volunteer at this year’s Fantastic Fest, for taking some time to write up what he’s seen. Many films at Fantastic Fest don’t get wider releases, which means I won’t be seeing them at press screenings, so it’s great to have an early word on some interesting and weird … Continue reading
Polish movie posters are the best thing since the Earth was built by aliens and left cooking in the sun long enough so people thought they were civilized and followed the rules of a God. Let’s just say this… if there is a God, chances are good that he made his daily wage designing polish … Continue reading
The first official stills from the 5th Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, appeared in The Scotsman, and one picture has made its way online. The image has Harry on the floor, about to unleash a patronus on a Dementor coming after him on the Hogwarts school grounds. There’s a … Continue reading
Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain – still the best film of the year in my eyes – has had a roller coaster reception at a couple of different festivals, and that reception probably foreshadows the critical and public reaction when this heady and emotional film is released in November. Some people get it and some people … Continue reading
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