January 6, 2008 - January 12, 2008 Archives
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Is the Terminator series--whether it be television, film, or learning computer--getting in on the aggravatingly vague viral marketing bandwagon? God, it looks like it. A website for EniTech Research has popped up, a company which claims to be capable of taking grainy photos o... / Continue →
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Besides confirming that George Romero and Stan Lee have fused into the same person, this trailer to Diary of the Dead does very little to inspire me to take the time for another romp in zombie town. Neither does the "diary" concept, which seems to be following the Cloverfield m... / Continue →
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After finding mainstream audiences with Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester, and a perplexing shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, it seems Gus Van Sant has definitively returned to his roots. Following in the footsteps of his naturalistic 2003 effort, Elephant, Paranoid Park tells... / Continue →
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Many, many, many terrible movies come out each year--some even go on to make over $200 million and earn a sequel with "the girls"--but few reach the ultimate shit pinnacle of a 0% rating on RottenTomatoes.com. It's the film review world's equivalent to every student in your sch... / Continue →
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Johnny Depp and Christian Bale together in one movie, and it's not even a part of Us Magazine's Hot Hypothetical Hunk Films section? Do tell. According to a person familiar with the situation, Bale will play Melvin Purvis, the legendary FBI agent who led the manhunt for John D... / Continue →
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The perfect gift for your terminally ill friend or family member. Nothing says "You're so permanently sick that you need an equally permanent way to watch a show people only watch when home sick" like a collection of 26 Price is Right episodes. And what better way to painfully ... / Continue →
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In the newfound tradition of giving out Best Screenplay-hopeful scripts for free, here's a page I've constructed of a scene from Yes Man, sure to be a contender in next year's Oscar race. EXT. BUILDING - DAY A man stands on the edge of a building, like how people about to com... / Continue →
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It's been proven that Indiana Jones has one of the most internationally recognizable silhouettes--provided the outline shows the form of his trademark fedora and whip, and that he's clearly identified with giant orange lettering. New "Indy" Poster Arrives [Wizard]... / Continue →
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Egotastic has a bunch of new images from My Blueberry Nights, starring Norah Jones, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, and Natalie Portman as Sharon Stone's inflated self-perception. A worthwhile collection if you like Natalie Portman but wish she looked "truck-stoppier". Natalie Portman... / Continue →
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For anyone who follows this blog with any regularity, you know that Alvin and the Chipmunks is a film I have given strict attention and focused disgust. The already-grating rodents have been made more annoying, strangely sexualized, devoid of charm, and, most catastrophically, ... / Continue →
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So we've seen how the forces of alien and man fare against a deadly Predator, but how will we defend against its similarly intentioned (and named)counterpart, Hunter? From the studio that brought you The Da Vinci Treasure, Snakes on a Train, and 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (th... / Continue →
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If you somehow missed the assault of trailers, TV ads, viral videos, clips, competitions, spirit quests, etc. for Cloverfield, consider yourself lucky. You've successfully avoided a 6-month campaign in which they've shown us every possible way to not show us the film's monster.... / Continue →
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Remember a couple days ago, when the poster to Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D showed us its theme park-like world of giant, awesome dinosaurs? Well, New Line has released some production stills from the upcoming film, and they've left me wondering where all the giant, aw... / Continue →
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One surefire way to alienate people is to replace real Simon Pegg with a bizarre, giant, overly-eager action figure of Simon Pegg. Or to attempt to draw the eye to the concave chest of Kirsten Dunst as if it were an attraction. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Poster [IMP... / Continue →
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In short, it looks like a 28 Days Later-esque tale in which TVs and other devices start receiving a mysterious signal that makes everyone want to kill each other, so they do. Hey, isn't that signal already called American Idol?! Now imagine a rimshot (or do it with your mouth, ... / Continue →
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Mark Harmon (NCIS) and Tricia O'Kelley (The New Adventures of Old Christine) have signed on to star in the indie romantic comedy Weather Girl, adding some coveted primetime CBS star power to the cast. Summary! The film centers on a Seattle morning show weathergirl (O'Kelley) w... / Continue →
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It's a really slow news day; my apologies that the best thing I have for you is a promotional shot for the romantic comedy, Fool's Gold (remember that Matthew McComedy?). But I did find it interesting it appears they're suddenly marketing this as an '80s street racing movie, st... / Continue →
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Want to see how much The Darjeeling Limited deviated from the original screenplay? Feel the need to accurately recreate scenes from Juno on YouTube? Want to know how the Coen Brothers spell your favorite new informal address, "friendo"? (That's how.) Right now, you can download... / Continue →
