June 21, 2009 - June 27, 2009 Archives
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Hey, there's a trailer for the high concept, first-man-to-ever-lie comedy, The Invention of Lying. Something of a "We Are the World" of comedies, with appearances by all sort of people you don't expect to see all in one place--including Louis CK, Tina Fey, Rob Lowe, Jonah Hill,... / Continue →
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Looking for an incomplete list of new releases? Hey, here's one!: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Yes, it already opened Wednesday. You got me.) Director: Michael Bay Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, CGI Good if you want to see: giant robots; explosions; mild racism and... / Continue →
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Look out vampire-teen-abstinence-romance, there's a new vampire crossover genre in vampire town: vampire-sci-fi-action-noir! In Daybreakers, the we're-exhausting-our-precious-resources! ecological warning is given the Twilight twist, with the vampire race--Earth circa 2019's ne... / Continue →
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Did Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? leave you still questioning why someone got married? Disappointed by the film's lack of a character portrayed by Tyler Perry in overweight drag? Don't worry--T.P. will definitely take care of all that in the upcoming sequel, Why Did I Ge... / Continue →
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Coming soon to lists of things that will probably win Oscars, Hilary Swank and Richard Gere in the melodramatic story of the world's greatest ladypilot: Amelia. As you can see in the above screenshot, the biopic seems to support my controversial theory that Earhart's disappeara... / Continue →
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As I'm sure you've seen all over your websites and your Facebooks and your Twitters already, Michael Jackson, America's strange Princess Di, has died of cardiac arrest at age 50. I'll assume you know who Michael Jackson is and why this is really crazy to hear, so let's get on w... / Continue →
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You know those Nikon commercials where we follow Ashton Kutcher, playing himself, as he parades around in a scarf, enjoying his decadent, model-rich life of asshole hedonism? Here's that as a movie, now with even more unnecessary accessories! (Includes Kutchearrings and Kutchsp... / Continue →
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Maybe that MTV Movies Awards preview wasn't "so lame" after all. Transformers 2, a film that is by most accounts atrocious, yesterday had the highest ever Wednesday opening for a film. By early estimates, the robot punch-'em-up grossed $60.6 million, besting the previous record... / Continue →
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Farrah Fawcett, one of the 20th century's most recognized-as-being-a-babe babes, died today at 62 after a battle with cancer. Rising to prominence as Jill Munroe on Charlie's Angels, the actress's immense, iconic popularity would lead to millions of women emulating her hairsty... / Continue →
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I don't really know what Daybreakers is, so I'm just going to interpret this as an advertisement for a blood-filled, vampire version of Gushers Fruit Snacks.... / Continue →
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It should go without saying that Michael Bay is something of a turd. There's already plenty of turd evidence to support that theory, and I don't think anyone, including Bay himself, is really disputing the notion, but just in case you find yourself in a conversation where you n... / Continue →
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Exploiting America's eternal love for the simplistic mechanics of Howie Mandel's Pick-a-Box, Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly has made a new film involving idiots pressing a plunger for a million dollars. Similar to the game show in more than just its button pushing, The Box... / Continue →
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Seeing Mike Myers doing an accent in facial prostheses and not being expected to politely laugh is still more jarring than any of the graphic bloodshed:... / Continue →
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Cameron Diaz will have to trudge through twice as many film titles next year! Finally catching up to the trend of critics making top ten lists, the Academy Awards will begin nominating ten films for Best Picture beginning with the 82nd Oscars next year, leaving Hollywood the bu... / Continue →
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As if news of Aaron Sorkin writing Facebook: The Movie wasn't perplexing enough, Variety has put up a story that adds two more peculiarities to the mix. The entertainment magazine is reporting David Fincher, the man responsible for Se7en, Fight Club, and the recently-acclaimed... / Continue →
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New online marketing from the alien apartheid film District 9, this one in the form of a video clearly aimed at people who don't dial 911, warning not to approach any of the terrifying, agile, bug-like aliens that have escaped from the titular sector. I swear the voice-over gu... / Continue →
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My thought process looking at this: "Oh, neat, the Eiffel Tower is melded with a pistol. Wait, what? No, not neat; really, really stupid. Why did I momentarily think an Eiffel Tower/gun amalgamation that looks like a novelty lighter was neat? And since when do I describe things... / Continue →
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Hiyao Miyazaki is the man responsible for such animated classics as Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and My Neighbor Totoro, so he's no stranger to making freakish creatures seem endearing. This summer, he'll continue that tradition as he asks us to fall in love with a weird l... / Continue →
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From Ricky Gervais's blog, the first shots of the actor-comedian sporting a popped collar and dangling cigarette on the set of Cemetery Junction. In the David Brent tradition, here's hoping I will regard this character as both laugh-out-loud hilarious and deeply, gut-wrenchingl... / Continue →
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Welp, the teaser trailer for Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan's live-action NickToon adaptation has been released, and my feelings are a bit mixed. On the one hand, I'm relieved Shyamalan appears to have avoided the camp and silliness that plagued fellow martial arts cartoon-... / Continue →
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From the same desaturated universe as Harry Potter, here come the Sherlock Holmes character posters. I have to say, I'm pretty disappointed about the move away from advertising Holmes as a brooding Tom Petty. Which look am I supposed to wear when I'm standing in line opening ni... / Continue →
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That was clearly the entire pitch for this: Universal Pictures has picked up the comedy pitch "Business Trip" from writer Stacey Harman. Benderspink, behind the Warner Bros. hit "The Hangover," will produce the laffer about a group of women who go on a corporate trip but wind... / Continue →
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Announcer, sidekick, Star Searcher, deliverer of novelty-sized checks, and television legend Ed McMahon died early this morning at the age of 86. The longtime Tonight Show fixture, who recently ran into hard times that resulted in home foreclosure and an unfortunate Cash4Gold c... / Continue →
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Making a trailer for a fictional sequel to Powder: great idea. Naming that sequel Powder 2: Powder to the People and giving it the production values and sensibilities of a Roger Corman film: that is the best thing that can be manufactured by man. If you thought the story of a m... / Continue →
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Elijah Wood in Eccentric Zombie Carrot Top costume says "Hello." USA Today and Yahoo have posted some new shots from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, and I think you'll be surprised how much they look like the results of a "celebrities as Alice in Wonderland characters" Photos... / Continue →
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I'm back, everyone. Sorry for the absence yesterday. The day was spent at an airport doing an extended impression of Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg's The Terminal, but things eventually worked out, so let's look at movie things. OK? Anyway: Youth in Revolt poster. The film, bas... / Continue →
