December 9, 2007 - December 15, 2007 Archives
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You think George Clooney's taking any cues from his work with the Coens? The goofy hairstyles, the period setting, the fisticuffs fighting stance and subsequent cross-eyed reaction all seem familiar. Considering the uproarious love triangle story line, Clooney probably just saw... / Continue →
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Say what you will about the crime in Gotham City, it's still the only fictional metropolis with a 15-lane-wide stretch of downtown street--a perfect locale for flamboyant brooding. And: there's another poster under the cut. Thanks to Wendy for pointing it out. Plus: The Dark ... / Continue →
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With non-stop monster destruction, huge explosions, and shaky handheld camera, Cloverfield looks to be the #1 movie of next year that your mom would hate. For me, it would be something like this: "What is this, a rich party? I thought this was monsters." "Mom, shhh." "Is his... / Continue →
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After rising to popularity among the unpopular with his lead role in the Evil Dead series, episodes of Xena, and some of the more enjoyable parts of Spider-man, Bruce Campbell has earned himself somewhat of a cult following among the sad and convention-going. So, obviously, wh... / Continue →
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After Jim Carrey turned Dr. Seuss's The Grinch into a pointless, disturbing horror show, I was a little upset to learn he was teaming up with the makers of Ice Age to try it with Horton Hears a Who. Yet, somehow--probably through the voice-over of Steve Carell and the co-opted ... / Continue →
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Those folks down at the Harry Potter Movie Making Factory know exactly how to get me juiced up about the new one: with a slightly different hairstyle, ringer tee, unadorned jacket, a couple books, and teenage angst, all on a wax figure of K.D. Lang. First Pic From Harry Potter... / Continue →
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A dark, blurry Batman trailer is still a Batman trailer. Just an unfulfilling one, where you can barely tell what's going on. Special shout outs to bootleggers and camera phones for this one. UPDATE: It's gone already. But if you poke around you can probably find it. UPDATE 2... / Continue →
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Sometimes, when he gets too caught up with crime-fighting, Batman forgets that in addition to being Gotham's premiere superhero, he's also really f***ing rich. That's when he takes a deep breath, climbs to the top of the 200-story building he owns, and looks down at all the ass... / Continue →
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It takes a special kind of talent to combine massive, over-the-top action scenes with historical accuracy of The Flintstones. Unsurprisingly, it's the same kind of talent that combined Ancient Egypt with portals and lasers, unpatriotic aliens with computer viruses, and giant l... / Continue →
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The second season of Extras had its issues, but it was still better than most comedies on TV. And from the looks of the first ten minutes of the Christmas Special finale, it seems like the series will thankfully end on a high note. I'm absurdly excited. If you have HBO, totally... / Continue →
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This trailer to You Don't Mess With the Zohan is everything you'd hope for from an Adam Sandler movie-meets-Borat-meets-hairstyling. Hilarious, mildly offensive accents galore, increasingly ludicrous antics, the requisite mildly-retarded Rob Schneider character--it's got everyt... / Continue →
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Want to ruin one of the most beautiful and poignant moments in recent cinematic history? I guess this is relatively old, but I've just been made aware that someone has used digital stuff to make the whispered final moment of Lost in Translation somewhat decipherable. It's under... / Continue →
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Nothing but the holiday visit to Grandma's can bring out the same mix of apathy and disappointment that comes from the annual Golden Globe Nominations. Once again, this year is the usual smattering of things you knew would be nominated, things that shouldn't be nominated, and t... / Continue →
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I really didn't think there was any way to make the new Knight Rider any less appealing. A talking, crime-fighting car television show based on a prior talking, crime-fighting car television show that starred David Hasselhoff couldn't sound much worse, let alone when you add th... / Continue →
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See, in the first one, they were smoking joints. When it say they're running from the "joint", this time it's referring to prison, slangily referred to as "the joint" in some cultures. I knew there was inherent comedy lying within homonyms, but it took the Harold & Kumar Escape... / Continue →
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For Hellboy II: The Golden Army, it looks like our hero is stepping up his arsenal. Namely, with what appears to be a Nerf Ballzooka. Let's just hope the forces of evil don't have any of those foam arrows that whistle when you shoot them. That's a Helluva Big Gun! [Shock Till ... / Continue →
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Regardless of how funny Walk Hard ends up being, this scene with The Beatles, as played by Jack Black, Jason Schwartzman, Justin Long, and Paul Rudd, should go down with I'm Not There as one of worst yet funniest group impressions in history.... / Continue →
