Archive · 2006
December 2006
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PAPA'S GOT A BRAND NEW BODY BAG
Before James Brown’s newly lifeless body even had a chance to begin to experience rigor mortis, Brian Grazer and Spike Lee announced that they’ll be making a biopic about the revered R&B legend. To be fair to the newly attached at the hip duo, Grazer was… Continue reading
DAILY GRABOID – 12.27.06
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
SECRETS OF THE FANTASTIC FOUR 2 TEASER… REVEALED!
Am I totally nuts or is that Brian Posehn playing the preacher hitching Sue Storm and Reed Richards? If this is the case, I am preemptively declaring that not only did I like better Fantastic Four than Batman Begins, I am going to like Fantastic Four: Rise of… Continue reading
WHAT JUST HAPPENED? WHY, IT'S DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN
As I was writing this piece I found myself a little confused. I felt like I knew that DeNiro was going to star in What Just Happened?. But how could I? All of the other sites were reporting it as news. I must have been mistaken. But no. A quick check of the… Continue reading
GENIUS HARDER
Val Kilmer has a reputation of being hard to work with. And maybe that reputation has kept him from getting some great roles in the past. But are things so bad that he has to revisit Real Genius, a comedy he starred in back when my voice was changing?*… Continue reading
CASTING TRICKS OR TREATS?
And just like that, Rob Zombie’s remake of Halloween is taking Shape. Last week we reported that the young Michael Myers was cast – over the holiday weekend it was revealed that big grown-up Mike is cast as well, and Zombie has gone brawny with one-time… Continue reading
DEVIN'S TOP 15 OF 2006
What a year. 2006 didn’t have the greatest depth of good movies – I wasn’t exactly sweating which films would make the 15 – but the ones that were good tended to be very, very good. That’s why I ended up with a tie for first place – and why, quite honestly,… Continue reading
REVIEW: CHILDREN OF MEN
Children of Men is about a miracle. Children of Men is, itself, a miracle. It’s a movie that can single-handedly remove the scales of cynicism from your eyes, reminding you of what wonders cinema is capable. It’s a movie that rejects the two modern directions… Continue reading
DVD REVIEW: ONCE IN A LIFETIME
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERESTUDIO: Miramax Home EntertainmentMSRP: $29.99 RATED: PG-13RUNNING TIME: 97 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: • "Stories of Pele" SportsCentury interviews• Deleted Scenes• Highlights from New York Cosmos games The Pitch "Americans love… Continue reading
THANK YOU, DAVE DAVIS
***Update***Dave is still gone, but I'm thinking about re-running his ‘Dave's Underground' pieces in January. My wife was playing the Christmas mix-CD he made a few years ago and it reminded me just how much it stinks that he bid us adieu. It's a slow… Continue reading
DVD REVIEW: TACTICS – VOLUME 1
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Manga VideoMSRP: $24.98RATED: Not RatedRUNNING TIME: 150 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Interviews with the Japanese cast• Promotional materials• Trailers The Pitch A paranormal investigator hunts out demons while… Continue reading
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