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
After I ran my piece about Larry the Cable Guy and the Cars junket, someone on the message board asked why I bothered going to this junket anyway, if I was so sour on Larry. The answer’s easy – Paul Newman would be there. The opportunity to sit in a room with Paul Newman and … Continue reading
I knew something was very wrong when Larry the Cable Guy’s Mater was my favorite character in Pixar’s latest film, Cars. In many ways Mater is the character that kept me involved in the story, which takes almost two hours to finally reach its conclusion, and which falters so badly in the second act that … Continue reading
Rogue Pictures has announced the official start of production on their remake of the cult thriller The Hitcher, and while they’re at it have plunked in the third member of the cast to be terrorized by the homicidal drifter: TV regular Zachary Knighton, also of The Prince & Me. The update (from Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes … Continue reading
Michael Bay’s well-cast battle between Autobots and Decepticons hammers audiences with glorious rapid-editing next summer, and we’re finally catching glimpses of what to expect. I assume the gargantuan cybernetic eye in the new Transformers teaser poster is not to scale (even Orson Welles’ electronic ass wasn’t that big), but it certainly does give a somewhat … Continue reading
After watching (or fast-forwarding through) five seasons now, I’ve determined that the TV show 24 is a complete and utter failure at being an effective suspense-action-drama. It is, however, the greatest sitcom on television. If the show wasn’t so hilariously and unintentionally retarded, it’d be downright unwatchable — I’ve laughed myself nauseous at the preposterous "twists". Internal strife … Continue reading
New Line has made the “brave” decision to remake the notoriously brutal Japanese film Battle Royale, giving it the diluted Hollywood treatment. The new version is being put together by maker of noisy “entertainment” Neal Moritz and Asian remake master Roy Lee. The futuristic flick (the last finished film of Kinji Fukasaku) starred “Beat” Takeshi … 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
Last night I saw a really fantastic documentary, Wordplay, about the New York Times crossword puzzle and its editor, Will Shortz. It sounds like a potentially dry subject, but the film is a complete blast, and it includes some really great and tense competition from the National Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Stamford, Connecticut. It’s everything … Continue reading