November 29, 2009 - December 5, 2009 Archives
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You know what the problem with Not Another Teen Movie, Epic Movie, Superhero Movie, Disaster Movie, and the films of that ilk is? "That they use reference to current pop culture phenomena as tragically bad pseudo-humor"? What? No. Did you not see when a girl was dressed up like... / Continue →
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Brooklyn isn't all hipsters and lesbian moms, dudes. Some of this shit is REAL. So real that Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, and Don Cheadle have decided to demonstrate how real it is to be a Brooklyn cop with a film, called Brooklyn's Finest. This trailer is basically every conflic... / Continue →
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Taylor Lautner, the Twilight sub-hunk whose shirtless torso you've probably seen more than your own in the last few months, may be entering yet another franchise that sounds terrible. The LA Times has news that the Down syndrome-faced teen is being considered for the lead in Ma... / Continue →
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I'm pretty sure look of utter, resigned hopelessness depicted in Rumpelstiltskin's face is a thinly-veiled plea for help from the animators. The extended arm desperately begs you to pull him away from this, while the purposefully outstretched fingers send the clandestine messag... / Continue →
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I used to have a poster like this when I was a kid. Except it was just the car--no superhero--and instead of "Red Mist" it said "awesome." Because the car was really awesome. And that's why Scholastic book order forms had the best wall decor options. Check out the new KICK-ASS... / Continue →
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Steven Spielberg (Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs, one episode of Columbo) can get back to pretending he's going to make his long talked-about Lincoln biopic. According to Variety, the director has abandoned plans to make a new film based on Harvey, the Pulitzer Prize-winn... / Continue →
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Argh! Of course, they'd have to give her new shoe/dress combinations for the sequel. Now I'll have to buy all the new Sex and the City 2 action figures! (Thanks to Flex at MovieGod.)... / Continue →
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LOL! Lite-Brites! Remember those??? Childhood, everyone! Oh yeah, also there's this piece of shit chipmunk movie coming out. But, man, how about Lite-Brite, eh? Irrelevant nostalgia is so nostalgic! 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel' Poster [IMPA]... / Continue →
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Whether you consider Pancho Villa a criminal, a Robin Hood, or "Quick Draw McGraw's sidekick?", his story is undoubtedly an intriguing one (and one I won't go into in detail here, because that would require a lot of research to fill in my fuzzy notions of anything he did). The ... / Continue →
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Hooray for conglomerates! The New York Times is reporting that, after a human fetus's gestation period of negotiations, General Electric has finally agreed to sell a controlling share of NBC--the network where you watch Friends!--to cable giant Comcast: The deal valued NBC Uni... / Continue →
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Some will ask, "Why?" Others will respond, "Why not?" And still others will respond, "Because 'star' and 'scar' rhyme. Duh." (via /Film)... / Continue →
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These movies will be in your cinemas this weekend. See one, why don't you? Armored Director: Nimród Antal Starring: Columbus Short, Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne Good if you want to see: some armored car guys decide to steal their own loot, only to get caught up in murder an... / Continue →
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At first glance, seems like a pretty standard Iron Man 2 poster: Iron Man suit, Tony Stark, that blue nebula Iron Man always seems to exist in. But what if we take Robert Downey Jr.'s intense glare and remove the powerful uniform we're all so familiar with. Could this image sti... / Continue →
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In director-I-like-teaming-up-with-longtime-talented-acting-collaborator news, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp/Wes Anderson and Bill Murray/Paul Thomas Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman have plans to again team up on new project, and this time it's one that finally puts Hoffman's ... / Continue →
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The back-up plan is that we start molding a new Matthew McConaughey now, in case our current model McConaughey surfs himself to death, or bongos himself to death. But the question remains if this guy will truly be able to hold up Jennifer Lopez's perpetually cocked head as well... / Continue →
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While on the L.A. set of The Social Network, David Fincher's generically-titled film about Facebook, Justin Timberlake's hair apparently reverted to the curly, gelled coiffe he sported back when he was still a member of 'N Sync. I'm guessing this must be the hairstyle Sean Park... / Continue →
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Looking for the perfect piece of art that says "I was a child in the '80s and now have a nearly boastful level of nostalgia towards such films as The Goonies, Ghostbusters, The Princess Bride, and The Neverending Story?" Then maybe you want to bid on one of these pieces from th... / Continue →