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Thanks to /Film for the above image of Tony Stark trying out his Iron Man arm attachment thing, and to Yansky for these shots of the Mark-1 suit at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Never has an LED TouchLight stuck to a palm looked more dramatic. New Iron Man Photo ... / Continue →
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Even more upsetting than the idea that Larry the Cable Guy is popular enough to warrant a feature film is sad fact that this will be his third--and at the horribly alarming rate of one a year. For the first film, Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, he was kind enough to rem... / Continue →
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After yesterday's knock-out poster, I could tell everyone was clamoring for more competitive dance in poster form. So here's Step Up 2 the Streets' counterpart, How She Move. To differentiate it from its competition, it seems they're choosing to market this one in a very differ... / Continue →
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Oftentimes when you're making a movie, you start asking your self some important, critical questions. Where in my film is the bitingly edgy satire of a Scary Movie? Where is the laugh-out-loud social commentary of White Chicks? Why isn't anyone a comically small crook? When thi... / Continue →
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Some new images from the set of the political thriller Eagle Eye have turned up courtesy of Just Jared, mostly showing an unshaven Shia LeBeouf with shotgun. Guess he'll be yelling, "Shia LeVista, baby!" Ha! Am I right? No? OK, that's fair. How about Shia LeBoomstick? Eat-Gun S... / Continue →
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Of all the credentials a young actress can add to her burgeoning resume, few are as strangely-coveted as being crowned Bond's next film-f***. For months, speculation has run rampant as to who would be next be sacrificed to the loins of Daniel Craig, but at last we have an answe... / Continue →
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With an Oscar-nominated film, an over-advertised mobile phone, and a popular confection already sharing the name (or close enough), Prachya Pinkaew's Chocolate has some pretty big shoes to fill. Surprisingly, even without the star power of Johnny Depp or a pumping Goldfrapp sou... / Continue →
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Possible quotes to use on this poster: "The most Brendan Fraser-y cover of a Choose Your Own Adventure book yet!" "Jules Verne's immortal classic told with all the dignity of a Universal Studios ride." "Fraser-fuled excitement that pops out at you with the same virility as i... / Continue →
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Step Brothers takes the Adam McKay/Will Ferrell/John C. Reilly grouping of Talladega Nights and asks, What if we made fun of the affluent and spoiled, rather than the poor and trashy, with two competing stepbrothers? I'll try to reserve the necessary comparisons to Dumb and Dum... / Continue →
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The Writers Guild strike has meant a lot of scripted shows we love (The Office), hate (anything involving the hour-long investigation of a crime scene), or don't care about (Psych? Do people watch Psych? Who?) have been taken off the air. But the more dire consequence has been ... / Continue →
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New, fascinating discoveries from the Step Up 2 the Streets poster: - It's apparently called Step Up 2 the Streets. (I stupidly thought it was just called Step Up 2.) Now it's less like a pointless sequel, more like a pointless text message. - How She Move is still a differen... / Continue →
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I've gotten pretty worn out with all the viral marketing that seems to be essential to any big-budget film coming out in the next year, but in particular with the efforts of Cloverfield. While The Dark Knight's exhaustive campaign mixes real-life planted swag with online clue-h... / Continue →
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At what point did Michel Gondry get carte blanche to make whatever he wants, so long as it's child-like, dream-like, or made of cardboard? It's like he's got a brain trust of 6-year-olds and schizophrenics working on everything he does, and they've got a new idea that will prob... / Continue →
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To paraphrase the trailer's voiceover: "Remember how some hack writer read something called EVP, then cobbled together a sloppy narrative around it? Well, we've done some more "Googling" and found some other phenomenon about near-death experiences, then embellished it to an abs... / Continue →
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Further proof that David Lynch is a great director, even greater madman. He's right, but still crazy as anything. Video under the cut.... / Continue →
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As much as I could rant about how awful this slasher remake looks, nothing embodies the overriding theme of Prom Night painfully unnecessary pop-punk cover of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" playing through the trailer. The point of it all seems to be "it's possible to re-do t... / Continue →
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New shots from the set of Bond 22: finally the proof we need that the secret agent is an octogenarian hiding behind an enviable physique and a small tuft of blonde hair. More at Just Jared.... / Continue →
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1. National Treasure: Book of Secrets - $20.2 million more to the best Nicolas Cage movie since his last piece of shit. 2. I Am Legend - Yeah, I know you're legend, Will Smith. Have another $16.3 million and shut up about it. 3. Juno - Wait, it made $16.2 million and beat Alv... / Continue →
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A butterfly resting on a handgun. Such a jarring combination of beauty and violence; so deep. Nearly as meaningful as a gazelle perched on a nuclear silo, or a breast plopped next to a land mine. Well done, The Air I Breathe, in hiding your convoluted plot of Crash-meets-Next b... / Continue →
