February 26, 2012 - March 3, 2012 Archives
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- Scarlett Johansson has signed on to star as Psycho star Janet Leigh in Anvil director Sacha Gervasi's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, which already has Anthony Hopkins attached to the title role. Helen Mirren will be Hitchcock's wife, Alma, and "Scarlett Johansson ... / Continue →
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Laurence R. Harvey and Dieter Laser, seen above in their roles as ass-to-mouth architects in their respective Human Centipede films, will once again be sculpting human flesh into the most graphic recycling system ever constructed.... / Continue →
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The latest Avengers trailer showed off a lot more footage than many of us expected from the overhyped project, but still questions remain as to Joss Whedon's supergroup film. Who exactly are the aliens beings at war with a particular Manhattan block? And will S.H.I.E.L.D. agent... / Continue →
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Best line of 2012: "Hey, hey, hey, hey! Who ordered this pig!? Who ordered this pig!? Hey!" It's over. Call it in. Hear the line emerge from Wes Bentley's restless sea of idiotic beard in the below first clip from Hunger Games. Bonus: also hear the Arcade Fire's just-debuted H... / Continue →
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This will be a landmark year for undead, adolescent boy-oriented stop-motion, apparently. Yesterday came a trailer for Tim Burton's stop-motion tale of borderline necro-bestial love between dead dog and boy, and today comes a reminder of ParaNorman, a film that combines Coralin... / Continue →
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Thanks to the internet's lax rulings on when someone has spent way too much time on a kind-of-amusing idea, nerdy shit that would have gotten you endlessly mocked in high school can now make you famous, for at least a blog cycle. Latest evidence of that: Bard Fiction, an abridg... / Continue →
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Last year, China's 3D porn Sex and Zen 3D: Extreme Ecstasy famously topped Avatar's opening day gross in Hong Kong, proving the horny populace of Asia would rather see some three-dimensional tits than admire the unmemorable contours of Sam Worthington's head. But Sex and Zen pr... / Continue →
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- Confident that their Amazing Spider-Man will be a hit, Sony is jumping more than a few rungs on the obscurity ladder to do a film adaptation of the Valiant Comics series Bloodshot, about a superhero man who is injected with nanites and named Bloodshot. - You can't just toss ... / Continue →
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Equal parts a return of Adam Sandler as beer shill, Adam Sandler as guy doing that Adam Sandler buffoon voice, and Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess with the Zohan wig (matted-down variant version!), That's My Boy casts Jack/Jill as a perpetually-drinking (BUDWEISER) delinquent who... / Continue →
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If/when you play the below teaser for Despicable Me 2, the pictured yellow things will sing for you the hit Beach Boys single "Barbara Ann," and if you pay attention, you will notice they have altered the lyrics, so instead of singing about a girl, they are singing about a bana... / Continue →
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To hear that Tim Burton has done a stop-motion remade of his 1984 black-and-white short about a boy's dog brought back to life through Frankenstein-esque methods, you probably already get a pretty decent mental image of what that is probably going to look like. Here's the film'... / Continue →
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Jared Hess, the director who made for a name for himself with Napoleon Dynamite only to drown in his own kitsch, has at last had his one "auteur" feather wrenched out of his hat. After the critical and box office failure of Gentlemen Broncos, now Hess shall be guided by the wor... / Continue →
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Here's the trailer for Bernie, a dark comedy that re-teams Dazed and Confused and School of Rock director Richard Linklater with Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey. The film is based on the true story of Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede, a gay former mortician who became constant compa... / Continue →
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In the proud tradition of CGI Garfield, Rob Schneider: Prostitute, Kal Penn's character from Van Wilder, etc., for a follow-up adventure, the Smurfs are (probably) going to Europe! Also, the sequel Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs has a title. It is not Pickles to Pittsburgh.... / Continue →
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Ever wish you could go back and do it all again and relive your high school glory days on the football field, with Kurt Russell? Ever wish 17 Again were a histrionic sports film put together like a made-for-TV Hallmark movie, with a moral message so heavy-handed that Christine ... / Continue →
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Well, the Ghostbusters 3 sludge still won't stop pouring out of Dan Aykroyd's mouth, but thanks to our collective loathing, at least it's now coming out negatively charged.... / Continue →
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It's a disservice to you for me to describe anything that takes place within the following trailer for Piranha 3D's upcoming sequel, Piranha 3DD. But just in case you're not going to watch it, let me explain what you are missing: - Water-certified strippers. - David Hasselhoff... / Continue →
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Do you still find it riotous when a group of lame, suburban guys act hard over some rap music? This first teaser trailer for Neighbhood Watch very much hopes so.... / Continue →
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It's a sad fact of life that Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill only have so many years to play obviously-too-old guys pretending to be high schoolers before that premise becomes just slightly more ludicrous than it's meant to be. Now matter how hard he might try, 31-year-old Tatum ... / Continue →
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Remember back before Han shot second, prior to the now-3D prequels, before Vader shouted "NOOOOOO" on multiple occasions, when Ewoks didn't have CGI eyelids, and you still had an unqualified love of George Lucas's epic? Back when you first put on a little collar, propped yourse... / Continue →
