October 9, 2011 - October 15, 2011 Archives
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Well, everyone, I have to get going to the New York Comic Con, where hopefully there will be some things to report back. In the meantime, here's what's happening: - Robert Downey Jr. is attached to star in The Accidental Genius, playing a man who awakens from a coma with heigh... / Continue →
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Highlighting its impressive grid layout of mostly white people, here's the poster for Garry Marshall's latest effort to continue being Hector Elizondo's primary caregiver, New Year's Eve. Several of these people have won Academy Awards, so please, act like this is something.... / Continue →
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Drive has already inspired a lawsuit and a courageous hot dog attack, and for that we should be forever successful, but still the film's awesome scorpion jacket cloaks more treasures waiting to be unearthed. The Coen brothers have now hammered from that film Oscar Isaac, the ac... / Continue →
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The Muppets filmmakers have yet to comply with my demand for an Avengers parody by the end of the work week, and I'm starting to worry that it probably isn't going to happen, as there's just a day left and now we've got a new, un-Avenger-related trailer instead. OH WELL. Thankf... / Continue →
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Seeing someone feigning the other gender to work as a servant comes as nothing new to those of us raised on steady cable airings of Mrs. Doubtfire, but never before has the issue of cross-dressing servitude been addressed with such a heavy, heavy hand and so little assistance f... / Continue →
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No stranger to having her affections split between rival actors, Sweet Home Alabama, Water for Elephants and How Do You Know star Reese Witherspoon this time finds her angular jaw cleaving between best friends as effortlessly as it would split a log of balsa in the action-roman... / Continue →
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Continuing the day's theme of prosecutable parental abuse, the latest trailer for Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked sees a visibly distraught Jason Lee sorrowfully searching a deserted island for his stranded animal children, who he neglectfully lost while asleep on a cruise... / Continue →
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When the cat's away, the mice play, and sometimes the definition of "play" means to deliberately pull a tube sock out of a drawer, fill it with lubricant, and proceed to awkwardly hunch over their laptop to masturbate. So you can understand how, when Jason Biggs's Buffy wife wa... / Continue →
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Having already motivated one woman to file a lawsuit for the film not being fast/furious enough, Drive continues to inspire nutcases, on Sunday reportedly encouraging a mental case to throw a hot dog near Tiger Woods. Though Drive's many acts of graphic violence do not include ... / Continue →
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Those who like to experience intense, exaggerated U.S. military combat scenarios but hate having to bother reaching for the XBox controller at last have a new method of special ops simulation that requires far less aggressive thumb movement. It's the movie Act of Valor, and as ... / Continue →
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Last December, when we first heard Russell Brand would be playing a ghost in a "Beetlejuice-style" film remake of the British series Rentaghost, the news was, if not confounding or demoralizing, at least a bit redundant. After all, Brand was already attached to star in a Drop D... / Continue →
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Last week, Universal unveiled a new plan for movie distribution that meant Brett Ratner's Tower Heist would be available on video-on-demand just three weeks after its theatrical release, and around this great nation--or at least in Atlanta and Portland, where the new system was... / Continue →
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Having last been given the option of either living free or dying hard, and choosing the former (as indicated by driving a cop car into a helicopter), John McClane's next suspiciously unlikely encounter with terrorist forces will instead seemingly see him settling in to a proper... / Continue →
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Having worked with and later raced Tupac Shakur thanks to the 1993's Poetic Justice, director John Singleton has some unique insight into the man behind the posthumously-prolific legend, and so, noting that, Morgan Creek and Universal Pictures are now reportedly in talks with S... / Continue →
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Just in case J. Edgar's tale of a real-life government agent's clandestine homosexuality doesn't nab Leonardo DiCaprio the Oscar win he's been chasing, the actor--confident that this is the way to pick up a statue--is already preparing himself for another government agent cland... / Continue →
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Casting Don Johnson in your new movie, Quentin Tarantino? Isn't that a little too easy of a Tarantino move? Yes, it is, but it's still reportedly happening, with QT reaching deep into the buck-toothed maw of Bucky Larson: Born To Be a Star to pluck out Johnson for the slave-rev... / Continue →