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To the untrained eye, the following spy shots from the set of X-Files 2: Get Them Aliens are just a series of boring shots from the backlot of some studio. Nothing but a fashion show to see how David Duchovny and Amanda Peet look in trenchcoats. But to the skilled eye (mine), t... / Continue →
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Even though it looks like Spike Jonze may have just added giant monsters to his "Island in the Sun" music video, this still from Where the Wild Things Are is blowing my mind. Look at those things! And Dave Eggers wrote it! This is either going to be really great or really obnox... / Continue →
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Wondering what Tim Burton has in store to top his logo-tracing opening to Batman and town model-examining Beatlejuice introduction? Now you can, by watching the opening sequence to Sweeney Todd here. Warning: not for those uncomfortable with blood behaving like a T-1000 Termin... / Continue →
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As Cinemablend has astutely noted, anyone even vaguely familiar with the Get Smart series remembers Maxwell Smart's iconic shoe phone. In a time prior to cellular technology, long before Verizon contemplated the idea of mass stalking as a phone-hocking gimmick, a shoe phone was... / Continue →
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When an actor manages to score early fame through an iconic role, it can be a huge boost to their career. But with that jump in notoriety comes the risk of being forever associated with that first breakthrough part, causing some actors to go through great lengths to distance th... / Continue →
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Unless this is actually Bridge to Terabithia 2 I'm a little let down by this poster. It just doesn't say "this will scare the shit out of children" like the trailer did. Why not make the trees literally say that? "Beware: This will scare the shit out of your children, but they ... / Continue →
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Question: How do you remake You, Me and Dupree as an even more idiotic psychological thriller? Hint 1: Try making the Matt Dillon-character and Owen Wilson-character get in a car accident. Hint 2: Try making the brain of the now-comatose Matt Dillon-character somehow possess ... / Continue →
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I have high hopes for Ridley Scott's newest, Body of Lies. Based on David Ignatius's novel, and scripted by The Departed writer William Monahan, the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Roger Ferris, a former Iraq War journalist employed by the CIA to hunt down an Al Qaeda leader. I... / Continue →
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These Whiteout stills don't show much of the film--aside from Kate Beckinsale pointlessly using a flashlight--but I hadn't seen anything from this one since the ComicCon poster, so at least it's something. One more under the cut.... / Continue →
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It's not often that a trailer makes me audibly shriek. Yet, somehow, Machine Girl elicited, not one, but several giddy screams and shouted expletives. This thing is like if an early-'90s Peter Jackson made Kill Bill, but with the borderline retarded sensibility of the Japanese.... / Continue →
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Jumper: It's like The Matrix, only the jackets are covered in Carmen Sandiego clues. New Jumper Poster [JoBlo]... / Continue →
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Unsure if Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story will be a hilarious laugh-em-up or just an obnoxious string of penis-euphemism-as-a-name jokes? Then either enjoy or despise this ten-minute preview, depending on how it pans out for you. Personally, I'm going to avoid viewing the begin... / Continue →
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OK, I get that Eva Longoria is the vengeful ghost of an ex-fiance, desperately trying to stop psychic Lake Bell from getting with Paul Rudd. And I get that Ghost meets slapstick romantic-comedy might have been, in theory, a moderately entertaining concept. And I've learned that... / Continue →
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Yes, it's another goofy sports movie with Will Ferrell. I'm not sure if they throw a dart at a board of sporting events or just let him loose in an MC Sporting Goods until someone laughs, but this time they've gone with basketball. However, realizing that's not inherently wacky... / Continue →
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1. The Golden Compass - A disappointing $26.1 million weekend proves it takes more than Nicole Kidman, epic battles, and armored CGI polar bear fights to bring in audiences. It also takes a giant robot polar bear that totally eats the shit out of every other polar bear. 2. Enc... / Continue →
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As far as movies about Hayden Christensen teleporting to famous landmarks then standing around looking arrogant go, this actually looks pretty decent. Maybe part of my optimism stems from the assurance it provides that, if a teleporting Hayden Christensen were to even spawn, I ... / Continue →
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Like the Star Wars prequel posters before it, the new poster for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull brings us back to the glory of the first trilogy with this evocative painted image. Nice of them to remind us of those classics before we start saying how much wo... / Continue →
