Dec 18 2008 Tim Robbins is Iron Man's Father?

Sorry, Gerard Sanders, but according to Latino Review, your Iron Man role of Howard Stark has been stolen by Tim Robbins:

From what I'm told, Tim Robbins is going to be playing Howard Stark in an important flashback sequence that is going to set up the Avengers and Captain America films. Jon [Favreau] wanted to get a good actor because he didn't think the guy who played Howard in the last film could carry such an important scene.

I'm also told that HAWKEYE and BLACK WIDOW are definitely in Iron Man 2 and they wont be cameos either.

Can't carry such an important scene, Favreau? Did you not see him portraying "Mannequin" in the 1989 TV movie Stuck with Each Other? Or "Handman" (???) in a 1985 episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood? Or perhaps, more recently, you missed his turn as "Process Server" in The Young and the Restless.

Maybe Favreau will give Sanders a smaller part to make up for the change. I don't think anyone has been cast as Hawkeye's handman yet.

Nov 26 2008 Good Thing 'Shawshank Redemption' Wasn't from 1983

If The Shawshank Redemption was made in 1983, how would the last 20 minutes look? Like this exciting montage, probably, except Jeff Goldblum would have played Andy:

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May 16 2008 'City of Ember' Trailer: Like 'Escape from New York' but Less Criminal Statey

The problem with American-made underground bunker cities is that the generators always seem to die after a couple hundred years. Unfortunately, it looks like it's about that time for Ember--a city whose only source of electricity comes from a failing hydroelectric unit--when a young girl finds a clock counting down to nothing. "What would count down to nothing?" she asks. "Sounds like doomsday." Or an egg timer. Now it's up to her, her friend, mayor Bill Murray, and Tim Robbins to find a way out. If you've seen Shawshank Redemption, you know this won't be an issue for Tim Robbins, so relax and enjoy this new trailer. (Thanks, Joe.)

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Oct 25 2007 'Noise' is Perfect Movie for Crazy Dads

As an affluent, successful, but ultimately insane middle-aged man, aren't you sick and tired of how few films are geared specifically toward your unique breed of madness? Me too! Thank heavens Yahoo! has described this new Tim Robbins film that sounds like it really fits the bill:

Have you ever dreamt of smashing up that car in your neighborhood whose burglar alarm has the bad habit of going off in the middle of the night?

Have I ever! I'm full of an unrepentant rage that can barely be contained, and better to smash a car than the delicate skull of a child, right?

"Noise," Bean's provocative second film, casts Tim Robbins as David, an upper-class family man driven insane by New York's loud sounds -- grinding garbage trucks, horns honking, back-up beepers and worst of all, car alarms squealing at all hours.

Heck yeah, I hate those noises! Except you forgot the obnoxiously joyous screams of children. Car alarms are bad too, though!

He becomes so obsessed with noise that he turns into a black-clad vigilante, "The Rectifier," waging his own crusade on those damn alarms shattering his quiet.

'Damn alarms' is right! Now you're speaking my language! If I didn't have this damn 9 to 5, I'd become a vigilante too, and finally take out all these alarms and children and whatever!

After ending in jail and nearly sinking his marriage, he decides to try to go about his fight legally, collecting signatures for a petition which he hopes will get the issue on the ballot at an upcoming council election.

The initiative is hugely popular but is blocked by the city's slimy mayor, played by William Hurt, forcing David to resort to an extreme strategy to make his point.

Argh! It is always that slimy mayor stopping guys like me from passing insane bills about ending sound! Damn you, mayor! Damn you!!!

[Says director Bean:] For me, noise becomes a metaphor for power. The noise that I have to listen to, that I have no control over, that invades my house, my ears, my thoughts... in a way that's how our governments are

Oh... Yeah, I meant metaphorically, too! Ha ha, yeah, it would be mad if I really meant all those things I said about noise. I just meant that the government sometimes makes me crazy with how it's always beeping or screaming your name. Ha ha! When does this movie come out, anyway?

Tim Robbins wages crusade against noise in new film [Yahoo!]