No, this isn’t a chance to win the 11th sequel to Adam, though I envision a contest for that at some point in the site’s steady decline into mediocrity. Speaking of mediocrity, the Atlanta crowd at our screening for The Cave. They made Stephen Wright look downright frantic in comparison. One of my friends remarked … Continue reading
How good does Aslan look in the picture above? I keep wondering what his breath would smell like. That’s how good he looks. With each new image from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, I get a little more excited. This past year has seen a couple of disappointments for … Continue reading
There have been a couple of movie poster trends lately, and the big screen version of the musical Rent is taking part in both of them! We’ve seen a number of posters where instead of the horrible floating head, the one sheet is broken up into a number of boxes, each with different images. That’s … Continue reading
Firefly was a decent show. It was pretty neat, a space western with a sense of humor and the brain of Joss Whedon fueling it, something people weaned on Angel and Buffy are quite familiar with. It wasn’t great. In fact, it was his third best television show out of what I believe is a … Continue reading
Paging Oscar #2. Oscar #2, you have a call from Miss Charlize Theron. Sure, she’s doing sci-fi action adventure in the upcoming Aeon Flux, but Charlize isn’t necessarily going the way of Halle Berry and giving up meaty roles. She’s going to be starring in North Country, a fictionalized account of the first ever sexual … Continue reading
I have always been really interested in the unexplained and the paranormal. When I was younger I was more into that stuff as a hardcore believer, and Whitley Strieber’s books were, for me, the pinnacle of proof about the abductee phenomenon, where people would be snatched by aliens and methodically sodomized for some reason only … Continue reading
I don’t know if there’s another actress who personifies sardonic quite like Mary Louise Parker. Plus she’s really beautiful! I even forgive her for her role as one of the most annoying characters ever introduced on West Wing, Amy the feminist lobbyist (I haven’t seen her new Showtime series, Weeds, but it has Kevin Nealon, … Continue reading
A movie about infamous 1950s Hollywood enforcer Johnny Stompanato has been in the works for a good long while, but now Johnny Utah/Mnemonic/Constantine could be the one to finally make it happen. Keanu Reeves is eyeballing the lead role in the sure-to-be-retitled Stompanato, about the WWII veteran-turned-mob legbreaker who aspired to become a producer, which … Continue reading
I’ve started fresh with the Graboid, going for a more polished and tougher perspective. If you get them from now on it’ll be because you’re an astute fan of movies. I’m not going to make it easy and it’s going to be from something I either like or find it fun to put on the … Continue reading
Raunchy comedies are this summer’s big yield, and while I’m not sure there was enough to the characters and their circumstances to merit further exploration, the almighty dollar does not lie so Old School 2 is officially in the works. Dreamworks has original director Todd Phillips working with partner Scot Armstrong on a follow-up to … Continue reading