2006 is the resurgence of Edward Norton! If you don’t count his part in Kingdom of Heaven (which was like a cameo in the 2005 version anyway), Norton’s immense talent hasn’t been on our screens since 2003. Earlier this year he was in Down in the Valley, a movie that sits on my current top … Continue reading
I kinda feel like I’ve seen this before. Except this time it’s Denzel Washington wearing the Van Damme pants for the time travel tale Deja Vu, in which he plays a government agent who goes back in time to stop The Passion of The Terrorist and rescue The Chick Who Sorta Looks Like Halle Berry. Denzel … Continue reading
Keanu Reeves is the star of A Scanner Darkly, but the movie is really all about Robert Downey Jr, who gives what would be for any other actor the performance of a lifetime. For Downey it’s more like a little better than usual; the guy is easily one of the great living actors, and the … 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
There are two things that make fans of ABC’s Lost very, very nervous: the possibility of a Hurley nude scene and the show being dragged out forever, constantly having to come up with newer and stupider mysteries just to keep the show chugging along on the network’s schedule. It turns out Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof … Continue reading
Though his best work will likely always be Simon Sez, Dane Cook is using the recent exposure from his wildly popular and sporadically amusing stand-up routines to steamroll into more feature films, and Jessica Simpson is using the recent exposure of her ass cheeks in Dukes of Hazzard to do the same. Dax Shepard was … Continue reading
The death of George Reeves, the actor who played Superman on the Adventures of Superman TV show, remains one of the great fascinating Hollywood stories. The official version is suicide, but rumors, scuttlebutt and damning evidence point to murder. Hollywoodland is a film based on the investigation into Reeves’ death, a sort of LA Confidential in … Continue reading
You can say that Philip K Dick movie adaptations are ubiquitous. And they could soon get Ubik-uitous. And interactive.The next Dick film (and probably the most faithful ever) is Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, which finally opens in selected cities this weekend. Today was the New York City press day for the film, and producer/animator … Continue reading
In Factotum Matt Dillon plays a character based on Charles Bukowski – this means that if he and Mickey Rourke ever teamed up for a sequel to Rumblefish it could also be sold as Crisis on Infinite Drunkards (this one goes out to the nerds in the house: picture the cover of Flash #123, with … 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