Archive · 2007
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A few years ago, some South Pacific-cruising Tiger shark decided there wasn't enough big screen shark carnage and did something about it. He promptly bit off professional surfer Bethany Hamilton's arm as she paddled out to sea on her surfboard in Hawaii*. The… Continue reading
Michael Caine was famously on the set of Jaws: The Revenge when he won his Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters. Helen Mirren will probably be in the Kodak Theater on Oscar night to collect her all but inevitable award for The Queen, but she was on set in England… Continue reading
Continuing to aid in HDNet's expansion beyond a love for boobies in Hi Def, HDNet Films has been expirementing with lower budget High Def filmmaking and has released a couple films (the experimental Steven Soderbergh multi media blast Bubble and the doc… Continue reading
I'm not sure if there is a more tried-and-true plot for the modern thriller than the one where terrorists or criminals take some average Joe or Jane, kidnap their family, then force them to do some criminal act to save them. Then, in the last act of them… Continue reading
Yet another great comedic actor is joining the Judd Apatow Universe of Comedy Stars – Jenna Fischer, who plays receptionist Pam on the American version of The Office, has signed on to star alongside John C Reilly in the fake music biopic Walk Hard, which… Continue reading
Welcome to another Special Edition. This is my second column and is a little more of what you should expect to see from now on. We start with this week’s new releases, including the definitive edition of The Passion of the Christ and the release of the great… Continue reading
Look, I like Will Ferrell, ok? I really do. But I was a little disappointed when I heard about Semi-Pro, his upcoming comedy set in the last days of the ABA basketball league. For most people, Will Ferrell doing a sports movie written by one of the guys… Continue reading
Matthew 16:26 asks "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Micah 1:29:07 asks "What the hell kind of idiot would voluntarily enter into a bargain where he would get neither?" In this weird world we live in, I try… Continue reading
One of the funniest episodes of one of my favorite shows of all time – The West Wing –– is “The U.S. Poet Laureate,” from the show’s third season. I like to call it “Aaron Sorkin Vs. The Internet.” The episode goes a little something like this: Josh Lyman… Continue reading
The last two Terry Gilliam films haven’t just been bad, they were flat-out atrocious, with Brothers Grimm feeling more like some studio hack aping Gilliam and Tideland being nigh-upon unwatchable. And those two films came after nearly a decade without a… Continue reading
During the press tour for Casino Royale, it was revealed that the next film in Daniel Craig’s trilogy was going to be hashed out in January. Here it is, January, and right on schedule information is beginning to leak about what we can expect from Casino… Continue reading
A few days ago we relayed word the Ritual Entertainment, developers of the original SiN and SiN Episode(s), had been acquired by Mumbo Jumbo, a developer and publisher of casual games. Well, it looks like fans hopeful for another Alexis masturbation sequence… Continue reading
