Archive · 2006
216 posts
The first picture of Steve Carrell from Evan Almighty has appeared in the pages of USA Today, Official Newspaper of the Dumbening of America. It looks like Carrell has gone full on Old Testament here – and speaking of testaments, it’s a testament to his… Continue reading
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
It’s almost fascinating to watch Art School Confidential slowly start coming apart before it finally crashes and burns. Almost fascinating – it’s actually very disappointing to know that the Dan Clowes and Terry Zwigoff, men behind Ghost World (and… Continue reading
Written by Nick Cave, John Hillcoat’s The Proposition is a bleak story set in Australia’s early days, and in the untamed deserts that seem to be very analogous to the American West. Guy Pearce is an outlaw whose younger, soft brother is captured by the… Continue reading
Doris Burn's inspirational and whimsical illustrated tale Andrew Henry's Meadow was one of my favorite books as a young spud, so the news that the guy who made Wild Wild West is turning it into a movie makes my brain bleed a little. Barry Sonnenfeld, who by… Continue reading
Let me preface this by saying I like baseball as much as movies. I've watched just about every Yankees, Braves, and Indians game this season and can watch any baseball game at any time. The months between November and April are probably my most creative but… Continue reading
Now this is bound to send fans of the 60s BBC TV show The Prisoner right off their trolley, including the various Hollywood people who have long been attempting to condense the open-ended 17-episode series in a cogent two-hour film. But the show is instead… Continue reading
I can’t imagine sitting down with Courtney Solomon and not asking him about his last film, Dungeons & Dragons. It can be weird asking someone about their shitty previous work – sometimes they seem to deny that the film was no good; other times they just say… Continue reading
The last time I met Richard Dreyfuss things didn’t go well. It was on the set of Poseidon, Wolfgang Peterson’s big budget remake of the 1972 camp disaster classic about a huge cruise ship that gets turned upside down. You can read the whole encounter here,… Continue reading
The last time I met Richard Dreyfuss things didn’t go well. It was on the set of Poseidon, Wolfgang Peterson’s big budget remake of the 1972 camp disaster classic about a huge cruise ship that gets turned upside down. You can read the whole encounter here,… Continue reading
Art School Confidential reteams the Ghost World duo of director Terry Zwigoff and writer/cartoonist Dan Clowes. Clowes is much beloved in the alternative comic world for his glorious book Eightball, which has always been among the most accessible of the… Continue reading
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
