Archive · 2006
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I have developed a reputation with some of the studio publicists I work with as someone who is very interested in talking to writers and directors moreso than actors. It’s true – I find that I’m fascinated by the thought behind the creation of a good movie… Continue reading
A quick caveat: This is the transcript of a press conference I was not at; thanks to the beautiful and brilliant Kara Warner for hooking us up. It’s been 13 years since Robert DeNiro’s last directorial effort, A Bronx Tale (although IMDB has him as the… Continue reading
Let’s get this out of the way: I’ve found myself nursing a crush on Jennifer Hudson ever since I saw Dreamgirls. Not being an American Idol tolerator, I didn’t know who she was before I saw the film at a junket screening, but she instantly won me over. I saw… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!PUBLISHER: Da Capo PressMSRP: $15.95PAGES: 412 This reprinting of Huey P. Long's 1933 autobiography comes well-timed into the modern political forum. Long was a political of unusual celebrity for his time, and his understanding of… Continue reading
Danny Glover was at the Dreamgirls press junket in New York City a couple of weeks back, and I couldn’t resist asking him about his place in one of the most successful horror franchises of all time, Saw. It turns out that Danny was feeling a little candid… Continue reading
– Hot on the alloyed heels of the geekalicious Transformers trailer comes the rebooted Transformers website. The site now hosts a message board, desktop downloads, trailers in HD and a glowing, spikey globe. The official website trailer has also added a… Continue reading
We Are Marshall is the most insidious kind of bad movie – the very well made kind. It’s an easy, often beautiful, movie to watch, and if you’re not inoculated against the most base brand of movie cheese, it’s an easy movie to weep over. But it’s still bad,… Continue reading
They don’t make movies like The Good Shepherd anymore. It feels like it slipped into theaters through a crack in reality, escaping from a parallel world that never experienced the one-two punch of Jaws and Star Wars and rather based its major blockbuster… Continue reading
The image above is the Silver Surfer (aka Norrin Radd, for those puzzled by my crypto-geek headline) from the upcoming film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Fox had originally decided not to show us the Surfer until after the teaser trailer hit… Continue reading
Are you excited about James Cameron’s return to the world of narrative filmmaking after almost a decade doing 3D fish movies? Is Avatar a movie you’re waiting for with bated breath? You’re going to keep waiting. In an interview with The Independent, Cameron… Continue reading
Empire Online has a whole new gallery of images from Hot Fuzz, your favorite comedy of the new year. While looking through the images – which include everything from action shots to behind the scenes clowning – I came upon the one above and decided this was… Continue reading
As much as I liked yesterday’s teaser trailer for Michael Bay’s Transformers, the title of “Week’s Best Teaser” has been quickly transferred to Grindhouse, the anthology effort from best buds Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. Click here to see it.The… Continue reading
