July 5, 2009 - July 11, 2009 Archives
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Bad news for those of us anxiously awaiting the size-altering, insect-communicating portion of Marvel's never-ending superhero movie line-up. Speaking to Empire, writer/director Edgar Wright revealed he hopes to move from his in-production film, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, to ... / Continue →
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Once again flexing the muscle she used in Little Man Tate, Home for the Holidays, and an episode of Tales from the Darkside, Jodie Foster will be directing The Beaver, the much-hyped, high-concept script about a man who wears a beaver puppet for comfort, with Mel Gibson starrin... / Continue →
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From the BBC, here's a featurette that gives a behind-the-scenes look at a film high on my "G.D. I want to see this!" list, Cemetary Junction. We briefly get to see some scenes being shot, but more importantly, co-writers/directors Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant take the op... / Continue →
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There are two sides to every family: the side on which naked Tobey Maguire shuns Natalie Portman's intense back adoration, and the side where Jake Gyllenhaal thinks, "Man, I never get invited to the back-kissin' party. I wonder whose backs-of-heads these are, anyway." If your f... / Continue →
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This is Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox? I don't really know what I was expecting--maybe something more like the book illustrations?--but this seems somehow off. Not that it's bad; just unexpected. It's sort of like seeing someone after they get breast implants. Looks good, bu... / Continue →
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Winner of the award for "movie poster that most looks like a VHS cover I'd keep staring at in an '80s video store, for a movie would likely be called Substitute Creature." And yes, the desk is opening from the wrong direction, but, dude, you are so totally gay for even noticin... / Continue →
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Our wait for an H.J. has almost ended. The Hollywood Reporter says casting for Hal Jordan, the lead in Warner Bros. Green Lantern movie, is down to three candidates: Warners has spent the past five months searching for the actor to play Hal Jordan, the hot-shot Air Force pilot... / Continue →
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My computer's MMX processor isn't powerful enough to properly watch it, but hey, there's a new, red-band (cussin'!) trailer for Funny People! From what I could tell through the stuttered audio and slideshow-esque video that I was able to see, this film still looks funny (but no... / Continue →
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I don't want to get in the habit of posting about two-year-old movies, but IWS reader Randy sent in the poster and DVD art for Heavy Petting--a 2007 romantic comedy starring Watchmen's Malin Akerman--and with my love for terrible, dogs-doing-human-things movies, they were too r... / Continue →
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Some films open this weekend; here are some of them: Brüno Director: Larry Charles Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen; oblivious fools, many of whom will be revealed as homophobes Good if you want to see: further Borat-like exploits, this time with a flamboyant Austrian; what people ... / Continue →
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Even when photographing a pile of devastated Nazi corpses, Tarantino just can't resist the opportunity to once again visually assert his foot fetish. 'Inglourious Basterds' Poster #14(!) [IMPA]... / Continue →
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USA Today has posted the first look at Whip It, Drew Barrymore's Devo-titled directorial debut that stars Ellen Page as a rebellion teenage who enters the roller derby circuit. I would say this film stands a good chance of bringing attention back to the sport, but I think roll... / Continue →
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Did Obama base his entire campaign around a single shot in Spartan? Probably not--unless we later find out the guy is secretly a huge David Mamet fan--but IWS reader Juan J. Arroyo sent in the above still from the 2004 film, and the similarities are indeed striking. Probably j... / Continue →
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Controversial, baseball cap-wearing Michigander Michael Moore has at least revealed the title of his economic collapse film: Capitalism: A Love Story. The director said in a statement: It will be the perfect date movie. It's got it all -- lust, passion, romance and 14,000 jobs... / Continue →
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In this latest trailer for the sci-fi apartheid film District 9, the uneasy truce between man and giant bug comes to an end when human officials discover one of the aliens has an alien meth lab and some alien pepper spray, and then shit goes down. And by shit, I mean awesome me... / Continue →
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Looks like Lorne Michaels still has his summer job stretching mediocre three-minute sketches into full-length films of dubious quality. Variety is reporting MacGruber, the one-note MacGyver parody and recent Pepsi shill played by Will Forte, will be the next SNL character to fi... / Continue →
