Archive · 2007
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BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: IFC MSRP: $29.95 RATED: Unrated RUNNING TIME: 200 minutes SPECIAL FEATURES: Gag reel, documentary, Season 2 preview The Pitch Aren’t industry satires funny? This one’s about both the porn and indie film worlds! The Humans… Continue reading
Judd Apatow's Title Judd Apatow's Weekend Judd Apatow's Per Screen Judd Apatow's Total 1 Judd Apatow's Superbad $31,200,000 $10,583 $31,200,000 2 Rush Apatow 3 $21,830,000 (-55.5%) $5,778 $88,153,000 3 The Apatow Ultimatum $18,986,000 (-42.3%) $5,129… Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: LionsgateMSRP: $26.98RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 90 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: None The Pitch It’s American Pie meets America’s Funniest Home Videos. The Humans Brendan Fehr, Chris Klein, Cobie Smulders, Craig Fairbrass, Chandra… Continue reading
Thanks to an inopportune slot in the August release schedule, I can’t help stacking The Ten up against Superbad, and it’s never going to win that contest. The difference is that while The Ten, a comic collection of stories based on the ten commandments, is… Continue reading
Next year's prestige pictures keep on castin'! Yesterday, we learned of Jamie Foxx's decision to play crazy and homeless; today, we've got Nicole Kidman and Ralph Fiennes joining the high-toned adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's The Reader. The Academy might as… Continue reading
Over the last few weeks I've seen Superbad more than once and had innumerable conversations about it. The dialogues all start the same way: ‘is it actually funny?' When I emphatically assure friends, enemies and Republicans that it is fucking hilarious,… Continue reading
Getting indignant over remakes of our favorite movies may be old hat, but it's not always unwarranted. Remember "The Case of The Film-Going Fuck Chassis Who Mistook Mel Brooks's To Be Or Not to Be for an Original"? Though this is hardly epidemic, the rise of… Continue reading
What divides a disaster from a fiasco, artistically speaking? What is the line between a failure and a complete pants shitting? Whatever separates just plain fucking a movie up from inflicting pain on audiences, The Invasion lands firmly on the worst side of… Continue reading
Whenever a documentary breaks life down into a battle of good versus evil, it's usually an indication that the filmmaker has plunged headlong into not only subjectivity, but prejudice. This has been especially true of the recent spate of political… Continue reading
Jason have Midnight Violence Rock ‘N' Roll! Continue reading
After a week long hiatus, I’m back with a look into the world of gaming: The Little Game That Could vs. The Franchise I’m not the biggest fan of console FPS/ FPA(dventures).* While I’ll be in line at my gas satiation on Halo day, I mostly only play FPS for… Continue reading
Casting news out of Hollywood is coming fast and furious with Das Strike looming (I’m actually “in final negotiations” for The Larry B. Scott Story. It’s good work if you can get it). That means actors and actresses are getting good, bad, and ugly options… Continue reading
