March 29, 2009 - April 4, 2009 Archives
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Vin Diesel has just slunk back to the Fast/Furious franchise after a departure that allowed for such films as The Pacifier, The Riddick, and The xXx, so it's not too hard to imagine he isn't above doing a superhero movie. It's more surprising he isn't in several superhero movie... / Continue →
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Through repeated viewings of Air Bud, Air Bud: Golden Receiver, Air Bud: World Pup, Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch, Air Bud: Spikes Back, MVP: Most Valuable Primate, MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate, and MXP: Most X-Treme Primate, I've come to easily identify when a kid-oriented spo... / Continue →
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And it will not be televised... in Boston. A lone voice has emerged to protect Massachusetts residents from pre-taped segments about how little trivia people on the street know: The first great NBC-affiliate battle over the new primetime Jay Leno show is poised to take place i... / Continue →
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Fame worked well enough in 1980, but how am I supposed to believe these characters want to be famous now if they aren't even standing in a line outside Fox? When we have so many reality competitions that can make you famous with only marginal talent, the whole non-stop practice... / Continue →
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I never thought a sort of Vegas After Hours for aging frat boys would be a description I'd use favorably, but dammit, Todd Phillips, director of Old School, you've again set up a film with such a powerful comedy trinity (Zach Galianakis, Ed Helms, and Bradley Cooper) that I can... / Continue →
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In 2006, he made us laugh with him, at him, and at our culture with Borat; now, Sacha Baron Cohen is back at the pranking-but-not-calling-it-a-prank game, and playing a flamboyant Austrian in Bruno. Judging by the trailer, it will again make us laugh--at least until the non-sto... / Continue →
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Love him or hate him, the incontrovertible fact stands that Quentin Tarentino does make movies. Now that we have that understanding, here's some news about his latest film, Inglourious Basterds. According to Variety, the Brad Pitt-starring, Nazi-killin', poorly-spelled epic wil... / Continue →
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Start making your checklists early: Dreamworks/Paramount has released the official list of robo-characters in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. You'll probably notice that Megatron, who has been rumored to return since the moment after his defeat in the first film, is conspi... / Continue →
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The always prolific Steven Soderbergh has a new film coming out, and Vulture has premiered the poster. Unfortunately, that's all I can tell you about The Girlfriend Experience. Does anyone know what it's like--either the movie or the actual experience of having a girlfriend. I'... / Continue →
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I avoided posting this yesterday a) for April Fool's validity concerns, and b) because I don't understand how legal things work, but if you didn't hear yet, apparently a workprint of a certain movie about a magical human with metal claw hands has leaked online. Thus, if you're ... / Continue →
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Fans of Pixar's Toy Story franchise and action along the Z-axis, everything will be coming together for you this fall. Disney has announced that, for a limited time beginning October 2nd, both Toy Story movies will be re-released as a newly-rendered 3-D double-feature. And if t... / Continue →
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Ah, some much-needed Will Arnett to tide us over until the Arrested Development movie (I'm still pretending the Arrested Development movie will happen). The Hollywood Reporter has announced the actor, most famous for portraying Gob on the beloved sitcom, and Michael Shannon hav... / Continue →
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My sympathies go out to all the theater workers who will be hearing that for the next several months. In actuality, this poster is for Planet 51, a family-oriented, computer-animated comedy about some green, antennaed... Yeah, I guess it's sort of Four Shreks. Planet 51 Post... / Continue →
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In the years since the impressive acting streak of The Usual Suspects, Se7en, L.A. Confidential, and American Beauty, Kevin Spacey has done very little to continue deserving the praise I bestowed upon him in high school, "Like everything this dude is in rules." I mean, the acto... / Continue →
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Remember those halcyon days of yore (last year or the year before or whenever), when Drew Barrymore and Justin Long were a happy couple? Those beautiful times when L.A. was our Camelot, and at its throne was a Charlie Angel and the human manifestation of an Apple computer? Thos... / Continue →
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MTV has just posted some scans of the new Star Trek trading cards, alerting us to several bits of pertinent information: 1. The film apparently features a cameo from Alien Natasha Lyonne's Character in Slums of Beverly Hills (above). 2. Young Spock stupidly gives old Spock a ... / Continue →
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It's not much, but someone at JoBlo got a cell phone shot of the very literal title treatment for Wes Anderson's adaptation of The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Anyone else surprised, and a little disappointed, it's not following Anderson's trend of using Futura Bold exclusively? I guess ... / Continue →
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Paramount is putting the tractor-beamed shuttle craft before the starship! (Or whatever the appropriate cart-before-the-horse Star Trek reference is.) Variety is reporting the studio is so confident about the success of their fresh-faced relaunch of the science fiction franchis... / Continue →
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I know this new Sherlock Holmes is supposed to be an action-oriented, not-your-turn-of-the-century-grandpa's Sherlock Holmes, but why does that mean he's also '90s Tom Petty? Is this some kind of horrifying new trend? A resurgence of Pettian wardrobe? Maybe it's time to pull ou... / Continue →
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Continuing the Ghostbusters tradition of disembodied, demon-like brown arms dragging beautiful women into a hellish, inhuman world, here's the poster for Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell. Who knew eternal damnation would look so much like VHS box art for a suburban-set softcore porn... / Continue →
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1. Monsters vs. Aliens - $58.2 million That expensive 3-D SuperBowl ad seems to have worked out better for Monsters vs. Aliens than it did for whatever Sobe drink those geckos were dancing about. 2. The Haunting in Connecticut - $23 million. Connecticut is to this haunting as ... / Continue →
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That Karate Kid remake, which was to star nepotism incarnate, Jaden Smith, just got ever so slightly less enraging. Jackie Chan, the film's new Mr. Miyagi, says there's talk of a name change that would more accurately represent Chan's skills and ancestry, plus set it up for a l... / Continue →
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That battle being the Battle of Trying to Make Massive, Greasy Food Look Fanciful Not Incredibly Disgusting. Their glistening surfaces are too realistic, yet not photographic enough to make them at all appetizing. It turns out even cooked meat spheres have an uncanny valley. C... / Continue →
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Is all this motion blurring really confusing for anyone else? The only truly effective way to portray vehicle speed is by showing how high a girl's skirt is blown up as she's driven past. Star Trek Final Theatrical One-Sheet Revealed Here First! [MySpace]... / Continue →
