Archive · 2007
345 posts
Yesterday's keynote address by Steve Jobs at the World Wide Developer's Conference in San Francisco brought a couple of bits of gaming news alongside all the information about Leopard. Present on stage were EA co-founder Bing Gordon, announcing EA's return to… Continue reading
Paul Bettany will play a claymation artist in Daniel Simpson's Born, a psychological thriller in which the animator's creations take on a life of their own. You don't even need to throw in Jennifer Connelly or the Chiodo Brothers or Guillermo Del Toro and… Continue reading
NEW RELEASES GHOST RIDER Ghost Rider was panned by people before it ever came out. People were set to hate it upon release. Did it deserve the hatred? I don’t know, because I avoided it at theaters because of the negative reaction by everyone. Then I talked… Continue reading
Jeff Wells often pisses off the readers of his blog, Hollywood Elsewhere, by blatantly spoiling films that he’s seen very early. Recently he caused a ruckus by discussing an aspect of the ending of No Country For Old Men, which he saw at Cannes. This week he… Continue reading
With Hostel's "not quite what we expected" performance this weekend (Dellamorte explains), I've heard such talk as this: bloviation that Hostel II‘s opening return is an indicator of big opening horror having run its course. Will 2006/2007 mark the high… Continue reading
Pete Doctor did such a splendid job guiding Monsters Inc. to the screen that I'm going to pretend his next directorial effort, Up, doesn't sound like a joke project. I mean, what are we supposed to do with a premise that has a seventy-year-old joining forces… Continue reading
I have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and Ned Beatty will not have it. Escape As Game 2 of the least competitive NBA Finals since 2002 lumbered its way to tip-off at 6 PM PST, I was anxiously aware that television history was being made on HBO's… Continue reading
For almost a year now I've been doing weekly appearances on Playboy Radio on Sirius (website), discussing the new releases, chit-chatting with the hosts and Playmates, and on one occasion in studio, not touching the exposed beautiful breast of a naked cover… Continue reading
For almost a year now I've been doing weekly appearances on Playboy Radio on Sirius (website), discussing the new releases, chit-chatting with the hosts and Playmates, and on one occasion in studio, not touching the exposed beautiful breast of a naked cover… Continue reading
If you told me there was a movie starring Frank Langella and Elliot Gould hitting theaters, I would have to assume that it was a rerelease of a film that came out some time in the 70s, when both those guys were really big. Especially if you told me that the… Continue reading
Last summer, before going to Comic Con, I did a pit stop in Las Vegas to visit the set of Zak Penn’s The Grand, a new improv comedy set in the world of poker tournaments. Zak’s first film, Incident At Loch Ness, was pretty brilliant, and the cast he had lined… Continue reading
