August 23, 2009 - August 29, 2009 Archives
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Wedding Banned! Since License to Wed, Robin Williams is our go-to guy for wedding conflict comedy: In the comedy [titled Wedding Banned], Williams will play one-half of a long-divorced couple who kidnap their daughter on her wedding day in order to keep her from making a mista... / Continue →
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Michael Moore is our chubby, petulant 8th grade boy-leader in the face of corporate/government thieves! What do you think about that, capitalist fat cats!? Oh, you're just going to keep on going how you have been, ignoring Michael Moore and his supporters? That's fair. 'Capita... / Continue →
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As my girlfriend site Geekologie noted, here's a video of a century of special effects shots, minus all the other groundbreaking special effects shots not included. Really makes you wonder how realistically we'll be able to render talking dog mouths given another hundred years.... / Continue →
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After the first Descent, you'd really think someone would have sealed up that cave full of blind, Batboy-esque mutants to stop them from murdering all our hot, female spelunkers. But, alas, our governments mutant cave-filling bureaucracy failed us again, and a new group of babe... / Continue →
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Halloween II Director: Rob Zombie Starring: Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Scout Taylor-Compton Good if you want to see: if that man in the white mask is still stabbing people; a man in a white mask stabbing people. Taking Woodstock Director: Ang Lee Starring: Demitri Martin, E... / Continue →
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This trailer for Men Who Stare at Goats is basically Diet Coen Brothers. I'm not going to say it will completely fulfill you in the same way a refreshing Coen Brothers will, but I think you'll detect enough of that distinctly Coen flavor in Grant Heslov's comedy--especially wit... / Continue →
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Rob Zombie has decided to film another remake of The Blob, eliminating the one element I would consider definitive of The Blob: `My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing, that’s the first thing I want to change,' Zombie said. `That gigantic Jello-looking thing might ... / Continue →
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Yes, Cameron Crowe made a Pearl Jam video. I'm not really sure his style of character-driven, writing-based filmmaking really translates all that well to the medium. Kind of unimpressive. Not exactly a Michel Gondry. Quite honestly, I think Eddie Vedder holding a boombox over ... / Continue →
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Are you the type of guy who like to buy his movie tickets four months in advance? You're in luck, captain. Variety is reporting that Avatar tickets are already on sale for midnight showings in around 50 IMAX theaters nationwide, available on Fandango and a more obviously-named ... / Continue →
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From Yahoo and MTV, here are the first looks at Aro and Alec of the Volturi clan--a series of words that presumably mean something if you've read the Twilight series. All I can figure out is that this new film apparently stars Wayne's World Dracula and the smuggest boy on earth... / Continue →
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Whoever it is we've entrusted with making Delgos is pissed! While the rest of us briefly chuckled at the comparisons between Avatar and Delgo being made last week, Fathom studios is taking the issue way too seriously. The Delgo-making studio has issued a press release hinting t... / Continue →
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Someone wants to make Heathers the next Buffy, and it isn't me. Fox has announced plans to bring the dark high school comedy back to life as a TV series: [Writer, Mark] Rizzo is still kicking around ideas on how to update "Heathers" 20 years after the film became a favorite am... / Continue →
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Your favorite author and director for the six months following the release of Jurassic Park may be teaming up again. Following Michael Crichton's death, looters who went through the writer's computer found an unpublished pirate novel (Pirate Latitudes, set to be published in No... / Continue →
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Think the American 2012 trailer looked good? Wait until you see the Japanese trailer! It's still mostly shots of Earth crumbling to pieces--along with John Cusack expressing, "Ut-ohs, the Earth!"--but this time there are Japanese subtitles! But if you're really into watching gr... / Continue →
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Boasting an impressive cast of actors of the comedy genre, HBO's Bored to Death begins airing next month, so the network has released another trailer to promote the September 20 premiere. The series stars Jason Schwartzman as a private investigator, with supporting parts from t... / Continue →
