It looks like my “Going for Brokeback” piece was written a week or two early. Just this weekend Brokeback Mountain, well on its way to being the frontrunner for the Academy Awards, became the center of two controversies. One is stupid. A movie theater in Utah reneged on showing the film after it had been … 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
Sean’s Best of 2005 (5) Captain America (Marvel) Writer Ed Brubaker brings a "Sleeper"-esque espionage sensibility to the Cap relaunch, and transforms the adventures of the last boy scout into one of Marvel’s most intelligent and suspenseful ongoing series. From the first issue on, Brubaker has put Cap through the ringer, ultimately showing the underlying … Continue reading
Sean’s Best of 2005 (5) Captain America (Marvel) Writer Ed Brubaker brings a "Sleeper"-esque espionage sensibility to the Cap relaunch, and transforms the adventures of the last boy scout into one of Marvel’s most intelligent and suspenseful ongoing series. From the first issue on, Brubaker has put Cap through the ringer, ultimately showing the underlying … Continue reading
Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Hostel $20,100,000 $20,100,000 1 2 Narnia $15,400,000 $247,500,000 5 3 King Kong $12,400,000 $192,500,000 4 4 Fun with Dick and Jane $12,200,000 $81,300,000 3 5 Cheaper by the Dozen 2 $8,300,000 $66,400,000 3 6 Munich $7,400,000 $25,200,000 3 7 Memoirs of a Geisha $6,000,000 $39,700,000 5 8 … Continue reading
I guess there are no hard feelings that Tim Burton will be working with Jim Carrey in the upcoming Ripley’s Believe It or Not movie – the director and his longtime leading man Johnny Depp are looking at working together a sixth time, adapting Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. This, … Continue reading
Actor/comedian Jim Zulevic passed away this weekend and while I’m sure he’s not familiar to most of you, he was sneakily all over the place. I remember seeing him in an episode of The Shield and immediately remembering him from The Specials and being glad he was still out there doing it. It was like … Continue reading
Eli Roth’s Hostel is a movie without any conviction. It’s a horror film that appeals to the middle ground, wades into fear instead of diving in, and relies on the names of other, better directors to sell the package to an audience that should be extremely suspicious. Why suspicious? Just look at the ads, 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
X-Men 3 may indeed be the last movie featuring Professor Chuck’s student collective (until the inevitable Homo Superior solo movies, anyway), so it seems like the filmmakers are intent on cramming as many mutants from Marvel’s past pages into the potentially final film. Even that crappy pheromone prostitute. We just heard that telepathic assassin Psylocke … Continue reading