Here’s something that almost never happens: I have friends calling me up and telling me I have to go see Little Miss Sunshine, that I’ll love it. It’s not that my friends don’t recommend things to me, it’s just that usually I see movies weeks or even months before they do, and so I’m always … Continue reading
Oh, 21st century. The wonders you continue to give us. Wonders such as X-Treme fishing. That’s what Mike Iaconelli does, and it’s made him the hip hop star of the professional bass fishing circuit. Oh, 20th century. How kind of you to give us professional fucking sport fishing. Iaconelli wrote a memoir, Fishing on the … Continue reading
Modern Japan’s relationship with WWII is pretty fascinating. The island nation has never quite come to terms with their loss of the war, which ended for them 61 years ago yesterday. The Emperor’s radio address to his people didn’t mention “defeat” or “surrender,” but rather “enduring the unendurable,” a wonderfully Japanese turn of phrase. Through … Continue reading
The threat of Annihilation just gets bigger and bigger By Graig Kent After the climactic and cool finales to the Annihilation prologue mini-series featuring the Silver Surfer and Nova (the Ronan and Super-Skrull minis didn’t sell me past their first issues), Keith Giffen was going to have to step up his game to keep the … Continue reading
Lauren Shuler Donner, producer of the X-Men films, talked to the LA Daily News about the future of the franchise and the spin-offs. The big thing holding X-Men 4 back (besides the fact that they totally promised us that the third one was the last one and they would never go against their word, right?) … Continue reading
Will Simon Pegg soon be too big for nerds like us? His career is really taking off lately, and that’s not even counting the fact that he stole M:I:III from its rightful star. Pegg’s latest foree into starring vehicles will find him learning How To Lose Friends and Alienate People, a movie trying to cash … Continue reading
There’s been a lot of talk on our message boards about the future of the Superman franchise. At this point the talk isn’t about where the series will go but rather will there even be a series? I’m not feeling the positivity – the film cost too much and underperformed too much to make a … Continue reading
Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Talladega Nights $23,000,000 $91,200,000 2 2 Step Up $21,000,000 $21,000,000 1 3 World Trade Center $19,000,000 $26,800,000 1 4 Barnyard $10,000,000 $34,000,000 2 5 Pulse $8,400,000 $8,400,000 1 6 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest $7,200,000 $392,400,000 6 7 The Descent $4,600,000 $17,500,000 2 8 Zoom … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!PUBLISHER: William MorrowPAGES: 432AUTHOR WEBSITE: www.WilliamLashner.com If you had told me two years ago that one of my favorite series would be about a lawyer, I would have laughed in your face. Years before Alan Shore was created, William Lashner created a Jewish lawyer named Victor Carl who only wants … Continue reading
Mike Judge’s experience on Office Space was incredibly negative, with the studio not getting the movie he delivered and essentially killing it like a Chinese family who finds themselves with a baby girl. Now he’s reliving that experience, as his next film, the unbelievably long-awaited Idiocracy, has been taken off the release schedule. We were … Continue reading