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
The Lady in the Water has no twist ending. Seriously. And to prove it, M Night Shymalan is reading you the children’s book he has written to go with the film. Lady in the Water began as a bedtime story he told his children, and while the movie is an expansion of the tale, the … Continue reading
I have been working my way through the John Wayne/John Ford DVD box set this week, and I have come to the conclusion that the Western is the best film genre of all. Not only can you tell any story you want in a Western, but the conventions of the genre are so easy to … Continue reading
The long awaited film version of Sweeney Todd could be awaited not much longer – Tim Burton is delaying his next film, Ripley’s Believe it Or Not, for a year, and is looking to reteam with Johnny Depp on the tale of a murderous barber and his landlady who makes his victims into meat pies. … Continue reading
Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim books are the best comics being published today. For one thing, they’re the only comics I’ll read on the subway – Scott Pilgrim and his adventures are completely hip and funny. In fact the only embarrassing thing about reading a Scott Pilgrim digest on a subway filled with cute girls … Continue reading
Aussie filmmaker Peter Weir takes his sweet time between projects (five years from Truman Show to Master and Commander), and now he’ll be delaying again — he’s just left Johnny Depp’s Shantaram and did not allow the door to strike his buttocks upon exiting. Can you guess why Weir departed the production despite at least … Continue reading
IT’S YOUR LAST DAY TO ENTER! THIS CONTEST ENDS TOMORROW, WHEN THE DVD IS RELEASED IN STORES! It’s a pretty safe bet that many of you did not see Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, a truly wonderful and transcendent film that operates on you in much the same way Wyld Stallyns’ music did on the universe … 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
Like plenty of other people, Will Smith is preparing himself for a global pandemic. The big difference is that Will’s is a work of fiction. Smith is getting ready for battle with bloodseeking mutants in the upcoming adaptation of Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend, and in the quest for authenticity he (along with director Francis … Continue reading
While the general consensus seems to be that Cars isn’t quite up to the standards of genius presented by previous Pixar efforts, their next comes from director Brad Bird, who already holds a perfect record for animated masterpieces (Iron Giant and The Incredibles). The story of Ratatouille, based on a short by Pixar regular Jan Pinkava, … Continue reading