Many years ago some friends and I shared rent on a dingy practice space with one of those goth/metal bands that now litter MySpace. You know the ones: homemade backdrop with thorny roses, economy size mascara. They left their lyric book on an amp one day and we had a ball reading it. I don’t … Continue reading
I keep checking the calendar to make sure I didn’t slide back in time about three weeks to the beginning of April, but nope… this is apparently not a hoax. After making his feature directing debut on what is reportedly one seriously kickass espionage flick with Mission: Impossible 3, JJ Abrams is bravely throwing himself … 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
Zombie western. That’s a horror amalgam genre fans have been anxiously awaiting, and it looks like we’re finally getting it with a flick called Wanted: Undead or Alive. Unfortunately, it stars spastic SNL graduate Chris Kattan. But on the positive side, the Old West tale of the living dead will also feature delicious ethnic blend Navi … Continue reading
Michael Bay’s future blockbuster Transformers is getting ready to film, and we’re starting to hear names of the people portraying characters whose alternate forms aren’t cars and radios and oversized handguns. Gawky youngster Shia LaBeouf (Holes, Constantine) will play the main fleshling caught up in the war between Autobots and Decepticons, huge intelligent robots who can change … Continue reading
I’m not sure that I have ever teared up in an interview like I did with family members of two of the passengers who died on United 93. Maybe I’m entering the Barbara Walters phase of my career, but I couldn’t help but be overwhelmed with emotion when Peggy Beamer, mother of Todd, made famous … Continue reading
I’m not sure that I have ever teared up in an interview like I did with family members of two of the passengers who died on United 93. Maybe I’m entering the Barbara Walters phase of my career, but I couldn’t help but be overwhelmed with emotion when Peggy Beamer, mother of Todd, made famous … Continue reading
Aside from The Rock™, Roddy Piper and… Tiny Lister, not a lot of guys have successfully shifted between professional wrestling “sports entertainment” and feature films. Yet another actor-athlete bounding from the homoerotic faux-violence of the ring into the turnbuckle of your local theater is “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, who typically demands at least one “Hell … 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
UPDATE: We originally reported this way back on 3/26/06, and it’s now officially hitting Variety. See, we do get some valid scoops every now and then! Ben Affleck is getting ready to make his directing debut with an adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel Gone Baby Gone, and he could have some serious talent to tell what … Continue reading