June 27, 2010 - July 3, 2010 Archives
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The new sequel/remake/reboot/whatever-it-is of Mad Max that director George Miller has been talking about forever is finally happening, and it sounds like we might have another sequel coming whether the first one terrible or not. Twitch has heard the new film--which, beyond all... / Continue →
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From the same guy who brought us Amazing Things Arnold Schwarzenegger Has Said and People Shouting "GET OUT OF THERE!", it's The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time--a great way to test your film knowledge while deriving vicarious disparagement; ideal for the masochist cinem... / Continue →
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Either oblivious or apathetic to the fact that "Lola" is clearly the more commercially-viable Kinks output to adapt for the screen (song recognition + Eddie Murphy in drag = profit!), Hot to Trot star turned surprisingly-respectable director Bobcat Goldthwait will officially di... / Continue →
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It's Andrew Garfield. The 26-year-old actor--who you probably don't know at all unless you saw the Red Riding trilogy, the recent trailer for Never Let Me Go, or can remember him in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus--beat out at least four other contenders who seemed even les... / Continue →
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Possibly the greatest and most plausible fictional movie premise since Sack Lunch, War Pigs is a fake but oh-so-painfully-real-sounding film that puts half the cast of Wild Hogs, Cuba Gooding Jr., Brad Garrett, and Kevin James in North Korea to face off against Kim Jong-il ("Ll... / Continue →
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Meryl Streep playing former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher? Hmm, I see how this could possibly be well received: Meryl Streep is in talks to reteam with her "Mamma Mia!" director Phyllida Lloyd for "Thatcher," a biopic of the controversial and long-governing former B... / Continue →
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The Last Airbender Director: M. Night Shyamalan Starring: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Dev Patel Good if you want to see: the popular Nicktoon turned into Shyamalan's worst-reviewed film yet. Even worse than The Happening, somehow! This guy's a real Downhill Daisy. The Twilight ... / Continue →
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Two of our greatest proponents of stunted male maturation are teaming up, and we're getting another Pee-wee Herman movie. guys. Variety reports producer-of-everything Judd Apatow and Paul Reubens--who's returned to his tinfoil ball nest, showing up at recently on stage and scre... / Continue →
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A raised eyebrow and a smug, cockeyed grin. We get it, DreamWorks. The New Megamind Poster! [SuperheroHype]... / Continue →
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The trailer for that completely-necessary remake of Let the Right One In is here, and it looks like Cloverfield director Matt Reeves has succeeded in making the film equivalent of a high-end watch you buy on the street: superficially very similar to the real thing, but also ver... / Continue →
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Nice work, Twihards (fuck, that's a real term now): you've again topped fanboy nerds as the more-obsessive demographic, giving The Twilight Saga: Eclipse the biggest midnight opening ever. There must have been so many tired eyes in Ms. Hamlin's 7th grade class this morning. The... / Continue →
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It's only a minute long, but it crams so much in. Specifically: Stallone grunting something, Schwarzenegger grunting something, and jokes about Jet Li being short.... / Continue →
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Confirming what was already suspected would happen, what with star Adam Scott taking a permanent role on NBC's Parks and Recreation (and his character hopefully getting that part in Velour), Starz, the premium cable network that long-ago figured out the coolest way to make "sta... / Continue →
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Andy Serkis, you get back in that motion capture suit where you belong. According to this twitter from 20th Century Fox's Chris Petrikin, the actor who once portrayed King Kong with such knuckle-dragging prowess will once again be covered in sensors to act like an ape for the c... / Continue →
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Get it? Because it's the 5th one, and because "5al Destination" sans "N" was probably already registered for the fifth An American Tale film, and because everyone has just given up. New Title for Fifth 'Final Destination', Opening Disaster Confirmed! [BloodyDisgusting]... / Continue →
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Speaking to BoxOfficeMagazine, writer/director Edgar Wright finally gave an update and brief description of his long-talked-about adaptation of Marvel comics hero Ant-Man. Don't worry, guys, it's still happening--assuming Marvel hasn't had a change of heart about the viability ... / Continue →
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Besides the love that spawns between Bella and Edward, obviously. But really, you need to play this. Our greatest Twilight satire comes by way of Nintendo:... / Continue →
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The overwhelming success of Paranormal Activity in spite of its modest budget has of course led to the creation of Paranormal Activity 2: Can We Make This into a Saw Series?, and there's now a trailer awaiting your judgment. It's basically just an ad to remind you, "Hey, rememb... / Continue →
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The Rango trailer is here, and, best I can figure, this film is some sort of revisionist metafiction detailing the backstory of one of the giant lizards that Hunter S. Thompson hallucinates in Fear and Loathing--an elaborate explanation that one of the reptiles, apparently name... / Continue →
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With the RZA long-ago establishing an intense love for old kung fu films and a friendship with Quentin Tarantino, I suppose Earth was only meant to go so long without Bobby Digital showing up in a martial arts tribute to Hong Kong cinema. Or maybe two, it turns out. /Film menti... / Continue →
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Further blurring the line between terrible entertainment and terrible entertainment that's on the internet, we're getting a fucking movie based on Mafia Wars. According to Pajiba, the Facebook-based game--which, as I understand it, is something like a more masculine Farmville, ... / Continue →
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If you're at all familiar with Karl Pilkington, then you should be able to figure out that seeing his buffoonish head-like-a-fucking-orange sent around the world visiting the Seven Wonders like he's Matt Lauer (or an actually-respected traveler-journalist) would make for pretty... / Continue →
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The Harry Potter series is drawing to a close. Only this final chapter--divided into two parts, obviously, to milk just a few more billion out of this cash cow--remains. Soon, when we want to make an inappropriate remark about how hot the girl got, and crassly inquire if she's ... / Continue →
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After letting that utterly inexplicable teaser trailer sit with us for almost three weeks, Paramount has decided to reveal some more of Rango with a first look at the titular creature. If their goal was to create a character that looks exactly like something I'd wear on a neon ... / Continue →
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Alice Eve, the gal who's out of Jay Baruchel's league in She's Out of My League until (spoilerz alert!) it turns out his heart is a perfect ten or something so they fly off in a plane together, is reportedly in talks to play Emma Frost in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. Fr... / Continue →
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In news that would have been better like a decade ago, Deadline is reporting comic and screen writer Jeph Loeb has been appointed head of Marvel Entertainment's newly-formed television division. Loeb's job will be to "adapt Marvel characters and stories to television as both li... / Continue →
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Returning to the awful-boss-revenge genre of Swimming with Sharks, Kevin Spacey will once again play an asshole boss getting his comeuppance in the bluntly-named Horrible Bosses. Deadline has the news Spacey will be joining fellow horrible bosses Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, a... / Continue →
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I'm sure this is OLD to all you internet archivists who have already experienced all of the internet's bad music bounty, but this version of Also sprach Zarathustra by the Portsmouth Sinfonia is probably one of our best known recordings. It sounds like an orchestra trying its b... / Continue →
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Because it's not enough that Facebook is a terrible thing on the internet we have to endure (and a thing on Good Morning America that an "internet expert" tries to explain to all the old people in the audience), it's entirely necessary that there also be a Facebook movie about... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Toy Story 3 - $59 million. All those Pixar wives are walking around in furs today. 2. Grown Ups - $41 million, indicating a surprisingly high number of people decided to use precious time during their weekend to observe former SNL cast members and ... / Continue →
