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September 27, 2009 - October 3, 2009 Archives

  • October 2, 2009
    Spore, the revolutionary video game known best for being first to allow nearly limitless ways to create your own sentient penis, will, of course, be a movie soon. From Variety: Twentieth Century Fox has paired up with Electronic Arts to turn the publisher's popular "Spore" gam... / Continue →
  • October 2, 2009
    It's hard to put into words exactly how unfortunately bad Disney's Tooth Fairy looks from this trailer, so I'm just going to try laying out the major plot points, and maybe enough of the awfulness will ooze through to prepare you for what you're about to see. 1. Dwayne "The Ro... / Continue →
  • October 2, 2009
    Figures MICHAEL MOORE would plaster himself on a RED poster! COMMIE!!! NOT MY DOCUMENTARIAN!!! I just saved one crazy person several seconds of comment typing. 'Capitalism: A Love Story [IMPA]... / Continue →
  • October 2, 2009
    These movies come out in theaters this weekend. Will YOU see one of them? The Invention of Lying Director: Ricky Gervais, Matt Robinson Starring: Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Louis CK, Jonah Hill, Rob Lowe, Tina Fey, Jeffrey Tambor, John Hodgman, Jason Bateman, Christopher ... / Continue →
  • October 2, 2009
    I don't want to say too much about this because I'd hate to ruin anything, and, more importantly, I don't want to further delay your seeing what later generations will surely recognize as the zenith of human entertainment. So, without further ado, here are three self-aware, spe... / Continue →
  • October 1, 2009
    If Transformers 2 left you wanting to see more robot stereotypes, explosions, and general mechanical nonsense, make sure your mom can drive you to the theater July 1, 2011 (you can't drive, silly 10-year-old), because that's the next time Michael Bay will cough up a few reels o... / Continue →
  • October 1, 2009
    OK, forget that earlier post with the blurry photo of the jacket-less stunt guy dressed as Green Hornet. Here's the real deal: Seth Rogen in full dapper superhero regalia. No more complaining about Rogen's hypothetical appearance; now the grumbling will hold actual weight! Per... / Continue →
  • October 1, 2009
    Hugh Jackman, our premiere song-and-dance-man/clawed-superhero, is in talks to join the ridiculous robot boxer movie Real Steal. The Shawn Levy-directed film would reportedly star Jackman as a Rocky Balboa-esque down-and-out fighter making a comeback. Except, you know how Rock... / Continue →
  • October 1, 2009
    Coming Soon has posted the first look at "Rampage" Jackson, Liam Neeson, Sharlto Copley, and Bradley Cooper on the set of The A-Team. Thank god director Joe Carnahan appears to have included at least one scene where Baracus suddenly gets really nihilistic, sitting wherever he ... / Continue →
  • October 1, 2009
    Popular in Ancient Greece, still popular today: T-shirts. Give them a shot. Empire 'Clash of the Titans' Cover [Empire]... / Continue →
  • October 1, 2009
    From Splash News, here's the first look at Seth Rogen's costume in his upcoming Green Hornet film. Looks good, assuming his jacket is just off for this scene. And assuming that jacket would normally be a Charlotte Hornets (Starter brand) jacket like I had in sixth grade. In tha... / Continue →
  • September 30, 2009
    Get out your John Carter of Mars notebook and a #2 pencil, because I've got some new names for you to add to the cast list of the film: Thomas Haden Church, James Purefoy and Mark Strong have joined the cast of joined “John Carter of Mars,” Disney’s adaptation of the Edgar Ric... / Continue →
  • September 30, 2009
    Despite fears she could be typecasting herself, Jessica Alba has decided to embrace her attractive looks and play an attractive pharmaceutical representative in the final chapter of the Fockers trilogy. From THR: The actress is in negotiations to join the Ben Stiller-Robert De... / Continue →
  • September 30, 2009
    New trailer for Wes Anderson's The Fantastic Mr. Fox, people. Let it wiggle into that fox-in-a-corduroy-blazer-shaped hole in your heart and fill it with stop-motion love:... / Continue →
  • September 29, 2009
    K.K. Barrett was production designer for Human Nature, I Heart Huckabees, Lost in Translation, Maria Antoinette, and every feature film Spike Jonze has made. If he spends 18 minutes talking about his work, including his recent Where the Wild Things Are job, wouldn't you want to... / Continue →
  • September 29, 2009
    Summit has released some new posters for The Twilight Saga: New Moon, amassing all the main characters in three one-sheets, making it very convenient to decide whose expression deems them most worthy of being slapped in the face over and over and over. Convenient, yes, but defi... / Continue →
  • September 29, 2009
    Splash News has the first shots of Mel Gibson on the set of The Beaver the Jodie Foster-directed film currently shooting in New York. Now Gibson only has to run around shouting with three more different mammals on his hand and the apology process for all those anti-gay and anti... / Continue →
  • September 29, 2009
    You heard how Conan O'Brien banged his head pretty bad while taping a sketch for The Tonight Show, right? Well, you can finally sate your concussion bloodlust, because he presented the footage and told the full story on his show last night, and now that's on internet. Sad that... / Continue →
  • September 29, 2009
    People love seeing the (moon)walking dead! This Is It, the film that compiles the final rehearsal performances of Michael Jackson, is reportedly finding massive success in movie ticket pre-sales, dominating online vendor sales and creating camped-out lines in front of theaters ... / Continue →
  • September 29, 2009
    Christ, the dogs are going to talk, too? To date, only Judy Greer had been mentioned to play Debbie Winslow in the movie, while Lee Pace from "Pushing Daisies" is playing Phil Winslow, but a small throwaway piece in Variety about Anjelah Johnson joining the cast, mentioned som... / Continue →
  • September 29, 2009
    Want to spend your day listening to music that alternates between melancholy anthems and twee Langley School-style child choirs? Sure you do; this music is in a movie picture! Karen O's Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack is now streaming free on this internet device. Listen ... / Continue →
  • September 28, 2009
    This new trailer for Robert Zemeckis's stylelessly-animated A Christmas Carol has a cameo by someone who appears to be a CGI, Christmas-themed version of Terrence Maddox, Will Ferrell's nude male model of SNL fame. Logically, this makes it marginally better than the Christmas C... / Continue →
  • September 28, 2009
    OK, so you've seen Gordon Ramsay shout that someone is a "donkey" who "could have killed someone" on Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, and possibly on all the other British shows where he also does that, but now you're looking for a new way to see that same caricatured, "fuck... / Continue →
  • September 28, 2009
    In case you didn't hear the news, don't expect Roman Polanski to be home for dinner tonight. The 76-year-old director of Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, and The Pianist was finally taken into custody in Switzerland yesterday on an arrest warrant from his 1977 charges of "giving a 1... / Continue →
  • September 28, 2009
    If you aren't familiar with the upcoming torture/horror film Human Centipede, please take a moment to read the disgusting summary before going any further. OK? If, at this point, you're cool with a scenario in which girls (and a Japanese tourist) are surgically connected, ass-... / Continue →
  • September 28, 2009
    Your weekend box office top five: 1. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - $24.6 million, only dropping 18.8%. I bet Chef Boyardee is kicking himself right now for not working out some kind of tie-in. 2. Surrogates - $15 million. And thus, Bruce Willis loses his shot at becomin... / Continue →
  • September 28, 2009
    Learn Freddy Krueger's origin (again) and watch him menacingly drag his hand-claw over a variety of metal surfaces (again) with this new trailer for Nightmare on Elm Street (Again). As much as I'm opposed to this pointless retreading, I do appreciate they made his head look mor... / Continue →