Archive · 2006
239 posts
I wouldn’t mind having Stuart Beattie’s career. It started out rocky – Joey! (and not the one who is on Dancing with the Stars now, either) – but after Pirates of the Caribbean he’s been adding interesting and diverse movies to his resume. Collateral,… Continue reading
Yes. It's already brilliant that there's a new, apparently old school Rocky film less than a week away, one which folks I know who've seen it say is a really wonderful little film for anyone who isn't bogged down with cynicism and heartlessness. Add to that… Continue reading
William Dafoe has joined the cast of Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected, yet another entry in the Holocaust Clown genre. Dafoe joins Jeff Goldblum in this adaptation of Yoram Kaniuk’s novel about a circus clown spared the Nazi gas chambers so he could entertain… Continue reading
"Film criticism is effectively dead… I would love to take credit for killing it with my badly written reviews, but it was the blogs and audiences that did it. Audiences really democratized film reviewing on the Internet." That’s Chris Gore in a Variety… Continue reading
The only thing worse than a potentially interesting film getting shelved is a potentially interesting film getting shelved and then brought back to life with Steve Oedekerk signed to write it. Tim Burton’s take on the life and adventures of Ripley, of Ripleys… 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
The We Are Marshall junket took place on a particularly cold weekend, even for New York City in December. That must have been tough on Matthew Fox, who has spent the last couple of years living in Hawaii while he shoots Lost. Plus, the junket began at a… Continue reading
Jamie Foxx has presence. I don’t know if it’s the kind of presence that only comes with winning an Oscar, as I never got a chance to meet him before he got his for Ray, but he didn’t just enter the roundtable room at the Dreamgirls junket, he filled it. A big… Continue reading
Studios are on a roll this week. First a nondescript, yet official, shot of Ocean’s 13 that could have been taken from the set of Ocean’s 11 or Ocean’s 12. Now the Stan Lee faithful are treated to a money-shot of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer that… Continue reading
Earlier today, the Motion Picture Academy announced its contenders for Oscar picks in the best explosions and fake representation of bedlam category: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, X-men: The Last Stand, Casino Royale, Poseidon, Eragon, Superman… Continue reading
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