Archive · 2006

January 2006

210 posts

DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN

There’s a good joke to be found in a time travel movie that’s got a very familiar plot. Universal has picked up a pitch for a movie that sounds like Peggy Sue Got Married Meets Back to the Future, titled How Soon Is Now? (aka, the most sadly overabused and… Continue reading

I FEEL SOME REMORSE

I was a fan of John Singleton’s ludicrous revenge film Four Brothers, and I have to give him respect for producing Hustle & Flow, but I do have to draw the line somewhere, and that line is drawn where it comes to a movie that might require an actually… Continue reading

CHOOSE THE FACE OF VENGEANCE

Even though it hasn't officially arrived in the US of A, Park Chan-Wook's Lady Vengeance (aka Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) still made the Best of 2005 lists of Devin (HERE), Russ (HERE) and myself (HERE), and it'll probably show up on quite a few more when… Continue reading

JARED FATSO

I’m not quite ready to eat my words, but Jared Leto looks like he might be willing to. Along with anything else on my plate. The hunk has gained a couple of pounds, it would seem, for his role as John Lennon’s killer Mark David Chapman in Chapter 27. A month… Continue reading

DVD REVIEW: MAJOR DUNDEE

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: Warner Brothers MSRP: $19.94 RATED: PG-13 RUNNING TIME: 136 Minutes SPECIAL FEATURES: • Commentary by Nick Redman, David Weddle, Paul Seydor and Garner Simmons • Alternate 2005 score• Riding For A Fall – stunt featurette… Continue reading

MY TRAILER IN IDLEWILD

I am drawn to films that seem to straddle the line between genius and disaster, so the trailer for Idlewild, a film starring OutKast (once known as My Life in Idlewild), has got me very excited. It’s a musical set in the Prohibition, with the band supplying… Continue reading

EXCLUSIVE: BRICK POSTER

Once again the mightiest sites on the internets join forces to bring you exciting film news – in this case a number of posters for the new film Brick, a teenage noir that sounds a little bit like Veronica Mars to me. I haven’t seen that show, but I hear it’s… Continue reading

EXCLUSIVE: BRICK POSTER

Once again the mightiest sites on the internets join forces to bring you exciting film news – in this case a number of posters for the new film Brick, a teenage noir that sounds a little bit like Veronica Mars to me. I haven’t seen that show, but I hear it’s… Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 1.17.06

What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid… Continue reading