Archive · 2007
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BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: Warner Brothers Home Entertainment MSRP: $29.99RUNNING TIME: 553 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: • Actor screen tests• Only a Few Degrees from a Sweathog featuretteThe PitchUp your nose with a rubber hose!The HumansGabe Kaplan,… Continue reading
News, rants and footnotes from this week: Our Top Story: Cho Still Insane Earlier this month, government officials prepared a lengthy report examining the causes of the Virginia Tech Massacre. Apparently, “crazy as balls” doesn’t cut it anymore. While the… Continue reading
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVERd. John Badhamc. John Travoltarelease date: September 18, 2007 The movie that helped popularize disco in the 70s and made John Travolta a household name, Saturday Night Fever, will be released in September with a 30th Anniversary… Continue reading
Zach Helm's Stranger Than Fiction has its defenders. That's cool. Movies need defenders. I knew a guy in college who watched Psychos in Love every Valentine's Day because he hated women, and, while this curious disposition either fixed itself or got him into… Continue reading
This evening Harry Knowles got an email from rorschach@rorschachsjournals.com, directing the infamous webmaster to his new website. The email was written in the style of Rorschach from Watchmen. All that exists on the site right now is a Rorschach symbol… Continue reading
Just when it seems Jim Carrey is ready to reinvigorate his once again stalled career (that's what you get for associating yourself with a film that bombed my inbox for a month with the most asinine promotional campaign since that Applebees ad with the two… Continue reading
After years and years of dicking around with the franchise, Warner Bros has lost the rights to Conan, and New Line is swooping in to pick them up. The Warner Bros option ran out a couple of weeks ago and New Line has come up aggressively, trying to score an… Continue reading
One of my favorite episodes of the new Twilight Zone was ‘Button, Button,’ based on the Richard Matheson short story of the same name. In it Mare Winningham and her loser husband are offered a box with a button. The stranger bearing the box says that if they… Continue reading
A lot of people assumed it – hell, it’s on IMDB, although that’s no sign of truthiness – but I can tell you that it’s official: John Hurt is playing Abner Ravenwood in Indiana Jones IV. You probably remember him as the dad of Marion Ravenwood, Indy’s galpal… Continue reading
I have seen the future of horror, and it is Joe Borowski's ERA. The Date of Dumb While we're in the midst of celebrating the Great Geek Summer of 1982, let's pause to remember which legendary picture earned the honor of debuting in the coveted July 4th slot… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: DisneyMSRP: $29.99RATED: PGRUNNING TIME: 96 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Commentary w/ director, writer, producer• Commentary w/ cast and producer• "Making-of" production featurette• "Making-of" book adaptation featurette•… Continue reading
Pixar + Brad Bird + Patton Oswalt = go see their movie. Pretty simple math, that. THE MOST INTERESTING PARALLEL OF THE WEEKIn our modern world, branding is one of the most frustrating and ridiculous element of cinema. Since the studio system no longer grooms… Continue reading
