This is why I would like to be rich, famous and powerful. While watching the Miss Universe pageant, Adam Sandler saw Jennifer Hawkins, last year's winner, hand off her crown to this year's Beauticon. I guess he liked how she looked, because he offered Hawkins… Continue reading →
Here's a fitting follow up to the news about a possible sequel to The Goonies– Molly Ringwald says she is mulling a sequel to Sixteen Candles. "I've turned it down for years. I couldn't see how it would work," she said at Saturday's MTV Movie Awards, where… Continue reading →
I want a sequel to The Goonies like I want a rectal prolapse, but there are plenty of people who love the original film, screamy and annoying as it is, enough to want to revisit these paper thin characters in their implausible situations all over again. And… Continue reading →
Wondering why it has taken so long for the Knight Rider movie to get made and finally knock that lame ass Titanic off the top spot? Fuzzy Wuzzy David Hasselhoff has the answer for you, courtesy of KGET TV 17: the studio didn't want to have K.I.T.T. talk.… Continue reading →
A friend of mine has the theory that Johnny Depp is so hot that he can't rape someone. Like, if he had been doing the kind of grabassery that Christian Slater was engaged in earlier this week, no one would press charges. I don't know if that's true but I do… Continue reading →
Wayne Brady, officially the Favorite Negro of Uptight Honkies, is making his feature film debut in the romantic comedy I'm Perfect (dammit, there goes the title of my memoir), alongside Sydney Tamiia Poitier, certainly the only daughter ever named after her… Continue reading →
Singer and actress Christina Milian, global superstar from Be Cool, has signed on to appear in Pulse, the latest Hollywood movie to take its cues from an Asian horror film. In Pulse a hacker pirates a wireless signal that opens a doorway for some evil force… Continue reading →
Through the month of June The Indpendent Film Channel is running Pulp Indies – 30 days of crimes, sex, drugs and thugs! Sounds like an average month at Chez Faraci. Anyway, each Friday the channel will have a different "pulp indie" movie, and they're all good… Continue reading →
I have met many people who lament that the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys already covered the first days of skateboarding, so why do we now need a narrative feature version? Besides the fact that almost no one sees documentaries, there’s an important reason… Continue reading →
You may see posters and ads for Rock School and think to yourself, "Wait, I've seen that movie." Wrong. Rock School is a fantastic and funny documentary about The Paul Green School of Rock Music, a school that teaches kids from 8-18 how to play rock music –… Continue reading →
I've been working on notes for my review of Howl's Moving Castle, the new film from Hayao Miyazaki (who brought us Spirited Away) and one of the things I've been thinking about is "How many masterpieces does one guy get in a lifetime?" Because Howl's is… Continue reading →
Teen cutie Camilla Belle has signed on to star in the remake of When a Stranger Calls, a horror film about the dangers of pre-Caller ID life. The original 70s semi-classic starred Carol Kane as a baby sitter who gets threatening phone calls – that are coming… Continue reading →