Archive · 2007

January 2007

292 posts

UPDATED! AARDMAN GETS FLUSHED

The poster for Flushed Away pretty much says it all: The last chance desperation of the Shrek and Madagascar references, the threatening tag line and prophetic title. Now word is out that the partnership between Aardman (the home studio of Academy Award… Continue reading

DON'T PUT UP YET

To think- a few years ago people were prognosticating on the demise of the book. Psssshaw. Hollywood would collapse as we know it, that’s for sure. – With an ability to pull off poignancy and action, Paul Greengrass has rooted himself in the terra firma of… Continue reading

DEAD OR ONLINE

This ain't no trailer. This ain't no leaked clip. This is the full-bore, Direct To Google Video nightmare mashup of bikinis, blue hair and slap fighting, available for your viewing…pleasure? That's right. DTGV is the new cinema hell. Ever since My Name… Continue reading

THIS IS ENGLAND, CONCLUSION

I see all group social interaction through the lens of high school cliques and structures. I don’t think this is all that off-base a way to look at the world, since I don’t think many of us ever really make it past high school – either our best days were… Continue reading

SMITH. JORDANA SMITH.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith: The TV Show! is all kinds of serious about taking a big league crack at your viewership and TV advertising dollars. Having recently announced plans (read the story here) to make the Pitt/Jolie movie a boob tube adaption of the insanely… Continue reading

WTF?

I remember liking Meet the Parents when I saw it in the theater. Ben Stiller had yet to become omnipresent in motion picture comedy. At the time, DeNiro was taken more seriously as he had come off of Ronin and Jackie Brown. Owen Wilson was still a supporting… Continue reading

MARIA FULL OF BULLETS

A few days ago, an announcement went out about a new Mario Bello/Ray Liotta movie called Downloading Nancy in which she would play a suicidal woman who meets a man over the Internet and hires him to kill her. Unfortunately, they actually develop a… Continue reading