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I question the validity of this story, but if it is indeed true, Michael Bay is even worse than we thought. Director of some our most expensive stupid movies and egregious sexual harrasser? U.K. broadcaster Jason Solomons wrote in a recent column that Bay had Ms. Megan Fox wa... / Continue →
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Want to see Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant mock Academy Award-nominated actor Ralph Fiennes to his face? Why wouldn't you? So enjoy.... / Continue →
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As a promotion for their upcoming indie romance 500 Days of Summer, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel made this video where they do a gender-bending scene as punk icons Sid and Nancy. Can anyone explain why? I sometimes have a difficult time understanding why things happ... / Continue →
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Tobey Maguire battling marital issues and also raccoons? That sounds sort of like a movie, explains Variety: Tobey Maguire is set to star in "The Details," an indie black comedy written and directed by Jacob Estes. Shooting begins August in Seattle. Maguire joins Elizabeth Ba... / Continue →
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Is George Clooney (the guy with the haircut on The ER) taking on the role of Jack Ryan--previously played by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck--in the next film featuring the Tom Clancy creation? He is if you read into quotes from unnamed sources! According to a stor... / Continue →
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From the writer of The Wrestler comes another sports-themed film that initially sounds kind of amusing its premise but ends up being really, really tragic (and probably really good): Big Fan, starring Patton Oswalt as a parking lot attendant and New York Giants fanatic who must... / Continue →
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Baywatch, the ridiculous lifeguard series Guinness named "the most watched show in the world," even though, as far as I could tell, it was watched only as pseudo-pornography by adolescent boys of the early '90s not yet able to access the internet, has, strangely, not yet been a... / Continue →
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Thought there couldn't be less of an idea for a movie than Asteroids: The Movie? Wrong again. Hollywood always finds a way. According to The Hollywood Reporter, DreamWorks is working on a movie based on View-Master. Yes, View-Master, the cheap, 3D slide-viewer for children: Dr... / Continue →
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Welp, detectives, we've got another gruesome, absurdly-complicated serial killer on our hands. As you know, no one even caught Saw V, and this guy is even worse. We're calling this newest murderer "The Collector," so named for his apparently vast collection of Looney Tunes and ... / Continue →
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Phew! I was getting worried yet another A Christmas Carol adaptation would omit the fourth, lesser mentioned ghost, the Ghost of Christmas a Miniature Altar Boy Who Uses Fire to Simulate How You'd Look in Various Fancy Hats. Probably the least plot-essential ghost, but a good o... / Continue →
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You're welcome, guy with a vacant-eyed lady-pile fetish. 'Sorority Row' Poster [MySpace] (via IMPA)... / Continue →
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So close, Ice Age. So close. The weekend box office: 1. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - $42.3 million. Continuing our nation's great tradition of celebrating our independence by watching explosions. And robots that turn into construction vehicles. 2. Ice Age: Dawn of th... / Continue →
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Further evidence that every scene in every movie is being masturbated to by someone somewhere: this IMDb user profile page, on which you may notice a subtle, bizarre trend in the user's board posts. My favorite is probably the post for Resident Evil: Afterlife, where their usua... / Continue →
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When news comes back that Tobey Maguire has died in the line of duty, brother Jake Gyllenhaal makes sure he really "takes care" of the widowed Natalie Portman. Yeah, that's right, "takes care" with quotes. (Sex.) Which wouldn't be such a big deal, except it turns out Maguire ha... / Continue →
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Guess what. There's this now: "T.J. Hooker" is headed for the bigscreen as an action comedy with David Foster, Ryan Heppe and series creator Rick Husky producing. Chuck Russell ("The Scorpion King," "The Mask") is in talks to direct. The writing team of Brent Maddock and S.S.... / Continue →
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Have you seen the new trailer that has everyone saying, "Shit, dude, did you see that trailer where Megan Fox is naked (inasmuch as Alanis Morisette was naked in that music video where she was sort of naked)?" I don't actually know if anyone is saying that, but I assume they wi... / Continue →
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In case you forgot how the Chipmunks are sort of thugs for some reason, yup, they still are. 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel' Poster [IMPA]... / Continue →
