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Quoth Todd McFarlane, "I can make a spooky, suspenseful thriller that will scare the crap out of you." If it has to do with plunking down hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase Mark McGwire's and Sammy Sosa's now valueless home run balls, I'll bet you… Continue reading
June 8th is only a week away, but for Lionsgate and Eli Roth, it must feel like an eternity. That a bootleg of Hostel: Part II has leaked to the internet isn't unprecedented; every year, a few studios suffer the headache of an advance copy of a major release… Continue reading
When Hideo Nakata followed up Gore Verbinski's superior version of Ringu (The Ring) with the atrocious The Ring 2, I figured his run in Hollywood was over. But mediocre directors don't get run out of this town; they just seek refuge at Fox! Ergo, Nakata will… Continue reading
Being a Hollywood resident, I'm relieved to have survived last Memorial Day weekend, what with Lindsay Lohan terrorizing the streets and the clubs and the women's bathroom stalls of my fair town. Thankfully, the bender that launched a thousand gossip blog… Continue reading
Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid is not only a classic romantic comedy; it's also one of the few Neil Simon scripts that isn't undone by his gag writing instincts. There are real characters in The Heartbreak Kid, and they're really unlikeable in a lot of ways,… Continue reading
Woody Allen experienced his third creative renaissance whilst partnering with Miramax in the 1990s, so perhaps it's a good omen that his latest picture, Cassandra's Dream, will, according to Variety‘s Anne Thompson, get rolled out by The Weinstein… Continue reading
I hated The Village and considered Lady in the Water 2005's best comedy, and yet I'm still interested in M. Night Shyamalan's latest, The Happening (fka The Green Effect), if only because it'll be his first R-rated feature. Maybe he's been restrained by his… Continue reading
Somewhere in an immaculate kitchen in an immaculate house situated in an immaculate neighborhood somewhere in Bel Air, Nora Ephron is toasting her troubles away*, wondering how in the hell a common vulgarian like Judd Apatow could reinvent the romantic comedy… Continue reading
What could possibly be the point of a Last House on the Left remake? The brand name only means something to those who've seen it, and those who've seen it will have little interest in watching a watered-down studio version of a movie that was flawed in the… Continue reading
We'll have to wait to see what happens to Good Luck Chuck (directed by the editor of the magnificent Stone Cold), but it looks like Dane Cook's career as a comedic lead will be limited to Lionsgate developed vehicles. This is why you don't steal jokes, kids.… Continue reading
The Crop: Frost/Nixon The Studio: Universal The Director: Opie Cunningham! Opie Cunningham! Opie Cunningham! The Writer: Peter Morgan The Producers: Howard, Brian Grazer, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner The Actors: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Sam Rockwell, Toby… Continue reading
Fresh off of turning down an audience with the Queen of England (humanizing the aloof matriarch was favor enough, if you ask me, AND YOU HAVE!!!), Oscar-winner Dame Helen Mirren is preparing for a trip to Jordan, where she'll star in a character-based drama… Continue reading