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Good news, Susan Saran-fans (as you call yourselves)! The 62-year-old actress has been cast as Shia LaBeouf's mother in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, and it sounds like Michael Douglas will be kissin' her: Sarandon will play the mother of a young Wall Street trader (Shia ... / Continue →
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MarketSaw has put up some scans from the new issue of Empire Magazine, giving a first look at Sigourney Weaver in her blue alien form. I have to say, they really nailed Weaver's pointed features and prominent lower teeth, though I'm a bit disappointed to see the avatars apparen... / Continue →
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British tabloid The Sun is reporting that Megan Fox has been cast as Catwoman in Christopher Nolan's follow-up to The Dark Knight, cleverly adding that they have "a strong feline she is the purrfect choice for the part." To sum things up for those of you who haven't been follow... / Continue →
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Really captures the pensiveness of girls skating around knocking down other girls in skates, don't you think? You'll only find those kinds of subtle touches in a Drew Barrymore-directed film. She's Spielberg, Kubrick, Truffaut, and Ashby all melted down and poured into a golden... / Continue →
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Today's How Would That Be a Movie? It Has No Plot hails from the world of television, and joins such game-based projects as Monopoly: The Movie and Asteroids: The Movie. Variety is reporting that Soul Train, the song and dance variety show that ran from '71 to '06, is being ada... / Continue →
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Cinematical has debuted the final Astro Boy poster, depicting the scene in which Astro Boy leaves his friends to either be smashed by a massive robot or burned alive in an explosion of intense white energy as he sets off on his quest to find cooler, robot friends. I hope that i... / Continue →
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Remember that movie with the kids and pirate boat you liked to watch so much as a kid? The Goony, I believe it was called. Well, now you can see the difficulties director Richard Donner had in working with a cast of children in this 1985 making-of featurette. It looks like this... / Continue →
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Progress comes to Will Smith: Superhero God 2! The Hollywood Reporter says a couple writers from The Shield have been hired to pen the sequel: Columbia has hired scribes Adam Fierro and Glen Mazzara to pen the sequel to the Will Smith superhero movie, which grossed $624 millio... / Continue →
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Elizabeth Banks is in final negotiations to be in a movie! If these aforementioned negotiations work out, she will star in Paul Haggis's The Next Three Days, playing an imprisoned woman who maintains she is innocent of murder. Russell Crowe will be playing her husband, and will... / Continue →
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I was going to comment on how this looks like the cover to some ridiculous young adult book, but then I remembered this film is based on some kind of ridiculous young adult book. So, uh, never mind, I guess. Good job helping me so vividly recollect what a Scholastic book order ... / Continue →
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Today in movie news British tabloids have clearly made up: Robin Williams has reportedly revealed that he has been asked to play Susan Boyle in a biopic of the singer. He told the Daily Star: "I've been asked if I want to play Susan in the movie. I think she's incredible. Tha... / Continue →
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Samantha Morton (Synecdoche, New York), Polly Walker (Rome), Dominic West (McNulty!) have signed on to Andrew Stanton's adaptation of John Carter of Mars: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins and Willem Dafoe already are on board the production, which centers on a Civil War veteran (Ki... / Continue →
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The first single from Karen O's Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack isn't available as a digital single until tomorrow, but you can stream the track, the child chorus-backed All Is Love, RIGHT NOW on MySpace. I'd say it's a tad saccharine and repetitive for my tastes, but then... / Continue →
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The weekend's box office top five as determined by man: 1. Inglourious Basterds - $37.6 million, Quentin Tarentino's biggest opening weekend and his first film to feature Mike Myers in any capacity. That can't be a coincidence. 2. District 9 - $18.9 million. Between Nazis and... / Continue →
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There's this now: the trailer for Inception If this were a straight-to-video production, I would still be scoffing at the film's "your mind is the scene of the crime" tagline, but since this is a Christopher Nolan-directed sci-fi movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, I guess I'm go... / Continue →
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Michael Cera begs you to accept him as a teenager just one more time before calling Beverly Hills 90210 shenanigans on him. In Youth in Revolt, the perpetual teen play Nick Twisp, a 14-year-old so desperate to win the affections of the girl of his dreams that he creates a bad-a... / Continue →
