May 16, 2010 - May 22, 2010 Archives
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Just in case someone doesn't think the oft-depressing culture of obsessive geekiness hasn't been exposed thoroughly enough in all the films about Star Trek people and live-action role-players, a new documentary is in the works that will shine a light on yet another niche with n... / Continue →
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Continuing his plan to make the phrase, "You know, a James Franco movie," far less meaningful than, "You know, an Adam Sandler movie," James Franco has signed on to star in a pair of new films during his General Hospital hiatus. The actor has been the first name announced in R... / Continue →
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A senseless follow-up to MacGruber that gives us a straight-faced take on the MacGyver mythos isn't going to happen all by itself. Sadly, someone is going to have to literally spend days cooking up some things a character can do with a paper clip, and we now know who has been t... / Continue →
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Don't bring your loud baby to any of these. I hate it when you bring your loud baby. MacGruber Director: Jorma Taccone Starring: Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe, Val Kilmer Good if you want to see: a parody of MacGyver acting insane for a couple hours. Shrek Forever ... / Continue →
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They fall in love, then she moves away and call each other and talk because they're still in love but it's hard because long-distance relationships are hard, then they get to see each other again and they're still in love, and it's especially darling because Drew Barrymore and ... / Continue →
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Having failed to capture the public interest with their super-awesome-ultimate-MtnDew Lunatics Unleashed take on the Looney Tunes franchise, Warner Bros. today announced plans to go back to basics with the characters (well, as basic as things get these days) with a run of theat... / Continue →
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Not-for-kids movie scenes as Little Golden Book-style illustrations? I think we all can see the value in such a juxtaposition. It's fun--like when you teach someone else's kid to say bad words they don't fully understand, but without the moral concerns. And now, thanks to Pixar... / Continue →
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If you like superhero-ish animated action-comedies but hated how The Incredibles wasn't always desperately pleading for you to recognize that it was chockablock with jokes, here's your film. Get ready for shouting!... / Continue →
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Good news if you like annoying hairstyles! According this interview with Garry Marshall, the perfectly-swept coiffure known as Justin Bieber may soon find itself in the thematic sequel to Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve. Talking to MTV, the writer/director revealed that, while ... / Continue →
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At the intersection of film and outspoken enthusiasm for firearms, where you would expect to see the ghost of Charlton Heston, spectral teeth-gritted, guarding the crossroads, there lies instead a website dedicated to the identification and enjoyment of guns in cinema. I speak,... / Continue →
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Welp, Megan Fox has been let go from the Transformers franchise. It seems, perhaps, she should not have directly compared director Michael Bay to Hitler in an interview (come on, at least come up with a more original derogatory leader comparison). So, does this mean Shia LaBeou... / Continue →
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Yup. 'Eat, Pray, Love' Poster [IMPA]... / Continue →
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If someone you know is ever in this situation, and you don't want to freak them out about it, a nice, calming way to tell them would be to say, "You're absolutely smothering in Predator kisses." One more under the cut.... / Continue →
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Want to make yourself feel bad about your lack of wealth, low social standing, and unimpressive muscular girth? Then enjoy this montage of classic '80s asshole bully moments. It's like moving to a new city where you don't know the rules and have to learn karate in your mind.... / Continue →
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You can stop worrying who the villain in Men in Black III is going to be: I've got your answer. According to the Heat Vision blog, Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine Clement will take the part, playing Boris, the evildoer once rumored to be named after a contraceptive/British ban... / Continue →
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Can Rocky out-stare Mr. T? Time to find out, internet:... / Continue →
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Your curiosity about what The Empire Strikes Back would have looked like if it were made in 1950 has been sated: here that is! Just think of how many times George Lucas could have re-released it... If you didn't see it on my girlfriend site Geekologie, see it here for the firs... / Continue →
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Aside from a few notable exceptions (the Wayne's World films, and I can't remember, was Stuart Saves His Family OK?), the library of films adapted from SNL sketches is by and large a collection of films that are either forgotten or remembered for being the most poorly thought-o... / Continue →
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Man, Nazis. Remember those guys? Some really rotten fellas in that lot. Hitler, etc. So imagine if they got into space! (Unless you're in Germany, where imagining that is probably illegal.) Awful right? Well, that's the concept of this film that may or may not ever come out, Ir... / Continue →
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Filmmaker David Gordon Green, whom I once trusted to bring me both sophisticated art house cinema like George Washington and outrageous comedy like Pineapple Express and Eastbound & Down, has seemingly betrayed me to show a bizarre outpouring of support for some kind of horribl... / Continue →
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With the success of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland causing Disney to scramble to remember, "Hey, didn't we make some other cartoons at some point that we could re-do as live-action?", at last the studio has come up with what they're going to re-imagine in Disney Digital 3-D. ... / Continue →
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Time to pay attention: Arrested Development creator Mitchell Hurwitz has a new show with Will Arnett as a Gob-like asshole rich guy trying to get along with his do-good romantic-interest Keri Russell and her child who's doing the Scrooged kid's mute shtick--and it also stars th... / Continue →
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At last, the world is united around a central language of hilarity. This giant beast and a pair of Wayfarers have in weeks done what Esperanto couldn't do in a century. 'Marmaduke' Poster [IMPA]... / Continue →
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Of all the arguments I've heard about Lost, this one is the most irrefutable. (via)... / Continue →
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Thank our lucky stars, Eddie Murphy has some ideas for another chapter in the Nutty Professor series! The actor told Access Hollywood: You know what, there might be another ‘Nutty Professor,’ We kind of wrote something that might be kind of funny. If the studios want to do it... / Continue →
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Not another hard-R homosexual relationship between a U.S. solider and and an Iraqi that takes place partially in the future. Afraid so, says Deadline, and it's from the Wachowskis: [The Wachowskis' new film is] a drama that focuses on a "hard R" homosexual relationship between... / Continue →
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You have to hand it to Terry Gilliam. He may have had his share of hits and misses through the years, but he's nothing if not determined to make the film he wants. Or at least a film very similar to the film he wanted to make, but maybe with different actors. Case in point: Th... / Continue →
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You've been such a good boy this year, you're getting not one but two adaptations of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in theaters and 3-D IMAX-vision! David Fincher has decided he wants to take a break from lengthy (boring) Benjamin Button-style drama and make a move into some big... / Continue →
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Step one: admit to the atrocities committed. On Transformers: "When I saw the second movie, I wasn't impressed with what we did. There were some really wild stunts in it, but the heart was gone. We got lost. We tried to get bigger. It's what happens to sequels. It's like, ho... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office top fiver: 1. Iron Man 2 - $53 million. Enjoy your time at the top while it lasts, Iron Man, because you know Mom's going to make us see Shrek next weekend. 2. Robin Hood - $37 million. For those box office analysts looking for a reason for Robin Hood'... / Continue →
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Shot in an alley behind someone's office building, here's a video of the shooting of Transformers 3, which, as you would expect, includes launching a car into the air. Spoiler alert: this video constitutes approximately a third of the movie (the other two thirds being robot cla... / Continue →
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Law & Order won't be the only once-popular, increasingly-forgotten series to fall by the wayside as Do Something with Guy Fieri takes its rightful place as the flagship of NBC's ragtag fleet. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Heroes too is getting the axe, bringing the serie... / Continue →
