Q: How nervous are you about this movie opening? Whedon: Wow, starting with the hard stuff! The interweb is just a fad. Does that alienate people? How nervous am I? I’m actually pretty calm. I am being medicated now, steadily, to keep me that way. I got really nervous when I realized that ultimately I … Continue reading
Squinty-faced star Renee Zellweger is gonna have to open her eyes a little wider, since she’ll be using those peepers to scope out some spirits. Zellweger, who I used to think was intensely adorable but now just sort of bugs me, will star in Paramount’s remake of the Chinese/Thai import The Eye. The movie involves … Continue reading
Golf is a boring game. Bill Paxton knows this, and so he spices his golf film, The Greatest Game Ever Played, up with plenty of CGI madness. You know you’re in for something a little outside a standard golf film when, in the opening scene, the camera pans across the thatched roof of a shanty … Continue reading
You’re all winners if you ask me. Actually, you’re not. By hook or crook there’s always people who click onto this site who are piles of problems and worthy of seventeen punches to the nipples. Most of you are great, though! Here’s the next group of folks who have won one of our many, MANY … Continue reading
I’ve started fresh with the Graboid, going for a more polished and tougher perspective. If you get them from now on it’ll be because you’re an astute fan of movies. I’m not going to make it easy and it’s going to be from something I either like or find it fun to put on the … Continue reading
The original title of this article was ‘FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO’, but that screwed up the formatting of our menu on the left. What has me so up in arms? The announcement that Mike Myers will be playing ex-Who drummer and ex-living and breathing person Keith Moon in an untitled biopic. Yeah, not the guy who kills … Continue reading
Mirrormask looks really great. It looks like Dave McKean paintings come to three dimensional life, which makes sense, as he directed the film and designed the look of it. If you’re interested in seeing a movie after smoking an inordinate amount of pot, here it is. There may in fact even be a classic rock … Continue reading
Some films are nothing more than showcases for great performances. In many ways, that’s exactly what Capote is – I don’t know if it could work with someone other than Philip Seymour Hoffman in the title role. At times incredibly fascinating and at others dreadfully slow, Capote is always kept aloft by the amazing performance … Continue reading
Mailbagsukidoji: The Steady Leak may not be so steady these days, but your letters have been, so I must share them and answer them so that the wheels keep turning on this crazy little bitch. Feel free to ask whatever about whomever or whatever, and I’ll do my best to answer it. Letters in here … Continue reading