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Michael Bay is sure going to have a big CGI write-off on his tax return this year. After charitably donating numerous chain-like chrome things, vaguely robotic dins, and destroyed skyscrapers to Battleship, it seems he may have saved his largest philanthropical gift yet for The... / Continue →
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Those of you familiar with the Alien franchise will likely recognize the name "Weyland-Yutani." Set up in the first film through logo only and implicitly referred to as "the company," and later fleshed out some by Paul Reiser and co., Weyland-Yutani played the Alien series' sto... / Continue →
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In between Transformers: Dark of the Moon and his upcoming Transformers reboot, loudness-focused director Michael Bay will be calming things down a bit with Pain and Gain, a $20 million bodybuilding crime film Bay calls a "dark comedy." Still, though, despite the relatively mea... / Continue →
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With The Wire, creator David Simon introduced us to a broad cast of characters occupying a variety of socio-economic positions and negotiating an at-times grey area of moral, ethical, political, and legal compromise. And now, thanks to a Flickr user going by "mister frothee" (v... / Continue →
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"Who is that?" So villain Mark Strong asks in the opening line of the latest trailer for John Carter, thus echoing the sentiment of pretty much every non-sci-fi-nerd who is not John Carter. The film opens in less than two weeks and, according to recent tracking, awareness and i... / Continue →
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Did The Artist just win those Academy Awards because old-timey things automatically look prestigious? Guy Maddin's Oscar-free mantle says probably not, but still, now you can quickly test that theory with The Artistifier, a site that will accept any YouTube url and turn the vid... / Continue →
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New posters for The Avengers, Men in Black 3, and G.I. Joe have debuted to show off those films and their competing neatly-trimmed facial hairs. Have a look below.... / Continue →
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Yeah, you're over the minimalist movie poster thing. I know. We all are. None of our "computer areas" have room for another graphic, colorful print of a simple, stark silhouette perfectly embodying an entire film. That said, some of these minimalist Pixar posters from artist Wo... / Continue →
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Determined to make their modernized Sherlock Holmes more edgy than the BBC's by making it more like Cashmere Mafia, CBS has cast Lucy Liu as Sherlock's sidekick in their New York-set take on the famous detective, Elementary. She'll reportedly play JOAN Watson, a retired surgeon... / Continue →
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Because letting Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure close the franchise would be far too big a coup to allow Randy Quaid, Horrible Bosses writers Jonathan Goldstein and Sam from Freaks and Geeks are in talks to direct their own script for New Line's reboot/seq... / Continue →
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As only makes sense, editor kogonada has followed up his Wes Anderson // FROM ABOVE montage with one he calls Quentin Tarantino // FROM BELOW. The episode title sort of gives away the theme, so I'll just step back and let these belittling, ground-level shots speak for themselve... / Continue →
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Well, HBO has another show we're going to have to watch. From Armando Iannucci--the only guy capable of beating Aaron Sorkin in the whip-smart political dialogue 100m--comes Veep, a U.S. off-shoot of the BBC government satire The Thick of It and its prior spin-off, the vastly-u... / Continue →
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Like Ferris Bueller and The Lorax, in these desperate times, Wes Anderson is not above gettin' paid to get you in a brand new car or truck. The distinctive auteur recently directed two new spots for Hyundai, and during last night's Oscars, jumbled amid romantic french fry comme... / Continue →
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Just who the hell is this "Dracula" character, anyway? It's the question young, ignorant Twitter users inevitably ask whenever Dracula prominently appears at an awards show, and now Sony will answer it with a new film.... / Continue →
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The story of Terry Gilliam's attempting to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is basically the same as any other failed, needlessly-prolonged, codependent relationship story. Gilliam and his hopeful Don Quixote adaptation gave it one solid, earnest try a few years back--as doc... / Continue →
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True to his threats, Sacha Baron Cohen last night showed up at the Oscars in the full regalia, beard, and unplaceable tongue-rolling accent of General Aladeen, the main character of his upcoming The Dictator. The stunt could have ended up being nothing more than a lazy, shticky... / Continue →
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As premiered last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, here's the trailer for Movie: The Movie, a film that employs Tom Hanks, George Clooney, Charlize Theron, Tyler Perry, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Bryan Cranston, Jeff Goldblum, Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep, Air Bud, and probably a... / Continue →
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While the Academy last night showed an utter lack of recognition for Adam Sandler's daring attempt at taking on multiple characters--one of which was even mentally ill (I think?)--the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation have not made the same glaring oversight. The Razzie award n... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office 1. Act of Valor - $24.7 million. Expect ticket sales to slump next week when everyone realizes it would be way cooler to play this movie as a video game. 2. Tyler Perry's Good Deeds - $16 million--the second-worst opening yet for a Tyler Perry-possesse... / Continue →
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The echo of a Billy Crystal medley still ringing in Earth's collective ears means, yes, the Academy Awards happened Sunday night. In a typically onerous ceremony, Meryl Streep was assured she is still good at acting; George Clooney was ever-so-briefly jealous of someone who isn... / Continue →
