March 21, 2010 - March 27, 2010 Archives
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Creepy Christmas! The special effects house turned production company Drac Studios is going to take some just-found old recording of Orson Welles reading a story about Santa's dog saving Christmas (yup) and turn it into a movie--using his posthumous voice as the narrator, of co... / Continue →
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This summer, Disney will attempt to expand the notion of sorcerer apprenticeship beyond the worlds of Fantasia and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and into the universe of Nicolas Cage being given complete emoting freedom with The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Magician in Manhattan. Here'... / Continue →
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MOTION POSTERS! They're like normal posters, except also like the kind of loud, obnoxious banner ads you try desperately to close, and today I have two for you: The Other Guys and Tron Legacy. Here, listen to them playing at once to hear the cacophony of our coming dystopian fu... / Continue →
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See one of these new releases this weekend. Because you'll be in a nursing home before you know it, and then it's just whatever's on in the community room. How To Train Your Dragon Director: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders Starring: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera Goo... / Continue →
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He's winking at you because, in addition to ruining the lives of his owners, now Marmaduke talks, and America's children are going to want to go see Marmaduke ruin lives and talk, and he knows there's nothing you can do about that.... / Continue →
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For those that have read the Scott Pilgrim comics, you'll be pleased to see Edgar Wright has somehow made the most beautifully literal translation of comic to film imaginable. For those that haven't, you'll be pleased to see Michael Cera and Jason Schwartzman duel with a flame ... / Continue →
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Christ. I think even Shrek: The Musical and the Christmas special Shrek the Halls presented themselves with more dignity than this, and that's really saying a lot, because Shrek: The Musical starred a man in a Shrek costume. Below the cut, another horrific pun poster, this tim... / Continue →
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Robert Culp, who starred in I Spy and The Greatest American Hero and appeared in many, many other shows over his long career, has died of a head injury at 79: Robert Culp, the veteran actor best known for starring with Bill Cosby in the classic 1960s espionage-adventure series... / Continue →
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Inglourious Basterds' Geraldine Brezca should win a special Academy Award for coming up with good words to go along with the letters shouted with the scene calls. That will be the name of the award, until after her death, when it will be known as the Geraldine Brezca Memorial A... / Continue →
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Angela Bassett, who in recent years was tragically forced to be on a season of ER even though no one really watches ER anymore, will soon be giving the hit-or-miss superhero genre a try on Martin Campbell's Green Lantern: Angela Bassett joins the cast of Warner Bros.' "Green L... / Continue →
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And that "someone" is the same "someone" who's credited as the director of Mortal Kombat and Alien vs. Predator! Tell us more, Variety: Buck Rogers is taking flight again, this time with Paul W.S. Anderson directing from a script by "Iron Man" co-writers Art Marcum and Matt H... / Continue →
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At the Movies, the venerable two-guys-arguing-about-movies series, is no more. Ebert's Twitter Box has revealed that, after over two decades of shows, the series has been canceled. The program began, of course, with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert debating films on-camera, then co... / Continue →
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Wait a minute, it's the story of a former porn star pulled back into the business and a new, strange and sordid underworld of violence and mystery? Anything called Serbian Film should clearly have some hilarious appearances by Serbian Juno Parody and Serbian Paris Hilton Impers... / Continue →
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Hey, it's the trailer for The Thorn in the Heart, Michel Gondry's documentary about some of his family. Does it include semi-invisible children? Yes, of course it does:... / Continue →
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G.I. Joe should really sue for leather-clad-butt-highlighting-pose infringement.... / Continue →
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What to do next, Will Smith: another Men in Black (always a safe bet), or this crazy shit with magic candles making the island of Manhattan float like in the NES game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project? It's down to two choices: Sony's "Men in Black III" o... / Continue →
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Jamie Foxx has got some time between movies. He's already sung the hook on a Kanye West track, started a satellite radio channel and hosted a BET awards show, and no one seems to be sending him a script for Stealth 2: Stealthier; what's he going to do with all this idle time? ... / Continue →
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After watching that claymation Evil Dead remake, I was reminded of those stop-motion Christmas specials Late Night with Conan O'Brien made and briefly looked around the internet shelves for them. I didn't see them, but I did find this better thing: a wide-eyed Conan O'Brien eff... / Continue →
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A year-and-a-half after Paul W.S. Anderson abandoned the project because he knew he'd already made the best car movie imaginable after directing Death Race, Warner Bros. has decided to deploy the G-6155 Interceptor and attempt an adaptation of the Spy Hunter video game again. V... / Continue →
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Which male dead-eyed stare will the female vacant stare choose??? I can't wait! This is the best Comatose Sadie Hawkins Day ever! Yay! Seriously, though, how many more chapters of the "Check the box you prefer: Hunky Vampire [ ] Hunky Werewolf [ ]" series do we have left?... / Continue →
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Weird Al Yankovic finally gets his Walk the Line-style biopic. And, being that it's about Weird Al Yankovic, of course it's a parody, which I'm pretty sure makes it the most appropriate, accurate music biopic ever made.... / Continue →
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It's Sam Raimi via a Mr. Bill Saturday Night Live short--perfect for introducing your child to the world of low-budget horror without fucking them up too much.... / Continue →
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Look forward to your child screaming in nightmarish terror at the massive chinned, one-eyed, thick-forearmed, awful-voiced, unspeakably-deformed sailor of indeterminable age lunging at them from the theater screen. Variety says a 3-D, computer-animated version of the characters... / Continue →
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The Office and Extras team of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant has a new film coming out, and I've got an audio/video snack cracker for you: a clip! So enjoy a minute-and-a-half of Cemetery Junction, their coming-of-age film about escaping a small town in the '70s. It will ma... / Continue →
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After months of unbearable speculation and indecision, we've got him: Chris Evans--who already played Fire-Man Superhero in The Fantastic Four, generic superhero in Push, and soon stars in adaptations of Scott Pilgrim and The Losers--will once again attempt to make comic books ... / Continue →
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On his Bay Blog, Transformers director Michael Bay has revealed... Which reputable actors will mar their careers with a Transformers sequel appearance! Which expensive Italian sports car will trans-form into a robot warrior! On the talent front, we just locked in Frances McD... / Continue →
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1. Alice in Wonderland - $34.5 million, earning it the top spot for the third straight week. If you run into Tim Burton, give him a congratulatory high five. 2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid - $21.8 million, making it the third most popular diary after Anne Frank's and Mad Black Woman'... / Continue →
