Archive · 2006
235 posts
Super Troopers is high on my top ten list of classic comedies, something that isn’t a statement on my lack of a sense of humor but rather the amazing speed in which the breakthrough Broken Lizard movie ramrodded through barriers in establishing its place in… Continue reading
One of my earliest memories was watching This Island Earth on our pop-up b&w television in Greenwood Lake, New York and telling my father how much I loved the bulbous headed creatures I later grew to know of as Metalunians (though technically I guess the Jeff… Continue reading
Here’s unexpected news – the Joker in The Dark Knight will not be silly like Cesar Romero! OK, we all saw that coming, but for many it’s comforting to hear it reiterated. Christopher Nolan gave an interview to Mean Magazine (hey, I write for those guys) for… Continue reading
In October of 2002 I campaigned for Christian Bale to get the role of Batman. It happened, though I’m sure my pleading had as much to do with the eventual outcome as the position of the sun, the color of grass, or the value of the Euro. It was obvious simply… Continue reading
Kevin Smith hit Australia to promote the bankrupting of his creativity, Clerks II, and the boys at Moviehole got him to talk about his upcoming horror film. Apparently the whole movie will be made up of Smith’s wife kissing Brian O’Halloran. That’s the only… Continue reading
The Crypt-O-Gram message board discussion. Two challenges this time, one easy and one … not. The Easy One: Here is a list of two-word film titles, each word of the title has the same number of letters. I’ve given you the first letter of each word. How many of… Continue reading
How did Hunter S Thompson do it? How did he get so royally fucked up on so many chemicals and still turn in vaguely journalistic pieces? Did he just make a lot of it up? Thompson’s not really a favorite of mine when it comes to his work, but I do like 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 been fifty years since the Civil Rights Movement and what do we have to show for it? Black people exiled to their own island! That’s the basic – and dare I say, brilliant – conceit behind the next season of Survivor. The show will have four tribes, split… Continue reading
Here’s some awesome news: Scott Glosserman’s Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, one of my favorite movies of the year so far (and one that I reviewed here) is finally getting picked up. Scott tells Fangoria that while the papers aren’t signed, things… Continue reading