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Lifetime, the cable channel that has for years strengthened women by providing them woeful tales of former sitcom actresses overcoming domestic abuse, will at last lend their skills of empowerment to uplift the African-American community with what is basically the Lifetime equi... / Continue →
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With the applause having died down in the world's Vegas showroom since 2006's back-to-back performances of The Prestige and The Illusionist, next year, two more magician movies will be sharing the stage like those gay guys with the tigers. Jesse Eisenberg, Morgan Freeman, Woody... / Continue →
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- Arnold Schwarzenegger tweeted the above photo of himself, Sylvester Stallone, and Bruce Willis on the set of The Expendables 2. Judging by the shirt, I guess Arnold is playing Uncle Joey this time? - Speaking to MTV, Hugh Jackman said he's discussed making The Wolverine an R... / Continue →
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Having personally made intelligence seem dispensable when compared to drumming and opera expertise, Step Brothers director Adam McKay has decided it's time he make it clear that education actually is sort of a big deal. He's just made a deal to produce a new documentary to be d... / Continue →
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Now that cancer treatments have made Michael Douglas healthy enough to at least make some public appearances to say that he's healthy enough, Steven Soderbergh's long-discussed plans to put Michael Douglas in a sumptuous fur cape are at last seeing some forward movement. Since ... / Continue →
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With Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Pride and Predator already in the works, one may reasonably think we have more enough ludicrous, high-concept variations on Pride and Prejudice in development at this time. Romantic-comedy mainstay Nora Ephron, however, is not of such a ... / Continue →
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Ut oh! As part of a nefarious plot, the Norse god Loki is making Earth's cars explode! And to stop him, we're probably going to need, sayyyyyyyy, five or so muscular guys and at least one curvy, pouty babe. Thankfully, Samuel L. Jackson-in-an-eyepatch has assembled just such a ... / Continue →
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After a string of parody trailers, the latest being a Girl with the Dragon Tattoo cross-over you never thought would happen, The Muppets at last has a new trailer that shirks spoofing duties in favor of showing some actual gags from the film. Yay! But seriously, Muppets, if the... / Continue →
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On Friday, thanks to an article in the L.A. Times, word spread that the reason behind Judge Dredd's grumpy face was that director Pete Travis hadn't done such a great job with shooting Dredd, leading to his being kicked out of the editing room and getting replaced by producer-s... / Continue →
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- Here's a look at the new bus shelter poster being used to promote Tower Heist. Looks like Universal Pictures is too cheap to spring for the giant foam Murphy head. - Despite earlier reports that The Simpsons could go off the air after this season, due to pay issues with the ... / Continue →
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Published in 2002, The Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek's The Poet in Exile imagined a world in which the stoner-spread rumors that Jim Morrison faked his death were true, and a very much alive Mr. Mojo Risin' emerged from a hiding place in the Seychelles Islands to meet up with ... / Continue →
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Hidden within a longer article that basically argues that Tom Cruise will continue to be a star whether anyone likes it or not: news that Cruise may be starring in another big budget tentpole, whether anyone likes it or not. This time the film is All You Need Is Kill, a sci-fi ... / Continue →
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Lars von Trier has at last shut up, but his latest film's poster refuses to be so blissfully silent. If you take a look at the full one-sheet at Yahoo, it will play some dramatic music for as it draws white dots and lines across the face of Kirsten Dunst, like the internet's mo... / Continue →
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When the trailer for Drive premiered back in July, I spoke highly of its stylish attack on the stoic badass genre, and, upon finally viewing the film last month, I, like the overwhelming critical majority, felt director Nicolas Winding Refn delivered on what was promised. But ... / Continue →
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The death of Steve Jobs has brought his level of cult-like admiration to levels previously only seen when he'd reveal a new telephone robot, and Sony Pictures isn't about to let that popularity wither away before they can make some money off it. Apparently over the bitterness o... / Continue →
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Alright, everyone, you can delete your Qwikster bookmarks. That isn't happening anymore. Noting that "It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult"--because, before the public outcry, it was somehow unclear that two disconnected websit... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Real Steel - $27.3 million. Get some robots to box in place of humans, everyone goes to watch. Get some robots to physically box items for shipment, everyone complains that they lost their boxing job. Go figure. 2. The Ides of March - $10.4 million... / Continue →
