December 19, 2010 - December 25, 2010 Archives
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Happy Every Holiday, everyone, and a sincere thanks for occasionally using me as your source for movie things. Please enjoy this relevant clip from 1959's Santa Claus, in which Santa spears the Devil's ass, then laughs heartily.... / Continue →
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Merry Christmas: it's Kevin Smith's Red State teaser trailer! Not really much to judge in this brief collection of rapidfire shots, but, in a true Christmas Miracle, what little is revealed doesn't look much like a Kevin Smith film at all. In an anti-Christmas Miracle, however,... / Continue →
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What a mixed sack Santa has brought us this year. Little Fockers Director: Paul Weitz Starring: Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo, Jessica Alba Good if you want to see: the exhausting, decade-long conflict between Ben Stiller and his once-respected-actor father-in-law str... / Continue →
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Whups, Ed Helms is Hungover with a lady-escort again! Only, this time the locale is Cedar Rapids; he's partying with fellow insurance reps John C. Reilly, Anne Heche, and The Wire's Senator Clay Davis; and the whole affair has been given a thin gel coating of indie aestheticism... / Continue →
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Answer: because that's how we're advertising Hall Pass, okay? Under the cut: Jason Sudeikis, his head not on an Arrested Development character's body, but still on a 40-Year-Old Virgin background, which is the background that most informs me something will make me laugh out lo... / Continue →
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Last we heard about the next Chronicle of Riddick film was back in February, when we learned the film would feature "trisons" (three-legged bisons, idiot) and mud demons. Things have been quiet for a while, but now, thanks to series star Vin Diesel, we have another vague tidbit... / Continue →
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If you live in Minnesota, and own an elaborate homemade Tron costume you've been planning to festively wear to a showing of the new film, take note: you may be turned away. One such Minnesota resident, internet phenomenon Tron Guy (né Jay Maynard), thankfully had the foresight ... / Continue →
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James Cameron isn't the only director having a love affair with 3-D. Tommy Wiseau is loving it, too! In an interview with EW, the auteur behind The Room explained that he's "obsessed about 3-D right now, if you ask me," and revealed plans to convert his cult "black comedy" into... / Continue →
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Ingratiating himself with the incoming regime, Christian Bale has set himself up to star in a Chinese film about the infamous Nanjing Massacre, during which Japanese soldiers raped and murdered untold numbers of Chinese civilians. The film, called Nanjing Heroes, sounds like it... / Continue →
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Congratulations, Avatar: you aren't just the highest-grossing film ever released; you're also the film the most people ever decided didn't look impressive enough to pay for, but figured they should download so that they'd get the parodies. According to TorrentFreak's list of th... / Continue →
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The red-band trailer for Your Highness released a month ago was heavy on swearing, sex jokes, pot references, and Natalie Portman rear--all adding up to a stew of enjoyable immaturity that I wish I could consume at a drive-in. This new, all-audiences trailer has almost none of ... / Continue →
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Sorry, True Grit, Black Swan, The Fighter, and The Kids Are Alright, but you won't be going home with any Best Original Score Oscars: the Academy has determined you all ineligible. As for Carter Burwell's True Grit score and Clint Mansell's Black Swan score, the Academy has de... / Continue →
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No doubt, Intense Nicolas Cage Knight is really our best hope of dealing with medieval witchcraft. But, sad fact is, there aren't enough Intense Nicolas Cage Knights to deal with all the medieval witchcraft going on in B-movies right now. There's just too much of that going aro... / Continue →
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With their reorganization approved, MGM today announced that the plan has gone into effect, "with exit financing of $500 million in place." Good for them. Maybe they can finally get a Hobbit and/or a Bond movie going! Or maybe they'll stick to the recent tradition of MGM disapp... / Continue →
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Want to see the topic of a young girl assassin, trained by her single father, handled with gravitas it probably doesn't deserve? Well, here's that, starring: Lovely Bones girl and Eric Bana, and introducing Cate Blanchett as Jodie Foster.... / Continue →
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As more and more video game companies have been finding ways to shove their creations into theaters--such as by letting Uwe Boll take care of it as he sees fit--developers EA Sports has sadly been left by the wayside, tasked with the seemingly impossible task of making their vi... / Continue →
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New Year's Eve isn't the only romantic-comedy spicing up its cast with women men are known to like looking at. In a similarly misguided effort, Christina Hendricks and Olivia Munn have been added to the cast of the upcoming adaptation of Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She D... / Continue →
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Had Tron spawned a holiday-themed television special, rather than a sequel almost 30 years later, this is exactly what it would have been. Except Rip Taylor would have looked a little younger, because did I mention Rip Taylor is in this? He sure is. Who else would bring the cyb... / Continue →
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Sam Worthington has confirmed what everyone who saw the recent remake of Clash of the Titans already knew: if you walked into the theater with absolutely any expectations at all, you were going to be leaving let down--and also, Sam Worthington wasn't so great in it. Speaking ra... / Continue →
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It's cute because their euphemism for "fuck" is "smurf," and because one of the smurfs appears to be walking to his death.... / Continue →
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Seemingly viewing the chance to make a film based on pseudo-mystical plank as some kind of genuine opportunity, Breck Eisner and McG are competing against each other for the position of "director" on Universal's Ouija board movie. The studio already has a script--said to be a s... / Continue →
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1. TRON: Legacy - $43.6 million, though the true test of success will be whether or not overweight guys dress up like any of the characters in another twenty years. 2. Yogi Bear - $16.7 million. Big decision time for Warner Bros.: Spend a few months doing research and analysis... / Continue →
