Bonnie Hunt is one of those people who should be more famous. Yet it seems like the comedienne can’t catch a break – she’s starred in a succession of cancelled TV shows over the years (none of which are coming to DVD any time soon, she told me after this interview; not even The Building, … Continue reading
Zak Penn is getting back in the director’s chair for a follow-up to his brilliant mockumentary, Incident at Loch Ness. This time the subject is poker, and the movie is called The Grand; once again the film will be improvisational, with a cast of terrific actors playing real poker games. The story is about an … Continue reading
There’s one thing that no one can deny about Robert Altman: he gets good casts. He’s packed his latest, A Prairie Home Companion, with some of the top notch talent working today, and it paid off. The movie’s a joy in the kind of way a movie only can be when the cast is truly … Continue reading
The guy who built his career on black comedy-dramas about human relationships may not seem like a prime candidate to remake a genuinely bizarre 70s horror flick, but Neil LaBute’s update of The Wicker Man looks pretty intriguing. The movie features Nic Cage (channeling The Dead Zone Walken, or at least his hair) as a … Continue reading
The Coen Bros’ next movie promises to be a break from their recent output and actually be good – it’s an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s recent novel No Country for Old Men, a modern day Western. Here’s the plot, courtesy of Publishers Weekly: In 1980 southwest Texas, Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, … 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
I’ll jump on any opportunity to mention my infatuation with Jessica Alba’s impossible posterior, and she’s been kind enough lately to present that very opening (while I can only offer photos of her doing such). The heavenly slice has joined the indie comedy Bill, which already has a pretty terrific cast that includes Aaron Eckhart, Timothy … Continue reading
The Rodriguez/Tarantino exploitation smashup Grind House continues to collect familiar faces in its extensive cast, which now includes puppy-eyed Lost castaway Naveen Andrews. In Planet Terror (or Project Terror, we’re still not sure which), Rodriguez’s half of the horror double-feature, Andrews (he’s dreamy!) will play a military scientist helping battle the murderous "sickos" unleashed by an experiment … Continue reading
Last week when Russell Crowe dropped out of Baz Luhrmann’s unnamed Australian period epic, the question was who can fill his shoes? It turns out that the new star brings his own footwear – and they’re tap shoes. Yes, the Aussie actor who has managed to maintain the schizophrenic public image of feral mutant killing … Continue reading
No, not the guy from the MC5, but I bet he would like us a bunch too if he knew us. The Wayne Kramer our title refers to is the director of one of my favorite films of the year, Running Scared – which just hit video! Click here to buy it from CHUD. Kramer … Continue reading