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As a celebration of Empire's 20th birthday, the magazine convinced some notable actors to pose for some photos that hint at their iconic roles of the past. Arnold Schwarzenegger on a motorcycle (Terminator), Morpheus perched on a luxurious chair (The Matrix), Mel Gibson with th... / Continue →
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Well, here it is. The trailer for Tim Allen's directorial debut and the film responsible for creating this terrible sight, Crazy on the Outside. I wasn't expecting much from this thing, but man, this preview is definitely not what I thought it would be:... / Continue →
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Remember when 3D movies were a novelty, when you'd put on cheap, silly red and blue-tinted glasses to see objects and limbs shoved deliberately at the screen? How things have changed, eh? Now 3D films are a billion dollar industry novelty, where you put on slightly higher quali... / Continue →
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"Yes, I am Daniel Day-Lewis, and, yes, I am WALKING on a COUCH. That's right, the same manner of couch you've been quaintly using as seating for oh so many years, and I'm walking on it--practically the exact opposite of sitting! Sorry I don't believe in labels. Unconventional? ... / Continue →
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Remember when you were watching Jackass 2 and you turned to me and said, "I'll tell ya, I am not at all sick of this Jackass guys-getting-hurt-doing-stunts shtick, even after the movie and three seasons of the show." And I said, "Really? Because I've been pretty over it for a w... / Continue →
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They say there's always a bit of truth in comedy. The truth here is that adding the hit machine that is Kenny Loggins to any soundtrack immediately makes that film kick ass.... / Continue →
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Alec Baldwin has joined the ranks of actors claiming they're retiring. Speaking to Men's Journal, our premier digest for masculine issues, the actor warned that Stephen may soon become the more preeminent Baldwin brother because Alec thinks all of his own movies are shit: "I d... / Continue →
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What an aural holocaust. But I bet she's a real boon when searching for a lost pet. (via reddit, assembled by Jezebel)... / Continue →
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Costing me thousands on all the bets I had that Steve Carell would obviously end up playing Ranger Smith in Warner Bros' live-action/CGI shit stew adaptation of Yogi Bear, Tom Cavanagh, best known to fans of the NBC sitcom Ed as Ed, has been cast as the lead in the project. So ... / Continue →
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USA Today has presented us with the first official photo from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (part 1 of 2) and, as with previous editions of the boy wizard series, it appears Daniel Radcliffe's neck will once again multiply in girth in this sequel. The guy's got a neck li... / Continue →
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Sorry, guys, I hoped this day wouldn't come, but these photos seem to indicate the Karate Kid remake that Will Smith forced his child's weird little muscley body into is actually happening. It's still unclear if it's called "The Karate Kid" or "The Kung Fu Kid" or "Will Smith's... / Continue →
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So Iron Man teams up with Terminator this time? I don't understand your movies, grandson!!! 'Iron Man 2' Poster [Yahoo]... / Continue →
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I don't make it a point to seek out store window displays--partially because that's the hobby of a madman, partially because I buy all my clothes from the Sears husky boys' department--but these Fantastic Mr. Fox-themed windows at Bergdorf Goodman Men's Store might force me to ... / Continue →
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"What are you doing up?! Get back to your room! Your mother needs to be taught a lesson about leering at men in the grocery store! Don't make me teach you one too, you little jerk!" What I'm saying is: my father was abusive. And a supernatural wolf/man hybrid. First Look: The... / Continue →
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Don't let your adoration of babies doing baby things be restricted to YouTube clips and monthly calendars: there's a movie for that now! Specifically, a documentary appropriately named Babies! It's like Baby Geniuses, except, instead of being preternaturally smart babies, they'... / Continue →
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Is gnome-faced actor Jeremy Renner playing Hawkeye in the the Avengers movie, and possibly in a Thor cameo prior to that??? It depends if you like to read into things, says this interview with Empire: “I met with the Marvel guys, actually, but we didn’t talk about Captain Amer... / Continue →
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Note that these box office totals are for the five-day Thanksgiving weekend. It will make a difference when you're entering them into Excel. 1. New Moon - $66 million. $230 million total. Yet 1995's The Baby-Sitters Club grossed less than $10 million. Adapting stupid 14-year-o... / Continue →
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With his 1995 directorial debut, Kicking and Screaming, a film about some just-out-of-college guys refusing to make progress in their lives, Noah Baumbach proved he had the skills to capture his generation's upper-class collective ennui. This March the recent Wes Anderson colla... / Continue →
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Want to see Jackie Chan re-enact scenes from Mission Impossible while babysitting and holding a laser pointer, possibly for the purposes of delivering a covert Powerpoint presentation? Good, because that's a movie now! And if you can't tell by Jackie's empty glare, it's probabl... / Continue →
